Ban the new 'Royal Bloodsport' - and Skelly's sunglasses!

Manx Radio has at last acknowledged that when it comes to the TT there are ‘a few voices off’ with this item - that surfaced briefly with even a link across to Tranceltic sharing billing with NBC and the Washington Post...wow:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/tt-danger-has-world-watc...

However the focus is still very much on a glorification of this mayhem no more so this year when the cracks in administration and course safety have been obvious to everyone - even the local media usually happy to play second fiddle to this ‘melee of madness’ had to acknowledge people and bikes wandering on a closed circuit was not de rigueur! That was without the fiasco of bikes being being misdirected so that machines and course cars collided.

Still the TT got a Royal blessing so several Ministers and MHKS will have wet themselves with excitement at meeting the next in line to the throne - not to mention the Lordship of Mann - just don’t tell Prince Charles. Still a troubling time for ‘nationalists’ who worship the ‘legendary’ sport what now that it has the blessing of the Royal Anti-Christ? Common cause with the House of Windsor!

The arrival of ‘the Duke of Wasisname’ gives the final seal of approval to the annual bloodletting. It really is a ‘Royal Bloodsport’ now so it could be the kiss of life or the kiss of death.

A TV crew that interviewed me this year, unprompted, compared the TT to bullfighting enquiring: ‘Do you think it has had its day’? I replied It had had its day decades ago but it's sporting corpse is kept alive so that the government ‘realise economic opportunity’ and sod the death and injury toll. Of course an added bonus is the opportunity to meet Royal personages. Perhaps next year ‘Ginger and Megan’ will drop in.

Speaking of de rigueur are sunglasses the normal mode of dress for Ministers when meeting ‘The Sun Prince’ or hasn’t etiquette permeated the Department of Enterprise?

I thought the bullfighting analogy was a good one except that in that sport it's the poor old bull who gets killed not the supporting cast.

Never mind for me a fortnights loathing over for another year - the Manx Grand Prix (or whatvever Skelly calls it now) - doesn’t quite the raise the same levels of intolerance in me.

Manx Radio in there piece describe me as a ‘long time TT critic’. I often criticise Manx Radio but they are spot on there and I just hope unlike the bull in the bullfighting I’m around next year to lambast this SPORT OF SHAME!

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Crown Dependency News with a humorous aside on my TT safety crusade

HRH a new icon for TT supporters? His ‘royalness’ helped by ‘the living dead’ in this case the UK’s man in the colony Lt Gov Richard Gosney waves them away.

Bernard Moffatt