Rushen Spy Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Do we have a list of Royals et al coming over this year yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
display name Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Is someone planning to bomb Tynwald? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 There should not be any English Royals present as we 'celebrate' what is left of our once proud independent Nation. While we are at it, what on earth are we doing putting the English crown and orb? designs on the back of our 50p piece? There should be Manx symbols on our coins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De nada Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 47 minutes ago, Kopek said: proud independent Nation. Dream on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 3 hours ago, Rushen Spy said: Do we have a list of Royals et al coming over this year yet? Yes - the King of Comedy Howard Quayle has pledged to turn up in an ill-fitting suit. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gettafa Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Will Howard be wearing his blue shirt with the white collar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 1 hour ago, display name said: Is someone planning to bomb Tynwald? i hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piebaps Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 4 hours ago, Rushen Spy said: Do we have a list of Royals et al coming over this year yet? Yup - it's on the Tynwald website. I was going to link to it but if you can't be arsed looking in the obvious place, I can't be arsed linking it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 So we are talking z listers then. Is it Mike tindall's auntie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushen Spy Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 4 hours ago, Kopek said: There should not be any English Royals present as we 'celebrate' what is left of our once proud independent Nation. While we are at it, what on earth are we doing putting the English crown and orb? designs on the back of our 50p piece? There should be Manx symbols on our coins. Tynwald Day is not a celebration of independence. It's an exercise of parliamentary sovereignty. In the UK, sovereignty resides jointly between the monarch and the parliament: it's called "Queen-in-Parliament" as it requires an assembly of Parliament and the monarch in Parliament to give Royal Assent. If the Isle of Man is ever to progress from a feudal monarchical system into a real parliamentary democracy, we need to retain Tynwald Day and the Monarch's attendance (or a representative of the Monarch) as a way to follow the UK model of sovereignty. Without a Royal representative, it may as well be a teddy bear picnic because it wouldn't be worth a dime as far as parliamentary sovereignty is concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gettafa Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 4 hours ago, Kopek said: There should not be any English Royals present as we 'celebrate' what is left of our once proud independent Nation. Was there ever anything to be proud of. Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, gettafa said: Was there ever anything to be proud of. Really. Yes, I think so. I have happy memories of the 70s over here, of course we were all a lot younger then and life seemed simpler without the now obligatory devices and gadgets. But there was more "community" and neighbourliness. Less greed and self centredness. No drugs and less violence. And people in charge SEEMED to know what they were doing anyway. And there was certainly a lot less of them. There seemed to be fewer financial disasters to be covered up too. Maybe it's just my rosy glasses though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushen Spy Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 Yes, I am very proud of our significant involvement in smuggling and evading unjust customs and immoral taxes of the British Empire. That took a lot of guts and cunning. We really stuck it to the man back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gettafa Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 28 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: Yes, I think so. I have happy memories of the 70s over here, . There seemed to be fewer financial disasters to be covered up too. Maybe it's just my rosy glasses though.... Rosie glasses syndrome. The biggest and most far-reaching financial 'disaster' of which, the grand-daddy of all so-called financial disasters (it wasn't a disaster at all, it was a scam from the start, backed by Isle of Man Government) the Savings & Investment Bank (SIB) - collapsed June 1976. although of course those in the know, including the Bishop and the church, had special insider knowledge and took their money out 6 months before the doors were closed and just after 'someone' spilt the beans to the Isle of Man government treasury who pretended nothing had happened and it would all go away. They all got off with it too, trial collapsed and they went on to carry on their 'little ways'. Even today they are at it, them that haven't died yet. The 70s. Even better than the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 13 minutes ago, gettafa said: Rosie glasses syndrome. The biggest and most far-reaching financial 'disaster' of which, the grand-daddy of all so-called financial disasters (it wasn't a disaster at all, it was a scam from the start, backed by Isle of Man Government) the Savings & Investment Bank (SIB) - collapsed June 1976. although of course those in the know, including the Bishop and the church, had special insider knowledge and took their money out 6 months before the doors were closed and just after 'someone' spilt the beans to the Isle of Man government treasury who pretended nothing had happened and it would all go away. They all got off with it too, trial collapsed and they went on to carry on their 'little ways'. Even today they are at it, them that haven't died yet. The 70s. Even better than the 60s. 76, thought it was 82? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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