I've never been to the Outer Hebrides and everything I've ever heard about that part of Scotland makes me more and more disinclined ever to contemplate a visit.
If it's not the 'wee Frees' fretting about Sunday ferry services, it's that other religious 'brand' scuppering efforts to promote tourism, because these religious bigots seem to think there's something wrong with being able to see the bodies that the Good Lord chose to give us.
What's one to do with a community that won't help itself, as was exemplified recently by its rejection of plans to build renewable power generation capacity there, despite the wish of the local authority for it to go ahead? Personally I think all central government subsidies to this part of Scotland and the UK should be cut off summarily. Why should the rest of the country continue to subsidise areas like this which reject practical efforts to help them improve their economic lot?
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'From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step' - Diderot
Showing posts with label Outer Hebrides. Show all posts
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Monday, 3 March 2008
Sunday, 8 April 2007
Lewis should have Sunday ferry service, consultant recommends
A consultant hired by the local council has suggested (UPI article) that ferry services to Stornoway (from Ullapool) on Sundays would bring new jobs to the island. It already has Sunday flights and neighbouring Harris started to run Sunday ferries a year ago, so I think it was only a matter of time before the traditional power of the Lord's Day Observance Society was successfully challenged. Or, as Finlay MacLeod, a writer and broadcaster who supports Sunday ferries puts it:
Quite!
My only worry is that this latest move might be connected to a 'plea' a couple of weeks ago by Highlands and Islands Enterprise Innse Gall for yet more subsidies to be given to the Western Isles; is this the 'bribe' that the local religious bigots are going to be offered for them to acquiesce to Sunday ferries?
"I think that in the future, people will look back on the situation here in Lewis and wonder why it took so long and how a single group managed to so dominate civic society on this island." |
Quite!
My only worry is that this latest move might be connected to a 'plea' a couple of weeks ago by Highlands and Islands Enterprise Innse Gall for yet more subsidies to be given to the Western Isles; is this the 'bribe' that the local religious bigots are going to be offered for them to acquiesce to Sunday ferries?
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