Agenda 16.2.26 - Chris Robertshaw and Future IoM

About this episode

Chris Robertshaw discusses his political vision for the Isle of Man and the Future Isle of Man movement.

Agenda 16.2.26 - Chris Robertshaw and Future IoM Former Douglas East MHK Chris Robertshaw has a new political vision for the Isle of Man. Describing itself as a movement towards good governance, Future Isle of Man has three core pillars to its thinking. ‘The Democratic Process’, which introduces the concept of holding Referenda into our existing system; ‘A Unified Government’ which bring government operations together under a single legal entity; and the introduction of high level cross-departmental strategic thinking. Is the Manx political system fundamentally broken or have we just been the really, really unlucky victim of events over the past few decades?

People in this episode

Guest: Chris Robertshaw

Topics covered

• politics
• governance
• Isle of Man

Keywords

• Democratic Process
• Unified Government
• Referenda
• cross-departmental strategic thinking

Mentioned in this episode

Places: the Isle of Man, Manx

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