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 […]

Little Nigel Griffiths is Tony’s new Best Friend

Edinburgh South MP and total sleeze merchant little Nigel Griffiths it seems is crawling up the ariss of our soon to depart PM according to the latest copy of Private Eye:
“LABOUR MP Nigel Griffiths has been doing some adroit and persistent sucking-up to Tony Blair.
Griffiths has long been regarded as a Gordon Brownite but […]

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 […]

Lying, cheating and a fat wallet

Regular readers will remember the last general election campaign when man of the people, Labour MP Nigel Griffiths lied and cheated his way back into parliament (for a refresher course, click here, here, here , here, here, here, here, and here).
It seems that there was a reason for all this cheating, to get […]

Attridge look round the chamber

Councillor Phil Attridge is whining today in the Evening News about flyposting in Edinburgh. Our leaders are demanding new laws to deal with the problem after admitting that they were powerless to punish the perpetrators.
City licensing leader Phil Attridge said: “There seems to be a real lack of suitable legislation in place to deal […]

Wheelie bins - permanent street furniture?

How can we expect the council to get rid of the rubbish in the administration up in the High Street when that administration cannot even get the rubbish collected from the citizens.
Wheelie bins are now becoming permanent street furniture around the city as the councillors have withdrawn the required facilities to allow the binmen to […]