TIE, Waterfront Edinburgh and Edinburgh Building Services to be one company.

Huge moves are afoot in the Council with it’s arms length (we own it, they take the blame) companies. The news we have is that TIE, Waterfront and EBS will all be amalgamated into one company.
We are told that Waterfront’s Chief Executive, Colin Hunter, was summoned to the City Chambers last week and informed. [...]

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.

Full steam ahead and screw the War Memorial

Lost because of the trams

It seems that the trams have taken over the city completely including running all the way through the The McCrae’s Battalion War Memorial at the Haymarket.
In recent weeks we have been pounded with stories about trams, including the complete closure of Shandwick Place for months which never reared their ugly head [...]

Ewan Aitken – not seeing correctly.

Edinburgh’s Council labour leader Ewan Aitken is in fear of losing the leader’s role because a few Labour councillors are just waiting in the wings to get their hands on the job – are they not Lesley? To help him keep his position, he has again been blustering to the Evening News about the [...]

Cut our schools, leave a huge defecit, Wow – You’re Hired

Jobs(on) for the boys which we reported a week ago has now been picked up by the Evening News and Scotsman with with few more details in fact less details than we pubished on EdSucks.  Both rags have his job as “Project Manager” which raises questions as to who is right, EdSucks or Scotsman Publications?  [...]

Jobs(on) for the boys still alive and well

It seems the change of administration hasn’t brought about any change in the hiring procedures for the council’s arms length companies – it’s still who you know rather than what – or in some cases who you pop between the sheets with.
News into us last night and today seems to confirm that although Roy ‘the [...]