They paid for a poll and they don’t believe the answers

All the people who are gaining from the tram kit that they are installing into the city - mostly the Chamber of Commerce, the high-pressure selling FSB, highly paid TIE executives, persons in receipt of plain brown envelopes have gotten themselves into bed with the council on a quango called Open for Business.

Not happy with the backslapping they give each other, they have now decided to spend

Streets of Edinburgh

If you live in Edinburgh we have found another site worth visiting. Streets of Edinburgh has 987 of the city’s 5,000 streets photographed in black and white. Pop along to http://www.streetsofedinburgh.co.uk to see if your street is still waiting to be done.

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Rosendale: Marilyne MacLaren is “clueless”

It seems our premature release of the CLD review paper has caused all sorts of problems for the rulers of Children & Families. Our own Fraudster Rosendale is furious and blaming the politicians for Edinburgh Sucks publishing it and then the Evening News doing a follow-up saying the Unison, Edinburgh’s own toothless union, are getting slightly warm around the collar.

Politicians coming in for extra kicks in the chukkies include

Labour’s two tons of fun defending the indefensible

Labour in Scotland’s very own two tons of fun came out in in overwhelming support of criminal behaviour. For Foulkes Sake on Newsnight took buffoon quote of the day by saying that since most Scots thought the Channel Islands were part of the UK, the donation from a resident there wasn’t really illegal. […]

Catch-up on front-line services slash

It seems our “exclusive” earlier this week on the slashing of front-line services in Community Learning Development (CLD) section of Children & Familes is really doing the rounds on the internet and in print publications in the city. Opposition politicians in the Council are up in arms that they have to come to rely on EdSucks towers to find out what they should be finding out in committee.

John Ross, service conditions convenor of the toothless union known as Unison (and also a member of the Council’s own management we have been informed) has joined the council and also shown his total disgregard for our city’s communities.

Margo delivers for Edinburgh - Boyack and Chisholm shaft us

She is Scotland’s only independent parliamentarian but Margo MacDonald certainly delivered for Edinburgh earlier today when she managed to force the Scottish Nose Picker minority government to get the city extra cash under a move to recognise its unique status as Scotland’s capital. This is something that our former leaders Rasputin Aitken and Teflon Don Anderson not to mention the current Lib-Dem leader Jenny Dawg have been speaking about for years but with no action.