Come And Gone
Friends and readers. The world cup is over so is Wimbledon,In the meantime sleaze has overwhelmed the Labour Government, and allowed these horrible Torries to gloat and make hay.Their policy is clear do nothing say nothing of any relevance,and they will pick up votes on the strength of Labours impotency.
Rememder 1997 the hope after so many years of Tory rule.An end to sleaze,and help for our most disadvantaged. What has happened,time my friends and complacency. The privately educated twit Cameron offers nothing but tax cuts for the better off and a return to austerity for the rest,so nothing changes there then.
Never has the divide between the haves and have nots been so wide, and this under a Labour administration,the shame of it. Labour rules both at local and national level and this should be the best of all worlds. But no at all levels they have run out of both ideas and steam,and the masses suffer and as usual it is in the deprived communities of Edinburgh.
Our sister site has shown up the corruption in Craigmillar and still the council shows a lack of leadership on matters. A handful of chancers have been milking the system there for to long and the Labour council has apart from make the right noise done nothing. How can the voters trust these cheap crooks,throw them out and their hangers on before they can do any more damage.
The hope that Labour offered has come and gone,and is unlikely to return. Our own Labour rulers in Greater Pilton seem only to be concerned about their own fate and ignore the plight of their punters. We reported that at least one of them if not all three new workplace bullying was going on in the Muirhouse Social Work Centre but choose to stay quite on the matter burying their head in the sand comes to mind.
What chance de we have to move on as a community if they and their sorts allow departments to do what they like and not demand accountability. It does make you think who is really running the city.
The heady days of Labour winning the city seems like a liftime ago-remember,improving services creating jobs,a lot of these so called left wing councillors have long gone to well paid jobs eleswhere. It beggers belief that we supported these careerists for so long and did not see through them,but then again the alternative was even worse,so much for choice.
We at Pilton Sucks .com have advocated community candidates come forward to challenge the established rulers,and make politics more open and accountable,for at the moment it is secretive and clandistine,open only to those and such of those.
Politics belongs to the people not any one person or party,and we must start to believe that the brick wall that is the party machine can like the walls of Jerico be brought down.
So the hopes and dreams of those that supported Labour both at local and national level have been dashed,and the nightmare of Tory rule is on the horizon once more. There is talent out there but it is held back by reverence to the party machine and the fear of taking it on.
The Party machine is weak it just has the facade af strength but it has no purpose,no where to go and is fighting to stay afloat. It has stopped new people coming through,in favour of the tried and trusted faces,those who will not rock the boat and can be bought cheap.
We live unfortunatly in a get it now society and dam the rest,Labour has pandered to this notion and the rest have been damed. Their jobs for the boys policy have given the council a sleazy feel and that is something they have brought on themselves.
If you are in a position to challenge the status quo then do so you might never have a better opportunity. we are living through political turmoil and a genuine lack of leadership,that a change of personel will not alter as the change is one establishment politician for another and more of the same.
Oh yes the positve spin has come and gone, and replaced by a could not care less attitude,and im alright jack mentality,just ask PEP manager, local councillor, waterfront chair, Pilton partnership chair, consultant, Leadership contender,community council owner,and general good egg Elizabeth time lord McginnisÂ