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Friends and readers. By now the lucky punters who put their names forward for the community council will know their fate. It will be breath held to see if we are to have an election in any of the Greater Pilton wards. If not then it is business as usual, with the suporters of the ruling party taking prominence.

We hope that the community councillors have minds of their own and do not end up as talking shops for an ever decreasing Labour Party.  As they try to shore up their support in the constiuency what better opportunity than to try and dominate the community councils. It would be no suprise for instance to see friends and family of our foreign hoilday queen Elizabeth Maginnnis dominate that community council, somethings just never change.

 Friends and Readers.This months NEN      is now available and upon reading it we were astonished to see two pages 6 and 7 devoted entirely to our rulers. Now as we read through their words of wisdom it would seem that this community is mistaken in thinking that we have any kind of social or economic problems.

In fact it would appear to be if you are gullible enough to believe it that all in the garden is rosey, and as long as we are fortunate enough to have the three stooges Hinds Fitzpatrick and our queen of foreign holidays Elizabeth Maginnis lording over us we can sleep soundly in our beds.

Somewhere they forget to mention about the appalling unemployment in the community the bad housing the state of the streets and pavements the poor health of some of our citizens due amongst other factors the low standard of living they have to endure. It is no use painting a pretty picture for after 20 years of local authority rule our Labour masters have let us down badly and should be honest enough to admit it and stand aside to allow others to try.

But oh no they will not give up, greed is a terrible thing and all three have been infected with it so the people will have to stand up and be counted and throw them out. Pilton Sucks. com believes with a growing number of people that a community candidate or candidates should come forward and show these lame ducks a clean pair of heels, in fact it is now clear that after 20 years of blaming somebody else they have failed to deliver the goods.

They have failed us on employment , they have failed us on housing, they have failed us on being honest, and of course they have managed to exclude the community from having any involvment in the waterfront development, the peoples party excluding the very people they pretend to represent.How much more do you think this community will suffer before they say enough is enough for gods sake go.

And of course or communitys saviour the knight in shining armour Mr. personality himself Malcolm moral coward Chisholm who would sell his soul to stay in his constituency seat, He should be ashamed of himself, instead of patronising the punters with his condisending attitude and middle class aspirations, he should get off his ass and do something to help solve this communitys problems, but no just sly underhand sniggers and boring speeches telling us what a wonderful job he is doing, so wonderful in fact that we should be jolly grateful and bow down in his over bearing presence.

What a bunch feeding off each other frightened to do anything positive just in case it does not go down well with the ever decreasing membership of the party.

Whos left, of course Mark Lazarowicz all things to all people not a person to be trusted even less so than the other four wasters. How often have the punters in Greater Pilton ever seen Lazarowicz, not many he is more interested in the guardian readers of stockbridge or the cheap wine drinkers of bellvue, sleazy character do not turn your back on him.

 Well all in all they are a sorry bunch of misfits drinking the trough dry and spiting it at the punters calling it progress, yeah right,progress you lot cannot see past the next vote and we have been mug enough to fall for your lies and deceit.

But friends and readers get sense see past these plastic people and their careerism they can only get where they want to go on your backs and by god they will jump on your back at every opportunity, so do not fall for that friendly old pat on the back or the odd invite to some cheap and nasty social do where you can be put on parade to be sneered at as second class citizens by those mindless idiots who stay in a better?neighbourhood and have to put up with these working class types for an evening, how awful for them.

But they too should notforget that these working class types pay most of the taxes under labour are subject to penal levels of local taxation under labour suffer the worst housing conditions under labour have unprecedented crime levels under labour and put up with second best on most things under the peoples party. So the next time your pretensious middle class M.Por wannabee middle class M.S.P look down their nose at you thinking you will not realise because they are smarter than you, just remind them they are employed in the main by those working class types they so detest.

Friends and Readers all is quite as we await the new communtiy charge books which should be droping on our door steps very shortly.  The glee on the faces of the Labour aristocracy, the deafening silence of delight, the massive slaps of self congratulations at their briilance at being able as they tell us to keep the increase to a minimum, we should not vote for them it only encourages them.

So as the Water of Leith slowly flows on and on and on….. so does the noble rulers of the city confident in the fact that whatever they do they can con the plebs into believing it is for their own good, but they just do not realise it.

Should not our noble rulers come out of their gilded palace come into the communities and explain to the punters exactly what it is that we do not understand.  Give us your words of wisdom dazzle us with your intellects, and give us plebs some of your very important time in an attempt to make us understand what is good for us and how we will all be better off in the long run.

We at PiltonSucks.com are convinced that the people would sit open mouthed in anticipation of what was to come. Unfortunatly we are giving our rulers a little to much credit, it is far more likely that you will be ignored and ridiculed in your efforts to get any kind of sense from that lot.

