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Still no action on the plight of the Muirhouse Two and still no suspension for the Muirhouse bully.The blind are still leading the blind,into what seems oblivion.

What utter caos and a blight on justice,Pilton Sucks.com is disgusted but not suprised that progress to punish the bully is painfully slow. The comments we have received back up this opinion and we will continue to monitor this sad situation.

Nero fiddles while Rome burns comes to mind and whats left leaves a bad taste in many peoples mouths. Careers have been left in tatters and lifes been altered for ever.Where does that leave the victims-in limbo,no-mans land,subjected to threats however covert they may be,they still remain threats.

Still we believe justice can prevail.We shall see.

 

We can now rest peacefully, the Labour Group has selected its new leader in the shape of Ewan Aitken. There is no place in the new team  for the runner up Elizabeth Mcginnis, which Pilton Sucks feels is not very comrade like given the experience of Ms. Mcginnis

It may well be that she has ruffled to many feathers to have been considered,or her closeness to her business pals of the Waterfront development. But still we feel a place could have been found for her at executive level.

But never mind Elizabeth now that you have a little more time on your hands we have no doubt that the community will benifit from that.

But a far more serious problem is awaiting the peoples party.We are all aware that the local Labour is practically non existant,and the existing membership bar one or two are totally out of touch with the community.This is bordering on a disaster,and they to like the local community council have to ring in the changes or face meltdown at the polls.

We have no party allegiance but the alternative is not worth thinking about. If the local labour party and the constituency party do not get their heads out of the clouds and their feet firmly back in reality,electoral disaster awaits,and they will have no one to blame bar them selves.

Why have so many people deserted the party,there is not one single answer but a number of factors,which have to be addressed. For instance the party has been hi-jacked by what used to be called the middle class trendies,they will destroy the party with their ridiculas ideas and head in the sand mentality.

The method of campaigning has to change with real people on the ground who the communities can identify with, the party has to become closer to the people not aloof and distant.

Working class communities are historically loyal to Labour and these Politically correct members are taking advantage of that.

This indeed will be their down fall as the punters desert Labour in search of political soul mates. We believe that it may already  be to late to save political meltdown, and damage limitation may have to be introduced just to save face.

These people will leave Labour once the going gets tough or their own political ambitions become non-existant. What Pilton Sucks.com believes is that to avoid utter wipeout radical changes have to be made at grass roots level and those people who have left shoud be given every encouragement to return.

Pilton sucks knows without giving names and showing favour that Greater Pilton contains several people who could re-energise Labour locally,but would they be prepared to do so,that is doubtful,but if you do not ask you do not get.

So if Labour get off their high horse and go cap in hand to the people we have in mind,you may yet see a change in fortune,if not then you will reap what you sew. 

We hear on the grapevine that the Royston/Wardieburn community council has at long last made changes to its office bearers.[Chair and Secretary]

We said right at the start that this particular community council had selected the wrong office bearers and was heading for the rocks.

This community council had on paper the most potential but threw it away very quickly,and Pilton sucks suspected foul play and interference in the election process.

But it would seem common sense has prevailed and the neccessary changes were made. We do not have the names of the new chair or secretary,and no-one was available for comment,but the rumour is that Fred Marinello has become the new chair but that has still to be confirmed.

If this is true then Royston/Wardieburn will now be on a firmer and stronger footing. We also believe a new secretary was appointed but again we cannot confirm this.

Pilton Sucks had high hopes for this community council, but we were as the community were, badly let down. If these changes are accurate,we can have renewed hope that Royston/Wardieburn will now see daylight.

Pilton Sucks is going to have a weekly review of events,and any additional tit bits which may be of interest to you.

Well this week you lucky punters The Labour group rejected leftie Lizzie and Tory Davies and plumped for help from god in the shape of the Rev Ewan Aitken,so all your problems are over as devine intervention will now be the order of the day.

Also this week we seen the demolition of the flats in West Granton Road,to be replaced by guess what,over priced shoe boxes -any other guesses.

The festival is still with us are as the luvies,which does of course include Bill Baillie Fitzpatrick,who was to be seen going from one freebie to another,representing of course the punters in his ward[and we dont think]

Her most Gracious eminence Auntie Lesley with the colegate ring of confidence,is torn between her love of sunny Muirhouse and carpet bagging her way to the East,difficult choice,but one we are sure auntie Lesley will do much soul searching about and of course how much better she will be off money wise,not to difficult a choice then.

The schools are back and the little darlings will turn their attention to the learning process,thats if the teachers have the time in between form filling. But at least the over pressed parents will get a break,from all the moaning and groaning and the im boared routine.

The Waterfront saga continues to rumble on with no sign of the promised local jobs or any indication of any to come.There are stories of discontent amongst those in the know and we wait with interest to see what happens.

