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To the next election and way beyond until we rid ourselves of the ministerial system, the council of ministers and the cabinet office

but, but we are world leaders in almost everything. Never forget how well to the fore we are in the space race.

Nail absolutely on the head. There is a long, long way to go to meet targets which are way too optimistic

Are we to infer from this that Cannan has no confidence in MHKs (some of whom are members of Comin) and are we also to infer (from the vote) that MHKs and MLCs have little or no confidence in Cannan. Wouldn`t it be interesting for one to propose a vote of no confidence in the other.

Fair comment but shouldn`t Hooper, given the extreme gravity of the situation, been down on this like a ton of bricks immediately and already have the answers/explanations to his queries/comments?. If there is any issue here it needs resolving asap.

I too received notice early this morning by email that my Barclaycard would be withdrawn with effect from 23 June 2023 unless I could provide a UK residential address, which I can`t i.e. I can`t provide a utility bill with a UK address. So I started to investigate alternatives to Barclaycard. At 4.30 this afternoon I received a phone call from Barclays saying I had been identified as a small business owner (I am not) and that I may be interested in another of the Bank`s services. I asked why they were contacting me when, this morning, they had given notice of terminatiion on my Barclaycard facility. The caller said he would speak to his manager who could not provide an explanation. My request to speak to the manager was declined as they could not transfer the call!!! If ever "you could not make it up" was apprporaite this was it. I still have not had the courtesy of an apologetic email from Barclays relating to their earlier email withdrawing the card and my only knowledge of this came via Manx Forums. If Barclays can send out an email to IOM residents withdrawing facilities, why have they not had the decency or the PR nouse to asap send out a correcting email. Has anyone who revceived the withdrawal of card email this morning (i) been identified as a small business owner or (ii) received confirmation from Barclays of their error

Many a true word......

A reserved OK to your last point, but ten of you?

This. And didn`t someone (and no doubt with a sitable entourage) go swanning off to Rwanda recently. Rwanda???

He also says " interestingly this conflict didn`t exist when I was appointed". Could you comment on that?

Lots of bosses??? Manx Care, MHKs, Commissioners, civil servants please note

It seems to me that the Cabinet Office is the complete waste of time. An outdated, vanity project. Whatever did we do before it was created and what has it achieved since and at what cost?

He would appear to be trying to master the art of stating the bloody obvious and hoping the electorate will applaud his reforming zeal.

I cannot recall any recent comment on the current backlogs at Nobles - positive or negative. I finally had a cataract operation after several years on the waiting list and it must be said (speaking as a layman) that the whole procedure was carried out in a thoroughly professional, efficient and user friendly manner. Mr Shafiq and his theatre nurses were exceptional, as were the reception people and the nurses who looked after patients pre-op and post-op. Hopefully inroads are being made into this particular backlog. Whoever recruited this team to Manxcare to tackle this enormous problem are to be congratulated. Perhaps the way forward for Nobles is to co-opt outside professionals when possible?

and wrong and oh so predictable and laughable and just plain daft