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How to fix an election

By The Basa ⋅ April 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

1. Appoint one of your employees as the returning officer.
2. Refuse to send out nomination papers.
3. Fix the polling station.
4. Keep secret information about the counts.
Roll on a few weeks to the next community council meeting which happened to be timetabled for the same night as the East Edinburgh Development Committee, Craigmillar Castle Residents Association […]

Quis custodies ipsos custodiet?

By The Basa ⋅ April 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Interestingly with today’s verdict on transport chief Andrew ‘bumbling Andy’ Burns being cleared of breaching the councillors’ code of conduct it is interesting to look at Chief investigating officer Stuart Allan’s record on this type of thing. It can of course be found here:
http://www.standardscommissionscotland.org.uk/investigations/la_edinburgh.html
Unfortunately he is not doing too well. As one of […]

Who could be the defectors?

By The Basa ⋅ March 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Our mailbox was busy yesterday and last night with possible names of the defecting councilors from Labour. It seems that there is quite a lot of infighting going on in the Edinburgh Labour party. Our guess about Jack O’Donnell jumping because of the multiple investigations, not into Craigmillar, but the ‘cabal’ who run the ‘poverty […]

Defections, defections, defections!

By The Basa ⋅ March 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that Teflon Don was a bit over the top yesterday in his glee over the defection of John Longstaff from the Lib Dems to the Labour party.  News into EdinburghSucks was that even that defection was on a knife edge because Longstaff was also considering the Conservative and SNP parties.
Now today, it emerges […]

“My Craigmillar” by a reader

By The Basa ⋅ March 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I lived in the greater Craigmillar all of my childhood, it used to be a great place to live.  I’ve now moved out of that area because of this crap.  Its been the same people cooking the books for a while now.  There really needs to be a public inquiry about them.  I only wish […]

A little bit conversation…

By The Basa ⋅ February 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Because there has been a little bit conversation and looks like there will be a little bit action, celebration is required.  This presentation is for all the council workers who voted in our recent polls to get rid of Mike Rosendale and to have a public enquiry into the Craigmillar Cabal.
Paul Nolan was quoted recently […]

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