Oh bless! 'Guess who wants to take it home'

With what passes for ‘real politics’ heading into the long grass as the MHK/MLCs grab their buckets and spades and head for the seaside the media are becoming desperate. Expect a series of stories anyday about how busy Tynwald members are going to be - although Tynwald itself will be like Tutankhamun's tomb before Howard Carter arrived.

Manx Radio are still recycling Tynwald Day events such as the Mec Vannin boycott. Apparently Mec Vannin may ruminate on this decision according to Manx. However Manx then run a story saying the Bishop was ‘impressed’ by Tynwald Day. As the bishops political role is probably of more anathema to MV than being banished to the plot equivalent of ‘Room 101’ that should give pause for thought or at the very least ‘quiet mediation’ (links):

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/tynwald-day-lost-its-way...

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/bishop-impressed-by-firs...

I haven’t seen much Tynwald Day items other than the odd MR item and Moultons meanderings perhaps IOM Newspapers have been wall to wall but as I derive my print input from the online pages it's been pretty thin.

BBC Isle of Man (or as we call it as we are in the mood ‘Ellan Vannin Radio’) have a bizarre collection of pics everything from a ‘goat girl’ in a funny hat, a lego set of Tynwald to a group of Tynwald gnomes (and not the ones on the hill). To show that they bear no malice towards their Manx Radio colleagues who give them house room there is also a shot of ‘THREE’ MR presenters doing the voiceover in that Tardis type structure above the half empty stands. No wonder I muse Manx Radio is so bloody expensive (link) THREE for Christs sake - sorry Bishop! Perhaps one of them is hoping to have a stab at the Tynwald award now BIll is out of the way:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-44725456

Still the Lego Tynwald has possibilities. Manx Radio could just get John Moss or Howard Caine to do a version of ‘Peter Snows Gulf War sandpit’ in the Portal at Manx Radio and then spare the need for all the on field ceremonial. Think about it there would be more room for stalls at the front of the Hill and that way Harmer and his cabal of ‘plotters’ (there’s a pun there) at DOI could squeeze even more money out of the event.

‘Snows sandpit’ of course ended up in a museum to much to hope Tynwald might go the same way!

Image: “A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up,”

Bernard Moffatt