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> "The £1.66m project largely was financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund,"

perhaps that explains the desirability of "for show" elements

Eh, that's not too bad considering the alternatives. I like the SMR concept, but sadly it's been very hard to find good cost estimates, the hardest one Akademik Lomonosov (still projected for ~$300M), but it's a barge with a pair of KLT-40, meanwhile mPower's been shuttered, etc…

That is far less then the bonuses received by some individual bankers who only received them because their banks were bailed out by taxpayers, in the EU and elsewhere, which I presume includes some of the inhabitants of Eigg.

I don't see how that's relevant. It's also less than some 1 bed apartments in London, and it's more than 4357 people in the Congo make in a year.

It just seems like agenda pushing.

Why is that revelant?

Because egregious misuses of public funds don't get the attention they deserve.

How does a subsidy of £1.66 million for an investment which serves a whole community compare with a single payment for the personal consumption of an individual who belongs to a group whose acts have resulted in economic depression for the last 10 years?

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