It’s a bit like BBC Question Time, filmed mostly in England and with Nigel Farage on the panel, counted as part of the BBC Scotland budget [It is! See below1] but the above much-delayed and inflated-cost ferry, built in Finland and stored at the cost of millions in Leith, over the winter, was supposed to benefit the local Tasmanian economy by using ‘local content’ but, from ABC Business, two days ago:
Finnish-built ship engines have been included in the so-called “local content” in the new Spirit of Tasmania ferries. The delivery of the new ferries has dominated public discourse in Tasmania in recent years, due to its repeated delays and enormous cost blowouts. Tasmanian Labor leader Dean Winter called the revelation “another lie from a government that has completely bungled this project“.
Cabinet minister Jane Howlett dismissed Mr Winter’s claims and said the government was “getting on with the job”. Since 2021, the state Liberal government and TT-Line have been spruiking [telling tall tales about] the $100 million fit-out of local content in the new ships.2
Imagine this happened in Scotland.
Notes:
- The show is recorded at different venues throughout the UK. Although, as part of plans to relocate BBC production around the UK, the main office of the programme will move to BBC Scotland in Glasgow, it is funded from the allocated BBC Scotland Licence fee allocation and is officially a “BBC Scotland production”, as shown in the programme ending credits. However, the itinerant nature of the programme will continue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Time_(TV_programme)#cite_note-60
- https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/spirit-of-tasmania-100-million-spend-on-local-content-to-include-ferry-engines-built-in-finland/ar-AA1x9BHd?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Perhaps Scotland could use aircraft carriers instead of ferries? What do you mean they are broken down?
Perhaps Scotland could use frigates/destroyers as ferries? What do you mean they overheat and cannot sail?
Perhaps Scotland could use Nuke subs as ferries? What do you mean they are all tied up in harbour, waiting for a refit?
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P.S. Two “socialists” have been spotted lurking in the wilds of the Highlands. Labour party “socialists” had been thought extinct in Scotland for many years.
These “socialists” will be captured and returned to a safe environment where they cannot endanger Anas, Dame Panto-quote or Sir Cheerio. Those who released them into the wild will be hunted down and sent into exile, perhaps to darkest Ochiltree.
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