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Friends and readers.  David one of our readers wrote to us recently after listening to a radio broadcast on workplace bullying.

He thought it would be of interest to us and all our readers.

He told us that Two victims of workplace bullying were interviewed and he found their storys harrowing and now realises the human implications of this workplace evil.

Both victims spoke of how they were targetted by a bully,given un-meetable work dead lines,been sent to Coventry,humilated sometimes in front of others,given meanial tasks to carry out and verbally and physically threatened.

Sound familiar,classic traits of the workplace bully and some of their tactics. Of course the bully as usual was in a senior position to them and abused that position.

They eventually took action which resulted in the law getting involved and an out of court settlement was reached.

Did the bully get away with it,they do not know,but it is interesting to note that the organistaion who they worked for issued an internal memo stating that, any employee found to be abusing thier position by way of bullying would be subject to disiplinary proceedure leading to their dismissal.

At least that’s a start.   

Friends and readers. It has come to our attention that Community activist George Gordon has gone into hospital to receive some treatment.

We wish Mr. Gordon a speedy recovery and back into action soon. 

Friends and readers. From reports we have received it would appear that movement on a new centre for Royston/Wardiburn is imminent.

As you all know this Centre in Pilton Drive North is in desperate need of a make over and debate has swung backward and forward on the best way to approach it.

Pilton Sucks as you know is a pragmatic creature and realises that money is tight and therefore dosen’t expect miracles.

But we are assured that both Councillors Elaine Morris and Steve Cardownie have been arguing furiously that this centre needs attention and quickly. We are also aware that Councillor Morris is determined that she will not be pushed around on this issue and we give her full credit for that.

The two obvious methods as we see of going about this task are. 1] Some sort of refurbisment,or 2] step by step demolition  and rebuild allowing the centre to at least carry on the excellent work it does.

What does not help is interference by some who have another agenda. It has come to our notice that a member of the Management Committee was bullied into talking about Management Committee business while attending one of the clubs, by an employee of the city who works in the centre.

 if true this is not on and action is necessary to prevent this sort of nonsense going on.

We are shocked that bully tactics are being used to push for some sort of warped alternative agenda. We advise all Management Committees everywhere to be watchful that you are not pressed into decisions by those that have other interests in mind.

If Pilton Sucks finds evidence that bullying has taken place we will demand that Senior Manager Mike Rosendale take action to prevent it happening again unless he wants to find his own head on the chopping block.

We would urge Royston/Wardieburn Management Committee to make up their own minds on issues,take advice but don’t be bullied. 

Friends and readers. As you know we travel  all round the Forth Ward and beyond to gather all the latest news and gossip,that nobody else will,so you have have the opinions that the Labour cabal don’t want you to have.

The Labour cabal and it’s old pals act/jobs for the boys would rather you know nothing.

Now if you read the NEN and we at Pilton Sucks encourage you all to do,you would think that nothing was going on in the Community,apart from the odd retiral party and some cute photo’s.

But this is not the case. Pilton Sucks sent Helen our own roving reporter round the Ward to find out what’s going on and where.

Did you good well informed citizens of North Edinburgh realise that there is a Group called the Forth neighbour hood partnership,A Clean Green and Safe Committee, dedicated to improving our area,  a Physical Regeneration Committee renewing and rebuilding our Community.

Did you also know there is an Environmental group with a budget to carry out small to medium sized projects in our Community some of which Helen saw on her travels.

Did you know that there was a learning and employment group  and a Health group,did you know any of that,probably not,and why simple really it takes the decision making out of the hands of the old pals act and Labour cabal,now that’s something our local paper dosen’t want you to know about,just in case you see the improvements taking place and wonder why after a generation of Labour rule all we got was jobs for pals and mis-spent public cash.

So we ask the NEN to report on these very important Community issues and inform the wider Community what’s going on in their name.

We do hope this message gets home and the NEN does not have a conflict of interest,the political one we mean.

Friends and readers. Nigel shagger Griffiths the Dishonourable member for Edinburgh South with a majority of 405 who was so drunk he could not remember his House Of Commons romp tried and failed to stop a newspaper printing the truth about his sordid antics.

Edinburgh resident John Wallace hit the nails on the head saying,

what Griffths done DID bring the House of Commons into disrepute.It’s NOT his office,It’s OUR office. The taxpayers own the office and he was having a sex romp in our office.

Mr. Wallace a former serving Army officer said ‘He was disgusted what this MP has got away with’

We understand Mr. Wallace is a consituent of Shagger Griffiths and voted for him at the last election. Shagger Griffiths has just had his majority reduced to 404. 

Friends and readers. It’s many years since the infamous Watergate scandal which came to light through the informant known as deep throat.

Now Pilton Sucks has it’s very own version,Bullygate.Our own deep throat has kept our associate George informed of this cover up,and the serial abuse of staff which took place at the now infamous Social Work Centre in Muirhouse.

George has been on the case since the stories of staff abuse leaked out with several people making contact with Pilton Sucks to tell their story.

The one constant has been that bulling of staff did indeed take place at this centre,of that there is no doubt,but our information to date is that no action has been taken against the perpetrators.

Even more curious is that, our inside source tells us all talk of staff abuse has been silenced and our source goes on to tell us that the reading of Pilton or Edinburgh Sucks will result in disiplinary action being taken should a member of staff be caught reading our information sites

Draconian measures indeed in this non-democractic monolithic organisation.But both Pilton and our better half Edinburgh Sucks cannot be bullied into silence,when such obvious injustices exist.

It would seem our caring sharing Health and Social Care Department feel they are answerable to no-one and have adopted a self righteous stance.

We remain resolute in our stance that workplace bullying must be made a criminal offence,and the workplace cleared of those that would abuse others.

