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 [...]

A plea for help – Journalists, Councillors anyone

We received this by email today and would like EdSucks readers to do whatever you can to help this group. There are some ways at the end of the post. Thanks.

Please read and email if you can.

I am writing to you on behalf of the staff and Board of Edinburgh Development Group. As [...]

They paid for a poll and they don’t believe the answers

All the people who are gaining from the tram kit that they are installing into the city – mostly the Chamber of Commerce, the high-pressure selling FSB, highly paid TIE executives, persons in receipt of plain brown envelopes have gotten themselves into bed with the council on a quango called Open for Business.

Not happy with the backslapping they give each other, they have now decided to spend

Full steam ahead and screw the War Memorial

Lost because of the trams

It seems that the trams have taken over the city completely including running all the way through the The McCrae’s Battalion War Memorial at the Haymarket.
In recent weeks we have been pounded with stories about trams, including the complete closure of Shandwick Place for months which never reared their ugly head [...]

Chamber of Commerce blew it for their members

It 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

Elizabeth “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 a complete fcuk-up.
Edinburgh Sucks now knows why both Waterfront Edinburgh Limited (WEL) and the Scottish Executive never came out shouting and cheering for the new [...]