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 [...]

Tory leader emptying bins?

Councillor Iain Whyte the leader of the Tory group at the council has today been challenged to empty the bins and has his leadership called into question in today’s Evening News by a Kingsknowe resident today.
The difficult situation between the council and its employees who collect our refuse is not helped by the comments of [...]

Former health boss in Lords cash row

The former head of Lothian Health Board Margaret Ford, who chaired the board for three years up until 2000, appears on a leaked list of 28 new working peers due to be announced next month which has sparked a cash-for-peerages row.
Seemingly most of the people on the list are the millionaires who bankrolled both [...]

Tories civil war

It seems like the Conservative party in Scotland is in the middle of a meltdown and it looks like Brian Monteith will be exiting the party quite soon – probably with a swift kick up the bahookie.
Party managers revealed there will be no let-up in their investigation into the downfall of McLetchie, whose friends have [...]

We called too early…

A couple of days ago when we reported on the resignation of David Mcletchie, unfortunately we called too early on his successor. Even party right winger Brian Monteith said he was disappointed he had been unable to persuade Mr Fraser to stand for the leadership.
He added: “In my opinion there was never the [...]