2023 Calmac Ferry Crisis

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Calmac Ferries is one of my specialist subjects.
The current Calmac Ferries crisis has been brewing up for years thanks the SNP controlled Scottish Government’s failure to keep their Clyde and Hebridean ferries fleet up to date.
The Scottish Government own all these ferries plus the ferries on the Northlink Route through their company CMAL which from memory is Caledonian Marine Assets Limited.
Calmac Ferries Limited is owned by David MacBrayne Limited who in turn is owned by the Scottish Government ministers.
Calmac is the operating company on the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes and as they are Scottish Government owned their management who are effectively civil servants do as they are told by the Scottish Government ministers.
Serco PLC is the operating company on the Northlink sailings but they do not have the same problems as the ferries on the Northlink ferry routes are fairly new. They are probably about 15 years old.
The main culprits for the current Calmac ferry shambles are Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and Derek MacKay plus the management of CMAL.
The Green MSPs grubby hands are all over the fiasco concerning the two new ferries being built at Ferguson’s Shipyard on the Clyde which are currently 5 years late and counting before being handed over to Calmac and going into service on the Ardrossan to Brodick route and the Uig Triangle route.
Some of you may have seen the Mark Daly Disclosure Scotland programme The Great Ferry Scandal on BBC1 Scotland last December (2022) which stated all the incompetence regarding the awarding of the contract to Ferguson’s Shipyard which had been bought out of Administration by Alex Salmond’s pal Jim McColl in July 2014 two months before the September 2014 independence referendum.
I have some information which I received as a result of two separate tip offs which never appeared on the Disclosure Scotland Great Ferry Scandal programme.
Alex Salmond is no longer a friend of Jim McColl thanks to McColl losing a lot of money plus future subcontracting work on new British naval vessels with BAE.
I have plenty more information but it would be helpful if posters could ask me questions.

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Is there a problem with the weight of electric cars and their additional weight? Seems there could be a similar problem for multi storey car parks.

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If this is your 'specialist subject' why is it that you're not certain your recollection of the acronym CMAL is correct? I was going to suggest you contact Mastermind and propose Calmac Ferries as your specialist subject but now I'm not so sure.

Another question - would you prefer that all the people employed, in Scotland, on the construction of the late ferries were unemployed and that the construction had gone to somewhere like Poland or Singapore?

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Calmac Ferries is one of my specialist subjects.
The current Calmac Ferries crisis has been brewing up for years thanks the SNP controlled Scottish Government’s failure to keep their Clyde and Hebridean ferries fleet up to date.
The Scottish Government own all these ferries plus the ferries on the Northlink Route through their company CMAL which from memory is Caledonian Marine Assets Limited.
Calmac Ferries Limited is owned by David MacBrayne Limited who in turn is owned by the Scottish Government ministers.
Calmac is the operating company on the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes and as they are Scottish Government owned their management who are effectively civil servants do as they are told by the Scottish Government ministers.
Serco PLC is the operating company on the Northlink sailings but they do not have the same problems as the ferries on the Northlink ferry routes are fairly new. They are probably about 15 years old.
The main culprits for the current Calmac ferry shambles are Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and Derek MacKay plus the management of CMAL.
The Green MSPs grubby hands are all over the fiasco concerning the two new ferries being built at Ferguson’s Shipyard on the Clyde which are currently 5 years late and counting before being handed over to Calmac and going into service on the Ardrossan to Brodick route and the Uig Triangle route.
Some of you may have seen the Mark Daly Disclosure Scotland programme The Great Ferry Scandal on BBC1 Scotland last December (2022) which stated all the incompetence regarding the awarding of the contract to Ferguson’s Shipyard which had been bought out of Administration by Alex Salmond’s pal Jim McColl in July 2014 two months before the September 2014 independence referendum.
I have some information which I received as a result of two separate tip offs which never appeared on the Disclosure Scotland Great Ferry Scandal programme.
Alex Salmond is no longer a friend of Jim McColl thanks to McColl losing a lot of money plus future subcontracting work on new British naval vessels with BAE.
I have plenty more information but it would be helpful if posters could ask me questions.

Do you think the disclosure Scotland programme was an accurate reflection of what's went on?

[Returnofrros]

