Monday, February 21, 2005
CalMac
"All in favour of privatising CalMac, please raise their hands. Calum, Alasdair, you're the only two with their hands up. Why?"
"Explain to me how privatising the services via a Polish or Greek operator will help the Western Isles; or why CalMac should try to transfer it's employees to the Channel Isles to save money i.e. rob the Exchequer, in order to 'compete' in a 'market' that is being impossed on it."
I've never been one for strike action, but if there was ever a case of an gross inequity and the potential destruction of services, this is it.
CalMac has it's faults - of that there is no doubt. But I'd rather have a grumpy Hearach serving me breakfast than have to rely on a monolingual Greek in a Minch storm.
"Explain to me how privatising the services via a Polish or Greek operator will help the Western Isles; or why CalMac should try to transfer it's employees to the Channel Isles to save money i.e. rob the Exchequer, in order to 'compete' in a 'market' that is being impossed on it."
I've never been one for strike action, but if there was ever a case of an gross inequity and the potential destruction of services, this is it.
CalMac has it's faults - of that there is no doubt. But I'd rather have a grumpy Hearach serving me breakfast than have to rely on a monolingual Greek in a Minch storm.
