City Labour Group leader tries for new job

It seems that Councillor Andrew Burns, the leader of the Labour group on the City Council is getting fed up with his job and is going to have a go at freelancing as a sit down comedian – is Tommy Shepherd standing by at The Stand?
In today’s Evening Chip Paper, Councillor Burns gives us what [...]

Edinburgh’s Labour leader defends the indefensible

Readers of today’s Hootsmon will will be shocked to hear that Councillor Andrew Burns, Edinburgh’s Labour leader is right behind the thieving, robbing, lying, bent, scandal-ridden fcuk that we call Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has for years been finding every loophole to steal more of our money as his Fifer predecessor has also done.

Andrew [...]

the treatment of rental expenses against income UPDATED

The man that is running UK Plc’s expenses, Chancellor Alistair Darling, has problems working out how he can fiddle enough money from his rental expenses so that he doesn’t pay the taxes on that expense – whilst living in a free house in Downing Street. Then he has the huge great magic chukkies to [...]

Darling, I love your expense fiddles

Salary as Chancellor £141,866 – From the Daily Mail.
Four times in four years, the Chancellor has changed the location of his ‘main home,’
This manoeuvring has allowed him to claim thousands of pounds towards the costs of his family home in Edinburgh – and to buy a London flat furnished and mortgages at taxpayers’ expense.
In [...]

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 [...]

Contact your MP – Will they reply?

Even wondered what happened to your letter to your MP?  A great site, WriteToThem.com which is has an excellent Zeitgeist which should be helpful to all readers of EdinburghSucks.com.
We will be contacting the City Council to see if we can get the response rate for our good councillors.  Stay Tuned.
Response rate of MPs of each party

Party
Response rate
(in [...]