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Councils failing children

By The Basa ⋅ June 25, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Even 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 McConnell said council leaders now had to focus their attention on meeting the needs of the 12,000 children in local authority care.
He said: “I […]

Holyrood overtime bill doubles

By The Basa ⋅ May 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

At 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 doubled since devolution.
This is a huge embarassment to both Jack McConnell and finance minister Tom McCabe.
An urgent review has now been demanded after figures revealed […]

Geldof puts ball at McConnell’s foot

By The Basa ⋅ May 16, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Bob 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 specific task of the first minister to not welcome them if they are not prepared to do it. And if you’re not prepared to do […]

Scots teachers brand executive measures a failure

By The Basa ⋅ May 8, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The 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 Scottish teachers. The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) is asking it’s 5,000 members to help find an answer to the crisis.
The GTCS, the […]

McConnell bitch-slapped by Home Secretary

By The Basa ⋅ May 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Our 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 waitling lists, now the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke gives him another good one over immigration.
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, made it clear yesterday […]

“Get off your arse” says Sean Connery

By The Basa ⋅ May 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

This 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, Patricia Ferguson, Connery says he has directly approached his own friends for funding help and urges political leaders to get off their “arse”.
Scotland has had […]

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