Tag Archives: edinburgh council
Voting matters
Today is the last day to get registered to vote on 3rd May. www.aboutmyvote.co.uk You have until 5pm. All parties want a high turnout in elections because the lower the turnout the fewer votes their candidate can receive. There are … Continue reading
Filed under Scottish Politics, Public Transport, Elections
An equal council for Edinburgh
On Thursday 3rd May, Edinburgh goes to the polls to elect a new council for the first time since 2007. In 2007 we had the guddle of the ballots, and in the five years since the last set of councillors … Continue reading
Edinburgh: Ban Chuggers
No one likes chuggers. Everyone has a preferred tactic of dealing with them. (Mine, if I can’t dodge them completely, is to say flatly and at once “I never give out my bank details on the street” and walk on. … Continue reading
Filed under Charities
Privatisation by surplus?
At the end of January, it was reported that Edinburgh Council had managed by good financial management and totally not as a pre-election ploy for May, that they’d spend £2m on pothole repairs, a “spring clean” of Edinburgh’s dirtiest streets, … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Elections, Scottish Politics
Tapas eaten by landlord
Just round the corner from Eildon Street, on Inverleith Place, there was a little general grocers. My late great-aunt lived on Eildon Street; she couldn’t walk as far as the big Tescos (and didn’t like it much anyway) or the … Continue reading
Filed under Restaurants
Edinburgh Council: Save Our Services
Edinburgh Council were calling it an Alternative Business Model, but in plain English it was privatisation of public services. The plan to privatise began two years ago, and continued with maximum discretion and minimal consultation until a small group of … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Housing, Scottish Politics
The Edinburgh tenement council tax
In today’s Herald, a rumoured story has finally broken: Lothian and Borders Police and independent accountants are running parallel investigations into Edinburgh Council’s Property Conservation Department and the rumoured costs are confirmed to be as high as £13.5 million. But … Continue reading
Filed under Housing, Scottish Politics
Tramfail Edinburgh
Years ago, back before the 2008 banks failure, there was a plan to build shiny new blocks of flats out along Newhaven breakwater and other shiny new buildings along Leith waterfront. The wealthy people who would live there would step … Continue reading
Filed under Public Transport, Scottish Politics
