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So the email just came in:
Posted on September 13, 2007 | No Comments And we liked it: I have to confess that I have set myself a mission this rugby season and I’m sure EdSucks rugger fans will be interested as well. Y’see,... -
Councillor in Crisis
Posted on September 11, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that one of our high profile councillors is indeed in crisis – none other than Elizabeth ‘Bunty Backhander’ Maginnis.  Thought to be currently holidaying in Spain according to... -
MacLaren, stop listening to Fraudster Rosendale and listen to the experts
Posted on September 10, 2007 | No CommentsThis is a message to the LibDem led administration. Below is a letter that was published in the Daily Telegraph today and signed by 270 professionals, academics and children’s writers. ... -
Where is Bob the Burdihouse Builder, Cllr. MacLaren.
Posted on September 5, 2007 | No CommentsWork started on the 20th of August on building the new Burdihouse/Southouse community centre which would move them out of the current facilities which were old football changing rooms. Somehow,... -
We told you so…. and where’s the rest.
Posted on September 3, 2007 | 1 CommentWell, well, well. The Evening News has finally found out about the spending down at the Waterfront. Front page headlines telling part of the story and one wonders why the... -
Another sow’s ear cock-up
Posted on August 29, 2007 | 1 CommentThe city’s very own sows ear and former Lord Provost Lesley Hinds made a huge cock up in her campaign to get press coverage to try and challenge Ewan Aitken... -
Community Learning & Development on the line
Posted on August 27, 2007 | No CommentsNews into EdSucks towers is that The Fraudster formerly known as Rosendale is telling all and any councillor that will listen that scrapping CLD will help enormously because “the workers... -
Labour are maintaining the high standards
Posted on August 25, 2007 | No CommentsThis became worthy as a post because it seems that the truth was being set aside and the press release would reign supreme. The former councillor Lezley Cameron-O’Brien (as was)... -
Maginnis in £175,000 consultancy scandal?
Posted on August 13, 2007 | No CommentsFirst of all. Councillor Maginnis we got the email from the (trainee) solicitor asking us to remove certain posts. When our legal advisors pick themselves up off the floor and... -
Dick Dastardly shouts from the sidelines
Posted on June 11, 2007 | No CommentsTrevor ‘Dick Dastardly’ Davies, the former planning leader, dismally unsuccessful candidate for council leadership and failed-at-the-ballot-box ex-councillor has not shut up just because his electorate have told him to go... -
Council’s scarecrow causes CardowNolan bovver.
Posted on June 8, 2007 | No CommentsWith the passing of Shami KhaNolan into the real world comes the rise of SNP leader Steve CardowNolan and he is not a happy camper. With just slight investigation it... -
Cityconnect ads banned on EdSucks
Posted on June 6, 2007 | No CommentsAfter finding that quite a lot of people were clicking on the Cityconnect ads to get McDougall billed, we have decided to ban the Cityconnect ads on this site. We... -
Mrs Rosendale fighting democracy in Leith
Posted on June 4, 2007 | No CommentsMrs Rosendale, wife of the council’s infamous Fraudster Mike Rosendale, has been up to her tricks again down Leith way. News into the towers is that she turned up at... -
Wabster struck off – new cover-up ordered
Posted on June 3, 2007 | No CommentsOur reliable sources tell us that the company orginally set up by council employees so that they could sell council Intellectual Property Rights and take the cash for themselves was... -
SNP (now called the Scottish Nolan Party), FibUnDems and Standing Order 22
Posted on June 1, 2007 | No CommentsThe city council passed the decision to stop the funding going to Craigmillar Childcare Services. It now seems as though the Scottish Nolan Party and the FibUnDems have hatched a... -
SNP/FibDem coalition Nolan’s new Bitchboys/girls?
Posted on May 31, 2007 | No CommentsNews into EdSucks towers tonight is that the voters of Portobello/Nolanmiller are being possibly dropped by the Liberal Democrat and SNP councillors that they voted in. Regular readers of not... -
Councillor blog roundup
Posted on May 29, 2007 | No CommentsWe thought it might be a good idea to skip around the city’s councillors blogs to see what is happening in their world. There may be some of the new... -
The Rosendales still on the offensive
Posted on May 28, 2007 | No CommentsHopefully the new LibDem/SNP coalition have some idea of how to run the Children & Families department. Their head of Neighbourhood Services, Mike ’Fraudster’ Rosendale is telling anyone that will listen that:... -
Children & Families still as bad – eTeam a shambles.
Posted on May 28, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that things down Children & Families way are still as bad and corrupt as before the election. Maybe the new Executive Member, Marilyn MacLaren hasn’t had time to... -
Seemingly we called it wrong again – Tango Tommy not charged yet.
Posted on May 26, 2007 | No CommentsIn our post on May 6th we suggested that information we had received indicated that Tango Tommy Sheridan would be charged with “Perjury, Attempting to Pervert the Course of Justice...