So how can we trust him?
The next 5 years look to be a real barney. Check back to find out.
"A great use of the free wi-fi on your morning and evening bus journeys to and from work." said some fool.
One week in and no emails and no telephone numbers for councillors - One hopes, no pay either. Get on with it.
So Labour's Ma and Da are no letting wee Cammy play with those nasty Nats until he gets his tie on straight. The Greens want power in the Council as much as they want nuclear power stations in every council house (but th SNP know they've got their back covered). Tories want all the unionists but that would screw Labour and the Tories would then make the Lib-Dems take the blame for doubling council house rents to subsidise a Banker's and Stockbrokers Festival in July. Oh what a balls-up.
"The SNP is ready to lead the city – we have a deal to lead the city with Labour, but if Labour are banned from joining that by their unelected star chamber we would still lead the city" said Councillor Adam ("little human snake") McVague whilst reading from the script that Nicola sent him, whilst forgetting that the Tories got more first past the post votes.
Update 13/5/2017 | “We continue to talk to each other and get the specifics nailed down, We are not wasting time," says Cllr Adam McVague. Both leaders must now be divvying up the convenorships. Figuring out who, in return for not stabbing them in the back, will get the nicely paid jobs. Cllr Cammy Day, with his pay increase as leader, will be upgrading his ties from Primark to M&S according to sources close to Edinburgh's Labour leader.
Update 15/5/2017 | Readers will imagine how pissed off we are today, the Tories have leaked to the Evening News and not to us. The city's Conservatives are pleading with Labour councillors to come out and play with them because they really are nice boys and girls. It would seem that the coup d'état which saw that nice, pragmatic and principled ex-policeman councillor getting overthrown by the career politician Cllr Whyte (rhymes with...) has also changed the way the Tories do business. They have not even got their bums on the shiny leather council chamber seats and have started leaking. From the little we know of the leaked email, it contains “initial policy statements” which the Evening News has, so far, failed to inform of the contents. Come on Evening News - publish in full.
The SNP leader, Cllr Adam McVague who's party came second (in first preference votes) in the election and is trying to get into power himself called it a “desperate bid for power.” He added “Labour are not daft." to prove to his constituents he obviously hadn't done his research or even homework.
Brand spanking new second tallest Green councillor, Cllr Claire Miller is calling for something for the city which will seemingly cost no money and we beat the weegies. With polution hotspots in the city which the council must address including West Port and the Cowgate, London Road and Nicolson Street, Queensferry Road, St John’s Road and Glasgow Road - this seems like a good idea. According to Cllr Miller this will be totally free to the council. If that is correct (and that is a big if), why not. With all this calling for things, it is even more surprising that the Green councillors on the council want to hide from the responsibity of power. Perhaps they find it more pleasurable to carp from the sidelines.
Another failed council candidate and former councillor Lib Dem Councillor Alastair "If his own party won't vote for him, why would the electorate support him" Shields has told the Edinburgh Reporter that he has decided that it is the Tories for him. Living up to the Lib Dem's history of jumping into bed with anyone that will give them a cuddle, what else would we expect. Good luck on the doorsteps.
UPDATE: 16/05/2017 | It looks like the Council are going to have to increase the insurance on the Lord Provost's chain of office, just in case the next incumbent loses it.
The Edinburgh Reporter reports that at Thursday's (what could be rudderless) council meeting, the SNP are putting forward property magnate Cllr Frank Ross for the position. The councillor who couldn't even remember if he had declared an 11-bedroom hotel in the highlands (with a Norweigan name) which under the Councillors' code of conduct he must declare.
The property magnate gave the most convincing version of Vicky Pollard's yeah, but no, but yeah since breakfast when asked if he could remember declaring the hotel, Mr Ross said: “If you want the honest truth, no. But I know I did it, because I always do it.” like he was expected to remember where all the missives were stuffed.
Cllr Ross also made headlines during the election for questioning people's scottishness if they weren't part of the SNP. So the new Provost will take office with a Standards Commissioner's enquiry hanging over his head - that's great for our city?
SNP's Adam McVague, who knocked him off the top City's SNP spot added : “I’m delighted that Frank has agreed to be our candidate for this prestigious office. I know he will represent the City with an enormous amount of distinction and bring boundless energy to the role (when he's not running his hotel in the highlands, diving back and forth between is main and second residences, searching for missives to declare etc etc etc).
If a council has just ripped you off, the quote that follows, which was probably written by someone that you as citizens are paying in excess of £60,000 plus pension, just shows you that they have absolutely zero respect for the intellectual ability of the city's residents. Let's hope that the officials that allowed this quote out, will be held to account.
The quote is ... Edinburgh Council said "private settlements were based entirely on individual circumstances and are no reflection on the original invoice."
The meaning is: "If you can't afford a good lawyer, we will totally fuck you."
UPDATE: 17/05/2017 | In one of the most damning reports that the Care Inspectorate has issued to date, when care for the elderly is seriously affecting not only the social care system by also the NHS, the Care Inspectorate found that the City of Edinburgh Council's delivery of key processes was 'unsatisfactory'. Inspectors rated health and social care services across Edinburgh as either "weak" or "unsatisfactory" in five out of nine quality indicators, with the remaining four categories found to be "adequate". It's analysis of how the City of Edinburgh council has attempted to integrate its health and social care services, the inspectorate is scathing. The council has failed the very individuals it was supposed to support.
What administrations have we had for the last 10 years? LibDem/SNP and Labour/SNP. We certainly know who to blame. Full post coming soon.
