Uhtred

I’ll say it - snobbery or not; these people are ignoramuses. They’re stupid. They don’t know the meaning or context of the words they use. ‘Hyper-bowl’… ‘fraudulent slip’…’exasperated’ when he meant ‘exacerbated’. People like the Voice of Reason (yes, the same person who considers the Cosy Nook to be a ‘beautiful building’) seem to believe that these are incidental matters and that we are unkind to point them out. They fundamentally are not incidental. They reveal the incapacity of our ‘leaders’; the depth of their ignorance, the failure of their communication. They embarrass us all with their pontificating foolishness - Ashford and his ‘expertise’ in respect of pandemic matters conveyed to PAC. They need to be swept away.

Bearing in mind that the Chief Secretary, as head of the civil service, earns about £150K I doubt that those salaries relate to ‘civil servants’. Public service, no doubt. Most likely medical consultants who are consistently the highest earners on the public payroll.

Indeed he is if your interest is engaging in projectile vomiting.

Black or any other civil servant shouldn’t have ‘an agenda’. They are there to give effect to government policy. CEOs should be seen and not heard.

A good observation Roger - Ashford is just as empty a vessel as his mentor and role model Quayle. He’s simply more adept at obscuring that - not actually adept per se.

It’s difficult to equate my remarks to the description ‘impossibly rude’. Blunt perhaps, but not impossibly rude. By the same token I could describe your observation as ‘impossibly obtuse’ as no reasoned assessment of the Cosy Nook could ever conceive of it being ‘a beautiful building’ (though possibly it is for someone who has spent a lifetime in an Afghan cave). And building aesthetics are not trivial - you certainly didn’t think so when applying your ‘beautiful’ designation.

Even with your propensity for posting aberrant statements that one is a cracker. It is not a beautiful building. It’s a clapped out, conventional, much messed with, pile of Manx cottage-esque ordure. I grant you it is in character with the other elements of Port Erin that satisfy such description. If, when you observe that structure, you do actually see a beautiful building, confirm that fact here and I’ll post the address of Specsavers.

Correct. Organisational culture starts at the top. There is no more palpable dismissive, arrogant, egotistical (and misogynistic) approach than that of Quayle. Other Ministers simply follow suit. And of course, like Quayle, they are actually empty vessels, devoid of all but their bluster.

Exactly. And whereas I’m sure your question was rhetorical, I’ll answer it anyway; it has never been, nor ever will be, a building of note.

Existing doesn’t always equate to acceptable.

Well it certainly does with me. It was the act of imbeciles to register the heap of irredeemable crap in the first place.

Which members do you foresee in that cull?

I’m sure he could design his own elaborate stage costume. Don’t forget, the flowery nonsense worn by ‘Mr. President’ was only devised in 1990 and has no historical heritage whatsoever. I think the CM garb would best be an orange gimp suit with emerald green tricorn hat.

Absolutely correct. Your description is bang on. I think MC was suggested by Jonathan Michael. Tynwald was foolish in the extreme to accept it.

I’ve discussed that prospect with friends. The consensus seems to be that he’d fancy it but wouldn’t get it. However, politics is a funny old game.

There will have been six more global pandemics of novel viruses by then.

And it should say ‘Show fewer flights’ on the flights option tab, not fucking ‘Show less flights’.

Indeed. Watterson is in many ways the only suitable candidate for Speaker which would make it interesting if he didn’t seek to retain it! As to your second point, the rejection of Cregeen would almost, I say almost, be on a par with the joyful departure of Quayle. Sadly, I don’t see it - I fear the clearly undiscerning voters of Castletown, Arbory and Malew will repeat their previous grievous errors and return him.

He represents Brian Kelly.

Watterson will be re-elected. It’ll be interesting to see if he aims to retrieve the Speaker’s wig and tights or whether he chooses to seek Ministerial rank again. (Of course failing in the former doesn’t preclude the latter, but his preference will be interesting).

As you see, I didn’t.

Nice one. If that woman is magnetic she can have ‘A gift from the Isle of Man’ tattooed on her forehead and spend the rest of her days on a fridge door. Perfect.

Were that to happen it would be excellent. The transport links from LCY to both central London and other areas are very good. I regret the loss of LCY and its return would be excellent. EasyJet’s ‘when it suits us’ LGW service is poor. (And can be very pricey).

Absolutely correct.

Statistically I guess it had to happen…I agree with you. They’d have been vilified if they’d declined the invitation. I can’t comment as to how they (the Ministers) behaved/their competence at the event itself as I haven’t seen the video, but they were up against it if they were faced with nut jobs who believe that they’ve become magnetic as a consequence of the vaccine. I always thought that the PAG was a somewhat drab and tedious collection of dull worthies. It appears that some of them, or their adherents, are in fact unhinged.