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As soon as Government became involved it was always going to go to hell ! I can't think of one thing Governments become involved in, which becomes more efficient and cheaper for consumers.

I agree, what can you expect from a taxpayers investment of what 300 million quid !

I can certainly say that going out wednesday after TT and coming back a month later is eye watering ! Over £700.00 quid. Car and two.

Hooper and Social media is great, people think he's a tool and lo he proves it time after time ! He cannot resist comment, perhaps he should get on with sorting out his day job, the shambolic health service !

I thought we already had ! LOL.

News to me we've actually got a policy, just seems to be one crisis after another with reactionary Government.

This shouldn't even be cause for debate. No woman should ever be embarrassed through poverty, and no schoolgirl for the reasons Rachomics set out.A normal small jurisdiction ( i.e. one that wasn't skint through profligacy and incompetence ) should be able to fund such a scheme without batting an eyelid. How it was targeted should be the debate, not whether it is right ! Maybe Joney could get a supermarket chain to assist.

If like other advisors or NED posts they'll have to be ones they like, not ones who tell them what they don't want to hear !

It looked run down then, it just looks worse now !

Probably doable at usual IOM Gov speeds !

I see in the timeline that planning seems to be a done deal whereas other things can take years of wrangling ! The whole project has a smell about it, and I don't refer in that to any environmental or planetary concerns of which I share many.

No idea, but the argument was about how busy Douglas Road was and how to sort traffic at the Whitestone. We sorted it with 400 houses and a half assed bypass.

Well the problems that morning were certainly the amount of traffic coming from what I imagine is Ballabeg, Colby and maybe even Port Erin, via the Poachers Pocket. If the bypass was truly meant to bypass the village then it won't work. What it did bypass was the intellect of the local MHK and the foresight to see the effects of 400 houses ! Apologies, just realised I used the word intellect to describe the cerebral state of the said MHK at the time !

Ahh but the plan is to dig a trench on the rotational arc !

This morning for the first time in a long time, I was in the rush hour traffic at about 0840 at the Whitestone roundabout going towards Douglas. There was a large amount of traffic coming from the direction of the Old Bakery shop and turning left up Douglas Road, the traffic was moving fine but was nose to tail all the way up Douglas Road. What I still don't get is how they are going to persuade people not to turn left up Douglas Road, but to drive on towards Balthane to join the bypass, to end up at the same point at the top of the bypass as the left turn ! Still seems a nonsense to me. However it did get 400 houses built to make someone huge profits !

Two lane was correct then, some kind of fantasy !

It is now a massive legal department costing god knows how much. Less bureaucracy less lawyers needed, we are drowning in red tape and stupid rules. Absolutely true story, I had to get an approval for something we do, and met an older guy on site from a Government department , clearly with a sense of humour, who introduced himself as being from the department of petty bureaucracy ! Even he could see the stupidity of what we had to do.

Perhaps the takeaway from the meetings for me was ,' if we were governing properly in the light of day, these meetings would not be necessary' !

I'm led to believe there is a root cause, people know what it is !

I was actually thinking more of the Shawshank Redemption with the meeting, only there was more tunnelling through shit and less chance of redemption !

Perfect ! HIAL fucked that up in Scotland and wasted long millions for nothing !, They need to crack on with it here ! Cobb could appear at another enquiry !

Sadly Juan was bulleted because he dared to have his own opinion, whether you agree with him or not, getting the bullet for daring to have an independent opinion is typical of where we were and are !

He certainly won't stay and work in that atmosphere !

The takeaway from my recollection seems to be, as the people who pick up the tab, we are fed up with incompetence , mismanagement, profligacy and inaction ! That should do for a start Alf !

Nah, that was just pure profligacy !