Declan Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Where's your post gone Dave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave the Cardboard Box Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 where does Onchan begin and Douglas end up there then?) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Onchan hasn't actually begun yet, but when it does, watch out..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Yeah, CMI are on Victoria Road, I assumed once it got that far it became Onchan, but evidently not. My point, however, is that Olde Moore's post was vague, and only appears prescient now some corroborating event happens that can be made to fit his post. How many of his equally vague posts haven't been proven correct in time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 What sort of message does that send out to the international finance community? But is there any evidence that any of these issues have influenced this consolidation? I don't think that there is. I have seen no significant reporting of Mount Murray, or of the CM's private legal disputes, in any of the business pages. Though I don't read everything or have a press cuttings service. These are, only, local issues - AFAIK. I simply do not believe that the actions of any individual have in any way influenced the business choices made by any company. Surely some sort of consolidation at Coutts has been inevitable since it was bought by NatWest - and, then, since NatWest and RBS 'merged'. Coutts is simply a brand. It long since stopped existing as an independent. Think Skoda and Audi. And Coutts is about as posh as Harrods or Burberry, these days. This consolidation doesn't represent reliable evidence of anything IMO. If all of the finance companies suddenly moved elsewhere, stating loss of confidence in the Manx Govt as a reason .... then this would represent empirical evidence of a loss of faith. You can't draw conclusions from the actions of one company. Meanwhile - my personal opinion is that the entire British 'offshore' finance sector is consolidating and also shrinking. I believe that this is inevitable as we move towards tighter international compliance. It's also an inevitable part of less paper and less people needed. And London is, itself, already an offshore centre, in many ways. Doesn't mean that Manx finance will vanish immediately, or even in our life times. But we are, inevitably and probably rightly, moving towards ever more tightly integrated international regulation. So there will, IMO, be less and less point in the continued existence of the 'paradis fiscals'. So a gradual reduction of the working population of the IOM (and of the City of London) is probably healthy, sensible and inevitable, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=^..^= Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 One thing I can be sure of is where Onchan starts. About 10 feet Onchan side of Governors bridge (or thats where the 'welcome to Douglas' sign used to be) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 I think it has more to do with September the 11th than our local ministers personal and public antics. Coutts announced at the start of this year that they would be rationalising their on island workforce. So the news in that respect is very old and not at all surprising. Geo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue kipper Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Yeah, and it's hardly in the centre of Onchan is it? More like the outskirts I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMR Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 But they could have - and for that reason our Chief Minister should have ensured that his administration was whiter than white, in all regards. And the issues may yet do. It only needs a Panorama type programme to come over here and do a bit of digging, and the whole house of cards could come tumbling down, to the detriment of all of us. Do I get today's Mixed Metaphor Prize? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Whos to say that they have not already started digging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Is that Olde Moore's Almanac's latest prediction? It'll turn out to be Wish You Were Here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Steady now, the world is still recovering from the information that the Telecom workers at Ballacain were from T-Mobile, not MT. Some people at Blue Rinse Chat are still banging on about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMR Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Get it right they were from Kingston Com Ltd, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 See? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 I have to deal with Kingston on a fairly regular basis. You guys think you've got it hard with Manx Telecom? You know NOTHING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 Just a quick question What was the reason for Kingstons visit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCMR Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 They were here for approx 7 weeks and stayed at Ballacain, the reason they were here was to sell space in the yellow pages and to edit the new phone book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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