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£82m in unpaid council tax bills

By The Basa ⋅ June 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Questions again arise about whether Edinburgh is really collecting the the money that is owed. Back in April 22nd the Evening News ran an article (which we covered here) stating that the council had failed to collect £26 million in uncollected debt. Now in June, we find that residents owe nearly £82 […]

Wheelie bins - permanent street furniture?

By The Basa ⋅ June 15, 2005 ⋅ One comment

How can we expect the council to get rid of the rubbish in the administration up in the High Street when that administration cannot even get the rubbish collected from the citizens.
Wheelie bins are now becoming permanent street furniture around the city as the councillors have withdrawn the required facilities to allow the binmen to […]

Portobello Labour Party censors Locals

By The Basa ⋅ June 11, 2005 ⋅ One comment

When we started writing this post we had received 2, now we have received 3 emails from disgruntled Portobello residents this morning who are worried about the censorship of the East Edinburgh Labour Party on their local bulletin board Portobello-Online. It seems that a local businessman put an innocent request on the board only […]

Council abuses the elderly - It’s Official

By The Basa ⋅ May 23, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Bedrooms smelling of urine, dietary demands being ignored and no fire drills. This is how the city council is treating the most vulnerable in Council run care homes - this is happening now whilst you are reading this.
Today comes the shocking news from the Care Commission after 31 inspections showed that two-thirds of council-owned […]

Donald Anderson just doesn’t have the balls

By The Basa ⋅ May 12, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The Evening News were a lot kinder to our leader on the Internet than in print. The picture to the left took up most of the front page under the headline “Bottled It! and that is a much better description of what happened inside the hallowed halls of the Labour group meetings. This […]

Burns to finally go - but at what cost!

By The Basa ⋅ May 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Celebration should be the order of the day in Edinburgh. Finally, the person who has masterminded the nightmare scenario in the traffic system of Edinburgh for the past 3 years is for the chop. But hold the champagne corks - this is not a listening to the people exercise - this is a […]

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