FERRY FIASCO: 2 ferries to be worth £70m each, yet yard had nearly £400m taxpayers' money 

260 million extra paid over the top . Only in Scotland

Fraud comes to mind on a massive scale.

All the people involved with this should be jailed ie snp and wee sturgeon

Sad days for the Clyde that was once proud of its shipbuilding skills.

Anyone competent wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near this deal.

It's a lot of money for very little unless it means a lot in some people's pockets.

My workmate was a Government shipyard worker. A bloke that worked hard at doing nothing and was friendly with senior managers. 😂

The contract was awarded on a "cost be damned" basis, it was meant to be a Scottish flagship project of pride from start to finish. Its puzzling to me that the EU didnt get involved in this mess before now, as it somewhat obvious there were dodgy dealings going on with regards the tender, the tendering process, and the tender award. We're £260m out of pocket up to date, still have no ferries, the projects may never float or provide any kind of service for the price........ and that number doesnt include costs to date, nor future costs of the enquiry needed to sift through the obvious incompetence of the Scottish govt. The only way things can get worse, is if the pending and predicted economic crash actually happens in 2024, and we also have to pay out on Sturgeons £600m non retractable guarantee to Gupta......... another incompetent dodgy deal by the SNP

How much has Nicola Sturgeon now got stashed away?

Wow...what a waste of OUR money!

Crankys corrupt SNP!

The entire system wants investing by a body not connected to the establishment there all at it

what happened to the 24 million that was recently involved in these ferries ?

They couldn't run a sweet shop shocking and they want independence 😮

So we weren't just paying Ferguson for the boats, we were financially supporting their business.

Some mp is getting a back hander for it!

The left and money do not mix....the left float as the money sinks.

SNP VOTES cost a lot of money

where do you think Nichola got her camer van ( and other stuff from ) then?

I demand an Urgent Audit on this, I am missing out.

Apparently the ferries have been built using the wrong steel 😂😂😂 oh dear how much will that cost or can it be fixed by the time they get into service they'll be 20 years old without being used and due to retire 😂

His is disgusting get the money back

What is the worth of the worthless PPE we have to pay to store before it is burnt

Nice watch.

It's all Westminster's fault doncha know.. Tragic doesn't cover this

Seems like unadulterated incompetence......or just favours for mates

There is a rotten tater in Scotland

It's cos wee Jimmie Krankie spent all the money trying to get Scotland to leave the UK - many of us wish she had succeeded.

Not one ferry is worth a quarter of that money..

Should be jailed

Sturgeon’s plc at it again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is just politics to scupper commercial Shipbuilding on the Clyde and elsewhare That shipyard has built lots of ships with no problem, so that indicates somthing was going on. I worked in the Shipyards on the Clyde and have seen this happen to a lot of the yards. Just politics.

The whole thing has been a scam

Usual English voices interfering in our country.

Why did the SNP just not buy a boat on the open market for £70m has to be asked as they did buy their camper van that way. Comedy Gold SNP

The reality of this fiasco is that the comedy club that currently runs (read ruins) Scotland could have had 4 brand new and operating ferries with 1 brand new one in reserve and STILL have £50m in the bank if they had bought them on the open market! The words incompetent, scandalous and sticky fingers all spring to mind....

Corrupt to the core.

Astonishing….. you’d think this gross mismanagement would have had people sacked, arrested, jailed or something to address this. The figures are vast and still it goes on…..in the meantime , 2 vital ferries are not operational and aren’t likely to be anytime soon….

Scotlands self-governance seems like an idealistic dream when you first move up here. But you very quickly find yourself constantly asking "where the hell did all the money go!?" The SNP habitually takes vast chunks of money from the public purse, spends it on these "super projects", they end up turning into fiascos or completely disappearing, and when the dust settles, all the money has gone. I have witnessed first hand how bureaucratic corruption works in North Africa and the Middle East. Im sorry to say that Scotland operates in the same way. We have plenty of money up here, in fact per head we get more than England, yet somehow they can barely manage to empty the bins twice a month, public transport is a fiasco, and hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money quietly vanishes every year. There is a reason that multiple members of the SNP are under investigation for fraud and theft. There is a reason why multiple parliamentary investigations into Scotlands finances are underway There is a reason why we have more funding but less services The public purse is treated like the slush fund for the Scottish elite. This is why Hamza Yousif can immediately pledge £5 million of cash for Gaza/Hamas, and offer to open the doors to radicalised Gaza refugees, but so far hasnt provided ANY concrete help to the hundreds of Scots made homeless by storm Babet, Scots who were made homeless after the council spent £16 million on a small section of flood defence, which immediately FAILED the first time there was an actual flood. How the hell do you spend sixteen million quid on 300 yard section of wall that doesnt stop flooding? Sorry to say but a Police force from Wales or England needs to come up here and do a wholescale forensic audit on public spending.

Always amazes me how these public contracts are won on a price which is then totally ignored when it is delivered. Cost overruns should be the contractors prodlem, design changes are the clients.

Politicians don't care how expensive it is. It's not their money. Politicians have never been accused of of being shrewd businessmen.

My son worked in civil engineering when the contract for the Holyrood Parliament building was awarded at a cost of £40m that became £400m he said at the time all contractors knew it would be an open cheque book for whoever won it

If the SNP want a rubber duck for their bath i can sell them a part used rubber duck for £50 million, absolute bargain

I seem to remember the Scottish Parliament building was going to cost £40million to build but when finished it had cost £400 MILLION !

