Bernard Moffatt's blog

Manx Radio news editor Tim Glover has a sound lengthy clip with CM Howard Quayle MHK in which he outlines the stance on Syrian refugees and aid given.

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/island-turning-its-back-...

The news item persons the question ‘Island turning its back on International Duty’?

Efforts by Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru (the Farmers Union of Wales) to have a widespread badger cull in England extended to Wales are being resisted by the Welsh government and by animal rights bodies such as the RSPCA.

The FUW say:

"The Welsh cattle industry has simply had enough and the FUW is now calling on the Welsh Government to properly recognise the impact of this insidious disease on farming families.”

However the government say:

"Evidence shows that most causes of Bovine TB in cattle in Wales results from cattle-to-cattle transmission,"

Report here on a project by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council to (via the creation of a Folk Traditions Forum) to record for posterity some of the lost or dying traditions of the area such as Mumming and Wren Boys.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45566721

I described Chris Thomas MHK as like a ‘machine gunner at Mons’ after his recent appearance in the portal. If he needed a number two ‘gunner’ it would be our own Private Pike, Alf Cannan MHK and Treasury Minister, who pops up in the portal to talk about his great vision:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/cannan-hopeful-on-liverp...

BBC Ellan Vannin - a page I don’t often visit because I forget it's there - reports on Chief Minister Howard Quayles rejection of Daphne Caine MHKs plea for the Manx government to reject accommodating refugee families from Syria.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-45559879

I’ve done my bit today for income distribution as (fortunately) following the storm the window cleaner came which was a godsend. My ‘home laundry’ is in full swing as well as I am defo into my ‘arts domestic’ autumnal period and the electricity thus consumed should please Popeye (aka Alex Allinson MHK).

A modest repast consumed I settle down for a second helping with MTTV which is still at the eGaming extravaganza. A took a sideswipe at the media's lack of balance in the Howard post earlier so just to prove there is balance MTTV are back with more of the same.

‘Across the Celtic countries..discontent over fuel and food poverty, housing and income inequality is now...endemic and a growing problem’

Sometimes small events can have dramatic and far reaching consequences. I was thinking about this when the ‘great debate’ was reactivated last week on the Isle of Man about a handful of refugees. Where did the Syrian refugee problem come from?

“If you say we’re not going to have it it will be displaced somewhere else”. That’s the view of the front man for the Chamber of Commerce ( hang on I should have said Chief Minister) when asked about the morality of an industry that ruins tens of thousands of lives globally each year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x-fMhNUhpM&feature=youtu.be

Unusually ‘the Nations Station’ has a nationalist viewpoint today ( see earlier post) something that is strangely rarely portrayed on ‘the National’ broadcaster. I mean don’t believe my expression of fake news do a search on the Stations website.

Indeed on the odd occasion I tune in on the car radio the station is more like a audio manifestation of ‘Little England’ than something that has pride in its Manx roots.

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-...