I really do feel for the workers but giving anymore work to the Ferguson shipyard would be baffling. Genuinely inexplicable.
I love the idea of a (kinda) publicly owned shipyard in Scotland but it has been a disaster. Put the money into more variable public enterprises.
I feel quite bad for the workers.
They were set up to fail by a government who didn’t bother with even basic due diligence or planning.
The government had no idea how to operate a business like this, and they didn’t take the very simple steps to find out before throwing our money at it for some positive headlines.
The business was never capable of delivering this project on time and on budget. It didn’t even have a functioning management system (something Audit Scotland found was still true in 2022). It was an impossibility.
Now the workers, who I’m sure are dedicated, skilled individuals, look incompetent when they were never given the tools to succeed.
It’s a real shame. This could’ve been great for Scotland if managed properly. Now I can’t see them successfully tendering to build a dingy on the open market. Why would any company award them ship building work when there are cheaper, proven alternatives out there.
The whole point was supposed to be to save Scottish jobs and retain a significant industry. Total mismanagement means we’ll be half a billion down and probably still lose the jobs.
They should be given future jobs just make sure there are competent people running the operation this time
These people were badly let down by SNP delusion- a microcosm of the disaster that would be independence.
They never had the resources or skill to deliver the project and when the SG took them over they never implemented an effective management structure, something that still was not in place by 2022- because the SNP/SG machine is not in itself sufficiently experienced in setting up complex bodies to run high end projects. Something that should deeply concern anyone who was trusting them to set up the organs of state- a central bank, military-industrial complex, tax office etc etc.
It is tragic that embezzlement brought down Sturgeon and abrasive political incompetence brought down Yousaf when this fiasco should have ended their reign years ago.
I don’t know what happens now to the yard or its workers, presumably it will need to be sold- the SG has proven itself unable to operate it, but who would give them contracts?
Are there enough small tenders from BAE to keep it afloat?
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I really do feel for the workers but giving anymore work to the Ferguson shipyard would be baffling. Genuinely inexplicable.
I love the idea of a (kinda) publicly owned shipyard in Scotland but it has been a disaster. Put the money into more variable public enterprises.
I feel quite bad for the workers.
They were set up to fail by a government who didn’t bother with even basic due diligence or planning.
The government had no idea how to operate a business like this, and they didn’t take the very simple steps to find out before throwing our money at it for some positive headlines.
The business was never capable of delivering this project on time and on budget. It didn’t even have a functioning management system (something Audit Scotland found was still true in 2022). It was an impossibility.
Now the workers, who I’m sure are dedicated, skilled individuals, look incompetent when they were never given the tools to succeed.
It’s a real shame. This could’ve been great for Scotland if managed properly. Now I can’t see them successfully tendering to build a dingy on the open market. Why would any company award them ship building work when there are cheaper, proven alternatives out there.
The whole point was supposed to be to save Scottish jobs and retain a significant industry. Total mismanagement means we’ll be half a billion down and probably still lose the jobs.
They should be given future jobs just make sure there are competent people running the operation this time
These people were badly let down by SNP delusion- a microcosm of the disaster that would be independence.
They never had the resources or skill to deliver the project and when the SG took them over they never implemented an effective management structure, something that still was not in place by 2022- because the SNP/SG machine is not in itself sufficiently experienced in setting up complex bodies to run high end projects. Something that should deeply concern anyone who was trusting them to set up the organs of state- a central bank, military-industrial complex, tax office etc etc.
It is tragic that embezzlement brought down Sturgeon and abrasive political incompetence brought down Yousaf when this fiasco should have ended their reign years ago.
I don’t know what happens now to the yard or its workers, presumably it will need to be sold- the SG has proven itself unable to operate it, but who would give them contracts?
Are there enough small tenders from BAE to keep it afloat?