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City Council Archive
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Chamber of Commerce blew it for their members
Posted on January 12, 2008 | 1 CommentIt seems Edinburgh’s Chamber of Commerce are as good at fighting for their members as the Council are for businesses and that is pisspoor. After a few days of guffawing over who should get the cash windfall and a reduction in business rates the Council and EDI have caved in and brought the cut-off -
Bunty’s crowning glory – a fcuk-up
Posted on October 2, 2007 | No CommentsElizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis’ crowning glory, the National Galleries site, which she leaked to the Evening News last week against all ethical practices for board members turns out to have been... -
Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money
Posted on October 1, 2007 | 1 CommentEveryone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built. Labour were running round the city pretending to “listen to the people”, they even... -
More council money down the drain
Posted on September 17, 2007 | No CommentsIn the midst of all the huge cuts in services in the city and never smart in the IT arena, word reaches us that the council (mainly Children & Families)... -
MacLaren, stop listening to Fraudster Rosendale and listen to the experts
Posted on September 10, 2007 | No CommentsThis is a message to the LibDem led administration. Below is a letter that was published in the Daily Telegraph today and signed by 270 professionals, academics and children’s writers. ... -
Mountgrange makes Private Eye
Posted on August 31, 2007 | No CommentsMountgange’s PR consultants, PPS Group who carried out the public consultation on the trashing of the Canongate were recently trashed on Channel 4′s Dispatches programme. Private Eye have now continued with... -
New £9m hole found?
Posted on August 31, 2007 | No CommentsWord is coming in that the council-owned company regenerating Craigmillar, Parc, has a £9m hole that has been discovered. Is this true and is this the reason they now don’t want... -
Another school joining the closure discussion – Brunstane
Posted on August 30, 2007 | No CommentsEdinburghSucks can exclusively reveal that yet another school will be added to the closure discussions. It seems that plans have been drawn up to not only close Lismore Primary School... -
How much? Too bloody much!
Posted on August 29, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that as well as the Education Committee meeting yesterday there was also a meeting to discuss requesting a report on how much it would cost the city to... -
Tram bungles begin
Posted on August 22, 2007 | No CommentsNews into EdSucks is that the current works on re-routing the ulilities have already hit a stumbling block both on Leith Walk and Elm Row. The joint utilites contractor, McAlpines... -
First council by-election being discussed
Posted on August 15, 2007 | No CommentsSources have informed us that both the SNP and the Lib-Dem groups have had meetings to discuss their tactics for what they expect to be the first council by-election this... -
Where’s our information?
Posted on June 12, 2007 | No CommentsIt has now been more than five weeks since the new council was voted into power. Unfortunately for the citizens of the city we are STILL waiting to get the... -
Dick Dastardly shouts from the sidelines
Posted on June 11, 2007 | No CommentsTrevor ‘Dick Dastardly’ Davies, the former planning leader, dismally unsuccessful candidate for council leadership and failed-at-the-ballot-box ex-councillor has not shut up just because his electorate have told him to go... -
Council’s scarecrow causes CardowNolan bovver.
Posted on June 8, 2007 | No CommentsWith the passing of Shami KhaNolan into the real world comes the rise of SNP leader Steve CardowNolan and he is not a happy camper. With just slight investigation it... -
SNP (now called the Scottish Nolan Party), FibUnDems and Standing Order 22
Posted on June 1, 2007 | No CommentsThe city council passed the decision to stop the funding going to Craigmillar Childcare Services. It now seems as though the Scottish Nolan Party and the FibUnDems have hatched a... -
New council and the first post goes to…….
Posted on May 7, 2007 | No CommentsLabour! Was there a little bit of truth in Trevor Davies’ statements to the Evening News that the alphabet played a large part in the Council voting? Nice though it... -
Some Goodbyes
Posted on May 7, 2007 | No CommentsWell the count at Ingliston proved good value for money. Not that we saw any money being exchanged, in fact there was a dearth of brown envelopes with lots of... -
Before we go, we’ll sell of YOUR green space, says Labour
Posted on May 3, 2007 | No CommentsIn a particularly nasty, spiteful piece of work, the Labour administration who have been lying to us for years telling us that they will keep our green space whilst constantly... -
Oor party dinnae trust our candidates either….
Posted on May 3, 2007 | No CommentsA leaked letter from The Scottish National Party’s (SNP) national secretary has been sent to candidates offering guidance on how to handle the uncertain aftermath of the council election, which... -
The Bunty Corruption, by the Staff Vol III of many
Posted on May 1, 2007 | No CommentsThe news from the Pilton Elderly Project just keeps on coming….. Service Users files and information from them went missing when the only qualified member of staff running the Neighbourhood...


