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10 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said:

Someone told me yesterday that someone has already reported it to the same people who investigated this on the grounds of potentially shadowy funding. 

http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/9073/gelling-denies-involvement-with-manx-election-trust

Well it was MF that uncovered that. 

Can you report Josem yet if nominations for the election aren't in? He's not a candidate yet. 

Once he is, O think people will be queuing up.

 

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2 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said:

Was it? I originally read it somewhere else. As I say it’s only a rumour I heard yesterday no idea how true it is. When do nominations have to go in by? I’d have thought they’d mostly be in by now. 

Nomination day isn’t until 25 August. 4 weeks before the election. At the moment candidates are merely declaring until their papers are in and accepted by the Returning Officer.

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21 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said:

Thanks I did read the regulations but they seem to be a bit wooly on date as they just say the 13th Day. Seems a bit pointless of Josem nominating himself given the number of people who already seem to be challenging or proposing to challenge his funding status. Might end up a Turkey who votes for his own Christmas dinner.

Hope this helps. All election time tables count forward from dissolution.

 

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22 hours ago, Barlow said:

Jolly Jon Joughin wasn't so jolly when he was a postie. All those years he was a scowling taciturn grump. Maybe it was just me? 

 

The dinosaur’s dinosaur.

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8 hours ago, quilp said:

Oh the stories I could tell about JJ... :whistling:

If he is successful - and there is no reason why he should not be, none whatsoever. This is the Isle of Man - then it is an odds on bet that he will soon be a Minister and will be senior and more experienced than many if not most of the others elected with him.

That is true, as shown with the previous administration where they had to delve into the newbies to make up the Council of Minsters.

You see, Jono was there before, for a few months, and will have a head start. He knows things about Tynwald that the real new newbies will have to learn. Like where the toilets are, and the canteen. And which seat to sit in, and that.

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On 7/1/2021 at 5:53 PM, Barlow said:

Yeah, he comes across ok. I wish him well. Let's see who else enters the foray.

Shirley you jest..? He’s as thick as mince.

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1 hour ago, Uhtred said:

Shirley you jest..? He’s as thick as mince.

Well after 20 years of being taciturn and scowling, he's spent the last 6 years or so nodding to me and saying hello in the street. And he says thing like "we need to grow the economy". It's as if he's the most wonderful politician there is, and with a talent for economics and that.

1 hour ago, The Central Scrutiniser said:

Was he not "in the huts" at Ballakermeen?

 

Huts or not, at the last election he was just 7 votes behind the once golden boy of Manx Politics Chris Robertshaw. So much for the huts, where doe that put Chris Robertshaw?

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