Ponsonby: Ferries fiasco latest in a line of Holyrood scandals
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2022
- The story of the two massively delayed and over-budget, Scottish government-ordered Calmac ferries is a scandal gripping Scottish politics.
STV News Special Correspondent Bernard Ponsonby looks back at previous political scandals which have made the headlines since devolution.
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We can talk about it forever if you want, won't make any difference the SNP will keep on getting away with it, whole political system in Scotland corrupt, they've got all the system sorted, scary, scary times
Whoa when was this shown. Its about time our media started questioning what the SNP have been doing all this time.
Nothing will happen . Sturgeon will just click her red high heeled 👠 shoes . Then just blame Westminster .
Shortly followed by the Rail Farce
Given the weak journalism and media in Scotland. There is little chance the SNP Administration will be taken to task as fervently as Henry McLeish or the others were. In fact it will take outside intervention (WM perhaps) before justice is served
Think there's been enough questions and speculation now there needs to be truthful direct answers. Nothing less would be acceptable.
These ferries are probably going to end up costing as much as the Parliament building!
Certainly not far short, they are saying £240M, but is not the total final bill which is inexcess of +£300M.
Let Scottish people see justice it’s our right to have visibility of these peoples activities. Responsibility does not mean respect for the people
Here now in July 2023 I passed the Ferguson yard yesterday. I find it extremely shocking that it has cost us millions, and clearly I could see the ferries are no where near finished. Where is the money going.
Maybe Sturgeon could ask for Obramivichs yacht to cover the Arran route 😏
Boris the Oligarch is also looking for a new Britannia - there is a growing choice around the world even the Dutch have arrested 14 Oligarch's super yachts. Though in reality BOJO would have to impose real sanctions, more chance P&O sells some capacity - yet even these may be too big.
We have 1K's of dingys, only way the islanders can get around, then atleast she can't say Westminster didn't help 😂😂😂😂😂
We should stop pumping money into this mess of a parliament
Your news channel is nothing more than cheerleaders for the SNP. Campaign for real journalist's. It's needed more than ever.
The SNP own STV
Scottish Nationalist Television
The barrage against McLeish and McConnell just shows how sycophantic the press is to all things Nippy
First Minister, the buck stops with you. Why haven't you resigned? It was a big boy and he ran away. Well, that's cleared that up nicely. Sorry to be a bother.
She just said the buck stops with her, she said nothing about actually accepting responsibility for anything and resigning, only that the buck stops with her.
Jog on bot boy...
Maybe the proclaimers could write a song ferries no more Prestwick no more adfab no more hospitals no more railways no more but when you go will you send back a letter from anywhere with some money in it
As per usual, Westminster's dirty fingers are all over the Ferry fiasco, it was the British Civil Service which choose to award the company the contract, not the Scottish Government. Stuart Blantyne, now based in Australia, presented plans for Ferries to be built in Scottish Yards, which not only cost less to build but were also far more efficient using some 60% less fuel. These got knocked back. I was shocked to learn that Scotland's Civil Service are actually under the control of Westminster.
Aye on yi go yi ponse no mention of any Scottish successes for balance, shall we start with the Queens Ferry Bridge coming in under budget at £400 million pounds?
The irrevocable guarantee of £586million of public monies to sweeten the Gupta takeover of the smelter at Lochaber might be on the ‘to look into’ list…🤔
Thanks to the snp now the islanders have food shortages 😡
11th August 2022 Scotsman newspaper reported Tory MSP Dross claims food shortage on islands and wanted the transport minister to intervene.
Alternative ferry routes to and from the Western Isle's were still operating last week the Scotsman understands, across the main route between Uig, Lochmaddy and Tarbert was suspended.
Robbie Drummond managing director of CalMac said "during the latest distribution we shipped all food deliveries we were asked to take.
We prioritize food supplies and nothing was left on the mainland.
Any issues with food supplies may have been caused by other reasons such as supermarket supply chain issues."
Scotland may be rich in energy and have world class leisure and drinks industries, but as their political classes have shown for two decades, between them they couldn't run a bath.
Yes🏴 Scotland Independence🏴🏴
Means sack the lot of them
Its actually comical how bad this is.
