Anthony Ingham

No. 6400 dwelling by 2041 is 376 a year, which is less than we built every year for the first ten years of this century.

You do know that money would just need to be found from another means, that we all pay for or services would need to be cut?

Really? Ok. One is historic, unique premises on th island that provides a much needed home for the arts and large events that bring pleasure to thousands. By nature, it has very high running costs and will never turn a profit due to our small population but is a great asset to the island for many, many reasons. The other is one of hundreds of hospitality businesses, probably in a generic building which most people have never been to and which nobody would care if it closed because there are loads of better ones within a few miles anyway. One deserves government support as it’s unique and a needed asset. The other doesn’t because we have hundreds of them and it’s badly run and won’t be missed. There might be typos. Get over it

Grow up. Are you short of somethyng to do this evening?

They would close it if they could but there would be uproar from the public. Are you seriously comparing the Villa Gaitey complex to a badly run cafe or pub?

Any need? It was some sort of autocorrect thing and makes no difference to anyone’s understanding of the post.

Do you think the drugs on island mainly come on passenger vehicles on the Steam Paclet?

Nobody will know about that on here. On Manxforums, £23 for a branded merchandised T shirt is expensive 😂

What are you comparing to to get 75 percent mark up on a soft drink? What do you think a can of coke served in a pub should cost if it’s £1 in Tesco?

Barbary then I am sure most people were able to work out what was meant, especially as it was in response to a specific question 🙄

In which case, he needs to go to specsavers.

He hasn’t travelled much then?

The friendly and welcoming locals?

The gaitey is hardly ever available to rent. What would they reduce the rates when it’s pretty much booked solid?

What would I suggest Barberry and quids do? Well, if Barberry are actuality struggling maybe they should halt the expansion plans (three in just over a year is a lot of new venues) but I doubt they are, or they wouldn’t be expanding. Quids inn? Look at the whole model. It was great 25 years ago but is of its time. Make prices more realistic and make the place somewhere people want to go for a reason other than it being cheap if cheap doesn’t make a profit.

I do work with a few businesses who are turning a loss at the moment. They are changing their products and business models to adapt. If they were expecting government to step in and help them they would be waiting a long time, and people would quite rightly say they were looking for a subsidy or a handout.

Hardly a shock is it? Two very expensive to staff and maintain venues, which are massive overkill for our small population run at a loss. Of course they do, and that will never change. They were built when the island was full of tourists and other entertainment options were much more limited. There are two options. Accept that running both (or even one) is always going to generate a loss, or close them and let them rot. Suggestions of keeping them open and not needing a significant cash input each year are just nonsense.

£23 for official branded merchandise is CHEAP. I hope you don’t have kids who want football kits, or any other type of branded stuff.

Not a firm closing, but one that opened, closed and is now popping up again for a couple of days. Yellow Helicopters I wonder how much interest they will get?

You think they should have got electric vehicles for DOI and blue light services? Wow

The whole conversation started when you disputed that public chrgers reach the end of their useful life before they break. You have then gone on to confirm they do

But your whole point has been that the chargers and battery tech can’t advance much more without us hitting bottlenecks in distribution, yet you accept it’s changed beyond all recognition in recent years without any major infrastructure investment. You’ve lost me I am afraid. If battery tech continues to improve, then the issues you are talking about disappear but the chargers people use will have to keep being resolved to keep up.

So let’s turn this on the head. With your knowledge and understanding of chargers and electric vehicles twenty years ago, would you have ever thought it possible that people could buy a car in 2024 that would outperform the super cars of the time, do hundreds of miles on a charge and be plugged in and charged at their home or place of work? The laws of physics haven’t changed in that time. Surely you can see that a charger from ten years ago in the home of someone who has had a new EV every three years for the last decade is useless to them despite the fact that it still technically works?

Like I said. Lots of work being done to make the processes more efficient and viable for large scale use, and production hydrogen vehicles have been around for a number of years. https://mag.toyota.co.uk/toyota-woven-city-hydrogen-power/ To just rule it out when so much development is being done and when technology move so quickly seems silly to me. Personally I just can’t see the future being cars that need to be plugged into a power grid when there will undoubtedly be better options around.

There are a number of ways already, and there are a lot of people much smarter than you and I doing a lot of work to make sure the tech evolves over the coming years to become more viable.