What broken ferries reveal about Scotland’s government
A sorry tale of mismanagement and waste
WHEN OVER a quarter of your population rises up in protest, something is seriously amiss. In June some 500 of the 1,900 residents of South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, demonstrated over their island’s wretched ferry service. For much of that month their vital connection to the mainland had been cancelled, one of a long-running series of transport problems for Scotland’s beleaguered coastal settlements.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The propellers coming off”
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