The Shetland flights arn't payed for out of tax payers money though.
They are payed for out of the rent for Sullom Voe. So the money doesn't come from central funds.
They also employ the local kids at over 10 quid an hour to cut grass during the summer so that they will come back from university and hopefully settle there after graduating. The northern Isles economys is nowhere near that of a declining fishing/crofting community on the west coast.
You will loose it in the current form. There is no way that amount of expenditure can be justified when they are shutting down schools, old folks homes and reducing health care in the area.
Last edited by mad_jock; 7th Mar 2013 at 19:51.