SNP Councillor: “Our leader is a liar”

City council SNP Leader came in today for condemnation by one of his own councillors. The councillor who at the moment requests to remain anonymous was “shocked and disgusted by Steve’s comments in the Evening News today when he knew that the figures were another of Edinburgh Leisure’s fabrications.” This is the first […]

The £250,000 publicly funded party to scrap crèche provision

Edinburgh Leisure will tell any lies they can to keep their party.

Last week Edinburgh Sucks telephoned Edinburgh Leisure to ask how much they were spending on their all-expenses paid party to celebrate 10 years of success. We were told that we would get the information but unfortunately as we expected, to date nothing has […]

City’s crèche madness

It transpired on television last night that six of the eight crèches in Edinburgh would be closing forthwith without any consultation at all. So much for the listening FibDem/SNP administration who are now showing that childcare in Edinburgh is in it’s biggest crisis in living memory.
EdSucks has received about 20 32 emails this morning […]

Definitely worth watching

Newsnight’s upcoming 8 dramas are worth watching. More details here. “The reason we’ve chosen drama is that now we can recreate the scenes the cameras couldn’t capture at the time - inside the Foreign Office on the day the legal officer Elizabeth Wilmshurst resolved to resign, inside the UN as Britain and America […]

Porcine councillor failing to turn up

Another Labour Councillor at the trough

It seems that labour really were scraping the bottom of the barrel for the May 2007 elections. It now turns out that one of their number having been lucky enough to get a job on the planning committee just hardly ever bothered to turn up. This is yet […]

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.