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Attridge look round the chamber

By The Basa ⋅ June 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

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?

By The Basa ⋅ June 15, 2005 ⋅ One comment

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Wheelie bins are now becoming permanent street furniture around the city as the councillors have withdrawn the required facilities to allow the binmen to [...]

Government stealing lottery money

By The Basa ⋅ June 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s newspapers brings the news that the government are using the lottery money and planning to divert lottery cash from good causes and charity to fund services normally paid for from general taxation under the well-known guise of streamlining.
“The whole aim when the lottery was set up was that it was going to be independent [...]

Sheila Gilmore with blinkers

By The Basa ⋅ June 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The city’s housing supremo, blinkered Sheila Gilmore, is way to good to turn up at a public debate chaired by MSP Margo MacDonald on whether the to sell off the Council housing stock even although she is handy at writing letters to the Evening News about it on a regular basis – [...]

Nigel Griffiths features in Private Eye

By The Basa ⋅ May 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Lying Edinburgh South MP, ‘Nasty’ Nigel Griffiths has been featured in Private Eye 1132 under the banner Electionballs. The story is roughly based on our earlier stories about his name-dropping.
“I’ve been lucky enough to work with Damon Albarn of Gorillas [sic] and Blur and also my friend June Sarpong, from TV” wrote Labour MP [...]

Non-Stop Cheater – Labour’s Nigel Griffiths

By The Basa ⋅ May 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Yet again, Nigel Griffiths has shown his contempt for playing fair and his joy of more dirty tricks by taking down the Liberal Democrats posters in the Morningside area.
Police traced those involved and it is understood they were Labour supporters who claimed they had been ordered to take down their own posters and decided to [...]

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