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 [...]

Who could be the defectors?

Our mailbox was busy yesterday and last night with possible names of the defecting councilors from Labour. It seems that there is quite a lot of infighting going on in the Edinburgh Labour party. Our guess about Jack O’Donnell jumping because of the multiple investigations, not into Craigmillar, but the ‘cabal’ who run the ‘poverty [...]

Council Tax up – We’ll build a statue

On the same day the council decide that the Council Tax may indeed rise by a whopping 6%, it seems that Councillor Ricky Henderson decided to speak to the press about a new £100,000 statue to be built outside their new £50m headquarters in Market Street where parking is not going to be a problem [...]

Council abuses the elderly – It’s Official

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 [...]

Council stabs Leith in the back

Ricky Henderson, Edinburgh City Council’s culture chief has stabbed Leith in the back by digging up an extra £60,000 for the Film Festival but only last week turning down the Leith Festival for an increase of £5,000 over their previous £5,000 grant and indeed cutting their grant down to £2,500.
It seems that the City Center [...]