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Friends and readers. We have received information regarding alledged racial abuse against a West Indian family living in Wardieburn Drive. The information comes from a concerned resident living in the same street. who passed it to George our associate.

George found out on Monday that this information is true and that this family are suffering racial abuse. We deplore this outrageous behaviour and it is not to be tolerated. We have been given the name of the people causing this problem and they live in the same tenement as the family suffering this abuse.

This Community will not tolerate racism and we expect the politicians and the law to deal swiftly with this problem. We will not print the name of the abusers just yet but we will if the authorities do nothing. We are informed that the police already know about this problem but this has not stopped the abuse. 

We will inform the Housing department first thing tomorrow morning and inform them if they don’t already know about this problem. The tenement in question in Wardieburn Drive is number 23. Such behaviour is completely unacceptable and gives this community a bad name.

Pilton Sucks demands immediate action from the authorities,if not Pilton sucks with great pleasure will publish the name of the abusers and shame these racists. There is no place in our society for racism and Pilton Sucks will not stand by and let it happen.

The authorities have until Friday end of business to put a stop to this or Pilton Sucks will name names including those that already know and have to date done nothing. 

Friends and readers. Information has reached us regarding the going’s on at the secure units of Howdenhall and St Kathrines,where head honcho Frank the chancer Phelen ruled the roost.

As we reported Phelen has managed to wangle a promotion but the information that is being studied at the moment put’s phelen in the frame for serious mis-management. Cover up is to mild a phrase to use if this information is correct and our source at the units assures us it is.

Investigators are in these units now and what they don’t find Pilton Sucks will furnish it.  Our source a worker at the units has told us that although everybody is breathing a sigh of relief that the chancer Phelen is leaving,they are dismayed that after all that has gone on at these units under Phelen’s watch he is to be promoted.

We wonder whoever interviewed Phelen did they know what had gone on,or where they just panicking and wanted Phelen out of harms way. It would have been better and more honest if he had been sacked.

Friends and readers. The old pals act all of whom benefited from the previous local administration have suddenly gone quite. No longer can they receive patronage and the Forth Ward should see the benefits of the new broom.

Gone to ground and meeting in private to lick their wounds and see where they go now. It’s clear that some local projects received more than their fair share of resources and it is now obvious who they where. A small group of fair weather friends feeding off each other managed to somehow enlarge the portfolio of their projects and at the same time secure their own position.

This could not have happened without a helping hand and a conspiracy of silence. Everything looks above board but many in the Community knew only to well what was going on and were powerless to do anything to stop this juggernaut.

Only now have stories emerged and most of us will have read  them in the Evening News. Pilton Sucks offers this up. Dig a little deeper and widen the scope just a bit and much more will be revealed. Look to see who sat on what Committee and the same names will emerge,bypass those with no financial or employment interests and you will come up with what is commonly known as the knitting circle,this term originates in Labour party circles and that is the link.

We give a further clue. Look to the projects that have this link and the answers are right there in front of you. Let us be even more frank,Anna and Helen who have looked closely at this phenomena point out that from all the data that they have gathered a small number of projects have received far more money than is warranted and it was our two associates that discovered the link between them.

This friends and readers is no mere coincidence for it has happened on numerous occasions. And now it appears they have gone to ground presumably in an attempt to ward off any criticism that may come their way.

Times have changed and the political climate is different and even the most inexperienced of people will tell you tactics have to change to suit the time. Of course some may wait it out and hope that the old pals act can be resurected,but that’s a fools paradise. More likely that they will lie low and hope any heat does not reach them.

Friends and readers. According to our Social Work group who are contributing to our anti workplace bulling campaign,the prime suspects in the Muirhouse Social Work Centre bullying scandal are still at large. One of the prime suspects has moved to a different location to keep his head down,but Pilton Sucks is aware of that and is also aware  where that location is.

Our campaign continues at pace and our anti workplace bullying leaflets will be distributed shortly. This we hope will help people become aware of the damage that workplace bullying causes and of victims plight.

Our associate George who has lead from the front in this campaign spoke at a city centre meeting recently outlining how workplace bullying damages both the victim and the workplace. George recruited two people interested in getting involved with the campaign.

