Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal

Last 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 the community and using the publicly funded resources of Crapacity Building Project, Craigmillar Childcare Services and Haywired.
Installed against the wishes of the community were:

Chair: Paul […]

Councillor says ‘council are illegal’

A waste recycling facility in Ratho used by the council is operating without the required licences and this was confirmed by Labour’s recent new councillor John Longstaff who defected to labour from the Lib Dems.
Councillor John Longstaff said: “Since they were accused of alleged unauthorised activities, I’ve seen activities that would have required planning permission. These […]

Planning officials lie to committee

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We covered some months ago the illegal erection of a phone mast in Brunstane RoadSouth.  Eventually together with local residents we managed to get the mast moved four meters further away from Brunstane Primary School and Nursery. 
It now seems that the local residents just don’t give up and the controversy over the mast just will […]

John leaves Jenny really pissed *ff

There’s no social justice in councillor’s claims
COUNCILLOR John Longstaff’s grasp on reality is as flawed as his judgement in joining a tired Labour administration (News, March 28).
He is said to have “confirmed suspicions leaked to the Evening News in January that the Lib Dems and Tories are keen to form a coalition.” What nonsense!
Cllr Longstaff […]

Who could be the defectors?

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!

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 […]