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EdSucks Works! Archive
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Does Sainsburys sell councillors?
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsYesterday at the Petitions Committee Southside/Newington’s SNP Councillor, the obviously inexperienced, factually wrong and nervous Jim Orr, gave a council tax-paying petitioner a sharp rebuke for taking information from Edinburgh... -
Chapter 1 – Diary of a Whistleblower: The Edinburgh Property Conservation Scandal
Posted on April 17, 2013 | 2 CommentsChapter 1 - The Whistleblower Diary -
“Diary of a whistleblower- the Edinburgh Property Conservation Scandal”
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsCOMING SOON — Update: It is now here This book tells the story of the property conservation whistleblower’s life, since the day he started at the Council in 1989 up... -
We’re Back for the #burndownie Partnership
Posted on May 11, 2012 | No CommentsWith Andrew Burns and Steve Cardownie together we have the brand new "BurnDownie" Partnership in Coalition. A bit of watching over required. News to come about Walker, Day, Bridgeman Cairns etc etc. -
Masked Avenger – East CLD – Contact us
Posted on May 4, 2009 | No CommentsWill Masked Avenger please contact us with an email address where we can get back in touch. Use Google, Hotmail or Yahoo! We need a bit more information and are... -
Enforced absence ends
Posted on December 12, 2007 | No CommentsWe’re back. Tweet -
SNP Councillor lacks taste
Posted on September 20, 2007 | No CommentsUnfortunately this post is not about the SNP councillor running round in a taxi covered with a union jack. You know the one, he fell asleep in the only Craigmillar... -
Community Learning & Development on the line
Posted on August 27, 2007 | No CommentsNews into EdSucks towers is that The Fraudster formerly known as Rosendale is telling all and any councillor that will listen that scrapping CLD will help enormously because “the workers... -
Children & Families Officials complain to the press – whoops!
Posted on July 28, 2006 | No CommentsNews into EdinburghSucks.com is that the council officials are asking for an apology (not from EdSucks) about the figures that the press have been using in the recent story we... -
EdinburghSucks are losers!
Posted on July 25, 2006 | No CommentsAt the glittering New Statesman New Media Awards last night in London, EdinburghSucks.com proved what many of our readership already thought, we’re losers. As finalists in the awards, we failed... -
None of “The Basas” have had a heart attack
Posted on July 19, 2006 | No CommentsThe rumours flying around the city that “The Basa” has suffered a heart attack are just that, rumours, without any truth to them at all. We do of course realise... -
Free service for Labour councillors
Posted on July 10, 2006 | No CommentsEdSucks have created a new category to aid the labour councillors in deciding who to vote for in the upcoming leadership election. In his category “Labour Leadership Race” we will... -
Praise Indeed
Posted on June 21, 2006 | No CommentsWell we got a little praise from the equally anonymous ‘daisysainton’: I am surprised to see edinburghsucks in the finalists. Its a well done and effective propaganda device but at... -
Threats are arriving daily
Posted on June 20, 2006 | No Comments[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/wOrLsmYCv9o" height="350" width="425" /] If you are threatening a person or an infant child make sure you put a return email address unless you want to be confirmed as... -
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... -
Quick Update
Posted on May 21, 2006 | No CommentsIn a couple of our recent posts, Calls to council costs more than calls to Australia and Can the council be this dumb? we highlighed real problems on the pisspoor myEdinburgh website that... -
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... -
EdSucks nominated for New Statesman award
Posted on April 18, 2006 | No CommentsThe New Statesman, Britain’s leading political magazine, in association with Atos Origin, the leading IT services company, announces the short listing of EdinburghSucks.com in their New Media Awards in the category... -
Finally secure but questions remain
Posted on August 17, 2005 | No CommentsLess than one day after the security and IT nightmare happening in the Craigmillar appeared on EdinburghSucks!.com the powers that be managed to get a secure form for applications. Once... -
We made a change
Posted on July 5, 2005 | No CommentsIt has been confirmed that one of the readers letters which we published on June 21st has got someone to get off their butt in the city council – the...






