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Originally Posted by denphone
If HMG had done some proper thorough homework which they don't seem to have done in many cases they should have not given out the contract to them to start with.
The narrative is incompetence with this and most of the other things they have done since the vote.
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I’m still not following you Den. What ‘homework’ should they have done - a field trip by Tardis to find out whether Arklow Shipping would at some point withdraw from their arrangement with Seaborne?
The problem with narratives is they stop you from seeing what’s actually happened. You’re tied to the narrative that HMG incompetently gave a contract to a company with no ships, which makes it impossible for you to see that in fact, HMG *did* do its homework, and knew that Seaborne was effectively acting as an intermediary or management operation, that planned to contract out the actual shipping to an experienced and trusted company called Arklow.
Because HMG *did* do its homework, it knew that when news broke that Arklow had severed its commercial relationship with Seaborne, then Seaborne would be unable to fulfil its government contract. That contract has therefore been terminated.
We did not previously know about Arklow because that was commercially sensitive information, which HMG quite correctly did not release even though it would have killed dead the
narrative about them giving a shipping contract to a company with no ships.
You get the idea. Hopefully.