Sir,
Is the Dr David Wilson, who has emerged as Angus MacNeil’s mouthpiece on the Minch interconnector issue, by any chance related to Dr David Wilson who stood for the SNP in the last Comhairle elections and received a derisory number of votes?
If so, it is difficult to understand why Dr Wilson (the mouthpiece) should be praising Mr MacNeil for his alleged efforts to secure an interconnector since Dr Wilson (the candidate) campaigned on the platform that “industrial scale windfarms must be resisted” because they would “inflict massive damage on our tourism industry.”
Without windfarms large enough to justify an interconnector, there is obviously no point in campaigning for an interconnector.
In fact the one sure way of achieving Dr Wilson (the candidate’s) objective is by ensuring that the interconnector never happens – which may well be an objective which Mr MacNeil shares, so long as someone else can be blamed.
In view of his selection of a mouthpiece who has expressed strong views diametrically opposed to the outcome which he is supposedly working so hard to achieve, would it not be helpful if the MP himself now clarified his position, assuming (generously) that he knows what it is?
The hundreds of islanders who have been failed by promises of employment in the renewables
industry deserve a straight answer. Or will the SNP continue to rely on their time-
Matt Bruce
Chairman
Western Isles Labour Party
Achnaha
Garrabost
Isle of Lewis
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Connecting and planning ahead
8 January 2015