Two depressing things witnessed – Shame on the City’s Council!

Two depressing things witnessed by me today as a result of poorly planned and executed tramworks fiasco / traffic diversions:
Sad thing #1) Sight-impaired lady with white stick patiently standing at Pedestrian Crossing at Queensferry Street opposite Ryan’s Bar. (The same crossing that, even when the Green Man is on, has no traffic light to stop [...]

TIE, Waterfront Edinburgh and Edinburgh Building Services to be one company.

Huge moves are afoot in the Council with it’s arms length (we own it, they take the blame) companies. The news we have is that TIE, Waterfront and EBS will all be amalgamated into one company.
We are told that Waterfront’s Chief Executive, Colin Hunter, was summoned to the City Chambers last week and informed. [...]

Well placed, Aye Right Tom.

The Evening Chip Paper will carry a story tonight about city council chief executive Tom Aitchison putting his neck on the line at the full council meeting yesterday saying that:
“Without being complacent about this, we are quite far advanced in terms of our planning and preparations.
“I can give you the reassurance that a lot of [...]

Download the BT Prices here

Tonight’s story in the Evening News: After we passed the BT prices to the Evening News (where they again failed to credit us for - last time those bastards are getting anything – until the next time) we were kind of shocked that they didn’t allow all you citizens to download the documents. Don’t fret. The documents will be available here over the weekend. They paint a said picture of the council being supplied free KY jelly by BT.

Sheraton’s One Spa cheaper than Edinburgh Leisure

Proof today emerged today that the world famous, ultra-luxurious and chic One Spa at the city’s Sheraton Hotel is cheaper than using Porty Swimming Pool to keep fit if you have children. It also brings into huge disrepute the council and their appointed overseers of council funds at Edinburgh Liesure which is being run as a charity and pays no VAT.

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 [...]