Brian Wilson: Every day, every hour, our MSPs should be demanding answers on the CalMac fiasco
My family occasionally remind me of a French holiday, much of which I spent in a telephone kiosk trying to pre-empt a CalMac strike on the Clyde which would have hit my Arran and Cumbrae constituents hard in mid-season. Much as I liked representing these islands, it would be fair to say I did not owe my majority to them but that was irrelevant. There was a duty of care and my telephone diplomacy shuttled between CalMac, the RMT, and folk on the islands, in search of a solution. Quite successfully as I recall. That was the kind of thing MPs were paid to do so there is nothing exceptional...
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