I fully support Mr Gawne's comments above, why should the government use tax payers money to bail out a private company.

If the steam packet hadnt been so greedy in the first place there wouldnt have been any trade for Mezeron to pick up, but steam packet's overinflated freight costs made it viable for another operator to come in and do the same job for a lower cost and still make a profit.

Just what a union official thinks he will achieve by barking at the government over the steam packet's grievance is questionable? it's nothing to do with the government as Phil Gawne has clearly stated.