Derek Flint Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 7 hours ago, cissolt said: Freeze govt recruitment outside of health Wind turbine plan in the bin. Save £25 million less cost to buy the nearby houses. Douglas sea wall plan in the bin. £5 million. Heritage railway plan and active travel fund binned. £5 million https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/call-for-heritage-trail-bridge-reinstatement-to-be-considered/ Cut off island travel for all govt workers. Training should be fully remote Interconnector feasibility study has £3 million in funding this year. Nautical museum 90,000 allocated back in the pot. £40 million climate fund revoked and back in the pot. We don't need to lose front line services, we need to make sure departments are delivering services we want and not vanity nonsense Decent manifesto that! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 5 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: Low? Try the UK one of £12500 which is non transferable Nobody earning less than £20,000 should have to pay tax. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 8 hours ago, Dirty Buggane said: Let's cut civil service head count, and I do not mean workers at the coal face. The nameless burocrats that live on the bowels of government offices that are spread over Douglas, drag them into the light and say What do you do and is it providing a useful output and what would happen if we got rid. And I do not mean 59 year old Recce who just wants to go some where warm and tend his roses, Let's give him £500,000 to tide him over till his golden pension pot kicks in. But we all know it's fantasy, apart from Recce and his £500,000 retirement plan that we have to pay. I've Long advocated.a "what the fuck do you do?" Department 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 7 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: I've Long advocated.a "what the fuck do you do?" Department Instead of a Government Conference 2024 let's have a big diagram on the floor of the Villa Marina showing all the jobs in all the departments of IOM Government. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercenary Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 9 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: I've Long advocated.a "what the fuck do you do?" Department Can generally be spotted driving off into the 'sunset' in their Porsche paid for with the generous public purse funded pension. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 24 minutes ago, Mercenary said: Can generally be spotted driving off into the 'sunset' in their Porsche paid for with the generous public purse funded pension. Like Derek and Gary Roberts you mean! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Jarndyce said: It’s an old idea: firstly, I’m sure the caffeine is meant to speed up absorption of aspirin and paracetamol; secondly, the pick-me-up effect was viewed as a good thing when you have cold/flu and are a bit sluggish and miserable. I don’t imagine the original manufacturer ever envisaged people risking liver failure from excess paracetamol in order to get a caffeine “buzz”…tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Well yes, the uptake of both the paracetamol and the codeine is increased considerably by the addition of the caffeine. This induces a temporary, perceptible but subtle 'rush', an increasing feeling of well-being in around 5-10mins. As you said, handy in treating an exhausted PT for raising the mood. Yet herein lies the rub- it doesn't last. And after a while one can look-forward to recreating that feeling. It's very subtle but significant. A neurologist/surgeon at Noble's treating my fractured neck, on analgesia recommended that when the pain became unbearable to take the 30/50 cocodamol he'd prescribed with a cup of coffee made as strong and as sweet as I could tolerate. Eventually, I found myself clock-watching for the golden 4hour margin when I could land another dose! Fortunately it didn't take long to realise where I was heading. That's how easy it is. Anyway, it's wandered off-topic. Apologies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestboy Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Moghrey Mie said: Nobody earning less than £20,000 should have to pay tax. And those earning £75+ pay 40 or 50% tax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 hours ago, Derek Flint said: I've Long advocated.a "what the fuck do you do?" Department My version of that is the old lady panel. You have 30 seconds to explain what you actually do to a panel of 3 old ladies, and if they don't understand you're sacked. Or sack anyone with more than 4 words in their job title. Or anyone with 'facilitator'. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarndyce Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 43 minutes ago, wrighty said: sack anyone with more than 4 words in their job title. Or anyone with 'facilitator'. Yessss! That’s the one! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 46 minutes ago, wrighty said: My version of that is the old lady panel. You have 30 seconds to explain what you actually do to a panel of 3 old ladies, and if they don't understand you're sacked. Or sack anyone with more than 4 words in their job title. Or anyone with 'facilitator'. You're only saying that because you've got four words in your job title. But your colleague the "Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hips Knees" will have to go. Which is a pity as it's probably the only one the old ladies would understand. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 8 hours ago, forestboy said: And those earning £75+ pay 40 or 50% tax. I think those are a bit high as lots of consultants would probably leave but there’s no doubt that taxes for higher earners will be increasing this year as AA has already strongly hinted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 4 minutes ago, Banker said: I think those are a bit high as lots of consultants would probably leave but there’s no doubt that taxes for higher earners will be increasing this year as AA has already strongly hinted Are you a consultant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Runner Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 17 hours ago, Roger Mexico said: Yes, that was my immediate impression as well. If you look at the press release there's no estimate of what savings there will be and as Lily points out there can be valid reasons for prescribing over-the-counter medications. Not least because a doctor may want to make sure that correct doses etc are followed and monitored. There may not be that much actual prescribing and much of it may be covered by the exceptions. Apart from anything else pharmacists will usually point out if something can be obtained cheaper than the prescription charge. This looks very much like Manx Care deciding to issue a press release that they think will play well with Daily Mail readers rather than any actual attempt to save money or reduce bureaucracy - indeed it may increase it with GPs now having to justify the exceptions. Stopping Paracetamol on a script will cost the government money, not save it. If they cant buy it in bulk for less than 50p a packet and charge, what £3.75 or something, whatever a Manx script is? They should be making a good profit on prescribing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Poppins Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 8 hours ago, wrighty said: My version of that is the old lady panel. You have 30 seconds to explain what you actually do to a panel of 3 old ladies, and if they don't understand you're sacked. Or sack anyone with more than 4 words in their job title. Or anyone with 'facilitator'. A good start would be sacking anyone currently employed with 'Minister' in their job title. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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