Loose cannon KhaNolan forced into re-run

Shami KhaNolan, the loose racist cannon in the Duddingston and Craigentinny ward last night was forced into a re-run at the nomination ballot.
First in the ballot was council leader Ewan ‘Rasputin’ Aitken but there was a tie for the coveted second place between Shami and Labour party secretary Otis which will bring them both back […]

Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal

Last night at Craigmillar’s Community Council meeting the same three office bearers who were thrown out at the recent elections were installed back into their positions against the wishes of the community and using the publicly funded resources of Crapacity Building Project, Craigmillar Childcare Services and Haywired.
Installed against the wishes of the community were:

Chair: Paul […]

Planning officials lie to committee

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We covered some months ago the illegal erection of a phone mast in Brunstane RoadSouth.  Eventually together with local residents we managed to get the mast moved four meters further away from Brunstane Primary School and Nursery. 
It now seems that the local residents just don’t give up and the controversy over the mast just will […]

Quis custodies ipsos custodiet?

Interestingly with today’s verdict on transport chief Andrew ‘bumbling Andy’ Burns being cleared of breaching the councillors’ code of conduct it is interesting to look at Chief investigating officer Stuart Allan’s record on this type of thing. It can of course be found here:
http://www.standardscommissionscotland.org.uk/investigations/la_edinburgh.html
Unfortunately he is not doing too well. As one of […]

The £8m Blame Game

It seems that the highly paid directors of the council departments have received an ‘F’ in maths this year. An almost £8m of shortfall is expected.
Departments including health and social care, environment and consumer services, housing and the new children and families team look set to run an estimated £7.7m over budget by the […]

Why are the Council Worried?

It’s not that we are suspicious of the Council but a very strange story appears in today’s Evening News. The council are worried about getting paid from the Scottish Executive for their outlays during the G8 Meeting.
What makes this item so strange is that:

City finance leader Maureen Child said: “We’ve had a clear […]