RET _ almost
We must all welcome the introduction of the scheme this weekend, unless you are travelling by car from Stornoway to Ullapool, and be grateful for the crumbs that we receive.
The challenge now is to Donald John MacSween, as Labour's candidate, to develop and offer to deliver a better scheme at the next election to persuade the public that voting Labour will have some positive benefits.
We as the voting public must abuse the politicians as they abuse us, and play Labour and the SNP off against each other in the search for real and meaningful cuts in our travel costs.
To put it all in perspective, this week Virgin Atlantic are offering return travel to Boston and 3 days in a hotel for only fractionally more than Expedia can offer a long weekend in Glasgow or Edinburgh.
3 comments:
at least give us the link to the Virgin deal Angus! I have some holiday left to use before the year end, and with the £ to $ rate.........
Angus,
It was Labour that thought up the idea of RET in the first place. They did not introduce it as the sums didn't add up. Don't forget that Calmac is kept afloat by 32 million pounds of subsidy each year, and now that revenue will decline due to lower fares, this subsidy will have to be augmented. I don't see people flocking to the isles in droves all of a sudden. Hope I'm wrong.
Perhaps along with RET - almost (surely something is better than nothing, and I'd rather pay a return trip of c£76 for my vehicle than c£120+), we could get an answer as to why we're paying over 20p a litre more for petrol and diesel compared to Inverness and even 15p more a litre than Skye!?
This too on the day that the OFT announced that they are not going to investigate the fuel prices charged in the islands - something somewhere stinks more than a rotten guga.
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