18 Saughton Mains

18 Saughton Mains is an interesting and different Edinburgh blog it is also an allotment with two sheds: one leaks, the other is wobbly. Found the link on Andrew Burns’ blog. Who’d have thunk it.

The lies, the lies, and the waste – set to continue

“I think my honesty and my integrity have been vindicated.” says Wendy Alexander on BBC Radio last night: (listen here.) The definition of vindicated is “absolved: freed from any question of guilt; “is absolved from all blame”. How does this square with the Electoral Commission’s statement. “Wendy Alexander did not take all reasonable steps in [...]

Not in the public interest – Ask the bloody public

The major line from the Electoral Commission’s statement today was “while Wendy Alexander did not take all reasonable steps in seeking to comply with the relevant legislation, she did take significant steps. Having considered all the circumstances, the Commission has decided that it is not appropriate or in the public interest to report this matter to the Procurator Fiscal.”

EdSucks is totally behind Alex Salmond’s resignation

Edinburgh SUcks thinks it is a good idea for Alex Salmond to resign at 5.05pm tonight, together with his cabinet. We would also request that the BBC and STV point their cameras on to the floor beneath Labour and Fib-Dem MSPs. There will sure be some mess on that floor to show the [...]

The story of the Mole has a hole

Former council leader, the infamous Ewan “Rasputin” Aitken has been positively beaming of late. He has, he tells us, a mole in the SNP group in the Council and he just couldn’t wait to tell all and sundry around the world of the existence of said mole. It did bring a chuckle to our otherwise boring day waiting for Wendy Alexander to become the MSP for Cornton Vale.

One too many Dicks in Parliament

Richard (Dick) Calvocoressi needs to be covered up

In showing the pubic of Edinburgh that there is definitely too many Dicks in Parliament, the Evening News today brings us the story that an art ‘expert’ who is one of the lucky ones who serves on the Scottish Parliament’s art advisory group and decides what we [...]