Readers' Best Comments

THE police chiefs' pledge to continue their war against the drug gangs sparked a lot of comments.

Wonderful, and the sooner the better our city will be.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

Not unless something is done about those people who drink their drug, who get themselves into such a drunken state that they become violent or require medical treatment.

Dorian

Yes, a number of you pointed out that the conventional wisdom has a narrow definition of dangerous drugs

Why do the police not smash down the doors of the "alcohol barons" and "tobacco barons", the real drugs of misery in Scotland?

scotman

They should be carrying out such operations on a daily basis, or at least more frequently than they do now. Give those scumbags no hiding place.

The Sheriff

30K's worth of drugs from 15 properties is nothing. All they are doing is scraping up the bottom feeders. The big players will have no worries finding other people to take up where they left off. The police need to focus their effort on the root of the problem.

BristolJambo1

I applaud the efforts of the police, even though as BristolJambo1 suggested, they are NOT getting to the root of the problem with these particular raids. However, they may get a message across and hopefully gain useful intelligence & evidence against those bigger fish higher up the food chain.

roadstohell

There was a lot of online anger over Edinburgh City Council's plan to axe 1,200 jobs...

Typical – get rid of low paid frontline staff like library staff, home-helps and scaffies – keep the higher paid bureaucrats whose work is often duplicated from department to department and who if not there would not be missed unlike frontline staff. Get priorities right and cut waste and fat, not easy targets. Why do we need 60 councillors – US Senate works with 100 senators?

Nitpicking

What about scrapping the trams? That would save more money.

nemien

Can't help but agree with all the above comments. The council should get rid of highly-paid management and make them more cost effective. Reducing frontline services doesn't do anything but create animosity and despair among the electorate.

Grumpy

Oh please, please, please tell me the funding for the trams and the big wheel in Leith are safe? Will we still be able to send executives to New York and can we still find the funds for all the outside consultants that we need to run the city, or will the high paid executive have to do it instead? Thank goodness it's only the front- line staff and the low paid this is going to affect.

paul the binman

Now, a comment on Scottish political leaders ...

The Tories will not have a Scottish leader as they have few Scottish MPs (in Scotland). Labour's quality of MP and MSP in Scotland is pitiful, and will only change when they have to perform to get voted in. The Lib Dems have done well with Scottish leaders. Of the last six, four have been Scottish.

Alan B