Letters / Shame on you
The decision to rethink the ridiculous S2 educational stupidity and closure of excellent secondary education in rural Shetland by the Lerwick centralising Hillhead cabal is a welcomed stay of rural execution.
However it’s only a short stay as they tweak their agenda to respond to the massive outcry whilst still pushing through their rural Shetland decline policy.
Anyone voting for a rural member in the future needs to think long and had if the candidate is really an advocate of their rural community.
Closing schools and cutting other services on the basis of cutting expenditure is a major SIC lie.
They have been paying off staff with big redundancy payments and then re-employed some in the same or similar posts because they made too many folk redundant.
The SIC have and are now paying off front line workers, putting more SIC work out to commercial tender but retaining the back office managers, some with pay increases.
The SIC continually waste our money and claim school closures, no gritting single track roads, no more black bags etc will sort it.
Rural councillors once elected seem to get on a bus to Da Toon Haa and almost morph overnight into the stagnant gloop of Lerwickopolis and abandon their once proud claims to look after their rural areas.
Shame on you all for abandoning the culture of Shetland that is first and foremost an island and rural community!
Shame on you all for adopting a centralised culture that is alien to an island and rural community!
Shame on you all for the continued waste of public funds whilst giving the impression you’re saving money.
If the SIC continue to slit the throat of the rural community and make it hard to live outside of areas such as Gulberwick, Tingwall, Weisdale and Sandwick, communities that have lost their identity and soul due to their Lerwick overspill designation, it’s hard to maintain a rural status within the EU, the UK and Holyrood administrations.
If the local authority abandons its own rural areas – how can you expect a distant administration such as Holyrood or Westminster to support our rural areas?
Vic Thomas
Clousta
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