By NMRN
Kathryn Sampson of ITV noted recently in her #SNPBAD attempted ‘report’ that a ferry was built in Turkey…..I guess then that the UK government awarding the construction of some parts of ships for the Royal Navy to overseas (foreign) companies does not matter then….as that’s ….different ? (we all know what she, Samson, was trying to say and do in noting the Turkey connection) ….however it was reported that “The Conservative UK government tends towards a competitive procurement process, which goes for the lowest cost bidder, no matter where they are bidding from”….
Just sayin.
Plus we also had Chris Grayling and his ‘Phantom’ Ferries in the event of a NO deal Brexit….Seaborne Freight was awarded a £13.8 million contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend……they, Seaborne, had never run a ferry service and a local councillor said it would be impossible to launch before Brexit. Indeed a Conservative Kent county councillor Paul Messenger said it was impossible for the government to have carried out sufficient checks on the firm. “It has no ships and no trading history so how can due diligence be done?” he asked.
The government had also awarded additional, much larger ferry contracts to French company Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS, worth £46.6m and £42.5m (€47.3m) respectively……
However re Seaborne Ferries the UK government axed its no-deal Brexit contract with Seaborne, who had no ships, after the Irish company backing the deal pulled out.
The New European reported in 2019 that Chris Grayling Tory Transport minister had wasted £85 million pounds of tax payers money on No deal Brexit Ferry contracts …as per findings they sourced from a watchdog on what was undoubtedly a Tory Ferry Fiasco/Scandal that seems now to be filed under #Wheesht……and to top it all Seaborne Ferries eventually went...bust.
Plus the Department of Transport, headed by Grayling as Transport Secretary, also had to settle a claim made by Eurotunnel, for not having run a full public procurement process, Eurotunnel subsequently sued, claiming it had never been considered for a contract, despite having previously run a cross-channel ferry service…..and they were awarded an ‘out of court settlement’ of £33 Million paid by the UK government’s Department of Transport.
So come on…..the UK Tory government have a lot of (bad) form (history) on maritime matters do they not….
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
HOPE THIS WOMANS CHILDREN NEVER EVER FINF OUT SHE CHEATED AND LIED TO FURTHER HER GREEDY CORRUPT JOB
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Westminster Gov wasting, £Billions on Trident, illegal wars, HS2, Hinkley Point, Brexit, tax evasion, Covid funding. The list is endless. More than enough to build many ferries. Instead of wasting Scotland revenues and fuel resources. BBC incompetents. They cannot read a balance sheet, count or evaluate statistics. £6Billion for that nonsense. Half goes on the redundant estate.
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Kathryn’s angle on the Turkish built vessel was the ” Isn’t that embarrassing ? ” gambit, as a potential opening to discuss FMEL for the umpteenth time…
The industrial decline of the UK was accelerated under Thatcher et al, what is now left of shipbuilding on the Clyde etc. is a shadow of it’s former glory as most labour intense industries.
The irony of the Scottish shipbuilding industry is that a hefty chunk of the expertise went to those countries we are now ordering from, including by coincidence Turkey.
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