Non-Believer

It's better to be in the tent, pissing out...and you can't effect any change when you've exiled and ostracised yourself whilst remaining bound to certain terms and conditions. This period has massively reduced the UK's standing in the international view IMHO. Shown to be a fragmented, divided nation, riven with political and class self-interest incapable of presenting a unified, negotiating front on the most important decision in a generation. Nobody in this world will take the UK seriously again. Unless we send an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea of course It is/has been a watershed. The EU must by now regard UK Govt in the same way as UK Govt regard IoM. A collection of disorganised, backwater, hickey amateurs.

With no soap...

Did they have the DOI in....?

In particular, given how the event is "promoted", the "unlimited" Mountain Road etc. If they're not insured, they shouldn't turn a wheel off the landing ramp. It's a basic legal requirement and common sense.

Speculate to accumulate. It's easy with taxpayer's money.

These new-fangled colour scanner/printer thingies are great for tax discs

I have heard similar from one employed in there. Vetting procedures tightened up, less of the jobs-for-mates-syndrome.

KFC must have been amongst the Island's biggest employers. There were 100s living upstairs...

Is Tarne still banned here?

Free return tickets for the tram from Derby Castle to Groudle. That should really bring them flocking and boost Groudle's credentials as a burgeoning tourist destination. How much does the MER lose per year again?

They didn't call it, "The Dirty War" for nothing.

He allowed the same motion to be brought forward twice and voted on, to be rejected on both occasions. Some might say he was being generous in allowing it twice. He has now called time on it happening a third time. Nothing wrong with that. Simply stopping a waste of parliamentary time.

I'm sure there was a major refurb in 2010 or so, which saw changes to the slides and equipments? There was a Govt statement that said "Believe it or not, the equipment is now 20yrs old" (NSC constructed 1990ish?) and it was well overdue.

#gammonballrun

I think it was some sort of dark skies/light display celebration based in the park. Not sure if it was widely advertised. Central Govt I think too, rather than a Ramsey Commissioners promotion.