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Might UKEF have strung Arun and Sir John along, when a simple "drop your request to 80% would have secured the deal 12 months back, saving HARL circa £4.5 million in interest payments?

If so, were Senior Civil Servants and Tory Ministers out to bankrupt us, only for the Sea Rose contract to save the day? Hmmm....?

GLA

No doubt another Broadsheet "rag" will carry Will she/Won't she Ironing Board Chancellor story in the morning.

How much is this costing those with the power to do us harm?

GLA

The shareholders of IOSSC must be praying that HARL sinks without trace, because if we are still in business this time next year, IOSSC won't be!

GLA

It's the King's Speech tomorrow.

Welcome to Tory neo-Marxist Britain - with knobs on!

I'm guessing that it will make most of ashamed to be British!!!

If UKEF are happily guaranteeing loans to Guatemalan businesses, then Rachel Reeves ain't much use to the nation.

Anyone can say, "Look at me, I'm so strong, I said no to little old HARL". But it takes Cajones to tell the European Union where to go. Johnson and Sunak didn't have them. Now it looks like Reeves hasn't grown a pair either!

GLA

The Falkland's Floating Dock might be classed as an "export".

It definitely will be - if Sir Keir and Co get their way!

Hi Bubble. Onwards, and most definitely Upwards!!!

ATB, FG

Vectors. Not really. I was likely one of the few people in the whole of Britain that knew we were taking bookings.

Let's hope that next Monday is better advertised!

Also, it wouldn't surprise me if Sir John takes the first trip and didn't want to eat into his weekend off!!!

Broomtree. Not a good look, but might nobody have booked for the Weekend?

I looked for adverts advertising the Service and couldn't find any!

Conseula. Your quoting from from an exaggerated story likely paid for by the Axis of Evil.

If the UK government can't afford to guarantee a £200 million loan, then we rank as low as Ethiopia in the League of Nations!!!

Only Third World Nations can't afford to guarantee £200 Million loans!

And that's a FACT!!!

Vectors. Would you say that Steamship Group were hoping to offer "trapped" islanders on the Isles of Scilly a competitively priced ferry service? Or might they have been hoping to squeeze them for all they are worth?

LSE. Should the last but one paragraph read:

Governments cannot rely on the invisible hand of the market to do this for them. Fair, open markets with healthy competition can only be achieved through purposeful interaction between governments, business, and institutions like the EU.

Won't HAR be raking the cash in if it achieves a monopoly on the Scilly Isles ferry services?

Sounds like a nice little earner to me!

The UK can't afford to guarantee a £200 million loan! Putin must be p1ssing himself laughing!!!

Who's placed sanctions on whom?

SHS. Methinks that you already know that it's dangerous to supply Royal Naval ships in dodgy foreign ports during periods of warfare, ergo you top-up supplies, at sea, from ruddy great supply ships!

This time next year: HARL will have smashed the Steamship Group and will be a few months in on building the first FSS ship. Might we also be working on the Falkland Islands Floating Dock?

Good morning, Bubble. Unfortunately, I might well be.

Me thinks we have employed some pretty p1ss poor Civil Servants in recent years. Where are all the, can do, free-thinking, patriots?

Is it any wonder Russia is killing us in the Ukraine?

We live in a strange country. The Tories (supported by the Labour Party) found £30 Billion for a useless, totalitarian, Track & Trace system under COVID, yet the Civil Service are worried about guaranteeing a £200 million 'loan'.

Have we suddenly become Ethiopia or some other Developing nation?

The Axis of Evil were obviously hoping that HARL would come out of suspension yesterday morning, and had the Telegraph article published to try and hammer the share price. Sir John must have anticipated that and deliberately held the Financial Results back.

Not that it's a lot of money, but first sailing from Penzance is still scheduled for Saturday at 10:45.

Methinks that Sir John keeps us under lockdown until next Wed/Thu because the AoE will likely try hitting us with more articles strategically placed in the: FT, Telegraph, Times, and Irish Times, over the weekend, likely running in tag team until Mon/Tue.

GLA