Our associate George is the only person who knows,who our very own deep throat is and that will remain the case.

The workplace must be as safe as possible for staff to carry out their duties,and those that seek to abuse that must be removed from the workplace and at the very least never again be allowed to have authority over others. 

Friends and readers. Following hot on the heels of Nigel shagger Griffiths,is Tony three homes McNulty.

No sooner has shagger Griffiths pulled his trousers up but three homes McNulty is caught with his fingers in the till.

Three homes claimed £60,000 expences for his parents home,and then tells all the rest of us suckers that he didn’t break the rules,he’s still a thieving greedy bastard.

McNulty and Grifiths are by no means the only one’s making fools of us all,but they have been caught,one stealing one shagging.

Griffiths is a pathetic creature,who has already been nabbed for fiddleing his expences,and now faces the wrath of her indoors as he tries to explain playing away from home.

McNulty is just plain greedy as he abused the system to feather his own nests.We send these people to parliament to fight our corner and this is what they get up to.

Is it any wonder the punters have lost faith in politics.

Friends and readers. Our old pal and regular Sucks reader Nigel expences Griffiths,the less that honourable member for Edinburgh South,who was revealed some time ago to have fiddled his expences,has been at it again,only this time caught with his trousers down.

A major Sunday newspaper will reveal that naughty Nigel was having it away with a lady friend of his in the hallowed corridors of Westminster.

Nigels less than honourable behaviour will no doubt get media coverage with his former flat mate and current Prime Minister Gordon Brown unlikely to be pleased at this distraction.

It seems Nigel leg over Griffiths enjoys the freedom that being an MP gives him. Indeed the Sunday Newspaper will tell us that naughty Nigel was caught doing his own spot of credit crunching at the expence of the taxpayer.

Naughty Nigel’s moments of passion may cost him dearly,and Pilton Sucks would like to be a fly on the wall in the Griffiths household this weekend.

Poor old Nigel,fiddles his expences,then gets caught with his trousers down. Is this the sort of character Edinburgh South or anywhere else wants as their honourable member,a fiddler and a shagger.

Certainly Nigel will be praised in some quarters as a man’s man but then these are the quarters nobody listens to anyway.

We sincerly hope that naughty Nigel does not try to claim expences for his indiscretion,and he does the honourable thing and quit before he gets kicked out.       

Friends and readers. We have been asked several times,if we know of any action taken against the two jobsworths who abused staff at the notorious Muirhouse Social Work Centre.

At this time we know of no action taken against them by their superiors,so if we don’t know it’s very unlikely any action of any kind has been taken to discipline these two cowardly thugs. 

Friends and readers.Financial Armagedon continues to haunt us all with no sign of an end to the human misery it will cause. Bad news,something which the media has always thrived on relishes every detail of the hurt and pain this mess is causing.

Even the plastic smile of everybody’s least favourite presenter Jackie-party time-Bird has melted a little as we creep closer to a full scale depression.

Even our TV programmes which have more repeats than than a Cliff Richard Xmas song are feeling the pinch as they move to remove some of the rubbish that is put in front of us.

Vastly over paid non talented presenters who believe we cannot live without them may be searching the situations vacant pages soon.The complete obscene amounts of money paid out to these non talented bums puts our own salaried elite of Forths Community projets in the shade.

The global meltdown caused by greed and stealth ,by the few will make the many suffer. When this Labour Government relaxed banking regulations it gave the green light to those who had an eye to the main chance. Coupled with our then prudent Chancellor Browns decision to sell off our gold reserves at rock bottom price left this country very vunerable to the worst of this coming depression.

So what did our Government do?Why throw money at these vultures of course and hope that it would do the trick and nobody would notice. Wrong!

The banks even after orders from it’s new owners-us- to start lending again refused and stuck two fingers up to us all and have continued to do their own thing.

The Government have refused to step in and stop these failed and corrupt institutions from taking peoples homes. They have failed to force the utility companies to give a breathing space to those who have difficulty in paying their fuel bills, and have sat back and watched as businesses go to the wall and unemployment soars.

What’s the point in lowering interest rates to 0.5% if people are getting thrown out of work and don’t have the money to pay their mortgage. 

It’s far to easy and simplistic to blame everything on world conditions and then use this as a justification for business failure and unemployment.

What savings the average person has are now being eroded quicker than the polar ice caps,and the weakest and most vunerable like the pensioners will once again suffer the most.

It’s a sign of the deepening crisis when the lottery operators,- con a lot- are sheding staff. Even the bookies are offering free bets,now you know there is a problem when that lot start offering you something for nothing.

Pilton Sucks in it’s own small way,offers some constructive advice which our lords and masters can do immediatly if they really want to. 

Put an immediate hold on all home repossesions until the economy stabilises. Remove all VAT from fuel bills. Bring forward all the public work projects in the pipe line with an emphasis on employing those that have been hardest hit by this man made mess.

In the coming budget remove those earning and who still have a job under £15,000 out of the tax bracket completly. An immediate end to these dreadful golden hand shakes by taxing them all at 90%.

The bonus culture must be stopped and those at the bottom end of this nonsence be paid the rate for the job. Follow Glasgows lead and increase the minimum wage to £7 pounds an hour.

A move to take complete control of the financial institutions and rigorous board monitoring to ensure public complience.

These ideas would in our opinion help those who need it most and save our nation from the black hole of depression and certain implosion.

As we head towards, like rabbits caught in the headlights financial dooms day, let us all make sure that this does not become a certainty,and take the measures that will bring us back from the brink.

Are Brown and Darling the right people at this time to take positve action and put the nation ,at least back towards the daylight,at this time it seems not. We just have to hope they have a moment of inspiration and forget about looking after their own backsides. 

Don’t hold your breath waiting.