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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; Sleaze</title>
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	<description>An account of how the politicians and officials are screwing our city.</description>
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		<title>Will PM announce General Election today? &#8211; That&#8217;ll be a NO then&#8230;&#8230; sh1t.</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/06/03/will-pm-announce-general-election-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/06/03/will-pm-announce-general-election-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 
With Darling refusing to accept the Home Office, Blears resigning just before question time&#8230;&#8230;  We in the EdSucks gang hut think it is possible that later today we might find the date of the next general election.  Maybe even at question time!  This will make fun watching FMQs with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shagging Nigel Griffiths has snout in trough for the SECOND TIME!</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/28/shagging-nigel-griffiths-has-snout-in-trough-for-the-second-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 
The fees office who are so lax, they have paid out for cleaning of moats, houses for ducks, servants quarters, helipads, porn films, dry rot on almost another planet,  drew the line when Nigel &#8220;Does my willy look big in this camera&#8221; Griffiths tried to take the piss and hump the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour &amp; SNP almost on shagging terms</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/28/labour-snp-almost-on-shagging-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/28/labour-snp-almost-on-shagging-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The big show that Alex &#8220;I&#8217;ll claim 400 quid for my food cos I&#8217;m wasting away to nuffin&#8221; Salmond and Iain Grey put on in parliament every Thursday is all just a big show for the punters to show off.  That was well proven last night in Glasgow at a hustings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Foulkes Sake lying drunk in the cloakroom</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/27/for-foulkes-sake-lying-drunk-in-the-cloakroom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/27/for-foulkes-sake-lying-drunk-in-the-cloakroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Consider Alex Massie&#8217;s latest snippet in The Spectator and see if it reminds you of a huge fat fcuker, who lies constantly, is a total pain in the arse and who costs the British taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds each year:
*Made, if mermory serves, in Eamonn Doran&#8217;s nightclub in Dublin, circa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord For Foulkes Sake: Loved by all</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/25/lord-for-foulkes-sake-loved-by-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/25/lord-for-foulkes-sake-loved-by-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sleaze]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The fat slob who takes home more pay packets than Labour fake postal votes is spouting off his his &#8220;Hearts&#8221; column in the Evening Chip Paper.
He is well and truly loved by his beloved hearts fans:
Vlad Romanov , 25/05/2009 12:23:45
My work at Hearts is not over, I have purchased a refurbished fax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the treatment of rental expenses against income UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/25/the-treatment-of-rental-expenses-against-income/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/25/the-treatment-of-rental-expenses-against-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 09:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alistair Darling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The man that is running UK Plc&#8217;s expenses, Chancellor Alistair Darling, has problems working out how he can fiddle enough money from his rental expenses so that he doesn&#8217;t pay the taxes on that expense &#8211; whilst living in a free house in Downing Street.  Then he has the huge great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 20 UK MP expense claimants 2005-2008</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/21/top-20-uk-mp-expense-claimants-2005-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/21/top-20-uk-mp-expense-claimants-2005-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 22:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Someone was bound to do it.  Don&#8217;t know if he did it but this comes from Old Holborn.  We&#8217;ve added links to the names where there is a Telegraph story.
TWENTY HIGHEST EXPENSES CLAIMANTS
Total claims 2005-08 (excluding travel)
Liam Byrne Â£ 478,536 LABOUR
Joan Ryan Â£ 469,893 LABOUR
Dan Norris Â£ 450,985 LABOUR
Shahid Malik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thieving Labour MP didn&#8217;t even use the KY</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/20/thieving-labour-mp-didnt-even-use-the-ky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/20/thieving-labour-mp-didnt-even-use-the-ky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 08:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? In what is akin to bending over his constituents, ripping off their trousers, ripping off their underwear, unscrewing the KY jelly then deciding not to use it, and finally, ramming it home with full force, Michael Connarty, the MP for Linlithgow and Falkirk East has well and truly DONE his constituents.
In claiming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troughing heatmap available to all</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/19/troughing-heatmap-available-to-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/19/troughing-heatmap-available-to-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Someone with way too much time on their hands has come up with way too much time on their hands has come up with a heatmap showing all the MPs and their moneygrabbing habits.
Click on the map to enlarge and gain access the database of all MPs and their troughing.  Use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason to vote out and reason to vote in &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/13/reason-to-vote-out-and-reason-to-vote-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/13/reason-to-vote-out-and-reason-to-vote-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 22:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? There are two pieces of media which we have come across in the last few minutes which give us reasons to either kick a politician between the legs or to shake their hands.
The first piece comes from the LibDem wanker, Lembit Ã–pik  who will shag anything that will fit on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Barrett, LibDem trougher and liar &#8211; Lothian&#8217;s MPs &#8211; the things the Evening News missed</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/13/john-barrett-libdem-trougher-and-liar-lothians-mps-the-things-the-evening-news-missed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/13/john-barrett-libdem-trougher-and-liar-lothians-mps-the-things-the-evening-news-missed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Never trust a boy to do a man&#8217;s job our dads used to say.  Well the Evening Chip Paper are taking that to extraordinary lengths.  Covering the Lothians MP&#8217;s expenses they seemed to have a few gaping holes &#8211; and they had not one, not two but three esteemed hacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foulkes&#8217; chukkies as big as his troughing</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/12/foulkes-chukkies-troughing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/12/foulkes-chukkies-troughing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? 
House of Lords: claimed Â£54,441 in allowances for 94 days attendance (Â£579/day)

Earns Â£36,000 as a Parliamentary Consultant to Eversheds LLP for 36 days work (Â£1000/day)

Claimed Â£3061.17 in allowances from the Scottish Parliament between April 2008 and March 2009

Salary for a Member of the Scottish Parliament Â£56,671.


Hat tip Guido
Random Posts you may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just imagine if&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/09/just-imagine-if/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/09/just-imagine-if/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? The 2010 General Election &#8211; a potted history: About 250 Martin Bells and Joanna Lumleys stood for parliament in the next election, targetting all of the worst expenses junkies. Their only policy was to get rid of the porkers and troughers, and their only promises were to stop the gravy train, do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darling, I love your expense fiddles</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/08/darling-i-love-your-expense-fiddles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/08/darling-i-love-your-expense-fiddles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 17:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Salary as Chancellor Â£141,866 &#8211; From the Daily Mail.
Four times in four years, the Chancellor has changed the location of his &#8216;main home,&#8217;
This manoeuvring has allowed him to claim thousands of pounds towards the costs of his family home in Edinburgh &#8211;  and to buy a London flat furnished and mortgages [...]]]></description>
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