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This seems a little fatuous. Of course we know where Cove is, what Rosneath is and that the peninsula is called the Rosneath peninsula.
We refer to the Cowal peninsula as Cowal – as does everyone else and no one in Cowal has complained (yet). Sometimes the familiar version seems more fluent – but we apologise for irritating you.
We are not a cheerleader for Clydelink. We have been critical of their shortcomings but we have not joined in their demonisation.
The principal fault here – and it is a serious one – lies with the principal in the action and that is SPT.
The management of this tender contract was ridiculous in so many ways and not remotely defensible.
But any business has the right to tender, the right to accept the award of a contract and the right to do its best then to fulfil that contract.
We fully understand and sympathise with the damaging disruption to ordered life in the peninsula and the destabilising impact of the unreliability of the Clydelink service to date.
But your argument is with SPT. Splitting your focus in hammering Clydelink is politically inept.
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The difference is that Farage was not calling the names, issuing the threats – and the racist abuse and burning a Union flag. This WAS fascist behaviour on the part of the thugs.
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The UKIP leader was clearly shaken by this embarrassingly barbaric incident – his ‘fight or flight’ adrenaline response still clearly in operation this morning. This was no publicity stunt.
If we cannot see and admit when our own nation behaves badly, we will never evolve.
There is neither reason or need for anyone to excuse or defend this sort of behaviour; and every reason for it to be disowned.
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I know it must be difficult for all the staff in a newsroom to get a message, but could I point out that Cove is not ‘in’ Rosneath – it’s one of the villages on the Rosneath `Peninsula. I think this is the third time recently that such an error, indicative of a lack of knowledge of the area, has been highlighted.
Oh, and by the way – why is this site such a cheerleader for Clydelink? The company’s attitude to the problems faced by is customers is to dismiss them as ‘not like famine in Ethiopia (see the Herald story http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/transport/ferry-safety-fears-amid-claims-crew-lack-training.17680761)
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This seems a little fatuous. Of course we know where Cove is, what Rosneath is and that the peninsula is called the Rosneath peninsula.
We refer to the Cowal peninsula as Cowal – as does everyone else and no one in Cowal has complained (yet). Sometimes the familiar version seems more fluent – but we apologise for irritating you.
We are not a cheerleader for Clydelink. We have been critical of their shortcomings but we have not joined in their demonisation.
The principal fault here – and it is a serious one – lies with the principal in the action and that is SPT.
The management of this tender contract was ridiculous in so many ways and not remotely defensible.
But any business has the right to tender, the right to accept the award of a contract and the right to do its best then to fulfil that contract.
We fully understand and sympathise with the damaging disruption to ordered life in the peninsula and the destabilising impact of the unreliability of the Clydelink service to date.
But your argument is with SPT. Splitting your focus in hammering Clydelink is politically inept.
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