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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; Finance Dept.</title>
	<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com</link>
	<description>An account of how the politicians and officials are screwing our city.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The shredders are spinning the Rosendale Way</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/30/the-shredders-are-spinning-the-rosendale-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/30/the-shredders-are-spinning-the-rosendale-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Burns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christine Mackay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? News coming in from Children &#038; Families sources report that departmental Fraudster-in-Chief is, &#8220;shredding everything in the guise the department has to downsize for their move to the new building.&#8220; 
However, there is some good news.  &#8220;Individuals have found damming information in the filing cabinets that prove Mike Rosendale lied to the investigation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Off - and they did!</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/15/sound-off-and-they-did/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/15/sound-off-and-they-did/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Conservative]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council Departments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council Official]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Councillors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lothian Buses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transport Dept]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Tonight&#8217;s Evening News&#8217; 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&#8217;t serve all of Edinburgh - not only that, there&#8217;s the upheaval it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audit Scotland report blasts council</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/12/16/audit-scotland-report-blasts-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/12/16/audit-scotland-report-blasts-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transport Dept]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The latest Audit Scotland has blasted the city council for constantly failing to meet their requirements.  Citizens of the city are well aware of the shortfalls of living in the city but Audit Scotland highlight the problems for the rest of the country to view.
Audit Scotland&#8217;s findings revealed that 56 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The  £8m Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/08/the-%c2%a38m-blame-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/08/the-%c2%a38m-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Housing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems that the highly paid directors of the council departments have received an &#8216;F&#8217; in maths this year.  An almost £8m of shortfall is expected.
Departments including health and social care, environment and consumer services, housing and the new children and families team look set to run an estimated £7.7m over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are the Council Worried?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/05/why-are-the-councill-worried/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/05/why-are-the-councill-worried/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It&#8217;s not that we are suspicious of the Council but a very strange story appears in today&#8217;s Evening News.  The council are worried about getting paid from the Scottish Executive for their outlays during the G8 Meeting. 
What makes this item so strange is that:

City finance leader Maureen Child said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council trying to &#8216;rip off&#8217; elderly</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/22/council-trying-to-rip-off-elderly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/07/22/council-trying-to-rip-off-elderly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council Departments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Councillors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Housing Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning Dept.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Careful reading and just a little bit of research at the ESPC website seems to show that although the council make many, many millions by selling off city-owned land, however when the council require to buy land from their own residents who pay council tax - a &#8216;rip-off&#8217; situation ensues.
Residents who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>92 schools unsuitable for use</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/30/92-schools-unsuitable-for-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/30/92-schools-unsuitable-for-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Councillors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eric Milligan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Private Finance Initiative (PFI)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The current administration have been in power in Edinburgh for 20 years and now a report tells us the shocking news that 92 of our schools are unsuitable for use.  How could the council have let this happened?
Yesterday, Teflon Don Anderson told us that the big news is that he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£82m in unpaid council tax bills</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/20/%c2%a382m-in-unpaid-council-tax-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/06/20/%c2%a382m-in-unpaid-council-tax-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Questions again arise about whether Edinburgh is really collecting the the money that is owed.  Back in April 22nd the Evening News ran an article  (which we covered here) stating that the council had failed to collect £26 million in uncollected debt.  Now in June, we find that residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galas under threat after council refuse help</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/23/galas-under-threat-after-council-refuse-reasonable-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/23/galas-under-threat-after-council-refuse-reasonable-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Council Departments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/23/galas-under-threat-after-council-refuse-reasonable-help/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Further proof that the city council will do nothing to help the citizens it is supposed to help came today when the Council and their mean, lying, finance chief  totally ruled out any help to the hundreds if not thousands of volunteers who organise the many galas around the city.
All of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Maureen Child lying again?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/22/is-maureen-child-lying-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/04/22/is-maureen-child-lying-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? An article in today&#8217;s Evening News raises the question of whether yet again, Maureen &#8216;Three Houses&#8217; Child,  the City&#8217;s current finance chief is lying.
First the story mentions:
In total, the city’s finance department is due £79.1m in unpaid council tax dating back to the local authority’s formation in 1996. Most of this [...]]]></description>
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