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Friends and readers. The secret is out,what secret we hear you shout,the Labour cabal,the one we are told does not exist is alive and well,but coming back in another skin,the little chameleons that they are.

Awarding themselves big grants to keep themselves in well paid jobs with the help of their elected buddies was fine and dandy when they were running the show. 

But their wings are spreading as the new neighbourhood partnerships ironically offer new opportunities to try and cement their cushy numbers.

Just by a quick Glance at a map you can easily see that Both Forth and Inverleith partnerships are kissing cousins and share some interests. But wait a minute does not our old mate and regular Sucks reader Councillor Lesley Prada Hinds reside there,waiting like a tightly sprung coil to pinch a vacant parliamentary seat,something her little heart has desired for a long time,something which she has been sharpening her knives for waiting to thrust them into some unsuspecting souls back to unseat them and become the peoples champ,someone like our old mucker Malcs Chisholm the wandering revolutionary,who nobody has seen for a while,maybe Ms. Prada Hinds has poisoned his herbal tea or slipped some LSD into his Big Mac,and he is now on a cloud somewhere chewing the fat with Comrade Stalin or Frau Thatcher.

No matter our Lesley has her eyes on the prize either here or in the East it makes no odds to her,but in the meantime she can cause as much mischief as possible by helping her party buddies and hangers on in sunny Inverleith including those that have crawled out from under a stone in Forth to buddy up with our catwalk queen.

We will monitor this situation and of course our pal Lesleys progress in her Indiana Jones type quest for a parliamentary seat.

In fact we could make it the next Indie Film and title it Indiana Hinds-The Parliamentary Quest.    

Friends and readers. We have noticed a growing discontent with Forth Neighbour Hood Manager Mr. Peter Strong. This growing discontent is rising from within the Community,and the City should sit up and take notice of this situation before the Community loses complete faith in him.if indeed they have not already done so.

One of the most vocal complaints which goes right to the heart of Neighbourhood Partnerships is official lead agendas something which Pilton Sucks regards as unacceptable,which is leading to the slipping of the Community agenda.

Mr. Strong has to with immediate effect turn this tide and put the Community agenda back at the forefront of this Neighbourhood Partnership.

Councillor Elaine Morris who has been arguing since she was elected for a bigger and more vocal Community agenda should be applauded for the position she has taken and the Community should not only be backing her stance but following her lead.

We at Pilton Sucks are not in the habit of praising politicians,but Councillor Morris has been a breath of fresh air in this Community and has lead from the front and we give credit for this.

Mr Peter Strong has not cut the mustard and his report card makes poor reading. His officials are running wild and need to be put back on their leash.Pilton Sucks will do what it can to ensure that Mr. Strong gets his finger out and soon. 

Friends and readers.Our source at the leaky Waverley Court tells us that the Sunday Mail revelations had a number of senior managers running to the toilet last week.

Our reliable source also tells us that there was delight on some of the faces at Unison HQ who had known about what was going on at this centre in Muirhouse for some time.

Told you so was one of the comments that was made as the repercussions of the article set in. As we reported a number of council staff within the Health and Social Care department have contacted Pilton Sucks giving their full support with some saying what went on at this centre in Muirhouse was common knowledge within Criminal Justice.

We were told but already knew that this information had filtered through to senior management who sat on their hands hiding behind the old dodge of policy and procedures.

What appears to have been total inaction from the many complaints that came forward may now come back to bite them on the backside.

One current member of staff, a senior worker told Pilton Sucks that a climate of fear exists based on threats to staff if they talk and we quote-out of school-. This senior worker of some years standing is convinced that this Centre in Muirhouse should be cleaned out and dismantled and those that have abused staff including the member of staff that is employed in West Lothian and formerly in Muirhouse be dismissed immediately and never allowed authority over staff again.

It seems that anger is the order of the day as good hard working staff are being brought down by lowlifes who are power mad and don’t care who they abuse to get it.

What friends and readers does this say about those charged with a duty of care to employees.      

Friends and readers. Piltons Sucks as you may know has a wide readership,as well as nationwide we have readers from all corners of the globe.

So to our pleasant surprise George our associate received correspondence from a reader in New Zealand.

As you are aware Pilton Sucks has been running an ongoing campaign against workplace bullying,a campaign that has boosted our readership and provoked a number of responses.

Our reader in New Zealand contacted George telling him of his experience of workplace bullying. He told George that he had come to Scotland with his wife for a short time and had taken up a post with Edinburgh City Council.

While working in post he was subjected to what he described as bullying by incompetence,and threats. He was shocked by what he experienced and was forced out of post by bullying. He had never experienced this type of behaviour before and was angry that this type of behaviour was allowed to go on un-noticed.

At the end of his registered post he told us who these bullys are and where they worked,and surprise surprise it was in the Community Service group at the Muirhouse Social Work Centre.

We have argued and demanded that an outside independent public enquiry be carried out into these allegations which have a continuous flow from this centre.

Even the Scottish Government are now asking questions about working practices which has brought the tabloids on board,and the most recent revelation from the Sunday Mail had the Muirhouse Centre right at the heart of bullying and Harassment.

Something we may add had the City Council running for cover and declining to comment. This sleazy department can run but they cannot hide.

Friends and readers. Our recent views on local people being employed in local projects coupled with the latest revelations concerning the Muirhouse Social Work Centre has provoked an amazing response from readers all over the country.

Many readers have been motivated by our anti workplace bullying campaign and awareness of this issue has been raised right across the country with readers replying to George our associate who has been working hard on this issue.

