Isle of Wight East MP Joe Robertson says that Islanders should be ‘deeply concerned’ that no mention was given to ferries in a keynote speech by Transport Secretary Louise Haigh this week.
At the Labour Party Conference on Monday, Louise talked about ‘ripping up the roots of Thatcherism’ across UK transport but made no reference at all to ferries.
The Secretary of State for Transport spoke extensively about trains and buses and mentioned flying, cycling and walking. But the lack of any mention of ferries – including cross-Solent ferries – has raised questions as to whether the Government has any plans to tackle the issues being witnessed here on the Isle of Wight.
Joe Robertson MP has said:
“We should be deeply concerned that in a keynote speech about better UK transport networks, the new Secretary of State did not mention ferries once.
“The UK is a collection of islands and to refer to every conceivable mode of public transport except ferries looks to me like we are being ignored.
“Wightlink grew out of the privatisation of British Rail in the 1980s. Louise Haigh is hardly ‘ripping up the roots of Thatcherism’ if she has no plan for Isle of Wight ferries.
“This is depressing considering that Richard Quigley says he has been working with her team for nearly a year and senior members of the Wightlink User Group told me last year that our ferries were ‘on Louise Haigh’s radar'”.
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‘Isle of Wight East MP Joe Robertson says that Islanders should be ‘deeply concerned’ that no mention was given to ferries in a keynote speech by Transport Secretary Louise Haigh this week.’
In 14 years of Tory government, ferries weren’t mentioned at all, until it became a vote catcher for a sausage eater. Should we be more ‘deeply concerned ‘ now than we were then?
Apologies to Joe Robertson, I actually meant Quigley. Goes to prove that one should not write comments late at night when tired how ever much government policy annoys you!
Goes to prove Labour and its MPs do not care about the Island. So far Joe Roberson has voted against our pensioners and now his party have let us down yet again with the ferries.
Apologies to Joe Robertson, I actually meant Quigley. Goes to prove that one should not write comments late at night when tired how ever much government policy annoys you!
Please delete my previous comment, got the MPs mixed up
Robertson grasping at straws expecting the concerns of a single constituency to be mentioned at a national party conference.
Do we expect anything better from Keir Stalins labour menagerie of misfits and liars. No. The whole country was deceived by this so called government. Glad I didn’t vote for them, didn’t vote tory either.
No surprises there really. As usual the promises made prior to elections are once more put back into the box inder the books of lies until the next elections.
Haigh is part of of Labour’s far left and as such she will be convinced only “rich” people live on the Island and as such must be punished. What has the Labour MP Quigley done on this issue (other than supporting taking the winter fuel allowance off poor pensioners)? The answer is nothing.