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Council Official Archive
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Teflon Don doesn’t trust Fraudster Rosendale
Posted on June 29, 2006 | No CommentsWell, well, well. Reading the answer given in today’s full council meeting from Counci Leader Teflon Don Anderson to Councillor Dawe with regard to Fraudster Rosendale’s handling of the Cityconnect... -
Craigmillar Regeneration Fund at Full Council
Posted on June 28, 2006 | No CommentsCraigmillar’s Social Inclusion Partnership makes an appearance at the full council meeting again tomorrow. Although it is supposed to be a rubber stamping of more money to Social exclusion practicing... -
Cityconnect questions at full council – again
Posted on June 28, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that tomorrow’s full council meeting will again be discussing Cityconnect, ELLP and Wabster. Regular readers will know that this Head of Strategy for Children & Families’ gang of... -
Whistleblower heads to court
Posted on June 23, 2006 | No CommentsThe news this week that the whistleblower in the Cityconnect and ELLP fiasco is heading to court for further action against the council for their bungling cover-up of the loss... -
Cityconnect Alive and Kicking
Posted on June 9, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the council, namely Councillor Rev. Ewan Aitken and his director Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson are fully in support of their employees taking their work home with them. In... -
The £85,OOO council trainee
Posted on May 31, 2006 | No CommentsIt has been highlighted to us here at EdSucks that the huge problem of how the Cityconnect/ELLP krew managed to somehow arrange for £400,OOO and £188,OOO worth of equipment to... -
Council catching up with EdSucks
Posted on May 30, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the monthly full council meeting is trying to catch up with the stories on EdinburghSucks. The investigation into Cityconnect and ELLP is being asked for my Councillor... -
Donald Anderson – Tell the truth, PLEASE!
Posted on May 29, 2006 | No CommentsCouncillor Anderson, you REALLY must be joking! “We will be seeking firm assurances from the head of the department involved that these problems have been properly dealt with.” The head... -
Thank you council election officials
Posted on May 29, 2006 | No CommentsEdSucks Towers has been the recipient of quite a power of emails over the weekend asking us to thank the council officials who were carrying out their duties at the... -
Election Shocker
Posted on May 26, 2006 | No CommentsResidents going to vote in Craigmillar yesterday were totally shocked to find City of Edinburgh Councillor for Duddingston Shami Khan standing outside the polling station at the Jack Kane Centre. ... -
Illegality cover-up in Children & Families hits Yahoo! and Microsoft
Posted on May 22, 2006 | No CommentsAfter EdinburghSucks.com highlighted the fact that the Council’s pisspoor website myEdinburgh was as secure as an open meadow and that employee’s and probably councillor’s emails were being read by “Rosendale’s... -
Low four figures – MY ARSE
Posted on May 22, 2006 | No CommentsFirst 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... -
Calls to council costs more than calls to Australia
Posted on May 16, 2006 | 1 CommentIt seems that telephone calls to the council when you have a problem with their pisspoor website myEdinburgh is going to hit your pocket and hit it hard. When you... -
Can the council be this dumb?
Posted on May 15, 2006 | 1 CommentMore with the myEdinburgh fiasco. It just keeps getting worse. When the council arms-length company Cityconnect went tits-up with many accusations of massive fraud including accusations by the company’s auditors... -
EdinburghSucks proved correct…. again
Posted on May 12, 2006 | No CommentsAfter the highlighting of the security implications of the council run myEdinburgh website, specifically the mail system and the flagrant abuse of the security of said system, the council have... -
Edinburgh has it’s own two-shags
Posted on May 11, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the rather portly John Prescott has a double in Edinburgh with more in common that first thought. One of ‘Rosendale’s Fraudsters’, the man who ordered stuff for... -
The Planning Convenor and the PORKIES!
Posted on May 9, 2006 | No CommentsWell it seems that Trevor (little Dick Dastardly) Davies is happy to go on Talk107 and suggest that listeners shouldn’t believe anything they read on EdinburghSucks.com. This came about when... -
ooops…. Correction…. or is it?
Posted on May 8, 2006 | No CommentsIn our last post we mentioned that: Another question worth answering, why would McDougall use public funds to buy a piano for the office of a council IT project company. ... -
Councillors email being read by Frater, McDougall & Hillson
Posted on May 8, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems EdSucks should have been more worried about the antics of Rosendale’s Fraudsters in Community Education. After building the website and email system myEdinburgh, and convincing staff and elected... -
These people “new leaders”?
Posted on May 4, 2006 | No CommentsBrian Ferguson has a nice piece about the current infighting in the labour party as they try to figure out who will take the crown from Teflon Don Anderson. According...