IT is fair to say that Scotland’s ferry network has been a bit of a mixed bag in recent years, with the service as reliable as a calm day on the Minch.

The much publicised delays in delivering two new ferries for Arran has heaped intolerable pressure on an already decrepit fleet that has frequently left islanders high and dry.

Well, given that it’s the west coast of Scotland, nobody is ever left dry but you get the drift.

But it seems that the nightmare may finally be about to end thanks in no small part to a change in government.

Not the one you may think either given the general hullabaloo and fanfare surrounding Sir Keir Starmer’s election to Downing Street.

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