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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; Christine Mackay</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>Catch-up on front-line services slash</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/24/catch-up-on-front-line-services-slash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/24/catch-up-on-front-line-services-slash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marilyne MacLaren]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems our "<em>exclusive</em>" earlier this week on the slashing of front-line services in Community Learning Development (CLD) section of Children &#038; Familes is really doing the rounds on the internet and in print publications in the city.  Opposition politicians in the Council are up in arms that they have to come to rely on EdSucks towers to find out what they should be finding out in committee.

John Ross, service conditions convenor of the toothless union known as Unison (and also a member of the Council's own management we have been informed) has joined the council and also shown his total disgregard for our city's communities.]]></description>
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		<title>CLD front line services to be slashed</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/21/cld-front-line-services-to-be-slashed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2008/01/21/cld-front-line-services-to-be-slashed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[EdSucks Exclusive]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marilyne MacLaren]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that six Edinburgh community centres are going to have their front-line worker taken away in the latest slashing in Children and Families.  Interestingly, the report that shows the slashing was only came out two days after the last Education, Children &#038; Families Committee meeting and all the neighbourhood based paper-pushing Managers are all sitting happy in their jobs.  EdinburghSucks revealed some time ago that the CLD Managers' salary packages were ₤80,464 back in 2005/06]]></description>
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		<title>Children &#038; Families still in the gutter with new council</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/12/17/children-families-still-in-the-gutter-with-new-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/12/17/children-families-still-in-the-gutter-with-new-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tee]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/12/17/children-families-still-in-the-gutter-with-new-council/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems that the new broom is still stuck unwrapped in the corner since the SNP/Lib-Dem rabble moved in and hasn&#8217;t made it to clean out the trash in Children &#038; Families.
As all staff members will know, there is a hiring freeze in the Community Learning &#038; Development (CLD) section of Children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosendale wants frontline services cut - surprised?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/30/rosendale-wants-frontline-services-cut-surprised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/30/rosendale-wants-frontline-services-cut-surprised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lib-Dem]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/30/rosendale-wants-frontline-services-cut-surprised/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Word into us from the Community Learning &#038; Development (CLD) staff are unhappy about their boss and the proposals he put to the meeting on Friday at Craigroyston to discuss the pending review of service.  What&#8217;s new there you ask? 
Well, while they are stating to Councillors that it is a review of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosendale going at full throttle, WHY?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/17/rosendale-going-at-full-throttle-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/17/rosendale-going-at-full-throttle-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:31:04 +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[Derek Suttie]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Tee]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Lib-Dem]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marilyne MacLaren]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/09/17/rosendale-going-at-full-throttle-why/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Lot of news in from Children &#038; Families as usual.   The staff thought that with the change of administration there would be a change in the hugely authoritarian nature of the department over the past five years which has seen morale drop to rock bottom and stay there for a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy, what strategy.</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/strategy-what-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/strategy-what-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/31/strategy-what-strategy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? A couple of years ago, Children &#038; Families head of strategy, Fraudster Mike Rosendale managed to push through a plan that would put in two extra levels of management in Community Learning and Development (CLD).  Regular readers will remember that EdSucks broke the story that the Neighbourhood Managers&#8217; salaries alone would cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Learning &#038; Development on the line</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/27/community-learning-development-on-the-line/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/27/community-learning-development-on-the-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:35:05 +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[EdSucks Works!]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Lib-Dem]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/27/community-learning-development-on-the-line/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? News into EdSucks towers is that The Fraudster formerly known as Rosendale is telling all and any councillor that will listen that scrapping CLD will help enormously because &#8220;the workers in the field are not producing the goods&#8221;.  In fact it seems that Children &#038; Families are in complete turmoil and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosendale cohorts - you know the info is lies</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/11/rosendale-cohorts-you-know-the-info-is-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/11/rosendale-cohorts-you-know-the-info-is-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/08/11/rosendale-cohorts-you-know-the-info-is-lies/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems that Children &#038; Families Head of Neighbourhood Services, his wife and cohorts are spreading the rumour that &#8220;papers have been served and Edinburgh Sucks has been closed down&#8221;.
