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 truth behind Ian Perry’s ₤400,000

Well it was nice to see a follow-up story in the Evening Chip Paper about Ian Perry getting ₤400,000 of council money over 10 years when he never even knew he was doing the job. It really is a bit of a joke.

As sometimes happens, Edinburgh Sucks.com sometimes has a different view on events from the Evening News. We’d like to take you back to October 2007.

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

Bunty’s crowning glory – a fcuk-up

Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis’ crowning glory, the National Galleries site, which she leaked to the Evening News last week against all ethical practices for board members turns out to have been a complete fcuk-up.
Edinburgh Sucks now knows why both Waterfront Edinburgh Limited (WEL) and the Scottish Executive never came out shouting and cheering for the new [...]

Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money

Everyone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built.  Labour were running round the city pretending to “listen to the people”, they even lied at a public meeting that they had bought a piece of land to be used as the new Portobello Golf course – unfortunately, it [...]

“It wisnae me, honest guv” says experienced politician Bunty

A couple of interesting posts on Elizabeth Maginnis’ blog today. In the first one she tries to clear up our previous information about when she became chair of Waterfront Edinburgh and when the project she manages got money from the company where she enjoyed the position of Chair.
Also, the Evening News phoned to check again, [...]