Porcine councillor failing to turn up

Another Labour Councillor at the trough

It seems that labour really were scraping the bottom of the barrel for the May 2007 elections. It now turns out that one of their number having been lucky enough to get a job on the planning committee just hardly ever bothered to turn up. This is yet […]

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.

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.

Sow’s Ear pissed off about paying for lunch - Lab/Con just steal it

Rather than being totally honest and coming out and telling Alan Roden of the Evening News that she just feels it is up to the citizens of the city to feed her lunch for free on a daily basis this bee in former Lord Provost, Lesley Hinds’ bonnet seems to run on and on. It may be that she is running into financial difficulties

They paid for a poll and they don’t believe the answers

All the people who are gaining from the tram kit that they are installing into the city - mostly the Chamber of Commerce, the high-pressure selling FSB, highly paid TIE executives, persons in receipt of plain brown envelopes have gotten themselves into bed with the council on a quango called Open for Business.

Not happy with the backslapping they give each other, they have now decided to spend