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Mark Cleator

Musical artist

Sep 17, 2026

9:17
I mean, presumably, if your ideas are good enough, uh, you'll be able to persuade others to, to, to join the fold.
9:24
That's the hope, and we've had, uh, conversations with quite a lot of the, uh, potential MHKs who agree with a lot of our policies and have said we would stand by, uh, most of what we say, if not all.
9:36
There doesn't seem to be anything particularly, uh, contentious about anything we're saying.
9:40
Uh, I think most people want the same thing.
9:42
They want the Isle of Man to have better.
9:45
But to have better, we've actually got to have the money to do that, and m- my direction is, uh, finding ways to improve the economy again, and I'm afraid nippling-- nib- nibbling around the edges isn't going to do it.
9:58
We've become accustomed to a gold-plated, um, uh, civil service that's grown up over many, many years when we've had our really good years.
12:44
What I would like to know, though, is whether you think that the, uh, the Manx public really are, um, ready for party politics because, generally speaking, parties have come and gone, and apart from the Manx Labor Party that did have a, a, a period when it managed to elect significant numbers of, of, uh, members, uh, members of the House of Keys, parties generally haven't r-really captured the public mood.
13:42
Mark, let's come to you.
13:44
Well, I'm, I'm hoping that we can find a way of bringing a lot more business to the Isle of Man in general.
13:49
And if we can do that, and if we can create something like we used to have, which was, um, a very, uh, a frictionless environment for the whole of the Isle of Man to, uh, entertain, to...
14:00
It needs to be the easiest place in the world to come to and actually set up a business.
14:06
And the world is a massive place, and if we've got the easiest place in the world to come to, then most of the Isle of Man should be full of new businesses.
14:15
Peel doesn't seem to have, um, a, a, a particularly large industrial estate anymore.
14:20
Uh, up on Derby Road where the, I think it's Gina's Academy and the other ones that are up there, there, there's obviously space for putting new units up which would attract, um, a businessman.

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55:32
Um, Mark, Peter.

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