Rushen Spy

Never mind. I'm incorrect.

Wow, somebody got up out of the wrong side of bed this morning. The "subjective bit" can mean you're not eligible for specific benefits, or the ones you are eligible may be significantly reduced to the point that the assistance is not adequate. The appeal process is not guaranteed to go your way and it is not going to help with immediate financial needs. Even during normal times, you'd be waiting some time. I imagine they'll now have an influx of cases and there will be limitation due to the current circumstances. No, by non-payment I did not mean class 2 self-employed. Self-employed people will already be familiar with NI requirements that relate to them specifically. I meant people who are normally employed, normally have ITIP and NI automatically deducted by their employer, and are now unemployed and living on savings. That is a different situation. However, even with class 2, it can be complicated by numerous factors at this exact moment in time due to individual circumstances. All I am saying is, people currently out of work should be mindful about NI payments.

As commendable as that is, I'd be careful when it comes to national insurance contributions. If you're not still paying NI and you find things go on for too long and eventually do end up needing financial support from the government, you may find (ironically) that the non-payment of NI will be factored against eligibility. That may not be relevant to your own situation but generally-speaking it goes for anybody in the position of not having an income and opting to live on savings instead of support from government -- they should be mindful of that. I think they go by contributions in the last year or so and it makes no difference if you had previously been paying NI without stop for decades, which is rather strange. I wonder if anybody has successfully appealed that and obtained support based on historical contributions?

Could Rob please stop using that bright red picture of a virus in so many posts. It is starting to give me anxiety whenever I see it and I am sure there are many others who are getting distressed by it. What is the relevance or need for it beyond screen clickbait?

Funny you should mention rates. That explains why some chap was on Facebook praising Douglas Corporation for being the only "authority" to contact him to see if he was okay. I knew there would be a catch and they were after something.

Revolution.

I would go a step further and abolish the whole Department of Education, Sport and Culture.

OK boomer.

Indeed. Thank you for bringing us back to the actual subject of this thread. Those of us with an understanding of how the IOM works might be forgiven for thinking there was a deliberate effort by bootlickers such as "Donald Trumps" and other such sycophants and fantasists to try to bury any coverage of Rob Callister's failures.

I think the point is that when you factor in "identity politics" you find that there are some people who will be disproportionately represented in terms of political engagement and therefore with answering surveys from Big Brother....uh...the IOM Government.

So we can assume the real figure is probably about 2%. I'm not making a point.

What percentage of the IOM population is gay?

I'd actually love to see James voted as MHK for Onchan just for the sheer entertainment value. Rob is pretty dull.

Where they are further indoctrinated to either be the future ruling class or the future sycophantic defenders. The latter is where the whole "opening it up to the peasants" thing comes into play.

Nothing you wrote refutes what I wrote. In fact, you are a poster child for the type of sycophantic defender of the ruling class they turn those children into.