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Friends and readers. We are still waiting for a public appology from PEP after one of their organisation made threats to a member of the Fairer Scotland Funding Panal.

There is a strong argument that this organisation should have it’s funding withdrawn if no appology is forth coming and even if one does eventually come questions have to be asked about this kind of intimidating behaviour.

This dreadful incident cannot be ignored and must be dealt with as a matter of urgency,so a message can be sent out to others who think it’s okay to have a go when they think they are being hard done to. Is it any wonder people  not want to get invoved in their Community if this is the sort of behaviour that goes on unchecked.

Pilton Sucks may not like everything that is put in front of us but resorting to intimidation instead of debate is not on the agenda.

Projects must be accountable for what is after all public money,and for many years this Community had generously funded local projects,which we might add employed as few local people as they could get away with.

Pilton Sucks has long argued that local people should be employed in local projects at all levels,and if training is required then so be it.

For to long local projects have been the domain of everybody but local people,who have never had the opportunity to gain employment,and kept to one side.

Who is to blame for this? We can look back many years to the PCA or Pilton Central Association where a few insiders had money chucked at them and they decided how to divi it up. That then was the opportunity to empower local people and make sure they had the training or opportunity for local employment. That didn’t happen and the net result is what we now have.

Pilton Sucks was one of the voices many moons ago that called for a local labour agreement for the waterfront development,that didn’t happen and we were told there already was one. Not true neither was the promise of a potential 9,000 jobs,yes we were at that public meeting when that claim was made. It was nonsense then and as we can all see it proved to be just that.

Self interest put paid to Community interest and we all ended up in the same position we are now. The secretive Waterfront Edinburgh Limited board took decisions which this Community knew nothing about and when we asked that the minutes of the meeting be on public view that request to fell on deaf ears.

Only when the new administration came in did we realise just what had been going on in our name and how much we had been kept in the dark.

Local projects are accountable to the taxpayer and their representatives for the monies they get and what they spend it on. Add on they are accountable for the actions of their staff. So if members/employees of a local project take it upon themselves to threaten others then it effects us all and send out a very bad message. Nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands,and threaten others just because they disagree with something or other.          

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