Craigmillar mafia raise their heads again

David Walker and Patsy King have raised their heads again recently in Labour’s Edinburgh East selection.
But 15 members of the party, including one of the two scrutineers, have written to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, condemning the result as “tainted”.
Twelve breaches of the Labour Party’s own rulebook and of Electoral Commission guidelines were [...]

It’s done and dusted – Isn’t it Billy, Mark, Malcolm & Flunky

After a high level meeting early last week in the Chain Pier bar in Newhaven Road the new Labour candidate for the Forth Ward was chosen. The Evening Chip Paper runs a story this afternoon almost letting the cat out of the bag but without any of the details which we in the Sucks hut (we had to move out of Sucks Towers) have managed to track down.

At that meeting was the local MP, Mark Lazarowicz; MSP Malcolm Chisholm, former defeated Councillor Billy Fitzpatrick and their in-house flunky, trough piggy

Another kicking for Nolan and his Cabal on the way.

It is the end of a long two and a half year battle for members of the Craigmillar community with 18 months of that spent in the courts when the few residents finally managed to convince the council to go to court. We are told that the journey to court was started by an EdSucks favourite, Ewan Aitken. For that kudos are deserved.

Nolan & Cronies Resign

The hearing for an interdict to stop Paul Nolan, his thugs and his cronies was to take place this morning but just before the Council Solicitor packed his bags to head over to the court, a sheepish Nolan surrounded by the same thugs and cronies all trapsed into the Council Solicitor’s office and said they were not going to defend the case….. and there’s more.

Lying, Bugging, Bullying, Forgery, Trickery, Deceit, Manipulation and oor Teflon Don

News out yesterday is that the former NuLabour council leader Donald “Teflon Don” Anderson is giving up his newly-formed consultancy over at http://www.andersonstrategy.co.uk/. The website gives users the following message:
Anderson Strategy is closing as Donald Anderson has taken up a new position as Director of PPS Scotland. Go to their website for more information. This [...]

Nolan – OUT!

The Court of Session has today declared that the groups ‘election’ in the Craigmillar Community Council which was held last June was illegal in a 28 minute Judicial Review.
This means that Nolan and a huge majority of his cronies have been ousted and the democratically elected community councillors can now get on with representing their [...]