Tele sports "journalist"

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Here's another £5 million saved that could pay a few Jakebombs leccy bills this Winter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...lands-62603804

This scheme would never have worked.
Local residents on the Scottish islands have a complete distrust of anyone moving to live or work on their island even if they are an asset to the place.
A former member of Islay GC who was a secondary school teacher moved to Islay to be a teacher at Islay High School.
He told me that one evening he was out for a drink. The parent of one of his pupils came over to him and complained about people moving to Islay to be a teacher at Islay HS.
My friend told this local resident that if teachers did not move to work on Islay the local residents would all be sheep shaggers.
It is a well known fact on Islay that Islay High School would not exist if teachers from the Mainland did not move their to take up teaching posts.
Most of the Scottish islands do not have decent full time jobs for young people.
Even with 9 whisky distilleries on Islay working full time a lot of the jobs in these distilleries are seasonal with people working in the whisky distillery’s visitor centre from Easter until the middle of October every year.
It is the same in the tourist industry on all the Scottish islands with people being employed for seasonal work with a short increase in work over the New Year period when the Calmac ferries are packed out running one way. Busy with people coming to Islay for the New Year and then busy with people returning back to the Mainland from 2nd January onwards.

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This scheme would never have worked.
Local residents on the Scottish islands have a complete distrust of anyone moving to live or work on their island even if they are an asset to the place.
A former member of Islay GC who was a secondary school teacher moved to Islay to be a teacher at Islay High School.
He told me that one evening he was out for a drink. The parent of one of his pupils came over to him and complained about people moving to Islay to be a teacher at Islay HS.
My friend told this local resident that if teachers did not move to work on Islay the local residents would all be sheep shaggers.
It is a well known fact on Islay that Islay High School would not exist if teachers from the Mainland did not move their to take up teaching posts.
Most of the Scottish islands do not have decent full time jobs for young people.
Even with 9 whisky distilleries on Islay working full time a lot of the jobs in these distilleries are seasonal with people working in the whisky distillery’s visitor centre from Easter until the middle of October every year.
It is the same in the tourist industry on all the Scottish islands with people being employed for seasonal work with a short increase in work over the New Year period when the Calmac ferries are packed out running one way. Busy with people coming to Islay for the New Year and then busy with people returning back to the Mainland from 2nd January onwards.

Why don't the youngsters on Islay train to be teachers? Voila, teacher crisis resolved, school stays open and an element of the refusal of locals to welcome incomers disappears.

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Why don't the youngsters on Islay train to be teachers? Voila, teacher crisis resolved, school stays open and an element of the refusal of locals to welcome incomers disappears.

That would seem the obvious solution.
However you have to remember that living on Scottish island is like living in a goldfish bowl.
I was once at a quiz night on a Saturday evening in the lounge bar of the White Hart Hotel in Port Ellen where there were a couple of teams of Islay Hig School teachers taking part.
At one point some of their Islay High School pupils passed the hotel and noticed their teachers sitting in the lounge bar.
They started shouting at them from the street outside.
These teachers could not get away from their pupils at the weekend whereas Dundee this is less likely to happen.

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This scheme would never have worked.
Local residents on the Scottish islands have a complete distrust of anyone moving to live or work on their island even if they are an asset to the place.
A former member of Islay GC who was a secondary school teacher moved to Islay to be a teacher at Islay High School.
He told me that one evening he was out for a drink. The parent of one of his pupils came over to him and complained about people moving to Islay to be a teacher at Islay HS.
My friend told this local resident that if teachers did not move to work on Islay the local residents would all be sheep shaggers.
It is a well known fact on Islay that Islay High School would not exist if teachers from the Mainland did not move their to take up teaching posts.
Most of the Scottish islands do not have decent full time jobs for young people.
Even with 9 whisky distilleries on Islay working full time a lot of the jobs in these distilleries are seasonal with people working in the whisky distillery’s visitor centre from Easter until the middle of October every year.
It is the same in the tourist industry on all the Scottish islands with people being employed for seasonal work with a short increase in work over the New Year period when the Calmac ferries are packed out running one way. Busy with people coming to Islay for the New Year and then busy with people returning back to the Mainland from 2nd January onwards.

Just a quick question on this Islay. We see lots of programmes on TV recorded on various islands, usually the interviewee has an English or even foreign accent. It's also pretty widely known that young islanders are reluctant to stay and tend to move to the sanctity and sanity of the mainland. This suggests, to me at least, that a high percentage of island (very generic I know) are not actually native islanders.

Why therefore are incomers made so unwelcome when there are so many of them and a huge number of existing residents are incomers themselves?

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Just a quick question on this Islay. We see lots of programmes on TV recorded on various islands, usually the interviewee has an English or even foreign accent. It's also pretty widely known that young islanders are reluctant to stay and tend to move to the sanctity and sanity of the mainland. This suggests, to me at least, that a high percentage of island (very generic I know) are not actually native islanders.

Why therefore are incomers made so unwelcome when there are so many of them and a huge number of existing residents are incomers themselves?

The local residents are notorious for not pushing themselves forward to get things done preferring to leave ‘incomers’ auto get things done.
It has been happening for a long time.
The favourite saying on Islay particularly by local residents when it is too late is “We should have done something about that”.