IOMRS97 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Perhaps not such a good idea to allow foliage to obscure traffic signs as is happening in some areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Leonard Singer, the MHK with responsibility for highways in the department, said: ‘We have to recognise that there is simply less money available for some services and the department has faced tough choices in prioritising its expenditure. Source: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/cuts-mean-a-cut-in-cuts-1-5808070 It seems everything is being cut except for the one thing which would really make a difference --- their salaries. In the last few weeks, blue collar public sector workers have been asked by Whitley Council to vote anonymously between the following options: A) no pay rise and no threat of redundancies; or B) a pay rise but threat of possible redundancies. I don't understand how they can promise to not have redundancies if people vote against a pay rise. When will the white collar workers have to make the same choice? If you're not going to cut their salaries, at least put a stop to the percentage pay rises. Hoorah!! Another person who sees the issues with percentage pay rises. The bigger salaries attract the larger increases and the poor get fack all in comparison with an increasing gap between the two year after year. Just make house owners/users responsible for their own hedges and footpaths and add another stealth tax on those who don't or something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fergie Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Perhaps not such a good idea to allow foliage to obscure traffic signs as is happening in some areas. It never used to be the farmer's responsibility, the old highway board used to have a gang working with an open top bus trimming trees & hedgerows. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Bookbloke wrote it "Work parties. Prison. See the connection?" I agree with work parties, they happen all the time in England Why should they watch television, go to the gymnasium, get three meals a day, play on their playstations whilst everyone else is working their backsides off to make a living. I thought the DOI were looking to take on prisoners to help them out in these areas? What's happened? I've been told that the unions got involved and stopped it - can anyone confirm that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossils Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 The DoI are no longer cutting hedges. The DoI are no longer applying tar and chippings. Doesn't that leave them with nothing to do but drink tea? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxbutcher Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Perhaps not such a good idea to allow foliage to obscure traffic signs as is happening in some areas. It never used to be the farmer's responsibility, the old highway board used to have a gang working with an open top bustrimming trees & hedgerows. That would have been before the countryside care scheme though? Before farmers were paid to keep the countryside tidy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Burgandy Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I think Onchan Commissioners have joined in by giving up grass cutting in some of the parks. The grass in the park in Lakeside Gardens is over a foot high and rising at the moment. I don't even let my garden get that bad and I'm a lazy bastard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaipyr Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Spraying's worse than trimming environmentally - cheaper, but not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Some of the hedges out west are so badly overgrown you can't walk on the footpath. Not good when there's no speed limit on the road you end up walking on. Dangerous? I think so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Something I have to ask, even though I think I know the answer anyway - Should the councils cut the grass verges/ sidewalks/ lanes etc or should they be left alone to save tax payers money? Yes to cut No to leave alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Cutting back on cutting back Why isn't government being pared back to doing those things that can't be done by someone else, and the rest put out to social/community enterprises? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkle Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Leonard Singer, the MHK with responsibility for highways in the department, said: ‘We have to recognise that there is simply less money available for some services and the department has faced tough choices in prioritising its expenditure. Source: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/cuts-mean-a-cut-in-cuts-1-5808070 It seems everything is being cut except for the one thing which would really make a difference --- their salaries. In the last few weeks, blue collar public sector workers have been asked by Whitley Council to vote anonymously between the following options: A) no pay rise and no threat of redundancies; or B) a pay rise but threat of possible redundancies. I don't understand how they can promise to not have redundancies if people vote against a pay rise. When will the white collar workers have to make the same choice? If you're not going to cut their salaries, at least put a stop to the percentage pay rises. do you mean this,even this commie rag understands! no more free meals http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/26/public-sector-workers-lose-automatic-pay-rise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) do you mean this,even this commie rag understands! no more free meals http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/26/public-sector-workers-lose-automatic-pay-rise It's funny you should say "commie", because I feel that is exactly the sort of system we have in the Isle of Man. On the one hand, you've got the private sector bringing in all the revenue, but then you've got this humongous bureaucracy of communist overlord commissars who redistribute the revenue into their own pockets and rule over us. Edited June 30, 2013 by Thomas Jefferson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 The CoMin Commissars, moving us to a fascist state with this enforced work for benefits lark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Bawden Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Something I have to ask, even though I think I know the answer anyway - Should the councils cut the grass verges/ sidewalks/ lanes etc or should they be left alone to save tax payers money? Yes to cut No to leave alone Does Cliff conduct too many surveys? No - For No Yes - For yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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