Low four figures – MY ARSE

First the quote from the Evening News story:
THE sacked education chief blamed for jeopardising the £550 million PPP new schools plan has received a pay-off by the city council to drop his industrial tribunal.
Colin Dalrymple, former deputy education director, is understood to have received a low four-figure sum in return for not pursuing a [...]

Cabal meltdown begins

With the big news that hit the airwaves and press today about disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan, hopefully begins the meltdown of the cabal that has ruined the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh over the last 20 years.
Paul Nolan admitted to Evening News journalist Gareth Rose that he had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money.  What Nolan [...]

How to fix an election

1. Appoint one of your employees as the returning officer.
2. Refuse to send out nomination papers.
3. Fix the polling station.
4. Keep secret information about the counts.
Roll on a few weeks to the next community council meeting which happened to be timetabled for the same night as the East Edinburgh Development Committee, Craigmillar Castle Residents Association [...]

Are the Council joining The Fix?

With the opening of nominations for Craigmillar Community Council, the body that gives the corrupt people the power in Craigmillar’s ‘poverty industry’, the council’s Community Council and Liaison & Development Officer is refusing to distribute nomination forms to interested members of the public.
Yet another huge ‘conflict of interest’ took place in the district a couple [...]

University gives Nolan’s “conflict of interest” an air of respectability

It seems that the investigations into disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan has not perturbed him at all, even though his walking vote, Mick ‘McNumpty’ McNulty ‘did a runner’ when going to be faced with an investigating officer.In the latest conflict, it now seems that Nolan’s son, John, has landed a job in the community IT centre [...]

Another microscope for Craigmillar’s Cabal

Today’s Evening News runs another story of the investigation into a conflict of interest with the disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan and the appointment of a new unnamed chief of said investigation.

It is understood the unnamed official has begun interviewing staff involved with the projects affiliated to the Craigmillar Partnership.
In 2002, the Craigmillar Partnership board [...]