Letters / Different budgets
Sorry, Douglas Young, you can’t blame David Cameron’s visit to Shetland for ‘children now forced to walk along dark, single track roads whilst being passed by the buses which used to carry them’ (Rip roaring booze up; SN 24/8/14).
Whatever was spent on that visit was from another SIC budget, and a necessary expenditure prior to the devolution vote.
Rather you should blame our current financial situation, the tightening of belts, and that fact that lights are out, etc, on former councils’ profligate spending.
I see that the fancy £5,000 roundabout at Sound is dirty and overgrown and in need of maintenance for example.
Put the blame where it is due, not on trying to gain silly points.
We are told that our PM’s visit to Shetland cost £3,000; does anyone have the figures for the cost of entertaining Messrs Salmond and Sturgeon during their visit?
Kathy Greaves
Scatness
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