It’s done and dusted - Isn’t it Billy, Mark, Malcolm & Flunky

After a high level meeting early last week in the Chain Pier bar in Newhaven Road the new Labour candidate for the Forth Ward was chosen. The Evening Chip Paper runs a story this afternoon almost letting the cat out of the bag but without any of the details which we in the Sucks hut (we had to move out of Sucks Towers) have managed to track down.

At that meeting was the local MP, Mark Lazarowicz; MSP Malcolm Chisholm, former defeated Councillor Billy Fitzpatrick and their in-house flunky, trough piggy

Margo delivers for Edinburgh - Boyack and Chisholm shaft us

She is Scotland’s only independent parliamentarian but Margo MacDonald certainly delivered for Edinburgh earlier today when she managed to force the Scottish Nose Picker minority government to get the city extra cash under a move to recognise its unique status as Scotland’s capital. This is something that our former leaders Rasputin Aitken and Teflon Don Anderson not to mention the current Lib-Dem leader Jenny Dawg have been speaking about for years but with no action.

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 […]

Is the Waterfront run by a cabal?

New kid on the block PiltonSucks.com is throwing up some interesting information on how things are not looking good for the residents with regard to the Waterfront project. They have thrown up the “Affordable Challenge” to their local residents:
The challenge is simply this, who will be the first person to spot an affordable house on […]

EdinburghSucks banned to aid Social Inclusion

It has come to our notice that the fictional character who does the posting here on behalf of the citizenry of the city, namely ‘The Basa’ has actually been banned from Haywired IT center in Craigmillar.
Haywired, the Communities Scotland funded centre in the Hays Business Center is run by a board of 3 people who […]

1 in 9 ‘living in poverty’

A new study looking in to depravation in Scotland which was published yesterday found that more than 9,000 of the city’s residents are classed as living in Scotland’s most deprived areas.
The study found that in Edinburgh, 52,821 people were classed as income deprived - 11 per cent of the city’s total population.
And 24 areas […]