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Council ‘at it’ again – More cash registers

By The Basa ⋅ July 12, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The council have today announced that they are today about to hammer it’s citizens again.
With the new no smoking legislation coming into force early next year, the council want to cash in on the people who go outside to smoke, effectively making huge tracts of the city no-smoking whether they are indoors or not. [...]

‘Jobs for the boys’ in the Council – Proof

By The Basa ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Yet again, an insider recruitment process to find the head of a major new council department has been exposed as an example of “jobs for the boys”.
Teflon Don Anderson is becoming more and more blatent at getting his gophers into the positions so that he can control them.
The city council has decided to “ring-fence” the [...]

Council forced into U-Turn

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

The council were today reported to have been forced into a u-turn after they turned the city into a huge rubbish dump as opposition councillors slammed the administration of lying to them earlier in the day.
Tory leader Iain Whyte today described the U-turn as “astonishing” and accused refuse staff of holding the council to ransom. [...]

Rubbish piling up

By The Basa ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Still catching up – The beautiful city of Edinburgh is fast becoming a huge rubbish dump as council’s environmental and consumer services department cut some of the trucks used in the refuse collection a few weeks ago which we covered here.
Whilst the binmen say they are doing everything possible and the council saying [...]

Wheelie bins – permanent street furniture?

By The Basa ⋅ June 15, 2005 ⋅ One comment

How can we expect the council to get rid of the rubbish in the administration up in the High Street when that administration cannot even get the rubbish collected from the citizens.
Wheelie bins are now becoming permanent street furniture around the city as the councillors have withdrawn the required facilities to allow the binmen to [...]

Locals have shamed the council

By The Basa ⋅ April 29, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Again let down by the council, local leithers are getting together to do their work. As previously reported here on ‘Edinburgh Sucks!’, the city council have 10 years of trash sitting sitting in the stretch of water from Great Junction Street to the docks. Forth Ports Authority which also have some responsibility in [...]

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