Someone is rich

It's either gross incompetence or rampant corruption, every large project the Scottish government has undertaken has ended the same way

Don't worry, Hamza is going to import as many Palestinians as he can, that'll help...

We have an enormous brand new ferry in the Isle of Man, The Manxman and it cost us £75 million.

Sturgeon should be there to take the blame

Some back handers gone out by the looks of things. Why would someone go with the highest bidder it just doesn't make sense, looks pretty obvious to me why this was accepted what do you think.

ARREST krankie swinney etc for pure incompatince also stop there pensions which they definitely don't deserve

HE HAD A CHEEK TO USE INFLATION AS A REASON FOR THE OVERSPEND AND NOT SNP INCOMPETENCE

Should have done what the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company did and go abroad. The new ferry called 'Manxman' was delivered on time and within budget this year.

Can they really be this incompetent or is this the usual public sector filling their boots???

A public inquiry and then a criminal investigation . Surely no-one can be incompetent to the tune of £200 million . Someone is lying .

Must have asked advice from Diane Abbott.

The capital value of the asset depreciates annually, therefor their book value is substantially less than £70 million.

I can see why she's done a runner now! Yet again she will be asked, Wheres the money ?

Voted for the SNP? Oh dear, don't tell anyone of your utter ignorance.

This contract should have been stopped long ago. Buying things twice? ffs. Didn’t they put engineering plant in the wrong place and then had to scrap cabling. That was a contractor’s fault so why did the contractor get paid for this and other mistakes.

Scunnersome facts. £210 million wasted ? Scottish government and the shipyard, hold your heads in shame.

Sturgeons premature launch cost plentyand caused even more delays.

So much corruption. How can it not be.

And the SNP wants independence. Can't even get a ship right with all our money, not there's.

Can you imagine the state Scotland would be in if they were on their own.Course,it’s a case of plenty more cash where that came from,the good old British tax payer.

Utterly shameful and a level of incompetency that makes you pray that this SNP never achieves it's only GOAL.

The attitude is "Its only taxpayers momey" and our 'kickback' is a perk of the job!

Can anyone imagine this kind of mismanagement in the private sector? This is just a waste of about 150 million of tax payers money with nothing to show for it. So where exactly has the 150 million or so gone to ? Or did it just vaporise ?

An itemised Intinary should also be available so Government and Citizens can see where every penny has gone on. WHERE IS THE ITINERARY ? Ship building in many ports in Britain would have known the estimated price for building a Boat of Specification in 2023. Also its never taken any British Ship Building Yard 9 years to build a large ship...ever !

I went to the SNP ferry office to ask for a ticket for the new Scottish ferries maiden voyage, the lady at the counter said it would be 10 years before it’s ready, I said could I have a ticket for the morning voyage and she said what difference does it make it’s 10 years from now, I said I have a doctors appointment in the afternoon. 🤣

VOTE THEM OUT.

The bidding price was done 9 years ago?? And still not close to completion ffs!

Same thing happened with the building of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, estimated build cost was £10-40 million, actual build cost was in excess of 400 million.

Full investigation needed. With government accountants. And who brought the or claimed the non use items.

Scottish Independence=zero accountability

The people of Scotland voted the SNP in. Remember the old saying. " Be careful what you wish for " This was what you got!

Its going to take years to sort out the party mess...... got to start some where :/ this particular catastrophe is almost unbelievable. what on earth did they think they were doing !!!!

This is corruption ,those who caused it must be held accountable

Who has the money? Total incompetency, there is no excuse for this bottomless pit.

We are sailing we are sailing no bloody where

Its great Nicola had passed her driving test, yipee camper van here I come.

The casual attitude to vast amounts of public money is staggering

Next time, they'll just go abroad for them, and yet more shipbuilding skills will be lost forever

SNP OUT!!!

corruption sounds the norm with taxpayers money

you would think these supposedly intelligent people would have, at some time in their life, heard of penalty clauses you know where you protect yourself, or indeed the taxpayer, from losing ridiculous amounts of money by adding a clause in the contract saying 'if you go over the agreed upon budget the extra is on you' but then again maybe they are intelligent and they have stated 'if you go above the agreed upon budget the rest goes in my bank account.'

Corrupt that's the only way to describe this FARCE 😡🤬

There was some dodgy deals done here for sure 👆envelopes galore

The Union is in safe hands under the SNP, no chance of independence under their leadership! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Why is it that only politicians get away with this level of corruption? What happened to them working for the people?

This is something they will get away with but if it were me or anyone else we would go to jail for life for that sum of fraud or imbesslement legalised crime they are paper criminals

Arran folk just wanted a reliable ferry, not these huge hulks susceptible to winds. And don't start me on the new building and walkway The new position has caused further problems as now vulnerable to easterly winds - a problem we didnt have before .

One of the first hurdles for this was that the successful shipyard had a financial guarantee to cover future problems. Ferguson never had this. Everyone knew this. Should never have been in the game. Unbelievable.

An this is a country that wants independence ! almost as much as a disaster as the cost of building the Scottish parliament !

Money grows on trees in Scotland! Whole of the Scottish Government is in La La land!

Every public sector contract has a similar value factor for taxpayers. Backhanders and profit divergence has to be factored in 😂

The SNP in a nutshell. And they still haven’t said who signed the contracts.

I'm English and even I can see this is GRIFTING ON A VERY LARGE SCALE. Some MP is getting very rich on the tax payer money. Put them all in jail.👑👑👑👑

We could have had 5 ferries if wee Nicola had had them built in Poland, but hey at least there has been work in her constituency.

The amount of money this government has squandered is staggering. No wonder their Party finances were in such a mess.