Inclusion
Friends and Readers. It has occured to Pilton sucks.com,something which has been obvious for quite some time,whats that you ask, the lack of local people working in local community projects.
Curious,but true why would that be do you think,well from a conversation that was overheard in the Pilton health project in Boswall Parkway, fatboy Dave Hewitt,who jumps from project to project with seemingly relative ease, is reported to have said,most people in this area are wasters. Thats big coming from him.
Now we do not know if this is true and of course it may just be gossip, but what still remains true is that very few local people except in the jobs like cleaning or janitorial duties are employed in these many local projects.
So we are graced with all these experts who are so generous in giving us mere plebs their very valuable expertise, in how to remain deprived and relient on them and there like.
The poverty and welfare industry in Greater Pilton is big business, just look at for instance how  the The Pilton Elderly Project has grown out of all proportion to the clients it serves. But once again it is no suprise when you see who manages it. The Black community development project based in Muirhouse,what do they do except use the racist card if you dare to critise them,but they are to all reasonable people useless and a waste of space and money, of which they receive quite a lot. The North Edinburgh News,have they ever printed anything which would make interesting reading,shame that,it has the potential to do exactly that, if it were not so intimidated by the daft Labour party.
The Drylaw neighbourhood centre,what does that do,answers on a postcard, the millenium centre in Muirhouse so badly built it makes Barrat houses look good. What do these and more local projects have in common -hardly any local people work there certainly in the full time so called professional positions.
Oh let us not forget the Prentice Centre a private club where public information is taken off the public notice board,how helpful is that.
So dear friends how do you equate that with inclusion,well it is inclusive for some but the rest can take a run and jump like it or lump it. Local people should be empowered to take up responsible positions,and why not it is their community the rest are visitors who come and go.
The peer education project should have gone some way to doing that but of course our friend Dave Hewitt was involved with that as well,so that went nowhere such a shame.
Pilton sucks.com advocates local people for local jobs,and not just stuck on management committees to make up the numbers.If they have not got the skills then train them we have all these so called experts coming out of our ears,what is stopping them.
If nothing is forthcoming then the only growth industry in Greater Pilton will continue to be the poverty industry.  Â