50 minutes | Friday, 2 February 2024
New schools, underfunded departmental budgets better roads and a new bus station are on the wish lists of MHKs Joney Faragher and Michelle Haywood. The government is struggling to control a substantial financial deficit so where is the money coming from? Hopefully we’ll know more when this year’s Manx budget is delivered in just over a week’s time but the MHKs give their take on Perspective. Treasury’s magic money tree has been diseased for sometime now so can we continue to shake it without addressing the financial diseases that afflict it?