Letter: All worked up

We have a council leader and deputy leader beset by bouts of amnesia, desperately trying to hang on to their jobs, and now we have a new chief executive who appears to be too busy "not" doing the job she is employed to do to concentrate on the single biggest issue to face this city in a generation.

Our council is ineffective and incompetent and now we have an administration lead by a part-time employee who thinks that earning 20,000 for herself is more beneficial to the people of Edinburgh than trying to save the inevitable Tie cost of 1m per month from now until August, along with the inevitable legal and professional advice being sought by Tie in an effort to get someone to agree with their position.

If Ms Bruce is not prepared to deal with the trams issue, then she must resign and allow someone who can multi-task to do the job. At 160,000 per year you would have thought that our council would have ascertained this prior to her appointment.

John R T Carson

Kirkliston Road

South Queensferry

A salary (this year) of 160,000 (including the taxpayer's pension contribution) is not enough for Sue Bruce to make a contribution to the tram project while executing her other statutory duties?

For this kind of money the public do not just expect her to walk and chew gum at the same time; we expect her to be able to walk on water and raise the dead.

David Burgess

Balbirnie Road

Glenrothes, Fife