Clowncillors agree with millionaires pricing for council funded creches

Clowncillor Cardownie’s serious case of foot in mouth became evident when he said a couple of weeks ago that Edinburgh Leisure’s job wasn’t providing childcare. That is completely evident when one does a quick calculation of Edinburgh Leisure’s prices and figures. As a company, they are so pisspoor at the job, despite excellent […]

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.

Rosendale: Marilyne MacLaren is “clueless”

It seems our premature release of the CLD review paper has caused all sorts of problems for the rulers of Children & Families. Our own Fraudster Rosendale is furious and blaming the politicians for Edinburgh Sucks publishing it and then the Evening News doing a follow-up saying the Unison, Edinburgh’s own toothless union, are getting slightly warm around the collar.

Politicians coming in for extra kicks in the chukkies include

CLD front line services to be slashed

It seems that six Edinburgh community centres are going to have their front-line worker taken away in the latest slashing in Children and Families. Interestingly, the report that shows the slashing was only came out two days after the last Education, Children & Families Committee meeting and all the neighbourhood based paper-pushing Managers are all sitting happy in their jobs. EdinburghSucks revealed some time ago that the CLD Managers’ salary packages were ₤80,464 back in 2005/06

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 […]