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Cityconnect questions at full council - again

By The Basa ⋅ June 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It 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 fraudsters.
It seems that Lib-Dems have yet even more questions on the agenda concerning all the abovementioned dodgy companies:
By Councillor Dawe - Employment Tribunal Compensation Award […]

Whistleblower heads to court

By The Basa ⋅ June 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The 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 of about £400,000 from the public purse is good news for community education staff throughout the city if our mailbox is anything to go by.
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Finalists, us? You’re joking, right?

By The Basa ⋅ June 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Readers 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 Media Award.
Well today we found out that our nomination has gone one step further and we have been selected as finalists and invited to attend […]

Cityconnect Alive and Kicking

By The Basa ⋅ June 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It 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 fact Cityconnect fraudster Alistar Frater who is currently employed as webmaster by Children & Families department and works on the pisspoor website myEdinburgh, has taken […]

Council catching up with EdSucks

By The Basa ⋅ May 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It 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 Mackintosh and will be presented by the Executive Member for Children and Families, Ewan Aitken.  Rev Aitken of course knows that his report is only the […]

Donald Anderson - Tell the truth, PLEASE!

By The Basa ⋅ May 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Councillor 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 of the department, Mike Rosendale, has covered up the whole nightmare since August 1999 as you well know - he was intricately involved.  He was the Company […]

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