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Craigmillar Archive
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Can the council be this dumb?
Posted on May 15, 2006 | 1 CommentMore with the myEdinburgh fiasco. It just keeps getting worse. When the council arms-length company Cityconnect went tits-up with many accusations of massive fraud including accusations by the company’s auditors... -
Edinburgh has it’s own two-shags
Posted on May 11, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the rather portly John Prescott has a double in Edinburgh with more in common that first thought. One of ‘Rosendale’s Fraudsters’, the man who ordered stuff for... -
Councillors email being read by Frater, McDougall & Hillson
Posted on May 8, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems EdSucks should have been more worried about the antics of Rosendale’s Fraudsters in Community Education. After building the website and email system myEdinburgh, and convincing staff and elected... -
First Minister’s office looking into Craigmillar
Posted on May 2, 2006 | No CommentsAn email in to EdinburghSucks.com today by a regular correspondent shows that the First Minister’s office has today confirmed that they are looking into the current situation in Craigmillar vis... -
Weak Link 2 breaks in Cityconnect fiasco
Posted on May 1, 2006 | No CommentsThe second of the two weak links in the whole Cityconnect fiasco (Pete McDougall, Prop.(pictured)) which will see huge embarrassment for leading councillors and officials in the not too distant... -
Cabal meltdown begins
Posted on April 26, 2006 | No CommentsWith the big news that hit the airwaves and press today about disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan, hopefully begins the meltdown of the cabal that has ruined the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh... -
Politicians listen, but only when it suits them
Posted on April 25, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that EdinburghSucks’ call for EU monitors to be called into monitor the so-far rigged community council election in Craigmillar was taken seriously by some of Scotland’s MEPs and... -
How to fix an election
Posted on April 20, 2006 | No Comments1. Appoint one of your employees as the returning officer. 2. Refuse to send out nomination papers. 3. Fix the polling station. 4. Keep secret information about the counts. Roll... -
Quis custodies ipsos custodiet?
Posted on April 11, 2006 | No CommentsInterestingly with today’s verdict on transport chief Andrew ‘bumbling Andy’ Burns being cleared of breaching the councillors’ code of conduct it is interesting to look at Chief investigating officer Stuart... -
Are the Council joining The Fix?
Posted on April 11, 2006 | No CommentsWith the opening of nominations for Craigmillar Community Council, the body that gives the corrupt people the power in Craigmillar’s ‘poverty industry’, the council’s Community Council and Liaison & Development... -
Napier, Oooohh… you little liars
Posted on April 10, 2006 | No CommentsIt appears that it is not only EdinburghSucks.com that Napier University lies to. Imagine the gasps and sharp intakes of breath around EdSucks towers when we read that the University... -
Did Napier University lie to EdinburghSucks.com?
Posted on April 6, 2006 | 1 CommentNo sooner than we published our post on yet another of disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan’s conflicts of interest, where we included a quote we were given from Napier University, our... -
University gives Nolan’s “conflict of interest” an air of respectability
Posted on April 6, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the investigations into disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan has not perturbed him at all, even though his walking vote, Mick ‘McNumpty’ McNulty ‘did a runner’ when going to... -
Another microscope for Craigmillar’s Cabal
Posted on April 3, 2006 | No CommentsToday’s Evening News runs another story of the investigation into a conflict of interest with the disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan and the appointment of a new unnamed chief of said... -
Defections, defections, defections!
Posted on March 28, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that Teflon Don was a bit over the top yesterday in his glee over the defection of John Longstaff from the Lib Dems to the Labour party. News... -
More threats….. trackable this time
Posted on March 22, 2006 | No CommentsEdinburghSucks was again receiving threats today. However, this one is trackable. Unfortunately the person was not technical enough to cover his tracks (although the council made him the web tsar). ... -
The new myEdinburgh query
Posted on March 20, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the millions of pounds that the Community Education spent on the myEdinburgh website has further turned into embarrassment for Children & Families, specifically ‘Rosendale’s Fraudsters.’ Although the... -
EdinburghSucks under physical threat!
Posted on March 15, 2006 | No CommentsThe following email was sent through the EdinburghSucks contact form today from “the F mans team”: hey you you wee cunt no one fucks with oor fleeto and yous are... -
Children & Familes & Social Exclusion
Posted on March 14, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that our post yesterday correctly moving Roy Jobson and Jim Inch straight into the “Rosendale’s Fraudsters” camp has caused some trouble over at the Children & Families run... -
Jobson & Inch join “Rosendale’s Fraudsters”
Posted on March 13, 2006 | No CommentsRoy Jobson the top official in Edinburgh dealing with our children’s education and Jim Inch, the head of Corporate Services who would be the council official who would carry out...