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 […]

Dodgy MSPs’ - Taxpayers pay again

EdinburghSucks.com will be following with interest over the next few years how much the Scottish Parliament is spending on the publication of MSPs expenses online.
Copies of each receipt submitted by an MSP will be posted online at the Parliament’s website with the first phase of the new system being online by the end of next […]

Sound Off - and they did!

Tonight’s Evening News’ sound off was lively. For those who missed it, here are the edited highlights:

Put trams to vote
I THINK they should have a referendum on the trams. They will cost a lot of money and they won’t serve all of Edinburgh - not only that, there’s the upheaval it’s going to cause.
Margaret […]