Friends and readers. 2008 was an eventful year in the life of Pilton Sucks with a number of issues covered and a continued expansion in our readership.
Pilton Sucks has covered issues which no-body else would,and we have continued to inform the public both locally and nationally what is really going on in your name.
The recent news that a local community project who made great play about their allocation from the Fairer Scotland Fund and then offered a £60,000 pound salary provoked an angry response from many readers some who now demand that local people should know how much the poverty industry is costing in Forth in terms of salaries paid.
Many are still aware that a jobs for the boys culture still remains here and that it has to be stopped. Secrecy was part of that agenda with pals of pals getting well paid jobs at the expense of the Community at large,with little or no local people working in or managing these local projects. 2009 will see Pilton Sucks advocating local people for local jobs,something we may say that was part of the criteria for receiving funding from the Fairer Scotland Fund.
Community Councils have a large part to play in this new set up and they should be making sure that all local projects have local people employed within them properly trained and qualified to do the jobs required,not just being part of a now discredited old pals act.
Any funding must depend on local input,and after all that’s what should have happened in the first place when Urban Aid was around all those years ago,empowerment of local people,what happened to that? Urban aid did not mention anything about being a member of the Labour party or part of it’s inner circle,but that’s what happened.
Pilton Sucks exposed the private club mentality that existed here and has now become common knowledge. Local jobs for local people must be our campaign in 2009 and we will not be silenced or sit back and watch locals sidelined once again,or put on management committees as voting fodder to implement others strategies.
The other big issue of the year which provoked much interest from our readership was our ongoing campaign to highlight workplace bullying and it’s consequences for the victims.
We have raised the bar on this issue highlighting the damage this mindless violence causes to it’s victims and the need for legislation outlawing it from the workplace and making it a criminal act.
For to long these mindless jobsworths have been getting away with it at an immense cost to both employer and victim,the time now has come to launch our 2009 anti workplace bullying campaign,with two of our associates George and Helen working on it full time,reporting and exposing bullying where ever we find it.
Our constant statement has been, there is no hiding for the workplace bullys. These jobsworths must be stopped and punished for their crimes. We have also advocated that workplace bullys names be put on a register so they are known to the authorities.
Again Pilton Sucks is not going away on this huge issue and this year we will up the bar again. The workplace must be a safe environment and your employer has a duty so far as possible to make it so. If they ignore that duty or just pay lip service to it then they must and will be held liable.
But Pilton Sucks goes one step further. Instead of just the employer being held liable,the bully must face the consequences of his actions to,and must be brought to account,instead of hiding away as the cowards they are.
As this new year begins,we are all facing difficult times due in no small way to the greedy bastards that we foolishly trusted to look after our financial interests. The banking system has all but collapsed leaving many vulnerable to economic hardship,and these despicable greedy bastards who put us in this position must never again be allowed such economic power which they have abused so badly.
The old school tie brigade that have run us into the ground should be put out to grass without their golden handshakes and super duper pension schemes,lets see how this privileged elite survive on the minimum wage.
Pilton Sucks remains the peoples website,open to all whenever you want to comment on whatever subject. We do not look for favour or rely on some old pals act,we will print it as you see it.
Our information comes from sources within and outwith the community. It’s no secret that those disillusioned with what has gone on before have been our informed sources,and we welcome that.
Pilton Sucks is self financing so does not have to print pages of homage to any person or political organisation,unlike some local news sheets.
Remember if you are up to no good watch out Pilton Sucks is about.