But like any bad smell they will linger on for a while, one or two might try and con the punters into voting them into the Scottish Parliment, some might take the money and run to their outside interests, and the rest, well they will just squabble over who is to be the new leader of a depleted labour group, or how they can get rid of Provost hHnds so they can put Cardownie in and asure themselves of an extra vote if neccessary.

The rest of us mere mortals, we just go on picking up the tab slowly but surely being ground down till our resistance is all but gone.

But have faith my good friends sometimes the greatest plans of mice and men can be changed, so do not let this tale make you despondent, all is not lost.  You the residents of Greater Pilton have the power in those little wooden polling booths you go into every so often. This time when you do, examine the ballot carefully and take a moment to think, how can my communty benifit who best can do the job that is required, when you have done that look down the list of names, and vote with your head not with the party propaganda they try and brainwash you with.

You might get a pleasant suprise some people might emerge who you think can do a better job than the last lot, so when the time comes please vote it really is important, but of equal importance is, make the right choice and have a long memory think back four years and remember the stories you were told and how many of them had a happy ending, not many.

And as we meander through the maze of lies, downright lies and statistics, take heart from the fact that you can change it you and only you.  Promises do not mean a dam thing if in the end all you get is shafted and then told it is good for you.  Friends and readers ask the question why and keep asking it, why have we not been included in the new Jerusalem why can we not get access to the wealth that is being created on the Waterfront why are we being excluded.  Why do we have to settle for second best why do we have services that are second rate.  We are entitled to share in the wealth that is being created not just sidelined some sort of freak show to be looked at by our new richer neighbours in their overpriced rubbish.

No my good readers you can demand more and with justification after all you have stayed loyal to the labour aristocracy, but they have sold you off and cheaply.

Well readers and friends, it seems our good councillor Elizabeth Maginnis is advocating the development of a casino within the Waterfront Development, no doubt in Granton so she can continue to live the good life which her many interests allows her to do. Who voted for this person, surely the last thing we need is more gambling and its associated problems.

This is pure stupidity. We are told it could attract up to 30,000 visitors - SO WHAT!  What she should be pursuing is trying to bring in real sustainable employment to the Granton area not another organisation designed to fleece the punters of their money. It would be far more benificial if Ms Maginnis used her time more productivly- say in her role as Chair of the  very secretive Waterfront Board to secure some of the 9,000 jobs she herself told us there would be available for the local punters,

From the Evening News:

Speaking at yesterday’s full council meeting, Granton councillor Elizabeth Maginnis, said: “If this casino was sited in Granton then you could see up to 30,000 visitors coming to one of the most deprived parts of the city. This development would also bring benefits to the rest of the city.”

It is time that Ms. Maginnis seriously considered her position and real role in this community, possibly she should consider resigning as local councillor - you can almost feel the sigh of relief coming from the community.

PiltonSucks.com believes the casino proposal is a nonsense and does not even bear a second thought. We also feel that gambling and the casino groupies who frequent these places would certainly not enhance the community rather give it yet another blight in its makeup.  One of the ways to rub a community’s face in it is to create an even bigger divide between the haves and the have nots.

Friends and readers this ludicrous idea comes from, wait for it , A LABOUR COUNCILLOR the ordinary peoples party dedicated to lifting the scurge of poverty from our communitys. Doing a good job is she not?

Readers and Friends, take a moment from your hectic lives to close your eyes and allow yourself to dream, to dream of meandering down Waterfront Avenue looking at the pavements that glisten in the early evening almost like gold dust sprinkled in front of you, and as you continue your pleasant stroll you will pass Caroline House and along to yet another building site with the ridiculous name of upper strand.com

But fear not as reality bites in the shape of a sculptured bronzed couple going to the beach.  The lady with a child, the lad with the boat and the man, cloth cap in hand.  Look if you will at them in from a short distance you would swear that the man was looking up at the swanky new development, puzzled as to why he cannot and will never be allowed or encouraged to improve his families lot, and that his life span would be a lot shorter than the residents of swank towers.

Could it be that his life will be cut short by some illness which might have been avoided if he could have afforded the medicine or will his children be given the opportunity in education and employment he never had. Yes friends and readers thank goodness that kind of living is in the past.

But as you leave the soon to be leafy suburbs of Waterfront Avenue the dream is over and suddenly you wake to find yourself at home in a chair with the tv on and a news presenter informing the nation of crisis in the N.H.S.,  education failing our children and employment - oh yes at record levels - but as you know, not were you live.

Thank goodness I woke from that dream.  God only knows how we could have lived with conditions that those poor people remembered in sculpted bronze had to put up with. 

Friends and readers. If you care to take a walk through Royston as we do regularly, you to will have seen if not had a mishap on them the ever decreasing state of the pavements and the roads. It would seem dear friends the local council have lots of spare cash for speedbumps judging by the amount they have built in Wardieburn and Royston.  Not everybody is a “boy racer.”

