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Roy Jobson Archive
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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... -
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... -
Weak Link 2 breaks in Cityconnect fiasco
Posted on May 1, 2006 | No CommentsThe second of the two weak links in the whole Cityconnect fiasco (Pete McDougall, Prop.(pictured)) which will see huge embarrassment for leading councillors and officials in the not too distant... -
Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson refuses parents calls
Posted on April 5, 2006 | No CommentsThe public servant in charge of Children and Families has had his secretary tell a parent whose 14 year-old daughter was viciously and seriously attacked in front of a teacher... -
What happend to our world beating education system?
Posted on March 28, 2006 | No CommentsWhat happened to the days when Scotland once led the world in Education. A Scottish education was the envy of the world and now, according to Professor Richard Lynn, Scotland... -
Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson & The Hippy Rev’s jolly to Africa
Posted on March 27, 2006 | No CommentsWhist our First Minister is swanning around on his current world tour and is expected to touch down for a visit to Scotland in the near future, we find out... -
Management using the Union
Posted on March 23, 2006 | No CommentsManagement at the City of Edinburgh Council have come up with a novel idea of how to silence their detractors. They’ll use the unions and they can look squeeky clean.... -
More threats….. trackable this time
Posted on March 22, 2006 | No CommentsEdinburghSucks was again receiving threats today. However, this one is trackable. Unfortunately the person was not technical enough to cover his tracks (although the council made him the web tsar). ... -
myEdinburgh shows the hypocracy
Posted on March 21, 2006 | No CommentsHypocracy is the act of pretending to have morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice. It seems that the publicity about “Rosendale’s Fraudsters” and the Council’s... -
The new myEdinburgh query
Posted on March 20, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the millions of pounds that the Community Education spent on the myEdinburgh website has further turned into embarrassment for Children & Families, specifically ‘Rosendale’s Fraudsters.’ Although the... -
Same thinking – What colour is a bus again?
Posted on March 19, 2006 | No CommentsLiam Rudden in Saturday’s Evening News seems to agree with our post on Friday about “Taxigate II – The Cooncil” Â Who is in who’s pocket when he writes in his... -
Children & Familes & Social Exclusion
Posted on March 14, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that our post yesterday correctly moving Roy Jobson and Jim Inch straight into the “Rosendale’s Fraudsters” camp has caused some trouble over at the Children & Families run... -
Jobson & Inch join “Rosendale’s Fraudsters”
Posted on March 13, 2006 | No CommentsRoy Jobson the top official in Edinburgh dealing with our children’s education and Jim Inch, the head of Corporate Services who would be the council official who would carry out...