NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE
Private sector ? self serving ? lobby group ?the Chamber of Commerce? is in threatening mood. Check this statement from their spokesperson on Energy FM:
The target of their ire is public sector pensions which everyone agrees need to be remodelled to ensure deficiencies and liabilities are affordable. Indeed the Union movement signed up to this after an initial actuarial review almost 25 YEARS AGO. Unfortunately the Isle of Man government and the Chamber of the day were to busy living high on the hog with the Islands booming economy at the time to concern themselves with such trivia.
Some may see it as ironic that the Chamber whose members have had public money shovelled in their direction for decades and who recently cheered enthusiastically as Bell, Teare et al emptied the reserves of
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