This report was written in 2008.
Nothing of any consequence has changed.
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Yes it has.
The UK has since reduced the Isle of Man ‘subsidy’ by over £100million per year.
You can’t turn your nose up at that, Richard.
It now means the Isle of Man has to stand on its own two feet after all these years instead of suckling at the teats of the UK.
The UK has much, much, much to learn of the Isle of Man . . . . .
@Albert Roland
Some say that was my work
I could not possibly comment
Except to say that we have nothing to learn except how to mismanage an economy
You do agree though, that something of consequence has indeed changed.
The wording of my comment was wrong. I meant to say that the UK has much to discover about the Isle of Man (rather than ‘learn’).
I would say there is more than the economy that is being mismanaged.
So from all accounts (except maybe the establishment of the Isle of Man) there’s still at least another £100million from the good folk of the UK, freely flowing each year into a foreign country in the middle of the Irish sea.
Although some with particularly severe experiences of that country would describe it more as a pariah state…