Edinburgh’s Disgraces

Today’s Edinburgh Disgraces are legion, and much worse than a half built Parthenon. See unending road works, overflowing bins, unmanaged parks and gardens.

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@Ben_A_Hopkinson Have you considered doing the same analysis for Scotland? Including areas like Edinburgh where there are specific add ons like a 35% affordable housing requirement on new build developments above 12 units. Few new schemes now just student blocks and apart-hotels.

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@andrewlearmonth @heraldscotland With some of the worst waiting times in the U.K. - see eg opthalmology and gynaecology (97 weeks) - how is paying the boss more ££ at all justified? Should have their pay reduced to incentivise focus on improving delivery.

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@JohnfaeScotland @PieInTheSkyNews Should these MSPs have to adopt a pensioner in order to get the pay rise?

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@BradfemlyWalsh Then the kids do all the washing up.

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@ASSCnews @Edinburgh_CC Large holiday flat developments are creeping through residential areas but ‘all the coming and going with wheeled suitcases’ which is used to refuse STLs clearly does not arise if it’s a block of 80 studios or 35 flats all in the same place, next to residential.

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@ASSCnews @Edinburgh_CC has approved masses of ‘serviced apartment’ proposals despite locals’ objections. This one is shocking because there is a 2022 planning permission for a residential development exactly same design. Same owner. The housing emergency is clearly over!

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@createstreets True but so often Councils show from neglect of street infrastructure that they really don’t care - these horrors are in @Edinburgh_CC - knackered and covered in graffiti

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@JohnRentoul @DavidPBMaddox Perhaps the footprint of Lib Dems - big in local government - if they deliver on fixing potholes and pavements - but not national.

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@edinburghpaper More holiday flats?

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@SaveSCScotland @rock_shamrock @scotgov @Edinburgh_CC This site had planning permission for residential flats, including some for social rent, granted in 2022. The design and layout and owner are identical. Clearly there is no longer a housing emergency if it’s OK to not transform a residential scheme into holiday flats.

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@GuidoFawkes Return of sugar bowls with brown lumps formed from wet teaspoons going in, and flies swirling around?

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@graeme_from_IT @Birdseed501 Thanks - very long flights. Was not expecting that. Presumably they stopped places to refuel - and possibly overnight.

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@CatsGiant

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What’s new pussycat?  It’s National Cat Day so please enjoy these arms of big cats, wee cats and wild cats!

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@GuidoFawkes Excellent - was on my list of hopes - no cost (really) to Govt but it’s already increasing SME tax advice/audit costs x 4 as they have to do 4 returns a year rather than one.

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@staylorish @TheTradingSheep Quite apart from that should he not be off X (twitter) by now and over on another platform. Do conference motions mean nothing to him? https://t.co/8Tz3ZqdNGB

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@MartinSLewis With interest rates rising the paltry tax free allowance of £1k could have been uprated surely. Lots of small allowance stuff like that has been frozen for years.

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@Eastreadingcom @BBCNews Probably as a ‘self employed’ provider of care - but only on taxable profit as there were presumably some costs. That’s her problem to resolve.

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@TheGlasgowMummy @rayner_susannah Such a pity they are (?) all now on bluesky and unable to respond

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Are you still here @DeidreBrock?

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SNP Depute leader Keith Brown - “every single penny” from the UK Government’s new energy wealth fund “should be spent on Scotland’s renewables future”, not English nuclear https://t.co/fiGPRcdR5R