Relevant Links:
The Scotsman
Care Inspectorate Release
Full Report
The Herald
So who is involved in this secret group "the Labour’s local campaign forum (LCF)" – made up of delegates from constituency parties. Would some of the members be the same people who the city spent £60,000 on when the council Judicially Reviewed themselves and the running of the Craigmillar Community Council election which was rigged (this link is a pdf file from City of Edinburgh Council which will download to your machine) by Labour party members. Is it this group that keep selecting Labour candidates (2 in the recent council elections and one in the upcoming general election) whose recent past includes the Court of Session throwing them out from being community councillors because they rigged the original election, costing the council taxpayers £60,000+. Maybe someone from Edinburgh Labour could contact us with the information.
UPDATE: 18/05/2017 | Normally the scandal comes before the investigation, but in Auld Reekie we do it different. After yesterday's release of the damning report into social care in Edinburgh the poltiican's have jumped on to the battlements to shout. Alex "I've got a quote for that" Cole-Hamilton, Lib Dem MSP for Edinburgh Western who has been sitting in Parliament for about a year now, finally gets around to tell us the sad story of his poor constituent. Why, why, hasn't he raised this before in the press? The story is awful - why wait to jump on the bandwagon?
First full council meeting today. Wonder what a farce it will be. Unfortunately there will be a reversal of roles in the Bridgman household in the west. Councillor Bridgman will be heading out to attend the meeting, but unfortunately in a role-reversal, ex-councillor Mike Bridgeman will be staying at home to wash the dishes and eat all the doughnuts. Ahhhh.
And a shout out to ex-Councillor Mike Bridgman - You seem pissed off enough to join us and spill the beans.
Come on over to the dark side!
UPDATE: 19/05/2017 | Having gone through all the recent Edinburgh Labour election leaflets for the council elections, we can confirm tht not one of them said that they were going to abstain on the very first decision taken in the very first council meeting. "We wur jist aw checkin Google maps oan oor coonsil funded ayePads tae see if we could find any mair hotels that Frank Ross furgot tae menshun and when we aw looked up it was aw ovur. Ah um tottuly gutted!" a senior Labour councillor never told us after the meeting.
A spokesman for the Edinburgh Greens who were sniggering at the back of the room is not on record as saying "We got a nice we autographed note from Nicola and Patrick attached to the nicest jar of organic honey you have ever tasted." whilst tapping their nose gently.
So there we have it. Two weeks in the job and all they've managed to do is sort out which of them are gonna get the highest paying jobs. Bloody omnishambles.
UPDATE: 22/05/2017 |Just thinking out loud. So, they went into poitics to help us? Really. Nice to see that the protagonist got a good feed before telling the lies the the assembled journos (who probably got the choice of the leftovers).
UPDATE: 23/05/2017 | As election leaflets start dropping through the door, It might be worth checking out some of them. Today Tommy Sheppard's, SNP Parliamentary Candidate for Edinburgh East (but not a resident we believe) made its appearance.
"As your MP I will continue to fight the failed austerity policies which reward the well-off and punish the rest of us" - That's a great one, Tommy. So the hunt is on to find out who is stopping millionaire Tommy from having access to his bank statements. "the rest of us" indeed - You'll be telling us you are a social democrat next!
One wonders whether the city's dozy Labour leader, Cllr Cammy Day, has given Kezia his correct phone number. He tells the Evening News today that "he hopes to hear from the party’s executive soon" about getting into bed with the SNP's Cllr Adam McVague. The paper further informs us that Cllr Adam is gonna give the city a minority administration complete with 'temporary' conveners at the full council meeting on Thursday - gallus! Exactly what good that will do for the citizens is not explained but the assumption is, bugger all.
Cllr Adam has written to Scottish Labour leader and Lothian MSP Kezia Dugdale, asking for a meeting to discuss the situation - one presumes that the Labour councillors are too scared to share her phone number and get it sorted, pronto.
Cllr Adam continues and tells us that “he's not willing to wait potentially five weeks to start addressing" the city's problems, but doesn't explain how having temporary conveners will be any better than none at all.
The farce continues but bets are now being taken to see if Cllr Cammy will turn up in his new upgraded M&S ties.
UPDATE: 25/05/2017 | What a farce at the council meeting today. Motions missing, adjurnments to find motions, motions amended before even spoken about. We voters have done no better, just replaced some of the old idiots with new idiots. The Toaries giving their amendment to the Green/Labour/Lib Dem motion before we heard the motion.
Cllr Cammy, resplendent in his brand spanking new M&S tie gave his squeaky proposal. And if you think it was to help the everyday citizens of the city, you are totally wrong. The only appointments they want are Licensing Board, Integration Joint Board, Development Management Sub-Committee, Licensing Sub-Committee, Planning Local Review Body (3 Panels), Social Work Complaints Review Committee. So that's business looked after. No mention at all of clean streets, emptying bins nor filling potholes. The plebs have to wait until everything gets ready for the festival with late licenses to be distributed and planning permission to use our parks and land. No doubt the free tickets to the Tattoo will be handed out with the free lunch they enjoyed after the Lord Provost reminded them right at the beginning of the meeting to get right into the trough. Not sure if it was the full slap-up 5 courses or just soup and sandwiches. Anyone know?
An Extra-Special shout out to Councillor Lewis Richie (SNP) who is raising £5000 by tackling 3 endurance events to help fund Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity (formerly Sick Kids Friends Foundation). Find out more at lewisritchie.org. Visit http://tinyurl.com/mlsac3v to make a donation. Councillor Adam McVague the SNP leader in the city has only given £20 even after his pay rise, shame him!
Another Extra-Special shout out to Councllor Dr Scott Arthur for this:
Never forget people who helped you when you didn't even know you needed it - I've just given my pay as a Councillor to @Forth1CFK - £891.91 = Gift Aid (Forth One Cash for Kids. (https://twitter.com/DrScottThinks/status/868003162661236736)
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