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Good on her!!!

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Excellent video, a poem about the windfarm in Shetland dialect.

Poem also in the New Shetlander for Yule on sale now

Many of the councillors who voted to close Scalloway were in no way convinced by the lies of Manson and Angus – they were voting for closure in the hope that this may deflect from school closure in their areas

Shetland Islands Council is corrupt and rotten to the core – SIC is run by a clique of inept so-called senior councillors and equally inept senior council officials.

Over the years this unholy alliance has lost Shetland £millions through staggering incompetence and cover-up – because of the Audit investigation they have to be seen to be doing something and closing Scalloway Secondary is that something. Any new councillor who speaks up against this cabal either has to toe their line or is quickly sidelined and thus is unable to represent their community effectively. In the past many good councillors have not stood for re-election because they were unable to speak out or represent their electorate effectively.

This situation that has existed even before that chief architect of waste CE M. Goodlad took control. Before Goodlad CE Nick Riter was aware of this and tried to break the cabal and was got rid of extremely quickly for his pains.

This ruling elite of the SIC is virtually fire-proof – the COSLA investigation was a whitewash – Clueness and Simpson are still in post even after all that has happened and still blunder on in complete denial that anything wrong has occurred. Their answer is to hire at great expense CE from Orkney to save their hides – practically his first act is to hire a spin doctor with the sole purpose of putting up barriers between the SIC and the public by issuing ‘corporate line’ propaganda and deflect any public criticisms of their actions.

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I sympathise with the Scalloway community – I hope there is some recourse for them – perhaps in law and Manson and Angus get their deserved cum-uppance.

Why stop at Herma Ness? Swim to Rumblings then to Muckle Flugga an then swim to Oot Stack.

Could even start on Horse Island.

“Arr Davy lad, ‘get me anovver Cabin Boy – this one’s splitâ€

Rear –Admiral William Hague

Consider this for a moment dear detractors of Mr Hill.

What if Mr Hill is indeed right about Shetland’s legal status (or lack of it) within the UK?

Someday soon a government in either Westminster or Edinburgh is going to realise that Shetland is being grossly over-subsided. Just think about how many hundreds of millions of taxpayer’s money have been poured into Shetland over the last 30 or 40 years.

You get subsided to the tune millions for Northlink services, millions for Air Discount Scheme, millions for Scottish Distant Island Allowance (which, incidentally, was set up to compensate for the high cost of then un-subsided travel and should have been legally scrapped years ago), millions to health services, millions to fishing, millions to agriculture etc. etc.

What an easy way to save all this money it would be if Shetland didn’t after all belong to the UK.

If Mr Hill is right (and he just might be despite his eccentricity) then some future UK government may say “Goodbye you bunch of whining, ungrateful, subsidy spongers, and by the way how about paying back the millions you’ve wheedled out of us over all these yearsâ€.