LISTEN to you all, all those with tourist businesses, land, money, begging the tourists to come and buy £20 candles, fish ‘n’ chips for £9. “Come tourists from all parts of the world, come to Skye and do as you please, your wish is our command, the island is yours, just leave all your money when you go.” You have a taste for it and now you need more, more, more.
The island I have lived on for 40 years is in ruin and you seek more public money to make it worse. ‘Feed our addiction, we have land, accommodation, grotesquely priced food, we need your MONEY!”
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Local people, lack of places for them to live? Oh, knock up more housing estates (with their inherent problems) and put them there. Socio-economic division? “Sorry, we don’t understand that, we have money and land.”
Please, just stop, stop whoring out the Isle of Skye. You make yourselves look stupid and you make the humans who remember Skye as it was 40 years ago deeply depressed. Sad, greedy, unnecessary.
David Barnes
Isle of Skye
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