paswt Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Perhaps we will never know, a bit like the cost of his 'media training course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gettafa Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 It's obviously about the abortion issue. If that's the case fair play to him Well no. This is what I was trying to say before. If he felt so strongly about something, and of course he knew what he was talking about - not just whining for the sake of it, he would have used persuasion and structured argument. As it is he has lost the argument. He has failed you, by piqueing and shouting all over social meeja with as much dignity as can be mustered from the gutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I forgive him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Kate has failed us all by making a medical decision not based on medical facts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Though i must say that rob is pushing it a little by not stating the reason although the reason would seem obvious with the clues. He knows that people will know that so i award him nil points on that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackCarter Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 It's obviously about the abortion issue. If that's the case fair play to him Well no. This is what I was trying to say before. If he felt so strongly about something, and of course he knew what he was talking about - not just whining for the sake of it, he would have used persuasion and structured argument. As it is he has lost the argument. He has failed you, by piqueing and shouting all over social meeja with as much dignity as can be mustered from the gutter. I agree with you here and let's face it; he apparently resigned on the 9th March and nobody noticed. So then he put something on facebook saying he resigned and then some people in the media noticed. If it's on the abortion issue he should stay so. But like you I think that resigning after 4 months in a role just shows that you have no ability to influence and can't structure an argument. There is no need to resign on a point of principle somsoon as that's just admitting that you don't have the guts for a fight and in fact it's plain defeatist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 On the plus side he's also in DED so shouldn't lose any pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hboy Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 It's obviously about the abortion issue. If that's the case fair play to him Yes he might actually go up in my estimation if it is about the apparently deceitful and shameful way Beecroft has dealt with the abortion issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 He's probably on page 3 of his media course. We'll no doubt hear ALL about it when he gets to page 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
english zloty Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 'Jack Carter' has been very quiet today. Not at all I was simply doing some digging before I commented here that it's great to see Callister admit that he can't hack a proper job with proper responsibilities for more than a few months. Entirely predictable. Also predictable that the announcement was all about HIM and not really about much else. Can't sit on the DHSC, can't even manage sending letters out at the DED without causing a major incident either. Can manage to get his smug mug in the papers at any and every opportunity though. No less pay and less work. Winner - more time to pen 'I'm so busy' blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian rush Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 From his manifesto Getting the balance right between delivering a first class healthservice that actually meets our needs and living up to people's expectations isn't going to be easy,especially when costs across all sectors within the health service appear to be rising, and at a time when all departmental budgets are continually coming under greater scrutiny by Treasury,who are looking to reduce overall budgets across all Government Departments. The Department of Health and Social Care must therefore increase efficiency across all sectors, make savings, ensure funding is not being unnecessarily wasted,along with considering using alternative medicines and delivery methods going forward. In reality that it isn't going be easy either,as the level of service required across the Island changes hourly,daily and weekly. However i read it as him saying i disagree with decision to go out to tender and award to someone other than bridgewater but not prepared to say so until comcabs fuck it up and i can then say i told you so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackCarter Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I wonder when "Teddy Smith" will take to this thread and explain it all for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hboy Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 He's probably on page 3 of his media course. We'll no doubt hear ALL about it when he gets to page 5. My worry is that his reasons are so woolly that he's now sat at home weighing up what is the biggest public sympathy winner as he hasn't explained the exact reason why he resigned. Abortion / Bridgewater Cabs / Abortion / Bridgewater Cabs / Abortion ....... etc Gut feeling is that most Onchan grannies won't support the abortion proposals, but do have an interest in what taxi they get when they're in Liverpool having their piles and varicose veins done on the NHS so it will be Bridgewater cabs. Although he might well cite both and hedge his bets for maximum effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 [...] let's face it; he apparently resigned on the 9th March and nobody noticed. So then he put something on facebook saying he resigned and then some people in the media noticed. The media were presumably relying on on the press release from the approved official source: The Council of Ministers has accepted the resignation of Rob Callister MHK from the Department of Health and Social Care for personal reasons. As one of the Department's political members, he shared responsibilities for hospital services, public health and the Island's drug and alcohol strategy with the Minister Kate Beecroft MHK. Mr Callister will continue to serve as a Member of the Department for Economic Development where he has responsibility for tourism, hospitality, motorsport and the construction sector. I hope you're not accusing them of committing actual journalism, are you? Stu will be threatening to call up his black ops squad, or, even more disreputable, his lawyers. For some reason it looks like they either mislaid Callister's letter, or were trying to dissuade him. The real question here is not why Callister resigned (I'm not convinced that either reason guessed so far is correct) but why he accepted the position in the first place. As some of us pointed out last Autumn, assigning most backbenchers to two departments meant that they ended up with ridiculous numbers of departmental members and seemed mainly to be done to make sure there was a guaranteed majority, whatever the topic. It always looked like his 'real' Department was DED and the DHSC post was just to make up numbers. I would have thought more backbenchers would have realised that this was an attempt to nobble them and just concentrated on one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Callister Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 He's probably on page 3 of his media course. We'll no doubt hear ALL about it when he gets to page 5.My worry is that his reasons are so woolly that he's now sat at home weighing up what is the biggest public sympathy winner as he hasn't explained the exact reason why he resigned. Abortion / Bridgewater Cabs / Abortion / Bridgewater Cabs / Abortion ....... etc Gut feeling is that most Onchan grannies won't support the abortion proposals, but do have an interest in what taxi they get when they're in Liverpool having their piles and varicose veins done on the NHS so it will be Bridgewater cabs. Although he might well cite both and hedge his bets for maximum effect. It has nothing to do with a Government Policy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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