Wendy Alexander: Dead Woman Walking

Scotland’s Untouchables take action!

Whilst everyone is waiting for the fat lady to sing (no, not Jackie Baillie) and Wendy Alexander sits back waiting to be shown the red card as another politician again proves to the electorate that they are lying, deceitful bastards. No matter how well they get on as politicians and how […]

It was a farce and It Should’ve Been Me.

Well, the Parliamentary election fiasco is still not over and we still do not know whether we have a leading party in Parliament.  The international observers have spoken:
Thirty experts from North America invited to witness the introduction of the new electronic voting system used in last Thursday’s ballot described the number of spoiled votes as […]

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 […]

Move the goalposts II - The Consultants

600 additional consultants were needed urgently in the NHS, and the Labour and Lib Dem rulers at Follyrood decided to that they would be recruited and in place by 2006.  Great stuff - good for headlines and lots of TV interviews, radio interviews and blanket press coverage.
So here we are, 2006.  How many do we […]

Parliament uses Enron-style accounting

Holyrood.com is reporting that Green MSP Mark Ballard has criticised Finance Minister Tom McCabe after McCabe revealed a previously unknown holding account held with the Treasury.
Ballard said that McCabe’s revelation made a mockery of the entire budget process, especially given that the Executive and previous Finance Minister Andy Kerr had given commitments to identify […]

The Profit Takers - revealed

Ian Swanson obviously got the call from perma-tanned SSP leader Tommy Sheridan. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act all the MSPs who are using their living allowance to cash in on the rising house prices in Edinburgh. We have already covered this topic here.
These are not all the capitalist tories who are […]