Edinburgh's third tram line is dead

Cooncil leader, Donald Anderson says this shocking news is a "crushing blow". This is the guy who has been in charge of the city for years and he couldn't forsee this? Anderson, who signs his emails to former soldiers "The Leader", has once again, together with his cronies, screwed the people of the city royally.

His lieutenant. 'Bumbling Andy" Burns says "This is obviously a hugely disappointing decision" - kind of like the recent referendum where he had his arse well and truly slapped.

Word from the Executive is:

"We are not prepared to underwrite the costs of further work on tram line three without a viable funding strategy, and believe the council should focus on delivering the projects for which it has funding."

Which I think is Civil Service speek for "They lied to you and we're not bailing them out"

More info can be found here: Edinburgh's third tram line is dead

Update:
The Leader, Donald Anderson, is creaping out of the woodwork with publicity saying that he is to request an urgent meeting with the Scottish Executive over this balls-up. It is a pity him and his cronies didn't realise that spending £8m on a referendum which had zero chance of siding with them was a foolish thing to do.

Mr Anderson rejected criticism from the anti-congestion charging lobby that he had been unrealistic in basing a major development on the outcome of a public referendum.

"There was no other way in financing the third tram line.

This is the person that is running the council. Bloody frightening!