City of Douglas

[The Phantom]

List of all the towns vying for this great honour here: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

[Kopek]

So should Devon keep his opinions to himself?

[Paulos The Great]

23 minutes ago, Kopek said:

So should Devon keep his opinions to himself?

Preferably yes. Very much so.

[GreyWolf]

Note to D.B.C clean the damn place up first and make it a desirable place to visit until then forget becoming a city because it’s shitty in its present form. I’d rather they give it to to the govags.

Edited December 23, 2021 by GreyWolf

[joebean]

Another piece of corporation vanity. It’s a shame they don’t devote more time to efforts to make the town somewhere you might want to go to, rather than have to go to. 

[Lost Login]

I am not really in favour of the IoM submitting an application as we are quick to try and claim we are separate from the UK so it seems odd we would want to go crawling to the UK Government re this. It is the UK Government that vets the applications and makes the recommendations to the Queen.

I would have thought the IoM should be able to apply to the Queen without any UK Government involvement. Why should a town in the Isle of Man, Falklands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar etc require the UK Governments approval before it can be called or declared a city. Surely that should be down to their Governments and their head of state.

[Boris Johnson]

12 hours ago, Lost Login said:

Why should a town in the Isle of Man, Falklands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar etc require the UK Governments approval before it can be called or declared a city. Surely that should be down to their Governments and their head of state.

It is that is why we are asking them, our real government HMG

[Chie]

On 12/3/2021 at 12:24 PM, Passing Time said:

The sentence "Douglas had much to be proud of as a town" confused me. What exactly?

BeeGees statue and two roundels. 

[Chie]

On 12/23/2021 at 11:57 AM, hissingsid said:

Peel not only has a Cathedral but a Bishop who works out of it when he is not busy in Tynwald, which I disagree with but another story,  I hope Peel gets it, apparently there are a lot of applications even Port Stanley is having a punt.   Be interesting to see   who is successful .

I do wish they would stop involving religion in important decisions. If you want to be religious then sure. Have at it. But I do feel it should be a personal thing to you and have to impact or effect on anybody else’s life.

I am curious though how much he gets paid. 

[Roger Mexico]

11 hours ago, Chie said:

I am curious though how much [the Bishop] gets paid. 

Church of England Bishops get around £46,000 pa according to this article, though they also get free housing.

[hissingsid]

They don’t get paid anything for being in LegCo I don’t think.

[Omobono]

3 hours ago, hissingsid said:

They don’t get paid anything for being in LegCo I don’t think.

In the part Bishops have declined to claim their Tynwald salary , I would think Bishop Eagles has done the same ,

[Omobono]

On 12/23/2021 at 3:42 PM, Paulos The Great said:

It’s probably some ploy to make Devon Watson the city’s self-appointed (or is that self-opinionated) King 

isn't Devon a South African ? or some sort of Johnny  foreigner ,? must have a Manxie  as first citizen , 

[Paulos The Great]

38 minutes ago, Omobono said:

isn't Devon a South African ? or some sort of Johnny  foreigner ,? must have a Manxie  as first citizen , 

Is he? That might explain why he always seems so angry and opinionated then. 

[ManxTaxPayer]

I dunno. Does anyone in Douglas (or anywhere else for that matter) give any kind of a toss whether Douglas becomes a city or not? Except for Douglas councillors of course. I was outside the town hall the other week and there's a photograph of all of them on an announcement board outside. Massive hats! I wonder how many of them will be standing in the next general election? Not zero, you'll see! There are already manoeuvrings. Not least of all on MF.