Marilyne MacLaren gets her Fingers Wrapped

Not yet maybe, but the ruler is falling onto those knuckles!

Evening News Article

How long before Dawes and Cardownie ask her to spend more time with her family?

Not only has she been proven to be incompetent in this matter, but her handling of the Education Budget has not been too happy either.

From the first day in the job, she has shown a complete lack of talent, and an ability to believe every half and total untruth that has been told her.

From saying that a lot of schools have to close - to selling off the schools to "save" a non existent black hole in the budget.

But: "Cllr MacLaren said: "There are too many places, too few children and not enough money to go around.

"The main interest of the council is children's wellbeing."

As "Company Secretary of Malloy & Ball Ltd, Residential property and consultancy" Marilyne seems well capable of knowing a buck from a dollar.

Wee Eck Promises £100 Million!

Alec Salmond promised £100 million to save HBoS, and blames "Spivs" for dropping this once great company in the brown stuff.

Never mind that not only has he not got the money, even if Scotland was independent, he would be talking about twice the annual budget of the country to back up a failed business that was actually based in Yorkshire Engerlund.

And blaming the "Spivs and Criminals" in the hedgefunds for the "disaster" inadvertently slags off his new best friend Sir George Mathewson who runs one of the bigger hedge funds.

Are the wheels coming of Wee Eck's trolley?

Nope, once again, he's shot off the sound bites from the hip, a moments reflection, and the excuses come out just as fast - it's not short selling that was the problem, it's "Naked Shortselling". And of course the old mantra - "If only we ran our own affairs as an Independent Scotland............." and Wee Eck would attach his wings and fly. Levitating Porcines!

Sounds like that great USA'ism thats going around, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig", and we at OchEye will be waiting for the next Wee Eck oink.

Brick for Brick?

When Spinning Jenny and Carclownski were on the stump pre '07 election, they promised to match Labours building record brick for brick.
So, Jenny and Steve, your bricks are not made of clay, but look suspicously brown and aromatic.

OchEye The News

When BoS, the staid old maid of Scottish banking decided to be adventurous and try and take over Nat West it was the same daftness that over took Scotland in the Darien Scheme.

Low and behold, RBS nipped in and took the prize, the BoS suddenly became vulnerable. and in stepped the wide boys from Halifax to save the day.

The model of giving out mortgages an loans at ever increasing amounts and lowering the requirements seemed to be a quick way of making bonuses oops sorry, money. This was a reasonable assumption, and the loans could be off set to other banks or "charities" in the Channel Isles.

Then bringing in the Whiz Kid from Next to run the operation was like putting a child in charge of a sweetie shop.

Little wonder that the HBoS operation was a target. The Kid didn't know which way to turn when the bullets started flying in his direction.

Never mind, a £2 million pay off, and I'm sure that he will turn up again to ruin another company.