Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
A fair question though.

Broadly speaking the organisers neglected to include the locals in the party and after the event when the loss making accounts were produced it was the local contractors etc.,who did not get paid for the services that they provided and Scots taxpayers ended up with the bill to boot.
The authorities who sanction the Clan Gathering 2014 should require the organizers to be bonded. This will obviate the need for local contractors to worry about getting completely stiffed. Hopefully, they learned their lesson from the 2009 games.