Edinburgh Labour’s silver lining

Labour got a damn good, well-deserved thumping in the European elections as a party. It is also hoped in lots of corners of the land that their bullying leader, one dark night, when he is dumped by the public and is back to being Mr. Brown of North Queensferry, gets a real good kicking [...]

City Labour Group leader tries for new job

It seems that Councillor Andrew Burns, the leader of the Labour group on the City Council is getting fed up with his job and is going to have a go at freelancing as a sit down comedian – is Tommy Shepherd standing by at The Stand?
In today’s Evening Chip Paper, Councillor Burns gives us what [...]

Edinburgh’s Labour leader defends the indefensible

Readers of today’s Hootsmon will will be shocked to hear that Councillor Andrew Burns, Edinburgh’s Labour leader is right behind the thieving, robbing, lying, bent, scandal-ridden fcuk that we call Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has for years been finding every loophole to steal more of our money as his Fifer predecessor has also done.

Andrew [...]

The overweight, lying, white-haird, bitch!

Council leader Jenny Dawg has proven that she, together with her ousted FibDem colleague Phib Wheeler, were lying to the citizens of Edinburgh by saying that the Tram is “on time and on budget”. The lard-arsed councillor should now be writing her letter of resignation.
Today the new Chief Executive of the trams fiasco tells [...]

Two depressing things witnessed – Shame on the City’s Council!

Two depressing things witnessed by me today as a result of poorly planned and executed tramworks fiasco / traffic diversions:
Sad thing #1) Sight-impaired lady with white stick patiently standing at Pedestrian Crossing at Queensferry Street opposite Ryan’s Bar. (The same crossing that, even when the Green Man is on, has no traffic light to stop [...]

Another £10,000 survey and this time we’ll ignore it

Just following the story where they had a survey which told them what they wanted wasn’t required comes a story where they were told that we wanted something but they are telling us to getifu.
This time it is the Newhaven Heritage Museum – which charts the area’s centuries-old traditions of boat-building and fishing. The [...]