Labour’s attempt to deflect from their inner crisis has prompted a Freedom of Information request to scrape the bottom of the Clyde estuary for something anything they can chuck via the media in Scotland. Reporting Scotland gleefully added the story last night but don’t seem to have it written-up, sorry, copied and pasted into their website yet. Why the Morning Star should be helping the Labour campaign escapes me.
Key points covered:
Non-weather related cancellations rose from 1,371 in 2017-18 to a peak of 5,805 in 2021-22, before dropping last year. There were 4,620 sailings axed for reasons not related to the weather in 2022-23.
https://news.stv.tv/politics/labour-blames-snp-incompetence-for-spiralling-ferry-cancellations
So, that’s a 20.4% fall in just one year. Tremendous progress?
Key point not covered:
CalMac runs 33 vessels to over 50 ports and harbours, across 200 miles of Scotland’s west coast. Operating to 27 ports and have delegated authority at 17 statutory harbours on behalf of owner Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd. We complete 162,750 sailings a year – from 5 minutes to 7 hours. On average, we ship 10,738 coaches and 1,431,631 cars a year. In 2018, one of our busiest years to date, we carried 5,309,771 passengers.
https://www.calmac.co.uk/article/2578/About-Us#:~:text=We%20complete%20162%2C750%20sailings%20a,and%201%2C431%2C631%20cars%20a%20year.
So non-weather related cancellations account for only 2.8%. Reliability is thus 97.2% unless you want them to sail into dangerous winds and get a safety record like that in Indonesia or Bangladesh?
BC Ferries in wealthy Canada does 169 680 sailings to 25 ports but in lower latitude, warmer and less windy, seas, claims 85.6% on time and 3 passenger injuries per year.
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Footnote: To be precise about the reliability percentage, you might argue I should have subtracted the weather-related cancellations from the total sailings then re-worked out the percentage of that figure cancelled from the new total but I’d want to rely on a ferry service cancelling to save my life so weather-related cancellations are evidence of reliability.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Did bbc BLABBER
COVER THE SUBMARINE STORY
THAT NEARLY RAN INTON
CAL MAC FERRY!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Morning Star is always ‘slamming’ the Scottish Government. It has given a platform in the past to claims by the Tory care home owning spokesperson to ‘slam’ the Scottish Government.
Why do the media use the term ‘slam’?
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Slam?
Indeed, they’re like Westworld hosts looping through ‘claims’, ‘amid’ ‘crises’
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To create a mental jarring. To that end, axed works better than postponed or cancelled. Communities devastated, saves describing any inconveniences.
I live on an island, not the mainland.
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The Scottish media use the word slam because it’s aggressive they are an aggressive media they love to use those kinds of words especially in sport where they regularly say
Kill them off
Demolish them
Put them to the sword
Hammered them
Crushed them
Destroyed them
Etc etc
All part of the English propaganda war on Scotland
They talk about Scotland in a savage way drunken drugged violent thieves a country they describe every day as as a dirty failing poor stupid place that needs England to prevent it sinking into the abyss
We know what they’re doing
They know the game is up but they’ve no other plan and just look stupid now
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I noted in our favourite paper the SP “not” ran the same story but not with the same depth of explanations just to make CalMac and the SNP bad.
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Linking the SNP Government with every CalMac ‘failure’ is a media trick which is not applied elsewhere .
The Westminster Government is not linked with every delay/cancellation in English Channel crossings , nor delays on the railways , nor were they blamed for the seven deaths in the Croydon Tram derailment – imagine that happening in Edinburgh !
There appears to be a determined media effort to blame the Scottish Government for anything and everything transport linked in Scotland which is not replicated elsewhere in the UK .
I wonder why ?
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“Labour’s attempt to deflect from their inner crisis has prompted a Freedom of Information request to scrape the bottom of the Clyde estuary for something anything they can chuck via the media in Scotland”
Also known in Scotland as ‘Groundhog Day”…..
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People are sick of it and could not care less. The MSM non Dom tax evading Press.
Lie after lie. People can see through it. Constantly crying Wolf.
People who support Independence need to go out and vote for an Independence Party. Or stop moaning. To get rid of lying unionists ruining the economy.
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The Calmac ferry nearly ran into the submarine is the proper report.
No mention of today’s failure of the SNP government, the ATC problems for aircraft.
The system is, of course,run by NATS, the clue is in the N.
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The submarine unwanted here by 70% of Scots nearly ran into the ferry?
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