An extract from the CalMac reliability tables for 29 April when it dipped to 97.2%.
Note that we’re only talking about a reduction in an already generous number of, much-subsidised by us mainlanders, sailings to locations with very limited traffic. No island was cut off and the much-maligned Arran service continues at 100%, day after day.
Source: https://www.calmac.co.uk/calmac-performance-data-browser?date=29%2F04%2F2024
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
We nnever hear any complaints about the Scottish Government over the Aberdeen to/from Lerwick route which has had more cancellations and late or early departures/arrivals this year than ever before due to weather forecasts.
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There are flights. Subsidised transport. 4 new ferries coming soon. 2 saving on fuel. Islands pop 70,000.
Orkney/Shetland had an oil fund. Scotland did not. The monies went south to fund London S/E. Orkney has one of the best standards of living in the world.
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Guido Fawkes wrote an article that stated Humza Yousaf would receive £52,000 per year for life starting from now.
The Scottish parliament has called out this massive error as being false.
Guido Fawkes has now removed this article from their website….aka more fake news having to be deleted as sourced from a hostile agenda driven ‘self appointed media’ source.
The truth is that upon his resignation Humza Yousaf pension will actually be in the order of £2000 per annum payable from aged 65.
So his FM’s pension choice was either 1/40 or 1/50 of his final salary depending on which funding option he chose for each year in office……which now has been calculated at £2000 per annum from aged 65 and not as the fake news generators Guido Fawkes stated where they said it was £52,000 per annum for life starting now.
(big bloody difference between these two figures….massive even….as too was when it would be payable to him as in not now…..as that fake information via Guido Fawkes was also a lie …..note also how their exaggerated figure was not only way off the true figure but it was I suspect, as a wildly inaccurate figure, meant to prompt even more rage from the gullible and misinformed keyboard warriors who are always against any Scottish FM and too the SNP as a political party and as the government in Scotland)…..
So the question is where or rather from whom did they, Guido Fawkes, source their wildly excessive and clearly very wrong figure and information from ? (if they did even attempt to source it from anywhere…..or did they just make it up…..but who the H via the MSM will even attempt to challenge them upon stating this or indeed even mention it)……
Did they just do some bad calculations….did they just indeed make up a figure….did some hostile figure within the #SNPBAD brigade supply them with this duff intel…..or did they just try to stir up and incite anger against both the FM and the SNP in writing false information on their website with the assumption that they might just get away with it being not seen by official sources while simultanously being read and believed by those who read their website…….as in the those easily manipulated and way too easily angered by everything that they are told to oppose by peeps like Guido Fawkes (and others).
(Or are they , Guido Fawkes, like many others, just totally oblivious (ignorant) of both Scotland and it’s politics but assume that they can critique both…..but via their woefully pathetic attempts they do so very very badly ………..but, in being proven as so very wrong, they still keep doing it badly for very obvious reasons…mainly malicious reasons)
On a recent GB News piece on the Nigel Farage show he was discussing an increase in alcohol consumption in young people and the headline for this on his show was that this was a UK problem and so it was headlined as being attributed to being a UK child increase in alcohol consumption globally and not just an increase via children in England globally.….but this discussion on his show was actually prompted and based upon a headline that day re “England child alcohol use tops global chart”.…so once again we see more fake and inaccurate selective interpretation of the news that drags in all nations within the UK when it is actually, as a negative story, only one relating to England…..as it seems nothing can be promoted as only being a problem within England alone !
On Talk TV via Tory MP Jake Berry’s programme this headline on “England child alcohol use tops global chart” prompted Jake Berry to say to his guest “This is not good news for Britain is it”……
So when “England child alcohol increased use tops the global chart” it then becomes a British or UK problem but when tis promoted that “Scotland has the highest death drug rate in Europe” it is then promoted only as being a Scottish problem….ah I see…..that seems fair….unless you are Scottish that is…..rinse and repeat method….always.
If either the MSM or rogue news channels are your main source of news (both off and online) then it is no wonder who some people choose to elect in elections…..they think it is they themselves who are deciding but reality is they have been brainwashed and manipulated by all of the lies and misinformation promoted by various UK media with the sole intention of winning votes for those parties whom they , that media, support…………. while also attempting to try and deny votes for those parties that they, the various media, oppose…..
In Scotland Labour are currently the party being promoted by various media while the SNP is the party under attack by that same media………and included in that media promotion and also in it’s attacks is a H of a lot of fake news and misinformation and too a fair amount of omission in any news that could be seen to impact Labour in Scotland in the up and coming GE if , as news, it is deemed as being too negative for them …….so not just only sites such as Guido Fawkes who promote their version of fake news then is it ? …..well certainly not for Scotland….as we have an abundance of sources who fill that role as fake news propaganda merchants !
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