The Kintyre Forum

This forum has 538 registered users and as such you all have e-mail. If even half of you are as annoyed as I am at the failure of the Scottish Executive to deliver the ferry service, please join me in letting Tavish Scott the Transport Minister know how you feel.
The e-mail below was sent before I came on the board tonight and I hope that he has a few hundred more to open on Monday morning. Just copy and paste and send to:- scottish.ministers@scotland.gov.uk

oorly

To: Scottish Executive

The failure of the Scottish Executive to deliver the re-introduction of the Campbeltown - Ballycastle ferry service has been met with disappointment in Kintyre and beyond.

I would ask the Transport Minister to provide reasons why the four interested companies did not submit tender documents. Was the proposed million pound subsidy too low?

I would also ask the Minister to give due credence and encouragement to the offer from Dalriada Shipping Company to take on the route.

Count me in Oorly Goorly

'Mon the Ferry

Aye, and I am sure we can trust the local man mentioned to get it RIGHT if given the chance.

My email has gone

Malky

My e-mail gone also

Hi Oorly,

I'm sure your message was directed at the residents of Kintyre, but I emailed, including a paragraph on tourism and our intention of using the ferry.

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my email has gone too

Oorley

I'll need to think about whether I want a ferry or not. I don't think I do so I wont be sending mine.

bubbly

Oorley

Jeest kidding. Mines away as well

bubbly

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Very important to get our own MSP George Lyon on board. Apparently he has been saying the service needs to go back out to tender and also that maybe the Executive should take the money back and use it to set up an air service between Machrihanish and Belfast.

His email is glyon@supanet.com

Keep them coming folks. Let's show them that the forum has some clout. Thanks to all who have posted already and I hope that those of you who have viewed the post have used your e-mail. Don't be shy, it's your right.

oorly

email done

oorly,Good Call Mail sent