Posh wrote:It is useless. Wikipedia on the other hand...
You probably wrote the pages anyway.
Damn you useless spell check!
Oldest continually sitting parliament in the world and one of the world's first to give women the vote.
Seriously though, after your arse of a Chancellor decided to wage war on "that tax haven in the Irish Sea" I'm becoming increasingly republican. Stuff the Lord of Mann, her representative and the Bishop. The VAT arrangement is one thing (it depends upon how you do the maths, we were either a net contributor before the changes and now contribute about £50,000,000 to the UK or we were being subsidised to the tune of £60,000,000 a figure much reduced now but still about £20,000,000 to our benefit. We put about £25 billion a year through the London Stock Exchange which Darling conveniently left out of his maths. Go independent and stick it through New York or Frankfurt and pay the UK nothing.
But that isn't what has angered many here, it is his purely spiteful attack of ending the Reciprocal Health Agreement. The following is a list of countries that the UK has maintained a Reciprocal Health Agreement with...
* Anguila
* Armenia
* Australia
* Azerbaijan
* Barbados
* Belarus
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* British Virgin Islands
* Croatia
* Falkland Islands
* Georgia
* Gibraltar
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Macedonia
* Moldova
* Montserrat
* New Zealand
* Russia
* St Helena
* Serbia and Montenegro
* Tajikistan
* Turkmenistan
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* Uzbekistan
* Ukraine
The following is a list of the country that Brown & Darling have decreed should end the agreement with on April 1st 2010...
* Isle of Man
Yes, that's right, as of April next year, I need health insurance to come to watch Morecambe play or you need health insurance to pop across here for the TT Senior Race Day but if you are from Kyrgyzstan (where?) you will be treated in the RLI for free. One 80+ year old lady got a quote for insurance. She's had a heart attack in the past... £900. Her three daughters live in England so as of April, she can't afford to visit them. Even more disgusting, one guy who is Manx born, joined the RAF straight from school. He served for 25 years, flying Vulcans among other aircraft. Darling and his cronies have confirmed that a '
services pension' is not a '
UK old age pension'. So despite serving 'his country' (and paying UK tax & NI) for 25 years, he needs health insurance to visit his family in England... unlike someone from Azerbaijan. This policy
(not in their manifesto!) is pure spite. The costs were practically balanced. In fact, if anything, the Island generally is likely to be better off now that people visiting the TT have to have insurance. But individually the old and disabled are being screwed by a UK government who have proved themselves to be a bunch of war criminals, (
weapons of mass destruction), liars ("
no more boom and bust") and incompetents ("
the UK is well placed to lead the world out of recession").
There are currently 30 men & women from the Isle of Man serving in Afghanistan & Iraq. There is a family who have lost their Manx born son in Iraq. Thanks to Darling, that family or the men & women once they leave the services, will need health insurance if they want to attend a remembrance parade in London...
The sooner you lot vote them out, the better for all of us. Consider me furiously outraged without the smiley face.
