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You are putting 2 and 2 together and definitely making 4. It's the father of our Deputy Chief Minister.... who happens to be an advocate by training, so no doubt will have a good legal team.

A quick search of X shows that his followers are reporting that he was liberated of his J4J T-Shirt by force this week due to it's "political" nature.

They'll be for David Ashford's girlfriend. It only takes a few minutes to look through her X account to realise that a friendly female undercover firearms officer is going to "befriend" her from behind the barriers to ensure she's kept an eye on and as far away from Camilla as possible https://twitter.com/KittySaysWhat19/with_replies

Strategy. Reports. More strategies. Honestly, it really needs someone to scrutinise the ACTIONS of the current bunch of MHKs. I'd say "current COMIN" but we all know that the back-bench MHKs sitting on Departments are whipped as much as the "collective responsibility" MHKs of COMIN. Perhaps this is where the MLC's should be taking up the baton? Scrutiny is supposed to be their thing, except they're too busy being friends with the MHKs to do anything...

Surprised that Robinsons haven't started importing bread from the UK, re-packaging it in Braddan in a Robinsons plastic wrapper and started to sell it as "local bread". It's what they've been doing with fruit and veg for years while claiming "local produce". You only have to have half an eye open to see the country of origin of almost all Robinsons produce is not the Isle of Man.

That would be the indication. If Cannan is daft enough to cut his premiership short in that way and lose all respectability then it'll probably be Ashford for the Starship. There's no way he could go back to the DHSC after his partnership with Kathryn Magson, post-Ranson tribunal. He was a key player in the treatment of Ranson, desperately trying to deny his involvement under oath, so the medics would never allow him back without a revolt, and we're critically short of medics already. If Ashford were appointed to the Starship, one wonders how the business community would react. So many companies producing significant tax revenue for the Treasury are already making sure they're solvent enough to not need the "Government Pound" to ensure they avoid the millstone around their necks (i.e. Comin taking credit for their business) in the coming recession years. Are we looking at a significant reshuffle? All ministers on the move to save minor MHK reputations? Which ministers would we see moving to other departments?

The word on the MHK street is that most of the backbenchers have concluded that Ashford is stupid. In a "stupid is as stupid does" Forest Gump kind of way. If he ever makes it back into CoMIN then it signals that the current CoMIN MHKs won't be re-elected in a couple of years. Cannan would be utterly stupid to put him back in.