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Originally Posted by jfman
And yet nobody can adequately counter the point, they can merely object to the premise that they should. A tried and tested election strategy by unionists in Scotland, it’s why the SNP always win.
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A tried and tested objection based, here, on the premise of a topic-based discussion forum. The HS2 topic is still there. I note you are still not exercised enough by its issues to actually post there. Because, of course, you mention it purely to distract attention from what is possibly the single most egregious failure of SNP policy. (Until, of course, NHS Scotland gets sued to within an inch of its life next year for implementing
de facto gender self ID in all its staff changing rooms on instructions from Bute House. But that’s another topic again).
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Chris did eventually get round to identifying the planning system as the enemy of infrastructure projects, similarly any public procurement is held up by subsidy control (formerly State Aid) rules designed to curtail the role of the state rather than drive efficiencies or deliver value. Add in the erosion of the state to the extent all “experts” have to be brought in as contractors on exorbitant daily rates, reports commissioned, risks assessed in a big private sector gravy train for which there is almost never a penalty for failure.
One might reasonably suggest the system needs ripped up, and that’s more achievable outside the UK.
*planning itself is a devolved area, rules around subsidy control are not.
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Wow. What a word salad - and all with the intent of ignoring one simple fact. Nationalists need symbols, and these hulls, produced by the last shipyard on the lower Clyde, were meant to be those symbols. The fact is that SNP politicians are of such poor calibre, not only did they force an inadequate shipyard to start building from inadequate designs, they couldn’t even understand that sooner or later they would be held accountable for the mess they made.
And so every time a new aspect of their brave new world goes to rat poop, their loyal foot soldiers are deployed to point and shout, anywhere, absolutely anywhere, but at the leaders who (had they got their way) would be runnning an entire nation state by now.
We have dodged a bullet. Sadly the inhabitants of Arran have not.