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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; John Longstaff</title>
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	<description>An account of how the politicians and officials are screwing our city.</description>
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		<title>Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/12/craigmillar-totally-fucked-by-publicly-funded-cabal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Last night at Craigmillar&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councillor says &#8216;council are illegal&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/05/27/councillor-says-council-are-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/05/27/councillor-says-council-are-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? A waste recycling facility in Ratho used by the council is operating without the required licences and this was confirmed by Labour&#8217;s recent new councillor John Longstaff who defected to labour from the Lib Dems.
Councillor John Longstaff said: &#8220;Since they were accused of alleged unauthorised activities, I&#8217;ve seen activities that would have required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning officials lie to committee</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/05/01/planning-officials-lie-to-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/05/01/planning-officials-lie-to-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 21:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Harrold]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? .    
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&#8217;t give up and the controversy over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John leaves Jenny really pissed *ff</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/30/john-leaves-jenny-really-pissed-ff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/30/john-leaves-jenny-really-pissed-ff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? There&#8217;s no social justice in councillor&#8217;s claims
COUNCILLOR John Longstaff&#8217;s grasp on reality is as flawed as his judgement in joining a tired Labour administration (News, March 28).
He is said to have &#8220;confirmed suspicions leaked to the Evening News in January that the Lib Dems and Tories are keen to form a coalition.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who could be the defectors?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/29/who-could-be-the-defectors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/29/who-could-be-the-defectors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/29/who-could-be-the-defectors/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 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&#8217;Donnell jumping because of the multiple investigations, not into Craigmillar, but the &#8216;cabal&#8217; who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defections, defections, defections!</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/28/defections-defections-defections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/28/defections-defections-defections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councillor Longstaff defects to Labour</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/27/councillor-longstaff-defects-to-labour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/27/councillor-longstaff-defects-to-labour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? What a year for defections in the Council.  At first Steve Cardownie, the still Deputy Provost defected from Labour to SNP and now Liberal Democrat councillor for Dalmeny and Kirkliston, John Longstaff has filled up the numbers in the Labour benches to give them a majority once again.
Although the Cardownie defection was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councillors agree.. The mast must move</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/05/councillors-agree-the-mast-must-move/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/09/05/councillors-agree-the-mast-must-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Covered in the Evening News today is the story of how the mast must move.  T-Mobile had erected one of their telephone masts in the wrong position.   Local residents hope to be even more pleased than they were when the Council voted to take enforcement action against t-Moble because [...]]]></description>
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