DOI fails again

[Roxanne]

An ex MER employee is asking for an enquiry into Heritage rail safety.

This IOM Today article doesn't show Mr Longworth in a particialry good light. That's some whopper he told.

Public Enquiry Request

 

[cissolt]

25% increase in fees at DOI across multiple areas. How did they decide on 25%?  How much will this stealth tax raise for DOI?

https://www.tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=/business/opqp/opqp/2023-PP-0059.pdf

[Non-Believer]

8 hours ago, cissolt said:

25% increase in fees at DOI across multiple areas. How did they decide on 25%?  How much will this stealth tax raise for DOI?

https://www.tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=/business/opqp/opqp/2023-PP-0059.pdf

As Mr Thomas has previously stated on these Boards, this, and other previous rises are in order for the DOI to meet the revenue requirements laid down by Treasury.

Draw your own conclusions as to where Treasury will be directing said gained revenue and have no doubts at all that IoMG and the CS will have no compunction whatsoever in reducing the Manx population to penury in the name of preserving its own structure and benefits.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Non-Believer
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[Non-Believer]

11 hours ago, Roxanne said:

An ex MER employee is asking for an enquiry into Heritage rail safety.

This IOM Today article doesn't show Mr Longworth in a particialry good light. That's some whopper he told.

Public Enquiry Request

 

Makes one wonder what other whoppers were acted on in such as his input into the Promenade refurbishment too?

Perhaps time IJL was brought in for a bit of an accountability session. 

[Two-lane]

 

12 hours ago, Roxanne said:

This IOM Today article doesn't show Mr Longworth in a particialry good light. That's some whopper he told.

You must be new around here.

When the Snaefell tram went out of control and crossed the road at The Bungalow at high speed, with passengers stating

"we were certain that a grisly fate awaited us"

"I was very aware of how serious it was while it was happening - you only had to look at the drivers' eyes".

Longworth made the press statement: "It might have seemed exciting for the passengers but for the crew involved it was just business as usual."

In fact if you disbelieve everything Longworth says, you will be right 90% of the time.

Edited April 24, 2023 by Two-lane

[Two-lane]

21 minutes ago, Non-Believer said:

Perhaps time IJL was brought in for a bit of an accountability session. 

And you must be new around here as well...

Name one MHK who is willing to hold any gov. employee to account.

[Non-Believer]

29 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said:

Agree the same sadly with Thomas. Rather than look at the broken dysfunctional department and grossly incompetent staff that report into him suddenly it’s about private sector companies having government over a barrel and massively rising fees fir services rather than balancing budgets. Because it’s much easier to blame the contractor for the prom looking like a complete over budget pile of shit than accept that the people who were supposed to plan it, cost it, and provide the specifications that the private contractors worked to totally fucked up because they’re clueless. 

As Crookall spake when he took the DOI helm, "A Minister's first duty is to defend his Dept".

[offshoremanxman]

12 minutes ago, Non-Believer said:

As Crookall spake when he took the DOI helm, "A Minister's first duty is to defend his Dept".

 Never understand that concept at all. 

[Albert Tatlock]

11 minutes ago, Non-Believer said:

As Crookall spake when he took the DOI helm, "A Minister's first duty is to defend his Dept".

And this is why 90% of MHKs fail IMO. Then wonder why they don't get re-elected.

I think all too many of them see it as another full-time job after a year or two, get disconnected from the bulk of the electorate. and get sucked into the day to day running of government and into meetings with civil servants that pander to them and control them. They become 'friends and colleagues' and defenders of departments.

The result, nothing changes.

We really need party politics here and an axe-man approach. Not individuals pandering to the civil service...(who are like spiders, waiting for the next gullible MHK fly they know by experience they will soon suck into their web and control because of their gullibility and naivety).

We're fooked until this changes.

[Gladys]

Party politics has to be the way to go.  How we get there is another question. 

[Moghrey Mie]

We've got the Manx Labour Party and Liberal Vannin.

[Albert Tatlock]

Just now, Moghrey Mie said:

We've got the Manx Labour Party and Liberal Vannin.

Have we though? 80% of MHKs are 'independent'.

We maybe haven't got the right party yet?

[Gladys]

1 minute ago, Moghrey Mie said:

We've got the Manx Labour Party and Liberal Vannin.

Are they real parties, or groups with a common interest?  

It is the election process that needs to change. You stand as a party member or an independent  but it is clear in your manifesto when you start canvassing. 

The current system allows, for example, candidates to canvass on the basis of free sherbet for all. But they have no hope of ever achieving that and, even if they acknowledge the original 'pledge', cannot actually deliver it because they are just one voice. 

[WTF]

12 minutes ago, Gladys said:

Party politics has to be the way to go.  How we get there is another question. 

there are 24 parties already,  how many more do you want ?

[Roxanne]

I'm always up for a party.