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Property Conservation: Where are they now? [Yet Further Update]
Posted on July 13, 2012 | 1 CommentSo what is the state of play in the current property conservation department. Do have a look. -
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. -
Well placed, Aye Right Tom.
Posted on May 1, 2009 | No CommentsThe Evening Chip Paper will carry a story tonight about city council chief executive Tom Aitchison putting his neck on the line at the full council meeting yesterday saying that:... -
Chunky Councillor MacLaren to be a proven LIAR
Posted on September 19, 2008 | No CommentsEducation leader Marilyne MacLaren (known to fellow councillors as Moo Moo) it seems is has to go back to school to learn how to tell the truth. The grossly overweight councillor who has spent her time in power going from mishap to mishap is to be proven a liar next week when one again Dr. Ralph Musgrave gives a damning report to the council - Ralphie's last report was showing how Nolan and his Craigmilar Cabal were, like Councillor MacLaren, at it. It is widely expected in the EdSucks hut that -
The truth behind Ian Perry’s £400,000
Posted on January 29, 2008 | No CommentsWell 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. -
Would you buy a second hand car from this krew
Posted on January 22, 2008 | 1 CommentOur departed Lord Provost, famously called a “Sow’s Ear†by yet another more departed councillor really needs to come back down to earth and get in amongst the people she is supposed to be representing. Oh, I forgot, she did that and didn’t like it at all. News from Lesley Hinds (aspiring Labour leader in the city) on her blog is that when she braved the storm of the minion public on Saturday to get people to sign up for the -
More Children & Families disarray
Posted on January 16, 2008 | 1 CommentBig Hoose for council employee Yet more examples come out showing how the largest department in the Council and the one with the biggest budget and biggest overspend is still... -
Ewan Aitken – not seeing correctly.
Posted on January 10, 2008 | 1 CommentEdinburgh‘s Council labour leader Ewan Aitken is in fear of losing the leader’s role because a few Labour councillors are just waiting in the wings to get their hands on... -
Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money
Posted on October 1, 2007 | 1 CommentEveryone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built. Labour were running round the city pretending to “listen to the people”, they even... -
Cut our schools, leave a huge defecit, Wow – You’re Hired
Posted on September 13, 2007 | 1 CommentJobs(on) for the boys which we reported a week ago has now been picked up by the Evening News and Scotsman with with few more details in fact less details... -
Jobs(on) for the boys still alive and well
Posted on September 5, 2007 | 2 CommentsIt 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... -
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.... -
Cityconnect ads banned on EdSucks
Posted on June 6, 2007 | No CommentsAfter finding that quite a lot of people were clicking on the Cityconnect ads to get McDougall billed, we have decided to ban the Cityconnect ads on this site. We... -
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)... -
Mrs Rosendale fighting democracy in Leith
Posted on June 4, 2007 | No CommentsMrs Rosendale, wife of the council’s infamous Fraudster Mike Rosendale, has been up to her tricks again down Leith way. News into the towers is that she turned up at... -
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... -
SNP (now called the Scottish Nolan Party), FibUnDems and Standing Order 22
Posted on June 1, 2007 | No CommentsThe city council passed the decision to stop the funding going to Craigmillar Childcare Services. It now seems as though the Scottish Nolan Party and the FibUnDems have hatched a... -
SNP/FibDem coalition Nolan’s new Bitchboys/girls?
Posted on May 31, 2007 | No CommentsNews into EdSucks towers tonight is that the voters of Portobello/Nolanmiller are being possibly dropped by the Liberal Democrat and SNP councillors that they voted in. Regular readers of not... -
We had to send an email
Posted on April 27, 2007 | No CommentsWhen we had it leaked that Alan Henderson, head of planning at the council got an email regarding one of our posts – we had to send one as well. ——– Original... -
Council loses big-time in Court of Session
Posted on March 26, 2007 | No CommentsFortunes could well be lost in what a lot of people think is the current illegal transferring of Taxi Plates at prices in excess of £50.000. The decision in the...