Letters / Talking a good game, but results have still to materialise
I noted with interest last week’s contribution from the SNP candidate in Shetland, hoping to change her party’s policy so that some NorthLink ferry cabins would be reserved for islanders.
I cannot be the only one to be reminded of a previous SNP candidate in 2019 who talked a good game about all the ways that our ferry services were going to improve due to the great generosity of the SNP government.
That was six years ago and yet the great SNP generosity has yet to materialise. Instead, we have had to fight our corner at every budget to get fair ferry funding.
People are rightly irritated by NorthLink management’s high-handed approach over cabins and other similar issues, but it is an approach taken with the tacit permission of the SNP government over many years.
The SNP have had 18 years in government to improve our ferry services. If they wanted to do it then they would have done it already.
As we saw after the 2019 by-election, the SNP see Shetland as a place to campaign in – and forget about afterwards.
Theo Smith
Whiteness
SNP candidate proposes local cabin quota for NorthLink ferries