Calmac Ferries is one of my specialist subjects.
The current Calmac Ferries crisis has been brewing up for years thanks the SNP controlled Scottish Government’s failure to keep their Clyde and Hebridean ferries fleet up to date.
The Scottish Government own all these ferries plus the ferries on the Northlink Route through their company CMAL which from memory is Caledonian Marine Assets Limited.
Calmac Ferries Limited is owned by David MacBrayne Limited who in turn is owned by the Scottish Government ministers.
Calmac is the operating company on the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes and as they are Scottish Government owned their management who are effectively civil servants do as they are told by the Scottish Government ministers.
Serco PLC is the operating company on the Northlink sailings but they do not have the same problems as the ferries on the Northlink ferry routes are fairly new. They are probably about 15 years old.
The main culprits for the current Calmac ferry shambles are Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and Derek MacKay plus the management of CMAL.
The Green MSPs grubby hands are all over the fiasco concerning the two new ferries being built at Ferguson’s Shipyard on the Clyde which are currently 5 years late and counting before being handed over to Calmac and going into service on the Ardrossan to Brodick route and the Uig Triangle route.
Some of you may have seen the Mark Daly Disclosure Scotland programme The Great Ferry Scandal on BBC1 Scotland last December (2022) which stated all the incompetence regarding the awarding of the contract to Ferguson’s Shipyard which had been bought out of Administration by Alex Salmond’s pal Jim McColl in July 2014 two months before the September 2014 independence referendum.
I have some information which I received as a result of two separate tip offs which never appeared on the Disclosure Scotland Great Ferry Scandal programme.
Alex Salmond is no longer a friend of Jim McColl thanks to McColl losing a lot of money plus future subcontracting work on new British naval vessels with BAE.
I have plenty more information but it would be helpful if posters could ask me questions.

Do you think dabs are a long lost sub specious of human beings?

[Returnofrros]

Calmac Ferries is one of my specialist subjects.
The current Calmac Ferries crisis has been brewing up for years thanks the SNP controlled Scottish Government’s failure to keep their Clyde and Hebridean ferries fleet up to date.
The Scottish Government own all these ferries plus the ferries on the Northlink Route through their company CMAL which from memory is Caledonian Marine Assets Limited.
Calmac Ferries Limited is owned by David MacBrayne Limited who in turn is owned by the Scottish Government ministers.
Calmac is the operating company on the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes and as they are Scottish Government owned their management who are effectively civil servants do as they are told by the Scottish Government ministers.
Serco PLC is the operating company on the Northlink sailings but they do not have the same problems as the ferries on the Northlink ferry routes are fairly new. They are probably about 15 years old.
The main culprits for the current Calmac ferry shambles are Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and Derek MacKay plus the management of CMAL.
The Green MSPs grubby hands are all over the fiasco concerning the two new ferries being built at Ferguson’s Shipyard on the Clyde which are currently 5 years late and counting before being handed over to Calmac and going into service on the Ardrossan to Brodick route and the Uig Triangle route.
Some of you may have seen the Mark Daly Disclosure Scotland programme The Great Ferry Scandal on BBC1 Scotland last December (2022) which stated all the incompetence regarding the awarding of the contract to Ferguson’s Shipyard which had been bought out of Administration by Alex Salmond’s pal Jim McColl in July 2014 two months before the September 2014 independence referendum.
I have some information which I received as a result of two separate tip offs which never appeared on the Disclosure Scotland Great Ferry Scandal programme.
Alex Salmond is no longer a friend of Jim McColl thanks to McColl losing a lot of money plus future subcontracting work on new British naval vessels with BAE.
I have plenty more information but it would be helpful if posters could ask me questions.

Star trek or the auld doctor who?

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Star trek or the auld doctor who?

Stat Trek every day of the week - the auld Star Trek that is, Kirk and Spock era, even makes the Jon Pertwee Doctor look amateur hour.

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Stat Trek every day of the week - the auld Star Trek that is, Kirk and Spock era, even makes the Jon Pertwee Doctor look amateur hour.

Logical

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Do you think the disclosure Scotland programme was an accurate reflection of what's went on?

The Disclosure Scotland programme was an accurate reflection of what has happened with the two new ferries sitting at Ferguson’s Shipyard.
Underhand dealings to get Ferguson’s Shipyard the order for the two new ferries.
If it wasn’t then Kevin Hobbs would have been suing the company who produced the Disclosure Scotland programme which has never happened. I have no faith in Kevin Hobbs as Chief Executive of CMAL but that is on another subject which is ultimately linked to the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes and it proved that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing in Transport Scotland.

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Is there a problem with the weight of electric cars and their additional weight? Seems there could be a similar problem for multi storey car parks.

Yes. However nothing will done about it until it is too late. The number of vehicles travelling on ferries will have to be reduced due to the extra weight of the electric cars. The longer the range of these cars the bigger and heavier the batteries which will have to be installed in these cars.
When Commercial Companies are forced by Government to only use electric powered HGVs then the number of vehicles travelling on the ferries will be greatly reduced.
At present a fully laden diesel powered HGV weighs 44 tons with the MV Hebridean Isles ferry which has not carried any foot passengers, cars and vans since 2nd January 2023 can carry five 44 ton HGVs and eight cars (Source Islay Community Council Ferry Committee).
When Electric powered HGVs become the norm then the MV Hebridean Isles ferry assuming that it has not been scrapped which should have happened years ago will probably only be able to carry three or maybe four HGVs.
These heavier electric cars and HGVs are going to wreck the roads.
If you do not believe me then I suggest that you take a trip to the island of Islay where you will see the damage that the 44 tons HGVs have done to main roads on the island because there are too many whisky distilleries on the island.