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Sunday ferries will make waves in Isles poll
Some people on the Isle of Lewis may have an awkward choice to make between sex and Sunday sailing when voting at the next general election.The new Labour candidate for the Western Isles seat at Westminster is Donald John MacSween, an outspoken advocate of an unpopular proposal for a ferry service on the Sabbath between Lewis and the mainland. His opponent, the SNP incumbent Angus MacNeil, is the MP who was forced to apologise for an indiscretion with two teenage girls in a Shetland hotel room in 2005.
Many on Lewis have no truck with sexual misdemeanours, but are also staunchly resistant to Sunday ferry services, and a petition organised by the Lord's Day Observance Society (LDOS) against the seven-day sailings has been signed by 3800 residents.
But MacSween, a member of the Western Isles Council and vice-chairman of the transport committee, has already said he hoped his views would not damage his chances.
Full story at the Sunday Herald.
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