Tele sports "journalist"

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Reduce VAT to what?

From 5% to zero.

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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”.

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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.