The lies, the lies, and the waste - set to continue

“I think my honesty and my integrity have been vindicated.” says Wendy Alexander on BBC Radio last night: (listen here.) The definition of vindicated is “absolved: freed from any question of guilt; “is absolved from all blame”. How does this square with the Electoral Commission’s statement. “Wendy Alexander did not take all reasonable steps in […]

The story of the Mole has a hole

Former council leader, the infamous Ewan “Rasputin” Aitken has been positively beaming of late. He has, he tells us, a mole in the SNP group in the Council and he just couldn’t wait to tell all and sundry around the world of the existence of said mole. It did bring a chuckle to our otherwise boring day waiting for Wendy Alexander to become the MSP for Cornton Vale.

Rosendale: Marilyne MacLaren is “clueless”

It seems our premature release of the CLD review paper has caused all sorts of problems for the rulers of Children & Families. Our own Fraudster Rosendale is furious and blaming the politicians for Edinburgh Sucks publishing it and then the Evening News doing a follow-up saying the Unison, Edinburgh’s own toothless union, are getting slightly warm around the collar.

Politicians coming in for extra kicks in the chukkies include

Margo delivers for Edinburgh - Boyack and Chisholm shaft us

She is Scotland’s only independent parliamentarian but Margo MacDonald certainly delivered for Edinburgh earlier today when she managed to force the Scottish Nose Picker minority government to get the city extra cash under a move to recognise its unique status as Scotland’s capital. This is something that our former leaders Rasputin Aitken and Teflon Don Anderson not to mention the current Lib-Dem leader Jenny Dawg have been speaking about for years but with no action.

Would you buy a second hand car from this krew

Our departed Lord Provost, famously called a “Sow’s Ear” by yet another more departed councillor really needs to come back down to earth and get in amongst the people she is supposed to be representing. Oh, I forgot, she did that and didn’t like it at all.

News from Lesley Hinds (aspiring Labour leader in the city) on her blog is that when she braved the storm of the minion public on Saturday to get people to sign up for the

More Children & Families disarray

Big Hoose for council employee

Yet more examples come out showing how the largest department in the Council and the one with the biggest budget and biggest overspend is still totally out of control despite a new Director and new Executive Member. This goes to prove that the posts ad infinitum we have ran about […]