Well Mike, this throws your dross right into the fire.  We have been watching you and oh what nice things we have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs Rosendale fighting democracy in Leith</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/06/04/mrs-rosendale-fighting-democracy-in-leith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/06/04/mrs-rosendale-fighting-democracy-in-leith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Munro]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Nolan]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/06/04/mrs-rosendale-fighting-democracy-in-leith/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Mrs Rosendale, wife of the council&#8217;s infamous Fraudster Mike Rosendale, has been up to her tricks again down Leith way.  News into the towers is that she turned up at Leith Community Centre last week and tried to turn round democracy.  She must be taking lessons from Paul Nolan, David Walker and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rosendales still on the offensive</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/05/28/the-rosendales-still-on-the-offensive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/05/28/the-rosendales-still-on-the-offensive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Marilyne MacLaren]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/05/28/the-rosendales-still-on-the-offensive/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Hopefully the new LibDem/SNP coalition have some idea of how to run the Children &#038; Families department.  Their head of Neighbourhood Services, Mike &#8217;Fraudster&#8217; Rosendale is telling anyone that will listen that:
 &#8221;He thinks he is untouchable and believes the Lib Dems are useless and will require his help to ensure the department will operate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Centres taking a stand</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/03/27/community-centres-taking-a-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/03/27/community-centres-taking-a-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:48:59 +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[David Hillson]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/03/27/community-centres-taking-a-stand/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Last night a pretty full room of Community Centre Management Committee members from across the city had a meeting in the Southside Community Education Centre.  The group known as the Edinbugh Federation of Community Council Management Committees were not happy about the current Fraudster Rosendale plan to get rid of pesky Management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Frater, come clean&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/02/12/al-frater-come-clean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/02/12/al-frater-come-clean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Pete McDougall]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/02/12/al-frater-come-clean/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? We hear that one of the kingpins in the missing £400,000 from ELLP with Ewan Aitken and Lesley Anderson on the board together with company secretary, fraudster, liar and thug Mike Rosendale is applying for a new job in the e-government department at the council.  A search of the council&#8217;s website throws [...]]]></description>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/30/the-shredders-are-spinning-the-rosendale-way/</guid>
		<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>Mackay, Bunty Backhander and Worm Munro do it the Craigmillar Way</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/07/mackay-bunty-backhander-and-worm-munro-do-it-the-craigmillar-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/07/mackay-bunty-backhander-and-worm-munro-do-it-the-craigmillar-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Maginnis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Munro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? With Leith Community Centre taking 3,000 members through their doors every week and a management committee who have more than 100 groups using their centre weekly, it seems that this type of efficiency is not what is required by the most bent in our council.
Rosendale&#8217;s current squeeze, Christine Mackay, triple-full-time Bunty Backhander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonah Jobson&#8217;s replacement picked according to Suttie, MacKay and Paul James</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/jonah-jobsons-replacement-picked-according-to-suttie-mackay-and-paul-james/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/jonah-jobsons-replacement-picked-according-to-suttie-mackay-and-paul-james/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:41:09 +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[David Hillson]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/jonah-jobsons-replacement-picked-according-to-suttie-mackay-and-paul-james/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Well the news has come in from multiple sources this weekend that senior Children and Families officials, Christine Mackay, Derek Suttie (the man who went to a Unison meeting and asked the union to approach the council to make sure that EdSucks couldn&#8217;t appear on council computers), and Paul James are now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosendale&#8217;s revenge to affect 3,000 Leithers weekly</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/03/rosendales-revenge-to-affect-3000-leithers-weekly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/03/rosendales-revenge-to-affect-3000-leithers-weekly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:02:00 +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[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/02/rosendales-revenge-to-affect-3000-leithers-weekly/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems that Mike &#8220;Fraudster&#8221; Rosendale will take revenge no matter who it hurts.  The latest news into EdSucks is that the devious council official has teamed up with one of the most devious Councillors to create havoc in one of Edinburgh&#8217;s busiest and most respected community centres.
Leith community centre, which has [...]]]></description>
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