Edinburgh Sucks! | Council SNP group show more cracks (Updated)

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Council SNP group show more cracks (Updated)

By The Basa ⋅ March 24, 2008 ⋅

There An article in Saturday’s Evening News showed more wide open cracks in the council’s SNP group. Earlier this month we brought you the news straight from an SNP councillor that part of the group believe their leader Steve “The Thug” Cardownie is a liar and the councillor told us that he wasn’t the only one in the group with those thoughts. After publication, phone calls were being made and texts sent to try and find out the identity of the leaking source - indeed at least one to a person who is known to support Edinburgh Sucks.

However, the cracks have opened wider and the rift has become more public with an innocent off the cuff remark in a story on Saturday night headlined “SNP councillors were ‘unhappy’ over first crèche closures plan”. This is in stark contrast to the statements given out by the SNP leader when we at Edinburgh Sucks broke the crèche closing scandal. Thuggish Cardownie stated to the Evening News at that time “Edinburgh Leisure’s main job is to provide sports facilities not childcare” - what a disconnect with the rest of his group who were unhappy with the plan according to themselves.

This highlights our post earlier this month that this is indeed deep discontent within the group with councillors even coming to EdSucks to highlight their woes.

Cardownie’s statement is also thrown into disarray by another story which emerged late last week that the Edinburgh Leisure run indoor climbing centre at Ratho is losing a million pounds a year and to get it back on track according to the council spokesperson in the story, everyone is crossing their fingers and toes and waiting for the “conferencing market” to pull it out of the sh1t. Now if Edinburgh Leisure’s main job is to provide sports facilities why the hell are they waiting on the “conference market” to get money. Wethinks they all speak with forked tongue.

Regular readers will remember how we in EdSucks towers highlighted the huge amounts of money that Edinburgh Leisure are throwing at the Ratho centre whilst finding it so easy to cut creche places when indeed each creche place is directely connected to at least one person using sports facilities unlike of course the conference market.

Stick that in your pipe Councillor Thug and smoke it. Maybe you can attend a conference (at the council’s expense) where the subject is how to keep your foot out of your mouth and stop making a prat of yourself.