Secret Gardens

by crook. If voters won’t willingly vote for it just build it around them. Then say, “well, since we gave all of this anyway, why not go independent?” The hard part is looking shocked when the electorate tumbles this.

Grimes

Someone else who has done zilch! Apparently now a ‘rising star’ due to being able to read aloud a statement prepared by civil servants.

Neverendum didlydumb

At last! Finally the people of Scotland are told who is the Finance Secretary for Scotland. Took long enough. Now perhaps Kate can face the media for an in-depth interview on the parlous state of the Scottish economy which has been failed by the SNP.

Roastin In Ms Forbes’ favour, she has got two degrees, bringing the average number of degrees held by finance ministers in Scotland back to one per head.

Alastair Scott

The Quaich Project is ‘managed’ by the Ross Development Trust, according to their website. And the RDT is a registered charity listing its aims as ‘rejuvenating’ the Gardens – so why is it talking about selling off a city asset for commercial gain? And who was aware the Gardens require ‘rejuvenating’ at all? This Snp-run council is supposed to be of a socialist bent. But it seems that everyone’s ego has their price. The website begs for donations ‘to fund this vital project’. Vital to whom exactly?

Sally Fraser

Colour me unsurprised, Edinburgh City Council would sell the shirt off your back for tuppence.

Murglard Tharglard

The council really doesn’t seem to get it. I don’t understand how they don’t realise most residents in Edinburgh’s centre have had it with tourism and handing the city over to private businesses. It has to stop.

Dunnomuch Three stories over the last three days: Schools to suffer cuts. Libraries to suffer cuts. Sports facilities etc etc and now this. No sign of cuts to trams or festivals!

kmcn Overseen and defended by council leader Adam Mcvey – he has been in charge now for three years yet still defends all of this. It almost defies imagination that things could have come to this point. What is certain is that the needs and wants of Edinburgh’s citizens are being completely ignored.

Biggex Smith We are incidentals to the over-mighty council and yet the same people keep getting voted in. Until the people say enough is enough and vote in councillors who actually care about what happens to the people who live here, nothing will change.

Jay Harper