We will certainly wont get any information from the NEN other wise known as the Non Enlightning News,wouldnt want to upset their political friends.

So we trundle into another riviting week full of interesting news and tit bits. We may apply to the Pilton Partnership for some funding and buy out the Non Enlightning News,we may as well, at least with the Pilton Sucks News, you would certainly not get politicians splashed across the front page or any other page for that matter. It might make them be more vigilant at their surgeries.

So as the city centre party winds down for another year and the poorest in our communties pick up the tab there is one small consulation, your friend and ours comrade Fitzpatrick will be back amongst us to tell us all how wonderful it all was and how much we missed,and how great it is for the city.Yes Billy for the centre not for us plebs in the cheap seats.

As the house prices continue to rise as does the rents, it is concievable that we may get to a situation were it is only the well heeled who will be able to afford to live in this Great city.

The new build shoe boxes that are on sale in the new and ever expanding Community of Greater Pilton have to be seen to be believed. Dont buy a cat you wont be able to swing it.

Those greedy developers backed by their friends at City Hall are having a field day,the way and amount of high rise developments that are being produced might lead you to believe that soon the rest of us will be in perpetual darkness as these awful monstrosities come on stream.It might even give the city fathers the opportunity to charge us extra on our community charge for daylight.

Nobody in power gives a damm just keep building and as high as you want,even leftie Lizzie has said she would like to buy a penthouse flat, well at least it would keep her out of the way of the punters,and she is probably one of the few locals who could afford one.

She could certainly view her expanding empire from up in the gods,and take in the sights of the rest of us mere mortals running around like headless chickens trying to make ends meet.

the over inflated prices of these loosely called houses certainly gives you the impression that the developers shun the idea of affordable housing whatever that means.

Greater pilton is certainly an unemployment blackspot,but by the time these hidious buildings are complete we will be in a permanent blackspot.

Here comes the sun  do da do da.

It has been reported to us that Elvis was spotted lurking down at the Waterfront.Well since he is not local he will probably manage to bag himself a job. If you look close enough you will probably spot Marlyn Monroe working in Telford college.

As long as you do not belong to the community of Greater Pilton you improve your chance of employment. It Never ceases to amaze us that while all the politicians crow about regeneration and integration Greater Pilton is still in the doldrums when it comes to employment.

So while the politicians improve their own lot we are left to fight over scrapes from the masters table,whats new.Pilton Sucks and everybody else seems to at last realise we have been conned. While the fat cats continue to expand their waistline the rest of us are on a crash course diet of unemployment,social unrest, poor housing and ever increasing prices. And yet we are told in cripted spin we have never had it so good.

What a lot of tosh Royston/Wardieburn continues to live in the dark ages with second hand services and pats on the back,while sunny Muirhouse is not far behind. So tell you what lets have Community Councils and add another barrier to progress.

How much longer can we continue to be hoodwinked into believing that we have any say in our destiny,when the reality is sqeeze the plebs until the pips squeak.

We have been told that a summit/pow-wow is due to take place in September and the agenda will be the Waterfront. No doubt the movers and shakers will come with their prepared answers and try and kid us on that our concerns are groundless and it will be alright in the end.

Well talking about end,it may be the end for some of our elected landed gentry,as the momentum for community candidates goes up another gear.

We in the past have tripped out to return Labour candidates time after time only to be sold short, and it has been magnified by their lack of political mussle in tackling the waterfront developers.

 It is no good trying to tell us it has nothing to do with them,what the hell did we vote you in for if not to look after the interests of the local punters who put you there in the first place.

So Mr.Chisholm you are first in the firing line with your smarmy false charm and your complete aloofness, you will have to answer, what has been your contribution in your capacity as communities minister to force the Waterfront into employing local people.Answer none but plenty of smoke and mirrors to dodge the issue.

Along with leftie Lizzie, auntie Lesley[who may or may not jump ship] and the cannon fodder himself Bill Baillie,who in fact porbably realises what has gone wrong,but will trip out the old excuse of, its nothing to do with us it is out of our hands. If that is the case they should stand down and just let the developers stand for election, then we would know for certain that we would be shafted,without the spin.

So Elvis and Marlyn can relax comfortable in the knowledge that their jobs are safe and no-one from the local community will bother them,as the chance of getting a meaningful job on the development would be about the same as hearing a rendition of suspicious minds coming from Telford Colleges canteen.

ELVIS HAS LEFT THE ARENA. 

Well As auntie Lesley decides wether to stay as a councillor or carpet bag her way to the seat soon  to be vacated by Susan [i want new challenges] Deacon, Muirhouse is still in the news for one reason or another.

Ms.Hinds sits on a powder keg,she may have escaped by the skin of her lovely capped teeth over the issue of the Muirhouse Six fiasco,which of course as we all know now is in the sticky hands of her comrade leftie lizzie.

