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City of Edinburgh Council where backhanders and dodgy deals flourish.
Rowan Hedge
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The council is supposed to serve its citizens with amenities and services that benefit the residents of this once elegant city, sadly they have failed to do that for years, corruption and secret deals appear the norm.
The current SNP/Labour coalition are currently embroiled in a scandal of the chief executives appointment to the board of SSE while they are front runners for the energy contract from said council, Sue Bruce is her name and failure and mismanagement her speciality, along with her sidekicks Andrew Burns and the odious Lesley Hinds they have created a cabal that is utterly arrogant in every way a group could be.
The repairs scandal is another part of the systematic corruption that prevails in said council, a former councillor now MP Sheila Gilmore was informed by a constituent while she was cabinet member for housing about the corruption within the department but either chose to turn a blind eye or really was utterly ignorant, a trait she still has as MP.
But wait there is more the billion pound train set that is millions over budget ,years behind schedule and a project that ensured the right people made bungs at taxpayers expense. The stink of corruption and failure are wafting through the city chambers and no amount of complaining does anything, even ED Milliiband does not care what the party he supposedly leads does in Edinburgh, I did however get a letter from Johan Lamont expressing her sympathies but that's all she did, not interested in the mess at CEC.
I'm Rowan Hedge and the council I pay council tax to stinks of corruption.
The current SNP/Labour coalition are currently embroiled in a scandal of the chief executives appointment to the board of SSE while they are front runners for the energy contract from said council, Sue Bruce is her name and failure and mismanagement her speciality, along with her sidekicks Andrew Burns and the odious Lesley Hinds they have created a cabal that is utterly arrogant in every way a group could be.
The repairs scandal is another part of the systematic corruption that prevails in said council, a former councillor now MP Sheila Gilmore was informed by a constituent while she was cabinet member for housing about the corruption within the department but either chose to turn a blind eye or really was utterly ignorant, a trait she still has as MP.
But wait there is more the billion pound train set that is millions over budget ,years behind schedule and a project that ensured the right people made bungs at taxpayers expense. The stink of corruption and failure are wafting through the city chambers and no amount of complaining does anything, even ED Milliiband does not care what the party he supposedly leads does in Edinburgh, I did however get a letter from Johan Lamont expressing her sympathies but that's all she did, not interested in the mess at CEC.
I'm Rowan Hedge and the council I pay council tax to stinks of corruption.
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Just a normal day in politics, at council and government level
An SNP Labour coalition - what a combination as I thought they loathed each other.. Its like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle even dumber in cahoots.:D
Even though I’m a Labour supporter that’s funny
'Poor' local government has been in place long before devolved administrations.
What corruption? Pretty serious allegation that.
Also, particularly interested where you get the £100m rent arrears figure.