Ruth Davidson, soon to be sworn in to the House of Lords as Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, often urged the Scottish Government to concentrate on the basics of running Scotland when she was leader of the Scottish Tories. Did she have a point? J PATRICK Maclean's letter (July 16) on the Mull ferry situation was in my opinion, yet another example of a very sound argument that will be ignored by our present Government in Holyrood and CMAL. To me this is a very worrying example of the failures of this SNP administration. In your Letters Pages, my own correspondence and those from better and more experienced contributors appear to be ignored. I know that you have published comments from CMAL executives, but these never seem to address the crisis that now exists. Even Nicola Sturgeon's statement that "they" are looking at sourcing another vessel for the Ullapool-Stornoway service is treated as encouraging, but she does not get reported as saying that instead of looking for a vessel, one has been found and that it will be in service from a particular date.