Manx Bean

Let’s be frank. It was a shit show befitting the Isle of Man Government. It was also a public demonstration of utter apathy, especially when you consider that “100 people” (Government and it’s public broadcasting mouthpiece always round up) is in fact approximately 1% of the electorate within the constituencies it was covering. A one-legged arse kicking competition at the annual Cronk-Y-Voddy games would get a better turn out.

Wrongly reported? Fancy that!

Exactly..by the time you added in all the extra security costs including lumps of concrete on Prospect Hill..I expect £50k was more likely the figure..

It’s outrageous. My disposable income has been hammered as a resident of this..in the last two weeks alone I’ve moved my mortgage, bought a fedora hat, ordered a years supply of vitamin supplements for my cat, and bought a toilet for an African village. I’m almost fecking skint!

Thank fuck they’re not filming Britain’s Greatest Little Prison whilst that spanner is inside!

Anyone else noticed of late that Isle of Man Newspapers publish articles on social media that are purely and literally a headline..with no content when you click on it? And I mean, none.

In answer to the original question..no. The reality is that it is the senior civil servants who run the Island, not politicians. Whilst most politicians come into politics with good intentions, many are quickly thwarted by civil servants giving them a raft of spurious reasons why something isn’t a good idea, or they make all the right brown nose noises, but then do everything in their power to move their idea along at a glacial pace. The only successful politicians are those whose intelligence, determination and whit is greater than the civil servants they are trying to work with to progress their idea..and such a beast is very few and far between. To be honest, if all MHKs went off sick for 6 months nobody would notice and the wheels would keep turning. Its my strong opinion that we only need 10 MHKs, paid very well so as to attract really strong candidates. As for Alf, he does seem to be hanging on by his fingernails..to be honest, who’d want his job. Howard just about got away with it using the “fake it until you make it” mantra and the fact a fair chunk of his tour of duty was in COVID when nothing else mattered anyway saw him through, but Alf seems to be running out of road.

Let’s be realistic. In order to enforce this and potentially prosecute someone the Information Commissioner would need first to have grounds to suspect that your camera was recording images beyond your own boundary. Then they would need to obtain a warrant to enter your property and seize footage. I hardly think they are going to suddenly put together a hit squad tackling everyone with a Ringo door bell…to use one of their pet phrases, it wouldn’t be “proportionate ”.. Hang on though..this is the Isle of Man..where you can..(be a C&nt).

Ditto. In the end I opened an account with Santander. They weren’t really much quicker to be honest, and the mobile banking app is shocking.

An ego trip entirely in the wrong place. I suggest he sticks it in his back garden.

To me it shows two things to be true. Government departments along with Treasury are incapable of forecasting their expenditure beyond more than a finger in the air - all the more frightening when it is a poorly kept secret that departments always try to over-egg their needs anyway - and secondly, senior management within the Civil Service and their respective Ministers and political members are shamelessly incompetent. No matter how the Treasury Minister is trying to mitigate the seriousness, the bottom line is that it is an utter shit show.

Please let’s not waste another penny on these. The cost of reinstating the tracks will never be recouped. The propensity for DOI to totally f*ck things up is already more than proven, so please no more tax payers money…

I sit corrected. Anyway, I intend to be cremated and go out with adding what I can to my carbon footprint.

I’ve never stepped foot in my local church, nor intend to. Yet, I still pay £x per annum in my rates for it’s upkeep. Suck it up kids.

I’ve read of any such award in Jersey or Guernsey..so more than like some trumped up wooden spoon.