George tells us that the meeting which was held in the University in South Bridge Edinburgh Was well attended with a number of well informed contributions coming from the audience.

One member of the audience had said, that although she was all to aware of workplace bullying it had been to date hidden away and kept secret. She went on to say that sites like Piton Sucks had brought this problem to the attention of the public and should be warmly welcomed.

We as you might imagine agree with this sentiment but add this rider. It is right to highlight this secret problem which infests our workplace,but action is needed to stamp it out. This will never happen if there is weak spineless management around afraid to even acknowledge the problem never mind doing something about it.

Pilton Sucks along with our other friends will continue to press for Government action to deal with workplace bullying and to punish the thugs that thrive on it. We remind our readers that bully’s are by nature cowards and will attempt to hide and deny any wrong doing. Be not afraid of the bully report the bully and press for action, demand your workplace be safe and secure. The bully will threaten and abuse you but stand firm and report them.

The bully will retreat and try to bob and weave with lies and deceit hiding behind a shield of rules and regulations in an attempt to justify any action that was taken. The bully will usually have though not always an inferiority complex which is driven by hate for anyone he targets.

Why does a bully target a particular victim. Numerous reasons none of which would make any sense to a normal thinking person,but he justifies it by believing he is right and never wrong and that everyone else is an idiot or some other abusive term.

In contrast the same people that the bully believes are beneath him will be the very people he may try and hide behind in an attempt to get off the hook. Ultimately there is no hiding place,for the bully cannot hide from himself. Of course the bully believes he is right so he is in his own tiny mind not hiding.

The Jekyll and hide personality of the bully is obvious in the charm he trys to exude,in front of any of his bosses while rubbishing them behind their backs. This as you know is a classic  sign of a serial bully somebody who has bullied before and knows how to get away with it. Rubbish the victim make their life an utter misery then smile in front of everyone else,easy isn’t it.

Friends and readers. Our old friend and chancer Frank Phelen head of the secure units Howdenhall and St Katherine’s where he managed to cover up all the very dodgy business that went on there,has according to a source that works at one of these units wangled himself a promotion.

Typical City Council promote the fools and chancers to hide them away so they can’t do any more damage. Phelen was in charge when the Evening News broke the story of alleged cover up amongst other dubious behaviour. Since then Phelen has threatened staff with disciplinary action should they talk about what goes on at the units.

Phelen has run a campaign of fear against the staff and has now reaped the reward he has craved promotion to Waverley Court where he can hide and do no more damage. Chancers like Phelen seem to be able to get away with what ever they please denying any wrong doing or neglect of duties.

Phelen must be moping his brow as he becomes another Waverley Court jobsworth and a further burden on the taxpayer. More information has been promised to us and we await with interest what it tells us.

 In the meantime when Phelen eventually gets to Waverley Court he could maybe pop in to see our old friend,Chief Social Worker and humanitarian of the year Michelle Miller,remember her she’s the one who thinks it is alright to abuse staff. Peas in a pod comes to mind.  

Friends and readers. Today we launch a quick quiz. Which of the Community Projects has been in receipt of the largest grants and how have they managed to do it,while smaller projects have had to struggle.

We can tell you that an application was stopped in it’s tracks when it applied for SIP funding. This particular project was centred around arts and crafts with pottery as it’s main theme. This project did not get past the front door,yet the request was only for £1500 pounds.

Yet several projects in this community have consistently received tens of thousands of pounds in grants as part of the old pals act.

We ask the question that several others have asked us about two particular projects who seem to have grown out of all proportion and are punching well above their weight.

The Granton information Centre has we are told received many many thousands of pounds of public money as has the former Pilton Elderly project. We are all to aware of the plastic friendship of the two managers of these projects,and it smells of you vote for me and i’ll vote for you.

Pilton Sucks asks for the books and applications to be made public to see who got what and why. There is already Community unease with regards to the amounts of public monies that these projects received and rightly so.

When an arts project is turned down for a small amount of money because they are told there is no money in the budget,how can it possibly be that there was enough money to feed the greedy mits of the information centre and Piton equalities project.