It's bad, but a 'scandal' that nobody in the Government made any money from is massively different to the weekly Tory scandals. There are even worse examples of UK shipbuilding cost overruns and delays recently
DENY DENY DENY !!!! 😂😂😂🤡
@@zoon1543 fascinating response
NHS at its worst ever child poverty at its worst ever, homeless, Drug deaths, the list goes on and on should be ashamed of yourself for supporting this bunch of incompetent clowns
@@AyeTVsco amusingly accurate if you ask me
@@MrJimtimslim No-one did ask you.
Brilliant ponsgetby. We should send you down to westmonster and ask them some truths instead of listening to your lie's
No it isn’t. A couple engineers messed up.
Imagine if the SNP had signed a multi million contract for Ferries with a company that has ZERO ferries...
@@krackerman3628
Guardian May 1st 2019,
Tory Chris Grayling Westminster transport secretary gave a £13.8 million ferry contract to Seaborne Freight a company that didn't have any ferries and had never run a cross Channel ferry service.
Ferry contracts with Brittany and DFDS worth £89 million to secure ferry space.
Chris Grayling cancels ferry contracts at a £50 million cost to taxpayers.
Chris Grayling also gave Eurotunnel £33 million as compensation for a botched process.
@@martindornan1667 yes and he is out of office, when does your wee dishonest leader and her motley crew get kicked out?
the 1st minister should resign now !!!
Why She and her party won the
2022 Scottish local elections
2021 Scottish parliament election proportional voting system Scottish people voted in 72 MSPs a majority who had Indyref2 in their election manifestos.
2019 general election in Scotland
Scottish people voted in
SNP 48 MPs up 13 MPs
Tory 6 MPs down 7 MPs
Liberal 4 MPs
Labour 1 MP down 6 MPs
Nothing new with the Labour Party this party should change their name now. As they no longer reflect the values of working men and women. Labour full of career politicians now.
does this guy really need subtitles ?
Brown envelope no doubt about it.
When you went after Henry mccleish (and now his best friend) was that just to further your career
I thought Ponsonby was a serious journalist. Do a wee vlog Bernard about the Billions of tax payers money the Tories have squandered (PPE contracts to mates, track and trace (etc etc) Look, also at Blojo and his refusal to resign no matter what.
I think over 14 years of failure lies and corruption Sturgeon Blackford and the rest of the snp societal parasites should have resigned numerous times, but when cult followers fail to hold their gods to account this is what happens, the same tired old faces the same front line the same bitter rhetoric, Stalinist Scotland!
And thank the Lord Boris has gone, but he was way better than your lesbian leader
only in scotland would two ferries make people believe a leader should be ousted from power.
But having a party does.
What about the worst drug deaths in Europe (1187 a year), missing NHS targets(6 out of 8), a decline in Scotland's education, Scotland has the lowest life expectancy in Europe, homeless death rate the worst in Britain (3 times higher than England), Scotland's GDP per capita has dropped to 8% lower than the rest of the UK and the leader found guilty misleading Holyrood on the Salmond inquiry and lied about that fact on ITV Loose women program.
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Boris Johnson there was no Parties and all Laws were followed.
Over 50 police fines given to Downing Street and Whitehall staff and civil servants. Including Boris Johnson his wife and Rishi Sunak.
Boris Johnson repeatedly lied to parliament and the UK people breaking the ministerial code and lockdown laws. Rishi Sunak also lied to parliament and broke lockdown laws.
They obviously thought it was one law for the public and another law for the people who made the laws.
Members of the public couldn't comfort dying relatives or go to their funerals. The public were fined £10,000 for organising events.
@@martindornan1667 it's westminsters fault were getting tired of that one .
@@charleslouden6600
Scottish Tories if the First Minister was found to have broken the ministerial code she has to resign.
Dross, Boris Johnson has to resign if he lied to parliament.
Now, Dross London Tory branch office manager in Scotland is saying Boris Johnson doesn't have to resign for lying to parliament and breaking the ministerial code. Dross is a 🤡.
Scottish media = SNP fans with laptops.
Ponsonby doing his best for England there
Who cares? FREEEEDOOOOOM 🙄