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Alistair Kneale the Director of Information (DOI) has slammed the governments population growth policy and also criticised the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce. He claims the government are influenced by those ‘who are no friends of the Manx people’.

Manx Radio interview at this link:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/governments-approach-to-...

I suspect the bods down at the Chamber of Commerce agree with the Chief Minister's views on food poverty. As I indicated ‘the great man’ averred some months ago that it was a ‘complex issue’. It doesn’t seem so complex if you are at the sharp end I’d wager.Sadly it's not an issue that's likely to go away so perhaps the politicians, the mainstream media and the Chamber could mull it over.

London Manx Society (Manx: Yn Cheshaght Manninagh Lunnin) will be holding their Mhelliah Service at St Bride's Church in London's Fleet Street on Monday 8th October. A Mhelliah is a traditional Celtic harvest festival that remains popular on the Isle of Man, and is celebrated annually by London Manx Society. In his novel 'The Manxman', a 1894 novel by the Manx writer Hall Caine (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), he describes the Mhelliah festival:

Back in June the Chief Minister Howard Quayle MHK said that food poverty was a ‘complex’ issue and fair enough you don’t want the government to throw money at an issue without understanding it. Here’s what he said:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/food-poverty-needs-to-be...

St Columba’s Ui Church (Eaglais na h-Aoidhe) is a 14th Century ruin located on a sandy isthmus near Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh) on the Isle of Lewis (Leòdhas) in the Scottish Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar). An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and separates two bodies of water. The church stands within a cemetery and is just above the high water mark. It is a burial place for the Macleod chiefs and the Mackenzies who later controlled the island.

I have written to the Chief Minister and COMIN members asking them to take action to address issues of food and fuel poverty before the winter bites.

Text set out below:

“The Chief Minister (Mr Howard Quayle MHK)
and Council of Ministers of the Isle of Man
Government Offices
Douglas

By email

18th September 2018

Dear Chief Minister,

I note your response in a written answer from the Member for Garff Mrs Caine on the issue of Syrian refugees.

Daphne Caine MHK is getting it in the neck for raising the Syrian refugee issue again. On IOM Today the comments section has gone of the scale and one Facebook site ditched comments completely they were getting so zany.

Some people say this will cost Daphne her seat at the next election and for good measure they throw in her interest in ‘feral goats’ although what that has to do with it I don’t know.

I’m surmising that if you walked past the Claremont last week as ‘the Chamber of Nonsense’ were holding their AGM you would have heard a rousing chorus of ‘for he’s a jolly good fellow’ as Chief Minister Howard Quayle MHK was carried round the room shoulder high.

There’s an added media bonus for me today on the mainstream media in the Manx Radio video portal. The good thing about the mainstream is you get ‘the facts’ from them not the ‘fake news’ Chief Minister Howard Quayle MHK tells us that people ‘with their own agenda’ (like me) are peddling on social media - while he pulls one of those curious inflective grimaces.

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