Pilton Sucks has been asked to send a rep to Leicester where a bullying awareness day is to be held on February 11th. We are delighted to oblige

As the city Council continue their silence on the Sunday Mails revelations,a number of council staff have been in touch with Pilton Sucks supporting our stance.

The problem with the cabal dominated Community projects which Pilton Sucks has opened a debate on has clearly struck a chord with local people. In the past it had gone unnoticed that our local projects had deliberately ignored employing local people in favour of the cabal network which for so long has dominated this community.

But now this problem is out in the open and it won’t go away. Local people employed in local projects is a tiny minority and we ask the question why?

Not skilled enough perhaps,that can easily be adjusted with the proper training and the will  to involve and employ local people. All can drink from the well not just the favoured few and their pals who keep the jobs to themselves.

The ethos of local projects must be to employ local people to run them in the community’s interest something which up to now has simply not happened. The closed door policy which has been applied will ultimately change as the present set up cannot continue.

What the Fairer Scotland Funding has brought home to many people is the lack of real initiatives to employing local people.

Under SIP funding this was all hidden from the public eye,now no longer the case as projects use local people to fight their battles against reduced funding.

The impression given is that local people are just not capable of running these projects and only those that know better can. Well Pilton Sucks can expose this smoke screen for what it is,a deliberate attempt to exclude local people which up to now has been successful.      

Friends and readers. Our Mail box has been red hot since Yesterday’s Sunday Mail article on the infamous Muirhouse Social Work Centre.

Pilton Sucks as you know through our associate George broke the story some time ago of serious workplace bullying which took place within the Criminal Justice section.

It would seem many of our readers who have been following Georges Investigation including the Social Work staff group who contacted us some time ago including the senior worker who felt enough was enough and action was needed are united in their praise for the Mails revelations.

With their decline to comment the City Council have shown their colours and must now act to deal with the bullying that many people have known about for some time.

It appears three members of staff are prepared to take action to get justice and Pilton Sucks fully supports them. We believe the Department responsible now have a duty to take firm action to cut out the decay that has brought this disgusting behaviour into the public domain.

Pilton Sucks repeats it’s demand for an open independent investigation across the board into what has been happening at this office.

If those charged with a duty of care to employees do not act and neglect their obligations to staff then they to are guilty of staff abuse.

Friends and readers. George our associate broke the story of mis-management at Muirhouse Social Work Centre with his revelations of bullying ,harassment and abuse of staff.

Now the Sunday Mail has joined the clamour for answers as to why this was allowed to go on unchecked for so long.

Today’s Sunday Mail reveals a catalogue of total mis-management coupled with abuse of staff. Pilton Sucks revealed some time ago this was going on and we are delighted that a national newspaper has brought it into the public domain.

The cover up has been one of deceit and lies in order to protect the guilty. We can almost hears the shouts of relief from others within the city who knew what was going on but could do nothing to prevent this abuse.

Pilton Sucks has lead the way once again in exposing corruption and abuse it won’t end here.

We leave the most telling comment to Edinburgh City Council,when asked about these allegations they refused to comment. Pretty much Say’s it all dosen’t it. 

Friends and readers. Whispers have reached our ears of revelations that could shock this community to it’s foundations.

We have no actual facts at this present time but if this persistent rumour which was told to our associate Helen becomes knowledge in the public domain we may see sparks fly.

Pilton Sucks as always will bring you the news as soon as we have it,of that you can be sure.

Watch this space. 

Friends and readers.It seems our argument for local people to take control of local projects has struck a chord with some of our readers.

From the opinions gathered it would appear there could be a ground swell of discontent with the way things have been run and controlled by the Labour cabal and it’s hangers on.

Very few now doubt except of course for the die hards that local people have been deliberately excluded from employment in our local projects apart from the odd one or two.

The poverty industry in this community has,as we have said previously been good to the few to the detriment of the many. The great and the good otherwise known as the cabal and friends have milked these projects for their own benefit ignoring local empowerment and only using locals as a shield to guard their own interests.

Oh yes some local people give of their own time free of charge to sit on various management committees,but how many are actually listened to,or merely mocked and asked to conduct business with an agenda already set somewhere else.

The City administration are we hope aware of this situation which includes officials who were Labour appointments,and have what looks like deliberately tried to frustrate any type of change or progress.

This of course suits those who relish the status quo and thrive on division. Peter Strong the neighbourhood manager has not cut the mustard and should be replaced as soon as possible.

All local projects must be made to account for the amount of money paid out in salaries,and as previously stated who gets what and why.

No project should receive any funding unless at least 50% of their staff are local people.

Management committees must start setting the agendas not paid employees who only have their own best interests at heart. Each local project that receives any type of public funding should be asked to produce a budget outlining how much of that budget goes in salaries and to who.

Management committees have that right and should not be bullied into singing from someone else’s hymn sheet.

We have to add this on a personal note. For the idiot who threw a banner from the public gallery in the City Chambers at Councillor Morris with the word bitch on it,you should be ashamed of yourself,what kind of light do you think that paints us in.

Pilton sucks would like to on behalf of the majority of reasonable thinking people apologise to Councillor Morris,and condemn the idiot that was put up to do such a stupid thing.        

Friends and readers. Our gallant local football team Spartans gave it their best shot and bar a dodgy referee decision,could have earned a replay against Airdrie Utd.

Never mind consolation in the fact that the new facilities are terrific and local people can look forward to using these facilities.

One black mark against us though, we are told two televisions were stolen from the new building,and it’s not been officially opened yet. So if the two wide boys who nicked the telly’s would care to put them back we would appreciate it.