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Pete McDougall Archive
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Fraudster Rosendales friends at Cityconnect pissed off
Posted on June 6, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that we have somehow managed to piss off friends of the Council’s head of Neighbourhood Services, Cityconnect. Poor fraudster Rosendale must be pulling those last few hairs out.... -
Pete McDougall & Cityconnect have some chukkies
Posted on June 4, 2007 | No CommentsImagine our surprise when we found out that the former manager of City Connect – (the council IT project which failed after pumping millions in to it after massive fraud)... -
Wabster struck off – new cover-up ordered
Posted on June 3, 2007 | No CommentsOur reliable sources tell us that the company orginally set up by council employees so that they could sell council Intellectual Property Rights and take the cash for themselves was... -
An apology to Liberal’s Peter McDougall
Posted on May 7, 2007 | No CommentsUs and a lot of other people thought that the Peter McDougall standing in the Craigentinny/Mountcastle ward in the Council elections was the dirty, slimy, threatening Pete McDougall we have... -
Pete McDougall standing for Liberal Party
Posted on April 26, 2007 | No CommentsThere has been no leaflets round the door for Pete McDougall, the former manager of CityConnect where almost half a million pounds of taxpayers money disappeared and friend of Paul... -
Volunteers do it better!
Posted on February 16, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that websites run by volunteers on a shoestring do the stuff a lot better than Council websites which have had more than one million pounds spent on them... -
Al Frater, come clean…..
Posted on February 12, 2007 | No CommentsWe hear that one of the kingpins in the missing £400,000 from ELLP with Ewan Aitken and Lesley Anderson on the board together with company secretary, fraudster, liar and thug... -
Documented proof of the CityConnect/Wabster Cover-up
Posted on December 18, 2006 | No CommentsWe have been looking for a while for documentary evidence to show the massive conflicts of interested between ELLP/City Connet/Wabster where the senior Council official, David Hillson joined the criminal... -
Rogue council employee has community council sites blacklisted
Posted on October 10, 2006 | No CommentsA rogue community education worker and one of Rosendale’s fraudsters has managed to get community council websites blacklisted for what appears to be spamming. Proof of this can be found... -
whoseEdinburgh and howMuch?
Posted on October 3, 2006 | No CommentsNews has been filtering through about the demise of the myEdinburgh.org website which our council through the Education department threw millions of pounds and continues to plough thousands every week in legal... -
Council must be worried about bullied worker’s £800,000 win
Posted on August 2, 2006 | No CommentsWith the news coming in that a bank worker in London won £800,000 damages for four year bullying campaign by bank staff (http://www.scotsman.com/?id=1118332006) the council legal department must be worried... -
New Leader Vol. III
Posted on July 10, 2006 | No CommentsThere is only one of the council leadership contenders left to highlight some of the problems they have in their current jobs.   Again, the third contender in a row... -
Cityconnect questions at full council – again
Posted on June 28, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that tomorrow’s full council meeting will again be discussing Cityconnect, ELLP and Wabster. Regular readers will know that this Head of Strategy for Children & Families’ gang of... -
Whistleblower heads to court
Posted on June 23, 2006 | No CommentsThe news this week that the whistleblower in the Cityconnect and ELLP fiasco is heading to court for further action against the council for their bungling cover-up of the loss... -
Finalists, us? You’re joking, right?
Posted on June 15, 2006 | No CommentsReaders may have noticed the button on the top right hand side of the front page and realised that we at EdSucks had been nominated for a New Statesman New... -
Cityconnect Alive and Kicking
Posted on June 9, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the council, namely Councillor Rev. Ewan Aitken and his director Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson are fully in support of their employees taking their work home with them. In... -
Council catching up with EdSucks
Posted on May 30, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the monthly full council meeting is trying to catch up with the stories on EdinburghSucks. The investigation into Cityconnect and ELLP is being asked for my Councillor... -
Donald Anderson – Tell the truth, PLEASE!
Posted on May 29, 2006 | No CommentsCouncillor Anderson, you REALLY must be joking! “We will be seeking firm assurances from the head of the department involved that these problems have been properly dealt with.” The head... -
Illegality cover-up in Children & Families hits Yahoo! and Microsoft
Posted on May 22, 2006 | No CommentsAfter EdinburghSucks.com highlighted the fact that the Council’s pisspoor website myEdinburgh was as secure as an open meadow and that employee’s and probably councillor’s emails were being read by “Rosendale’s... -
Calls to council costs more than calls to Australia
Posted on May 16, 2006 | 1 CommentIt seems that telephone calls to the council when you have a problem with their pisspoor website myEdinburgh is going to hit your pocket and hit it hard. When you...