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Could we sue Boot and Perkins for claiming to be 'politicians' when they were actually a pair of shithouses?

If Boot gets any of my tax money from this I'll shit on his lawn.

Turning these statistics into a them & us table is puerile and childish. Typical of today's policing attitude. They should be ashamed of themselves.

well see if you can stick your nose in and unconfuse us all as to why we hired the muppet to begin with and paid him to do fuck all.

So for two weeks a year you can't figure out how to get home without breaking speed limits?

Why not ask the population of the Isle of Man for what they think. Ohhh wait they have already spoken . Cheeky low lifes . There lucky they are still able to live here. What did they do for the money they already received under false pretenses .And Boot needs to go back where he came from. Leech !!!

I heard that on the news tonight too. The first time he said it I thought it was a slip of the tongue. But he repeated it. I have never heard anybody pronounce brooch like that before, ever. It’s pronounced ‘broach’

I love it, it's what the square should be like.

I assume you're being sarcastic as we're talking about IOMG HR here. As I pointed out at the time, any internet research would have raised some questions about his experience, but it wouldn't be the first time that they had missed obvious signs. Presumably they were as dazzled by him being 'Him off the telly' as they were by Charters' Harley.

Adolph Finn?

That's hardly misrepresentation.

Boot's 69 and Perkins 66/7 so they are of pensionable age. I imagine the claim will be that they didn't get the parachute payment other ejected MHKs get, but went straight onto the MHK pension scheme. I wonder how they voted on Tynwald members pensions and benefits when in the house.

The millionaire Boot proving himself to be the greedy bastard we already knew he was.

yes, he had a face for radio.

If you ever wanted to turn the local population against you.... then that's the way to do it. And they wonder why some people have such low regard for them.

Just saying local people have added stresses and time constraints on them which those on holiday don’t have.

Just when you thought these self entitled, pity me sewer dwellers couldn't sink much lower they pop up to prove us wrong.

the section of the scheme was introduced to provide a younger keys member with a family and below retirement age a mechanism to receive 6 months salary if they were to loose their seat at the general election , it was to provide a financial parachute , in effect to enable them to find another job or source of income , I don't think those over retirement age or in receipt of a state pension are entitled to claim under the terms of the scheme prior to this scheme a keys member had to serve 2 full terms (10 years ) before qualifying for a pension ,

Long time ago….

Fair play to the chap for putting on all the bands, I really do hope it works out for him and it’s not a one off.

I agree with you to be honest. But I think he's fed up. It's widely known Will was grooming him for Chief Sec and an already disgruntled Lewin has now had his nose disjointed even further I think. Time will tell on this one. He'd add lots of value to someone else in the private sector I'm sure.

I think you'll find that's worserer!

Local and like it.

Never heard it referred to in that terminology before.... 😂

Is it easier to bust and charge locals than the tourists?

But what about Nazi Dolphins?

Surely, "Hitler Bad, Dolphins Good" is Woke Studies 101.

Well metaphorically he’s already shit on ours.

100% agree that it should be investigated and any possibility of fraud and corruption should be looked at. I just think the scale of incompetence within DOI is not fully recognised.

You know, I always value what you bring to the table Watson.

Older than that mate. I'd say any Gen X-er, so born after 1965, will have only learned metric at school. The problem was all the adults around us spoke in Imperial. So if I have to measure something I'll use metric,but I have a secondary fuzzy set of measurements for abstract stuff. "It's about a mile ...", "It's a few feet that way", "I need to lose a stone", "I'd like a quarter ounce please" but I can never remember how many ounces make a stone, or yards make up a mile. I do know I mile is about 1600 metres though.

I'll just leave this post here, to refer back to, but I suppose only the Steam Packet know for sure right now. There seems to be more people who stay for longer, doing the staycation thing. I still reckon it is busier now than at any other Practice Week Monday past couple of decades. Happy to eat humble pie if I am shown to be wrong, but I doubt I will be. For now I'll just poke @bandits in the ribs.

If you are right, then there really is change afoot. Like any cultural change, it won't happen overnight and, I suppose, you would expect some temporary postings to get the momentum going. The main thing is that the change encompasses every level, and that support is given to those further down the pecking order. There are many good people in the CS, let's hope they get what they need to feel valued, heard and part of a functional organisation.

Perhaps I am wrong, but I thought a brooch, as in the one given to HM, is pronounced like "broach" and not given the "oo" sound. Is it such an unusual article that the word causes a pronunciation stumble by our MR newsreaders?

As I see it an important factor in the social housing sector is the mix of stock. With an ever increasing aging population much more in the way of small one or two-bed units should be available. Right now I wouldn't mind betting that there are a quite a few single people needlessly occupying 3 bed family housing. The units for the older generation don't necessarily have to be in sheltered accommodation as many will be very capable of living an independent lifestyle. I haven't read through all of the policy document but can you confirm that this situation will be addressed, Chris?

I think it's mainly the butcher that hates it.

Confidence tricksters the lot of them.

MHKs are effectively 'self employed' so they would not be entitled to redundancy payments whatever age. Insurance cover maybe but with the temporary nature of their job that might be at some premium! Because they are elected and the electorate have the right to reject them, it's dubious that there should be any compensation for becoming unpopular? A self employed person losing their job or the ability to carry on with it, would not have any compensation because any such payment would have to come from their self! Those MHKs who are of working age should really have to find another job just as anyone else being fired would have to?

I get the rationale, but what if they don't want to take pensions at 60? Can they have it then? And if an ousted MHK younger than 60 gets another job within a week of being booted out do they have to pay it back? I think it needs re-thinking.

Because they would be able to claim their Tynwald pension. The point is to tide over a working age person until they've found new work NOT give someone a second taxpayer funded income.

I may have missed something, but do we already know that the documents in question were forged? I thought that so far the Tribunal had only identified certain "inconsistencies" in some documents like meeting minutes etc. and that they were yet to conduct an investigation into the documents disclosed by DHSC?

The zebra crossing outside the Sefton is really badly designed. Cars can park right next to it, and they block the drivers’ view of any pedestrians waiting to cross. Well done to everyone involved.

See what happens whenyou let the bikers park on the pavement. Next thing you know they're defacing our dolphins with their ideology.

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What, sue Perkins?

OK, thanks. The spread and dynamic seems different this year. Steam Packet business relies on bookings. I have become used to people trying to book for the just the middle weekend. Bucket list tickers sort of thing. They are ok but to have rooms available for two weeks only to prepare for a few days was becoming a pain. If we were lucky we could get two lots in. This year there have been more enquiries for the full two weeks (16 days). That is great for us and the Island. It only represents one return Steam Packet trip though.

Yes both useless twats who got 5 years of taxpayers money. Boot is a self entitled freeloader. He owns a couple of hundred houses in the UK. But still thinks he can stitch the Manx taxpayer up for a few extra quid. He’s nothing more than a greedy self entitled wind-bag.

Not sure but they're stopped at a red light so they're already an improvement on our home-grown lycrazies

In those days, the fares were consistent, covered baggage and the flights had a reliable timetable. I lived in the "deep south" then and, TBH, the cost was not prohibitive because I only planned to come home perhaps once or twice a year. Times and expectations have changed, I suppose.