Roger Mexico Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 As ever it's worth looking at the actual Written Question from Thomas and its reply: Whether a review of Government communications is needed; and if so, what the terms of reference would be, and how any review would be procured and undertaken. (Question W-202401-1123 published on 12 08 2024; Answer published on 28 08 2024.) The Chief Minister (Mr Cannan): The centralised Government Communication Service was established in 2014 and supports Ministers and Departments on a wide range of public relations, media and communications issues. Communications activities are also undertaken by people throughout the organisation who are not part of the team based in the Cabinet Office – by communications professionals, senior service leaders and politicians, alongside the everyday interactions of community-facing staff. In all cases, engagement with the public and stakeholders aims to be clear, concise, accessible and respectful. We are actively working to improve how the Isle of Man Government engages effectively at all levels of our community. This is seen as a priority area due to the popularity of social media and to enable the Government to address and challenge misinformation and disinformation placed in the public domain. Advice and guidance to enable continued improvement has been provided since April 2024 to help align the aims and priorities of the administration with the resources available. This process is being supported on a part-time and limited-term basis by a contracted expert who is based on the Island and is in a position to assess objectively the processes currently in place - and how better outcomes might be achieved. A focus is being placed on improving our approach over the next 12 months. A formal, external review at additional expense is therefore not planned at this time. Reading between the lines, what Chris Thomas is actually asking is "Rather than going about things the proper way, why have you got a mate[1] in to review things and no doubt give you the answers you want to hear. Rather than try to find out what people actually want and need from government communications and think could be better. [1] Probably someone like James Davis. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two-lane Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/government-actively-working-to-improve-communication/ Gov. employs a contractor to tell the gov. how to write press releases. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah 01 Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 1 hour ago, Roger Mexico said: The centralised Government Communication Service was established in 2014 and supports Ministers and Departments on a wide range of public relations, media and communications issues No doubt they've chalked up the Jurby fiasco as one of their crowning glories. That answer answers nothing; just more complete verbal garbage that says nothing aside from epitomising the vacuous organisation over which Cannan purports to lead. Thomas would have got more sense from that airport cleaner I keep referring to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted September 2 Author Share Posted September 2 Then Thomas would of added three thousand words to what he was told and every body would of lost the will to live. The man is a tit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 the wage bill not including pensions in the government communications division must be approaching £ half a million a year , plus all the agencies and PR people they use in London I would guess the cost would soar to well over £ 1 million all thats required is to stop the propaganda and bullshit machine and bring about some honesty in Government , things were much better when they had the weekly press calls and ministers and departments took it in turn to advise people what they were doing with various issues being discussed with the local and sometimes UK press , if things are not going too well then have the courage to tell us but stop the endless spin and outright lies then government spew out on an almost daily basis time for a dose of reality the public are seeing through the bullshit and waste of public money 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the shred Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 He really cannot read the room can he ? People are really pissed off about the amount of C.S. and the additional experts that get hired at the drop of a hat and at great expense so he hires yet another . It reminds me of the song Don’t bring in the clowns they are already here. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted September 3 Author Share Posted September 3 And at a guess first port of call for the expert would of been Linky Dink, the bullshitters paradise. Where just like Manx Forums you can post any crap you like, has anybody checked the claims of some of the people we hire from this site. Do they have a special section for Messiah and miracle workers, we don't seem to get past incompetent con men and snake oil salesmen section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinpot Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 21 minutes ago, Dirty Buggane said: And at a guess first port of call for the expert would have been Linky Dink, the bullshitters paradise. Where just like Manx Forums you can post any crap you like, has anybody checked the claims of some of the people we hire from this site. Do they have a special section for Messiah and miracle workers, we don't seem to get past incompetent con men and snake oil salesmen section. I shall now and forever more refer to it as Linky Dink 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/cabinet-office/media-centre/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 On 9/3/2024 at 8:56 AM, Dirty Buggane said: And at a guess first port of call for the expert would of been Linky Dink, the bullshitters paradise. It appears not, the gentleman concerned, "Craig Tregurtha, former group managing editor of the Times and Sunday Times" is so elevated that he appears never to have been on the platform. He also seems to have so well rewarded by Mr Murdoch that he can retire at 50-ish. Cannan presumably met him at a golf club or whatever. In some ways it's a very typical Cannan appointment. As I've said before, he doesn't have any ideas except "Give money to your mates and hope something will happen". Presumably he met this guy socially and vaguely thought with his impressive media background he could somehow get the government's 'message' across and therefore we should throw money at him for advice, hoping some of the magic would rub off. Now even ignoring the fact that this government doesn't really have a 'message' except may "Kick the can a bit further down the road", it's an odd appointment. Running the business side of a large media company is a very different role from .... well whatever they want him to do here. No doubt he's a bright guy and can make suggestions as any bright outsider will be able to. But it's difficult to see what he's for. The fact that even his own appointment wasn't communicated and had to be discovered by the mixture of a formal MHK question and rumour, suggests if anything things are getting more secretive. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 On 8/30/2024 at 1:43 AM, Albert Tatlock said: You can see here I guess. (PDF at bottom of page) https://islandplan.im/delivery-and-performance/isle-of-man-government-conference-2024/ Govt Conference...Days to go...and they haven't added any new sponsors by the looks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 29 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: Govt Conference...Days to go...and they haven't added any new sponsors by the looks? Office World Shredders and Bisto Gravy just announced as headline sponsors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Paul Moulton seems to be back from his long silence and has started do new video interviews again. The most recent ones are with Julie Edge and contain some interesting info about the way he sacked her: As these round-up interviews tend to be, it's a bit all over the place, but there's some interesting stuff in there on a variety of topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the shred Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Oh god another pity party did Alfy take a leaf out of Howard’s book and bring her flowers 🤮 that didn’t go well Kate got a headline in the local rag out of that and that was all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Has anyone seen Alf lately? He must be fiddling somewhere coz his Rome seems to really burning lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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