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Was EdinburghSucks!com right?

By The Basa ⋅ October 16, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Evening News brings more presure on Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie to come clean on the taxigate scandal that has been going on for months.
Back on June 26th, we at EdinburghSucks!com questioned whether the real story was about Tods Murray or indeed about another address (Article Here). It seems we were quite close […]

Bottom feeder comes back for more

By The Basa ⋅ August 22, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Keith Raffan the former Lib-Dem MSP and TV presenter who resigned after claiming more than £40,000 in mileage expenses has come back to the trough for some more. Raffan had earlier been the conservative MP for Delyn between 1983 and 1992.
Although he is still under investigation by Deloitte Touche over the expenses he […]

£150,000 for new meetings

By The Basa ⋅ August 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Seems like the conservatives don’t want to play with labour any more even though the labour have turned up with a £150,000 ball.
Bumbling Andy Burns has already spent over £8,000,000 of our money on a transport referendum where the citizens basically told him to go and do unspeakable things to himself but now he has […]

Is ‘TaxiGate’ about Tods Murray?

By The Basa ⋅ June 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

All over the Scottish press this weekend is the news about David McLetchie and the ‘TaxiGate’ affair and this morning is no different.
All of the party chiefs in Scottish Parliament, including the dodgy First Minister Jack McConnell, have come out saying that they will start throwing taxi receipts around like confetti so that everyone, their […]

Electorate ‘distrust’ Politicians - official!

By The Basa ⋅ June 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

A failure by politicians to inspire trust is among the real problems behind poor election turnout - and not voter apathy, a recent study suggested.
Professor Charlie Jeffery, from the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh, believes other root causes are politicians not communicating “clear policy platforms” or reaching out to […]

McLetchie, show us the bills

By The Basa ⋅ June 14, 2005 ⋅ One comment

After the Sunday Herald made a Freedom of Information request back in February for copies of all the MSP’s travel expenses since 2001. Officials released details of the claims but scored out most of the destinations of the taxi fares McLetchie recouped.
As the Sunday Herald reported, officials also scored out the names of […]

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