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Comments including some
from http://EdinburghSucks.com
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Trevor
Davies
(Lab) Convener |
Stood
down from taking decision on another planning matter in the Old Town.
Has he had any similar hospitality from AMA / Grosvenor / RBS? |
Ian Murray (Lab)
Vice Convener |
Vice convenor on the
Planning committee has admitted that people have
no confindence or trust in the planning system. The admission came out
in a quote to the Evening News when his boss Trevor Davies hit out at
Scottish Executive reporters who
overturned planning committee decisions made by the city’s committee.
And Councillor Ian Murray, vice-convener of the planning committee
said: “This is a clear example of why people have no confidence or
trust in the planning system. It is a complete disgrace that this
decision has been overturned and we have to make our dissent known.”
Our sources within the council have assured us
that
our highlighting of the failings of the Convenor and how it didn’t look
good for him to be Leader of the Council if such sloppy cover-ups of
pertinent information on planning applications and the proof that his
officials are not giving him and the committee all the information they
require to make decisons show that he cannot even lead the planning of
the city never mind the city itself. With the bad mouthing of Executive
Staff, does it not bring the words ‘pot’ ‘kettle’ and ‘black’ to mind?
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Allan Laing (Tory)
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| Chris Wigglesworth (Lab) |
has been de-selected by
the Labour party |
George Hunter
(Tory) |
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Gordon Munro
(Lab)
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Apparently known in
Craigmillar as Worm. Recently
locals complained
that he changed policy at a community meeting to which the community
had not been invited. Only present were staff paid by the community. |
James Lowrie
(Lib Dem) |
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John Longstaff (Lab)
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John Longstaff’s grasp on
reality is as flawed as his judgement in
joining a tired Labour administration (News, March 28). He is said to
have “confirmed suspicions leaked to the Evening News in January that
the Lib Dems and Tories are keen to form a coalition.”
Now, we discover that all along he has apparently backed
compulsory ID cards, dawn raids on the families of asylum-seekers,
loans for peerages, council tax and not a fair local income tax,
selling off playing fields to support PPP school schemes, and the
iniquities of the benefits system.
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Kenneth Harrold
(Lab) |
has been de-selected by
Labour |
Lawrence Marshall
(Lab)
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In March this year, the
Craigmillar electoral cleansing will end up in
the Court of Session as the Council are finally getting their fingers
out of their arses and having the crooked cabal’s actions undone and
the democratic wish of the people of Craigmillar installed back on to
the community.
People in the new Craigmillar/Portobello ward will have
the gormless Lawrence Marshall on their ballot paper in May - he is
obviously bent - don’t vote for him
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Maureen Child
(Lab) |
Councillor for Milton,
Maureen ‘three houses’ Child who is also in
charge of finance in the council’s cabal-like cabinet has mightily
thrown her two fingers up the the OAPs, disabled and mothers with prams
or buggies.
Childs recently refused to turn up to her surgeries at Brunstane School
and forced her constituents to go into the neighbouring ward of
Portobello to see her, which is very convenient because she just lives
a 3 minute walk from the Portobello Town Hall where she is known as the
unelected councillor for Portobello. |
| David Walker (Lib Dem) |
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Susan Tritton (Lib Dem)
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The Hon
David Guest
(Tory)
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Only councillor who the
wisdom to express concern at the initial planning application
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Thomas Ponton
(Lib Dem) |
Jumped ship from
Tories. An Edinburgh councillor has been fined for
allowing under-age teenagers to drink in in his bar. In 2002 Tom
Ponton, who is deputy lieutenant for Edinburgh and a justice of the
peace, had to appear before the licensing board to explain
the conviction. Owns pubs so is likely to support anything with
potential for the
'entertainment' and 'hospitality' industry.
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