In the latest of TuS Ferry Newsletter instalments we note in passing that the ‘ferry fraud fiasco’ was fake news, that the Herald’s leading ferry guy, Martin Williams could bear to report that, but concentrate on what matters.
Before today’s storms, on Tuesday 17 October, CalMac had 95.4% of sailings on time with only the wee Tarbert-Portavadie ferry out and only 2 of the 20 equally wee Oban-Craignure crossings cancelled.
Meanwhile in the more temperate waters of British Columbia, BC Ferries are once more in the news:
BC Green House Leader Adam Olsen says the state of BC Ferries is and will continue to put Vancouver Island at an economic disadvantage in calling for additional investments into the service and the provincial marine industry at large.
“There is no doubt about it,” he said. “I don’t know if we can put a number on it, but that disruption and that lack of certainty is going to cause, and is causing, problems,” he said. “Businesses are going to choose to invest elsewhere if they can’t get their product in or out of their businesses based on the island.”
Olsen made these comments Wednesday (Oct. 18) morning after BC Ferries had to cancel two sailings on its route connecting Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria because of staffing shortages. The cancellations led to long waits for would-be travellers without reservations, impacting personal and professional appointments, including people going to work.
https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/repeated-cancellations-blow-bc-ferries-into-rough-political-waters-5934513
Neither the Premier nor the Transport Minister of the British Columbia Province in Canada have ben blamed for any of this. Why would they? They’re not in Scotland.
Is this just more news that CalMac, by objective standards, are very good?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
No, no–its a proper Williams Fiasco, so it is. Some poor sod in Outer Weebrianland did not get his daily Heil-Us-Brits newspaper this morning, because the ferry was two minutes late.
How is he supposed to know who to be “FURIOUS” at without his morning rant?
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Of course the real fraud, fiasco and controversy regarding Scottish Ferries was and still is mainly the unrelenting, obsessive and misleading interpretations in the various versions, that we the public in Scotland , have been subjected to upon this ‘story’ for what seems like a way way over extended period…. from both the media here and too the opposition parties…..that’s the bigger scandal and one that deserves to be challenged and scrutinised as to why that was and still is.
Perhaps the answer is to be found in what they the media here REFUSE to highlight , constantly pursue and forensically explore via that OTHER government who sit in WM (the list of wrongs done by them is way to vast to note)…..and too those currently in ‘official’ opposition to that OTHER government in all that they are currently saying they intend to do if elected as the next OTHER government who sit in WM……
Indeed if some home truths were to be exposed and reported in respect to the Tories & New New Labour here in Scotland by the ‘media’ to the SAME extent that they have covered the story on FERRIES and the SNP then I am sure that their, New New Labour, future ‘plans & Policies’ would NOT be ones welcomed by many in Scotland…..alas currently tis wheesht for the many negatives associated with New New Labour in Scotland via the so called Scottish media…..as it was formerly and currently still is the case also for the many negatives associated with the Tory UK government too via that SAME Scottish (INO) media.
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I doubt that Martin Williams enjoys making an arse of himself each time another “Fiasco”, “Fraud”, etc story is concocted for his employers.
However, it is who is discreetly providing funding to keep the Herald and Scotsman in business? It’s not liable to be a Tory Westminster government after the next general election, hence perhaps the sudden cosy up to Labour with the prospect that the “funding” will continue.
Brian Wilson now a “journalist” in the Scotsman, aye that might work 🙂
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