But can she perform an escape act from 34 Muirhouse Cresent the scene of some disgraceful bullying,as she knows only to well,we shall see wont we.

But the bigger question still remains to be answered, how does all this ambition help the local plebs. Councillor Mcginnis and her ever expanding empire,it never ceases to amaze how she gets away with it, auntie Lesleys  political ambitions which do not include sunny Muirhouse that is self evident. And last but certainly not least Bill Ballie Fitzpatrick, who we are told has not been seen round and about for a while.

Could it be that culture has got the better of him and he has taken to floating[probably the wrong word] round the delights of the festival. Somebody should remind him or better still auntie Lesley that we have a PURPOSE BUILT ARTS CENTRE lying doing nothing during the festival-white elephant comes to mind-

Why could not auntie Lesley have used her considerable weight in a political sense of course to push some of the lovies down Muirhouse way,now that would have been a culture shock for the little darlings.

Instead of sucking up to that old bore Connery,who is less than useless without a script in his hands, and who is after all just an actor who made a lot of money kidding people on, dear aunt Lesley should be telling the lovies of the delights of Muirhouse, and now that the lovely shopping centre has a plastic roof,they would not have to get wet trudging through the beer cans on their way to the new arts centre.

So as dear auntie Lesley ponders on the East Lothian question,we give her food for thought. If you left the sunny confines of Muirhouse you could leave behind the problems to,but on the other hand do you want the problem of the Nolans in Niddrie,surely it may be a case of better the devil you know. 

Well friends and readers it is all over. The votes have been counted and the result is in. Trevor tory Davies managed a paltry 3 votes,so was eliminated after the first ballot,isnt it exciting.

That left two in the race Ewan god fearing Aitken and leftie Lizzie[thats a laugh] In the end the good reverend won and has probably handed power away judging by his awful performance on Newsnight the same evening.

What puzzled Pilton Sucks was that the newspaper articles refering to comrade Mcginnis,all called her the left wing candidate, now with any stretch of the imagination,the one thing Elizabeth could not be called is left wing,just examine her lifestyle,that answers everything.

Our Labour propaganda sheet the North Edinburgh News tried their best to get her elected,but we fear that may have worked against her,nobody likes a smart ass.

Oh and while we are at it. As community newspapers come under threat,it may be that the NEN should have concentrated on bringing the real news to their readers,rather than dodgeing the issues. If it had managed to break free of its party loyalties and reported on issues like the mess of the waterfront development, or the scourge of long term unemployment.or the high crime rate,and asked awkward questions of its paymasters,it may well have been thought more of.

Remember your party friends will not save you from the chop,but this community will lose a news sheet which if managed properly,could be a valuable asset,so while you still have breath in your body,get out there and bring the real news to the people,and earn their support,for it is them and only them that can save you.not your party hack comrades. 

It would seem after the meeting which was held between Unison full time officials and personal from social work,fabrication is the order of the day.

The meeting which was held on Friday 25-08-06 was more of a threat to force through radical changes in the job discriptions of many of its staff. This of course is a gun to the head by any other name.

The meeting was also told of an overspend of millions of pounds,so as a result holiday entitlement would be looked at to,in an attempt to further turn the screw on staff.

Meanwhile,as all this was taking place, threats of dismissal were made against one of the Muirhouse Two. Carry on we will see you in court.

The question was asked as to why the Muirhouse Two were being victimised further,and the cowardly bully was seemingly untouchable. The answer, a ridiculas one,was not enough staff to cover any possible suspensions. Rubbish absolute rubbish.

Oh yes, well ask yourself why. Edinburgh and Pilton sucks are on the case,you will not escape justice,not ever, never.

As more and more staff become aware of what happened at Muirhouse Social Work Centre,so their disgust becomes apparent. A tissue of deceit and lies to cover up behaviour so dreadful it would bring tears to your eyes.

Bullying is a crime there is no other word to describe it,so we will not try. What we will do along with the growing army of people who are coming on board, is to block off avenues of escape for those who try and sneak under the wire and pretend nothing happened.

We believe what happened in Muirhouse was a travesty and disgrace to Edinburgh City Council. So whatever dirty tricks and PR stunts are pulled there is no hiding from the facts. The truth will come out no matter how long it takes,and when it does,many will breath a huge sigh of relief. 

Hi There.

 A TUC survey has found that 2 million people have been bullied at work over the past six months,often by their managers.

In a report published recently the TUC called for tougher laws to protect staff from intimidation and punish bullies.

The TUC said bullying accounted for the loss of about 18 million working days each year,with employees going off sick or changing jobs to escape humiliation. About 75% of the bullying was perpetrated by managers or supervisors.

Brendan Barber,TUC general secretary, said “Employers should be tackling bullying just as they would treat any other workplace hazard.”

John Carvel