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COSLA screws up - £6m

By The Basa ⋅ July 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

What could be many hundreds of the country’s most vulnerable youngsters have been deprived of desperately needed extra cash as a result of a “scandalous” bureaucratic blunder by COSLA (The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities).
We initially covered this story here when the dodgy First Minister went public and now it seems wrongly accused the Councils […]

COSLA Awards announced - How did we do?

By The Basa ⋅ June 17, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) actually have awards. It is nice to know that the tax-payers fund Scottish local authorities for slapping each other’s back by handing out the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities’ excellence awards - the local government “Oscars”.
Well, we have an ‘inspiring’ team in Edinburgh - we know, […]

Rev. Councillor Aitken promotes porn

By The Basa ⋅ May 5, 2005 ⋅ 7 comments

Councillor Ewan Aitken who is not only a serving Church of Scotland minister but also in charge of Education at COSLA and the City Council is promoting porn on the website he uses to communicate with his constituents.
Visitors to his website’s forum or bulletin board can click through to Mate1.com to take part in […]

£1 billion in the bank but council tax will soar

By The Basa ⋅ March 30, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The Scotsman picked up on this story, as did The Herald. The cheeky councils have been rumbled and the body which represents all councils the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), accused Audit Scotland of looking for “cheap headlines” - nothing cheap about £1 billion in my book.
“The figure - enough to pay for 34,482 […]

Hippy Rev goes off on 1

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

Edinburgh’s own Hippy Rev goes off on one in a letter to the Evening News. He complains about a well written and researched article in the same publication on 16th April. This article clearly shows Ewan Aitken, the former leftie, was given ample space as City education leader and education spokesman for the Convention of […]

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