We know that foul play was involved and both these projects have received far more money than was ever warranted. In fact strong rumour has it that when the information centre tried to get under the umbrella of the statutory sector,both Social Work and the Housing departments knocked them back and did not want to know.

So they tried the local public purse and the old pals act kicked into action. Let us put it this way. At one stage ex labour leader John Mulvey was on their management committee,as was former councillor Bill nowght to do with me Fitzpatrick,as was the empress herself councillor Maginnis,and not to forget Derick i’ll lick anybody’s ass Suttie.

So the plot thickens a manager of one project which is in receipt of large amounts of public money sitting on the management committee of another project that received large amounts of public money,and both on the same SIP panal in fact one of them, the empress we are told chaired this funding panal.

Blatent isn’t it yet butter would not melt in either of their mouths but Pilton Sucks and others are on to you and have known for some time about this nod and twitch club that encourages large amounts of public money to be thrown at a handful of projects.

So while a small art’s and crafts project did not see the light of day,the Granton Information Centre and the quaintly named Pilton Equalities Project became the fat cats of the community,fed by each other and sucking up as much as their greedy hands could get.

Of course this prickly relationship includes a few other willing partners some of who are employed in this community on the strength of this relationship. One or two are even card carrying loyal party members and have even used their work time which is paid out of the public purse to deliver political leaflets during election time.

So these uneasy bedfellow comrades have managed to create a private language which excludes all others to benifit themselves,while shouting at the top of thier voices about democracy.

What is your’s is mine and what is mine is my own,that’s the creed of the old pals act a secret like organisation who mangaed to get themselves into a position of look a like  democracy , bleeding smaller potential projects of money to satisfy their own needs,and then tell everybody what a good job they where doing. 

Three cheers for them.

Friends and readers. We hear on the City grapevine,that a certain political party currently in opposition in the hallowed halls of the City Chambers,are using the Community Council mailing list to put out propaganda on the budget.

We of course would be appaled if this where to be found to be the case,surely a political  party would not stoop to such depths. Get your house in order Ewan

Friends and readers. Hot off the press from last nights Unison AGM is that the elusive George Lee is now the former branch secretary,not that anyone will notice he has gone,he was regarded as the scarlet pimpernel of Unison.

They seek him here they seek him there they seek him every bloody where, but Georgie porgy knows all the best hiding spots,you can see he has been a council employee for a long time,and is a time served hider.

We do hope Georgie enjoys his early retirement  from Unison and the new comfortable surroundings in Lochend,and when he is dishing out medication he stops taking the vanishing pills.

Friends and readers. Hot off the press from our source at Waverley Court,that none of the cases of the Muirhouse 5 have been settled yet.

This after a leak reached us saying that there had been in at least one of the cases a serious breach of Health and Safety which endangered life’s.

We are also told that this is being covered up at the highest level in an attempt to white wash the situation. Our source goes on to tell us that there is silent panic should the truth be revealed as at least 3 senior managers knew of this and yet to date as we know nothing has been done.

There is no question that if the papers got a hold of this that they would have a field day and a number of heads could roll. We understand although this is still to be confirmed,that this situation was reported to an investigating team yet no action was taken.

If this is confirmed then this is a situation of crisis level. Lives endangered ,no action taken even when reported, and a cover up to white wash the matter. Our source who is employed at a senior level within the Health and Social Care Department,told us that even he knew about this problem and he was not directly involved,and was mildly schocked that it was quitened down to avoid even the slightest whiff of the press getting a hold of the facts.

This saga is building into what could become a very damaging situation,and also for what is fast becoming total incompetent management. 

Friends and readers. Our old comrade,John mine’s a pint Ross was spotted in a down market gin Joint singing the praises of his total support for the working class struggle.

We think he had probably had one over the eight by then. Jovial John the city’s own mine host was overheard saying that the workers are safe with his support,the members must be breathing a sigh of relief and they will be able to sleep easier at night knowing mine’s a pint is working for them.

We hope JR had a good evening and he was fit and ready to do battle in support of the workers. Comrade John is the workers friend as he often mixes with the members shouting at the top of his voice arm aloft like lightening,”who’s round is it?