gazza Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Phil Gawne says keep spending and no cuts are needed for the first few years. sorry is he living in a dream world, or do a lot of people in rushen work for the govenment. http://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_163174.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Login Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Phil Gawne says keep spending and no cuts are needed for the first few years. sorry is he living in a dream world, or do a lot of people in rushen work for the govenment. http://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_163174.html That is not what he says in that clip. H says not cutting to hard in the first couple of years so not putting too many out of work too quickly. It is a fair point to argue. There must be cuts but do you hit hard at day one or do you phase over a few years which is probably better for the economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Phil Gawne says keep spending and no cuts are needed for the first few years. sorry is he living in a dream world, or do a lot of people in rushen work for the govenment. http://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_163174.html That is not what he says in that clip. H says not cutting to hard in the first couple of years so not putting too many out of work too quickly. It is a fair point to argue. There must be cuts but do you hit hard at day one or do you phase over a few years which is probably better for the economy. Some election candidates have called for the Government to tighten its purse strings. But Mr Gawne doesn't think this is the answer so where does that say to do it over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Login Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Some election candidates have called for the Government to tighten its purse strings. But Mr Gawne doesn't think this is the answer so where does that say to do it over time. It does not but the above is what the Energy report states. It is not what Gawne says in the clip. Now either the report is not wholly correct or he did state what the report says but they have attached the wrong clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wake Up Call Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Be careful of the media in this campaign. I have listened the the Manx Radio broadcast from the Erin Arts Centre and I suspect that some of the questions and answers have been cut out. From memory, they were interesting and relevant. I do wonder about these things sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxman16 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 I see that David Jones, an engineer from Lonan, is standing as a Liberal Vannin candidate in Rushen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groudleho Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I see that David Jones, an engineer from Lonan, is standing as a Liberal Vannin candidate in Rushen... Escaped from his locker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I see that David Jones, an engineer from Lonan, is standing as a Liberal Vannin candidate in Rushen... Escaped from his locker? No, he is only 'monkeying around' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxmaid2000 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 The six general election candidates in Rushen will face each other, and the electorate, at a requisition meeting on Tuesday, 20th September: Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxmaid2000 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 7pm tonight at Rushen Primary School. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trueblood Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 There's another one on Thursday at Ballabeg parish hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 At Rushen Requisition meeting. Manx Radio broadcast wrong time so audience all here for 7 candidates not here until 7:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 That was a long evening. Subjects - vat, cuts, how to increase revenue, reduce number of mhk's, scope of Government, flouride and whether the tax cap on hnw is creating a two tier tax system. Orme was eloquent but said little of substance. Dropped a clanger when he misinterpretted the VAT revenues. Which Juan W pointed out. Jones the LVP candidate was out of his depth. Didn't seem to know LVP policy very well. The other 4 were better. Skelly was consistently strong, not dwelling on the past but coming across as positive. Gawne spoke well and presented his record convincingly, took a few hits due to his connection to the last govt. With him it boils down to whether you accept his contention that it is "better to be inside arguing your case, than outside arguing the toss" Juan spoke very well at times, and made some of the best points, but tailed off towards the end. Gill began weakly but generally held his own. Not a bad candidate, and not a bad mhk but will probably be the one to miss out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not the Comfy Chair Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I agree, Dec. I share your view that Gill got better as the night progressed, whereas I thought that Skelly lacked clarity later on. But a good night, and 4 or 5 of the candidates showed themselves to be better than all those available in a lot of the other constituencies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Orme would have probably got my vote before tonight but lost it when he said that he was in favour of redundancies within the gov structure (I work on the trains, albeit in a seasonal capacity so it wouldn't affect me but I work with the fulltime guys and know how they feel with the uncertainty.) Skelly was good I thought. Lib-Van, sod the user agreement lets build a deep-water berth, doesnt work with me, private money or not. Phil Gawne says that the Island gets 10-15% more vat per head of pop. than the U.K. but then doesn't expect the U.k to come back for more. Maybe, maybe not and the round-about got me thinking. Gill came across a lot better than I expected and I didnt disagree with anything he said. Watterson spot on all night. Although I have said what I said about Dr.Orme, there did seem to be a lot of support at the end for him and it would't surprise me if he got in at Gills expense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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