Stuart Hill (Captain Calamity) Forvik

[Ghostrider]

^^ Did you hear SIBC this mornin'?

Nat West 1 - Calamity 0.


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[NorthernXposure]

It's my belief that this fool has no more interest in what's best for Shetland than I have hair on my head!
He does, however, understand financial burdon (having been a substantial 'een' upon the emergency services of the good UK taxpayer).
I would therefore suggest that we do not further encourage or massage the ego of this freeloading drifter in this forum any further.
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[EM]

[fleabee]

am sorry but i think hes right

[Ghostrider]

^^ Hill most probably is right, in a certain limited sense of the word. From where I'm sitting though, I see him insisting something that I believe is very complex, is actually very simple. I don't believe him that it is. I see him ignoring, or casting aside as "irrelevant" facts that I see as material. I believe in doing so he's cherry picking, and making the facts fit his conclusion, rather than coming to a conclusion based on all of the available relevant evidence.

Lastly, and possibly most importantly, I see him choosing to take the most hair-brained, idiotic methods to attempt to (and so far fail, with knobs on) to further his cause. And undertake crazy, laughable "Frank Spencer-ish" stunts in the process, which in doing so he has made a joke of himself, and also by default made the cause, which should be treated with total seriousness at all times, in to a joke too.

I can only liken creating a post for 'Mayor of Shetland', then giving the job to Dave Clark, having Hill doing what he's doing.
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[Gorgonzola Butt-cheese]

Shetland going it alone from the E.U. (the U.K. is just a province) with a 200 mile E.E.Z, does sound good.
Economically it is probably more than feasable, a very quick calculation on yearly oil exports alone (using very modest figure on oil prices and tonnages moved) would equate easily to 250 million pounds being taken on 5% levy on exports. It is probably much higher than this and I have not even factored in the gas....
If you have a few old shetland times you can get an average weekly tonnage shipped out of sullom voe, multiply that tonnage by 6.289 to give you the average number of barrels. Then multiple the average number of barrels by the price of oil per barrel, (constantly availabe & updated on bbc news website) Then multiply the weekly value of crude ship ments by 52.
Divide by 100 and times by 5 fo 5%. Will be interesting to see what figures anybody interested comes up with.
Bearing in mind that a single export levy of 5% to a shetland government would bring hugely increased profits to the oil industry compared to what they currently pay to the U.K / E.U. administration.
But of course that would only be the start, with full fishing rights and seabed ownership, probably another 100 million plus could easily be levied through fishing permits and seabed rental costs to fishfarms.
But sadly this is where the dream probably ends, we are clearly to much of a revenue producer for the establishment to just let us go and secondly we niether have the public will nor the political negotiators to make it happen.
I personally have no confidence in the ability of either the council or any of our political representaives, its pretty much a constant history of incompetance (apart from the 0.000whatever% of the gross they managed to get from the oil industry thus far..) at best and downright treachery at worst.
But saying all that I wish Stuart all the best on this latest chapter of his great crusade ! Go Captain!!