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Jack McConnell Archive
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It was a farce and It Should’ve Been Me.
Posted on May 6, 2007 | No CommentsWell, the Parliamentary election fiasco is still not over and we still do not know whether we have a leading party in Parliament. The international observers have spoken: Thirty experts... -
Jack In The Bin
Posted on May 1, 2007 | No CommentsNice to see the EdSucks cartoonist working overtime:  Keep em coming….. Vote Independent Candidates On May 3rd – Stop the “behind the doors” deals – Vote Independent Candidates. Tweet -
Joke McConnell speaks to EdinburghSucks.com
Posted on April 30, 2007 | 1 CommentOutgoing First Minster, Joke McConnell today had the unexpected honor of speaking to EdinburghSucks.com – and what a load of sh1t he spoke. We were extremely disappointed in the turnout, as the... -
Labour getting a kicking
Posted on April 29, 2007 | No CommentsWith the normally ultra-labour-supporting Scotland on Sunday coming out with the following headlines this week, it would seem that Scotland’s NuLabourites are really gonna get a helluva kicking at the... -
Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal
Posted on July 12, 2006 | 1 CommentLast night at Craigmillar’s Community Council meeting the same three office bearers who were thrown out at the recent elections were installed back into their positions against the wishes of... -
First Minister’s office looking into Craigmillar
Posted on May 2, 2006 | No CommentsAn email in to EdinburghSucks.com today by a regular correspondent shows that the First Minister’s office has today confirmed that they are looking into the current situation in Craigmillar vis... -
Move the goalposts I – the HighFlyers
Posted on April 2, 2006 | No CommentsIn a bid to get publicity 3 years ago, the First Minister (who is currently on a world tour, and had a stop in Scotland this week) has let down the... -
Scottish governance in disrepute
Posted on February 12, 2006 | No CommentsScotland’s law which was once the envy of the world has now been brought into disrepute together with our Governance. That much was made clear by James Mackay, a respected... -
Joke McConnell
Posted on February 12, 2006 | No CommentsAn interesting and quite funny thing we missed: Â Â Â Borrowed from: Â http://www.dont-vote-labour.co.uk/ Tweet -
What about the children?
Posted on November 14, 2005 | No CommentsThe children of Scotland are the future of Scotland. Nobody denies that. What is it today, the figures show thousands of children are failing to achieve basic levels of numeracy... -
Readers Letters 3
Posted on July 14, 2005 | No CommentsOne again some time has passed since we published some of our readers letters. No. 1 I don’t know if anyone can help, but Edinburgh has gone downhill I am... -
COSLA screws up – £6m
Posted on July 3, 2005 | No CommentsWhat could be many hundreds of the country’s most vulnerable youngsters have been deprived of desperately needed extra cash as a result of a “scandalous” bureaucratic blunder by COSLA (The... -
Councils failing children
Posted on June 25, 2005 | 1 CommentEven our dodgy First Minister, Jack McConnell is up in arms at council social work departments. He was addressing the centenary conference of children’s charity Barnardo’s Scotland in Edinburgh and... -
Holyrood overtime bill doubles
Posted on May 17, 2005 | No CommentsAt the same time Audit Scotland are accusing parliament for lying about the amount of money they save, it now emerges that the overtime bill for the ministerial staff has... -
Geldof puts ball at McConnell’s foot
Posted on May 16, 2005 | No CommentsBob Geldof today put the ball right at our flaky First Minister’s foot at the Scottish Parliament’s Conference on Africa held in Edinburgh when he said: “And it is the... -
Scots teachers brand executive measures a failure
Posted on May 8, 2005 | No CommentsThe dozens of government initiatives brought in by the Scottish Executive over the past 4 years to combat classroom voilence and disruption have been branded a huge failure today by... -
McConnell bitch-slapped by Home Secretary
Posted on May 3, 2005 | No CommentsOur dumb First Minister was once again bitch-slapped by Westminster bigwig in this election campaign. After Tory Bliar a few weeks ago gave him a good thumping over the NHS... -
“Get off your arse” says Sean Connery
Posted on May 1, 2005 | No CommentsThis is the message that Edinburgh born, former James Bond actor, Sean Connery gave this weekend to political leaders in Scotland. In comments that will embarrass the current culture minister,... -
England could learn from Scotland’s failures.
Posted on April 19, 2005 | No CommentsNot my words. Those are the words of Tory Bliar. An election row has broken out about the different ways Labour runs the health service north and south of the... -
Scotland going forward full speed – IN REVERSE
Posted on April 18, 2005 | No CommentsOne final change missed by the manifesto censors: the slogan is "Britain forward, not back". With longer hospital waits lists than even under the Thatcher years, Scottish Labour has been moving backwards, not forward.