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NEWS FROM THE MANNIN BRANCH CELTIC LEAGUE

Events just seem to derail Allan Bell (Chief Minister) and COMIN (Council of Ministers Proceedings) in their attempts to tell us that the Island is on the verge of a GREAT LEAP FORWARD akin to the move by Mao back in the 1960s to rescue the failing Chinese economy.

The International Celtic Congress (Breton: Ar C'hendalc'h Keltiek, Cornish: An Guntelles Keltek, Manx: Yn Cohaglym Celtiagh, Scottish Gaelic: A' Chòmhdhail Cheilteach, Irish: An Chomhdháil Cheilteach, Welsh: Y Gyngres Geltaidd) is a cultural organisation that seeks to promote the culture, ideals, and languages of the Celtic peoples of Ireland/Éire, Scotland/Alba, Wales/Cymru, Brittany/Breizh, Cornwall/Kernow and the Isle of Man/Mannin.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

You couldn’t make this lunacy up. Apparently some people are disappointed that the Lt Governor is being sworn in at the courts of Justice in Douglas instead of in Castletown.

Seriously are we all expected to whip ourselves into lather over this? I would suggest most people could not give a darn where the Governor is sworn in or for that matter whether he is sworn in at all.

Even IOM Today if they are honest would admit its just filling a hole in their news coverage:

NEWS FROM THE MANNIN BRANCH CELTIC LEAGUE

THE IMPOSING FAÇADE BEHIND WHICH THE CRA COOK UP SLEAZY DEALS!

An email arrived today from our contact at CBC with a link to the latest report by the Canadian broadcasters investigation team into the ‘offshore tax sham’ involving wealthy KPMG clients dodging Canadian tax by using tax plans in the Isle of Man.

Here’s the link;

http://www.cbc.ca/…/canada-revenue-kpmg-secret-amnesty-1.34…

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Chief Minister Allan Bell MHK has been wittering on about how well we are all doing earnings wise. Strangely his homily on our wonderful earnings level coincides with detail supplied to me on the pay of Deemsters (IOM Judges) which reveals the following:

1st Deemster; £177,988
2nd Deemster £164,639
Deemster £132,184
High Bailiff £116,644
Deputy HB £113.342

Strangely we seem to have some of the best paid – if not THE best paid Judiciary IN THE WORLD by a long shot.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

The daily dose of sycophantic Bell-speak from Manx Radio today focuses on Allan’s angst over the Brexit situation.

In times of crisis it’s important to have a strong hand on the tiller so to speak but Allan Bell the Manx Chief Minister is less a ‘strong hand’ and more a ‘hand ringer’.

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‘My country has let me down. I never wish to see the place again…there are “cute hoors” at every turn in…society and business life’

If the above quote sounds familiar read on:

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

Many sources have shown the importance of the natural world to the Celts, for example in the following on the Transceltic website:

http://www.transceltic.com/pan-celtic/swan-celtic-mythology

http://www.transceltic.com/…/ravens-celtic-and-norse-mythol…

Press Release from Yn Chruinnaght:

Gig Passes go on sale for Island’s biggest Celtic festival

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

Just ten days after I highlighted the use by French politicians and their families of the Isle of Man ‘well regulated’ financial services sector to set up secret bank accounts 15 years ago another scandal is rocking the French establishment and the Isle of Man is in the frame again.

In an article to mark holocaust day I reported on the use made by Francois Mitterands son of the Islands banking services to carry on arms trading deals in Africa which ultimately cost thousands of lives. I said: