Former Tory leader to be election agent for Bunty Backhander

A longstanding Labour source informed us tonight that Christine Richards, former leaderene of the Tories in Edinburgh during the Thatcher era, is now going to become the election agent for Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis and probably Billy Fitzpatrick.
All eyes were on Labour leadership loser Maginnis because she is expected to make full use of all [...]

Unusually, THANK YOU councillors

The shredding of democracy in Craigmillar has seemingly now been stopped and the unconstitutional meeting for the first community council meeting that was held on Tuesday which saw Nolan’s cabal voted in by themselves will now be reversed as Mike Bell, the returning officer, will find out when he opens his mail at Crapacity Building [...]

Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal

Last night at Craigmillar’s Community Council meeting the same three office bearers who were thrown out at the recent elections were installed back into their positions against the wishes of the community and using the publicly funded resources of Crapacity Building Project, Craigmillar Childcare Services and Haywired.
Installed against the wishes of the community were:

Chair: Paul [...]

Council forgets the veterans

In a blaze of publicity in February, Labour’s president-in-waiting and waiting and waiting Gordon Brown announced that June 27th would forthwith be Veteran’s Day.  On June 27th the city’s council that is Labour, Conservative, Lib-Dem and SNP all dutifully decided – screw the veterans!
With at least one contributor to EdSucks who is a veteran who [...]

Defections, defections, defections!

It seems that Teflon Don was a bit over the top yesterday in his glee over the defection of John Longstaff from the Lib Dems to the Labour party.  News into EdinburghSucks was that even that defection was on a knife edge because Longstaff was also considering the Conservative and SNP parties.
Now today, it emerges [...]

Contact your MP – Will they reply?

Even wondered what happened to your letter to your MP?  A great site, WriteToThem.com which is has an excellent Zeitgeist which should be helpful to all readers of EdinburghSucks.com.
We will be contacting the City Council to see if we can get the response rate for our good councillors.  Stay Tuned.
Response rate of MPs of each party

Party
Response rate
(in [...]