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Council continues the abuse of City’s dead

By The Basa ⋅ May 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

After pulling down gravestones throughout the city, the Council now tell us that the city is running out of space to bury the dead of the city.
The current administration who have been in power for over a decade have not decided to earmark some of the property they have been selling off to developers for […]

Galas under threat after council refuse help

By The Basa ⋅ April 23, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Further proof that the city council will do nothing to help the citizens it is supposed to help came today when the Council and their mean, lying, finance chief totally ruled out any help to the hundreds if not thousands of volunteers who organise the many galas around the city.
All of these community event […]

Is Maureen Child lying again?

By The Basa ⋅ April 22, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

An article in today’s Evening News raises the question of whether yet again, Maureen ‘Three Houses’ Child, the City’s current finance chief is lying.
First the story mentions:
In total, the city’s finance department is due £79.1m in unpaid council tax dating back to the local authority’s formation in 1996. Most of this has been left […]

City finance chief fears local income tax

By The Basa ⋅ April 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Maureen ‘Three Houses’ Child the city’s finance chief who used council resources to push her political ambitions during the recent congestion charging referendum and who voted unsuccessfully to close down a school against the wishes of her constituents has today come out against a proposed local income tax.
Councillor Maureen Child, the city’s finance leader, […]

Too little too late

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

With expensively produced flashy leaflets, expensively hand delivered through doors today in the selected areas, TransportEdinburgh is finally taking the first steps to cutting down the speeds of the rogue drivers through the residential areas. The website quoted in the piece also has problems. Users are unable to view the PDF files […]

City leader calls for tax on tourists

By The Basa ⋅ April 6, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems as though Donald ‘The Leader’ Anderson and his part-time finance chief, Maureen ‘3 Houses’ Child are at loggerheads over whether they should get more money out of tourists to help pay for their eight million pound cock-ups.
It is a nice thought from ‘the leader’, maybe even he is feeling the pinch with the […]

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