Indeed some of the -TRAGIC CALMING METHODS - are like mountains and you would need a landrover to get over them certainly a case of over-enthusiasim.  Is it not just as important to have safe pavements and streets free from bear trap potholes and seismic cracks in the pavements. With so many potholes around the community its amazing that no one has seriously hurt them selves but then people probably know where they are.

Edinburgh has so many potholes our rulers should get it put in the tourist guide Wecome to Edinburgh but watch were you walk and put a spare suspension kit in the back of your car-just in case.

P.S. One place that won’t be in the guide, guess where?  Yes you are right - THE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT - in fact the Pilton punters  might even be barred form their streets just in case the punters moving in catch the local disease the pothole syndrome.

 

PiltonSucks.com have recently been to Ainslie Park leisure centre, which as you know is on Pilton Drive.  One of our associates asked a member of staff if they knew if local people used the centre, she replied that more local people were now using it and that was good for the centre.  We were aware of the leisure card which allows use of the facilities for one pound, which we were informed were issued on a post code basis.

So the increase in usage although welcomed by PiltonSucks.com is dependant on where you live in the community and which postcode has the card at anyone time - we hope you follow this so far.  As most of the residents will know the leisure centre has far from dropped its prices in fact they have recently been increased and therefore out reach of the average Greater Pilton family.

It is our opinion that although very welcome the postcode card is a quick fix to a growing dissaftisfaction with the private club mentality which the centre seems to be creeping towards.

Healthy activities have to be encouraged and certainly amongst our community’s children. Do you the citizens think that we should only be afforded postcode health?

Sounds familiar does it not!

Friends and readers our green spaces are quickly dissapearing to be replaced by housing mostly private mostly out of reach for the average punter in the greater pilton community. The enviromental problems are plainly obvious as is the running down of the existing community. Now our rulers have a good excuse for not investing in the existing stock, blame the tenants who voted no in the recent ballot that took place on stock transfer.

We are now facing the reality of a concrete jungle, only part of the jungle will be substancially richer than the other. In their obscene haste to sell any part of land that our rulers can get away with they forget that as human beings and not just voting fodder we need to be able to see and breath in greenery.

We at PiltonSucks.com are saddened that our rulers have no vision when it comes to green space just a desire to make money and dam what anyone else has to say, in fact completly dissmissed and written off as trouble makers.

You in the near future may reap what you sow or in this case what you allow to be built, so stop and think for a moment and see what you are allowing to happen, green replaced by grey for the sake of greed

Friends and readers. We at PiltonSucks.com have been contacted by a former employee of the Muirhouse social work department who has told us that he too was bullied and harrased by the same person who is currently being protected by the social work department.

This person told us that they were in despair at how they were treated and felt the only course of action was to leave. They also told us they were more than willing to come forward if an investigation takes place.

PiltonSucks.com now urges anybody, past or present, who has been a victim of this bully to come forward and make themselves known to us. We will, if you wish, protect your identity and pass the information to the investigation team if and when this takes place. We believe this bully to be a serial bully and there will be more victims who have suffered at his hands. Do not be afraid to come forward in many ways it is your duty to expose this horrible little man and put a permanant stop to his behaviour.

PiltonSucks.com pleads that Lord Provost Lesley Hinds will get involved as both the Muirhouse Six Circle and the Muirhouse social work department are, or in the Six Circles case, were in the ward she was elected to represent. Let us see what lies she is told.

If Councillor Hinds wishes she can contact us and we will furnish her with the names and details of the MUIRHOUSE TWO. We are also happy to give her the details of the former employee who has contacted us. If Councillor Hinds does not wish to take up our offer she could ask in the community, we are realiably informed that one of the MUIRHOUSE TWO is well known and respected in the community.

Well friends and readers, PiltonSucks.com would like to offer a challenge to any member of the community. There are no particular ground rules, you can phone a friend you can hold a public meeting and ask the audience you could even be daring enough to question your elected member at his or her surgeries.

The challenge is simply this, who will be the first person to spot an affordable house on the new waterfront development.  Of course you would not expect the challenge to be that easy, although you have we believe, more chance of landing on the moon.  That aside there is a supplementry question.  If or when you spot this very elusive affordable home you have to guess how much it will cost,easy is it not?

We at PiltonSucks.com are so confident that no-one will be able to win this challenge we are putting up this fabulous once only offer.

One month from today if no-one has spotted and costed an affordable home PiltonSucks.com will ask our elected members to resign all at once Messers Fitzpatrick, Maginnis and Hinds.  Oh and of course, Mr. Communities Minister and moral coward Chisholm.

PiltonSucks.com are reasonable people we will give you a clue in your hunt for this prized treasure.

We were promised 23% of homes built would be affordable, should not be too hard to find one then should it?