'Kindness' but in the dark days before Xmas Manx politics is pure torpor

Its the dark days before Xmas and a political torpor has settled over the land. In the Keys they are talking about Brexit again it helps if you are an MHK to present things as if they are complex. Mumbling about how you enable the process to deal with a problem as yet still not determined by the United Kingdom enables you to look away from the food banks and fuel poverty.

For MHK?MLCs the real world out here is to frightening to contemplate best listen to the guidance of the Pisco Kid (aka Juan Watterson SHK) and adjourn for a good lunch at the subsidised canteen!

The media indulge this as I realised when I tried the ‘Listen Again’ facility on Manx Radio and opened this mornings Mandate. I listened to John Moss for a bit then switched off. Moss should get some sort of St Johns Ambulance award for trying to breath life into the dead corpse that is Manx politics. In the end I found the most interesting and memorable item was the fact that Howard (Caine) is back from Japan - the places folk go and I thought the Maghreb was exotic.

Manx Radio of course is not to be blamed you can’t manufacture news and anyway they will have more scope when Chief Minister Howard Quayle and Treasury Minister Alf Cannan invest some money in the revamp. If Howard and Alf are reading this: ‘Get on with it give them the money it's only £2 million for heaven's sake’!

On that note the broadcast licence reminder arrives and in turn reminds me we are giving about five million pounds to ‘BBC Greater Manchester’ every year for a 90 second slot once a fortnight. I did have big hopes when I heard that Alex Bell (whose name I had only just learned) and Catherine Nicoll were exiting the Manx Radio ‘portal’ for the BBC cupboard on the head but a quick perusal of the web pages shows little change. Indeed there is more hope of finding life on Mars than finding something of Manx news interest on a BBC site (web or otherwise).

For his part Moulton at MTTV has gone completely off the page is it me or are the stories more random?

The Island is in the eye of the Arron Banks storm and yet the best the media can come up with is another departure - this time the Hospital Boss. It's a non event says Health Minister David Ashford MHK. David is probably right because all the other Manx news is a non event. Still it won’t stop weird conspiratorial mutterings in the nether regions of social media.

The one bit of good news is its ‘World Kindness Day’ and Jason Moorhouse MHK has highlighted it. What with ‘The Chronicles’ last week and this Jason starts to shine in my estimation. Jason I am led to believe is one of the few politicians who practically supports the food bank perhaps he could put the hat round and shame some of his less forthcoming colleagues - after they have had their subsidised lunch!

HAPPY WORLD KINDNESS DAY - EVEN TO THE BBC!

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Bernard Moffatt