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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 [...]

Cabal meltdown begins

With the big news that hit the airwaves and press today about disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan, hopefully begins the meltdown of the cabal that has ruined the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh over the last 20 years.
Paul Nolan admitted to Evening News journalist Gareth Rose that he had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money.  What Nolan [...]

Did Napier University lie to EdinburghSucks.com?

No sooner than we published our post on yet another of disgraced ex-councillor Paul Nolan’s conflicts of interest, where we included a quote we were given from Napier University, our email box was deluged from those in-the-know both within Napier and without.
Indeed we believe we were lied to by Napier University when the supplied us [...]

Cyber Activism tastic…

With a hat tip to Leithal Wit - actually we just lifted the whole post.
One of the best things about the Scottish Parliament is our ability to petition it direct and have msp’s actually consider it.
Members of the Canongate Community Forum have raised two e-petitions to the Scottish Parliament.
http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=94
calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the [...]

Caught “Cookin da books”

Not a good time for the ‘cabal’ in Craigmillar at the moment. It seems that some people looking after the community’s funds, (we’ll call them Nolan’s Numpties for the moment) thought it would be a good idea to make sure that all their friends were left in no doubt about their constant stream of money [...]

EdSucks readers ask for public enquiry

EdinburghSucks.com readers let their fingers do the clicking yesterday with another amazing respose to one of our polls.
Regular readers will remember that we asked whether their should be a public enquiry into what is happening with the ‘community organisations’ in Craigmillar which are being run as a ‘cabal’ according to many in the area.  More [...]

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