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Top-heavy with bureaucrats.

By The Basa ⋅ May 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Fife’s version of Tom Aitchison the Chief Executive has finally come out and said what most Scots have been saying for decades, that Scotland is chronically over-governed.
Although it took him 30 years to pluck up the courage to say it, it is refreshing to hear.  However it will not affect the huge pension he will [...]

How to fix an election

By The Basa ⋅ April 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

myEdinburgh shows the hypocracy

By The Basa ⋅ March 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Hypocracy 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 treatment of whistleblowers have rocked even the corporate services department of the our fourth reich council.  It seems our information which we pointed out in this [...]

Same thinking – What colour is a bus again?

By The Basa ⋅ March 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Liam Rudden in Saturday’s Evening News seems to agree with our post on Friday about “Taxigate II – The Cooncil”  Who is in who’s pocket when he writes in his column that:
The revelation this week that senior city councillors have wracked up a taxi bill of £3500 in just one year is appalling. What’s wrong [...]

Who is in who’s pocket?

By The Basa ⋅ March 17, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Senior council officials seem extremely hesitant to carry out investigations even although they get paid incredible amounts of money to be in their positions and ensure that oor leaders are not ripping us off. 
It seems that Jim Inch is quite happy to take his £110k annually but is afraid to do his job and investigate [...]

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