Protests in 'ghost town' where £400m ferries don't fit the harbour
Locals in the coastal town of Ardrossan are protesting today, saying the situation is "completely and utterly nuts" after a series of expensive blunders which have plagued the launch of two new ferries to the Isle of Arran.
The new vessels cost quadruple their original price tag, one was delivered seven years late, the other is still being built, and both are too big to fit the main harbour for their daily journeys to and from the Isle of Arran.
Anyone paying attention has known about this mess for some time, although for some reason an account of the ludicrous green credentials of the ferries seem to be missing from the article.
Maybe the general incompetence of voters should be in there too.
7 comments:
Don't fit, eh? Name them Bloaty McBloatface #1 & #2.
Another major victory for the Schottische Nazionalsocialiste Partei: bravely leading us forward into the 18th century . . .
Easy-peasy: just spend twenty years rebuilding the harbour.
A calm assessment of the ability of the Scottish Parliament to handle their devolved powers would suggest that devolution has failed. Failed health, failed education, failed ferries.
Perhaps we should encourage Scottish independence? At least the rest of the country wouldn't have to subsidise their shenanigans. Tony Blair has a lot to answer for.
Sackers - ha ha, they dare not ask for naming suggestions now.
Jannie - we'll know we are on the way the the 18th century when elites walk around wearing swords.
dearieme - and sell it as a zero carbon harbour.
DJ - yes, it's a huge pity that the devolved powers have been handled so badly. Scotland could even have been a refuge for those wishing to escape national incompetence.
I seem to remember the 17th and 18th centuries were full of graft, incompetence and corruption. Things improved somewhat in the 19th and 20th centuries but you know humanity and its nostalgia.
Tammly - "Humbug Billy" springs to mind.
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