A story no doubt supplied to the local
press by a well-wisher (but not yet online) is at least news indicating the
further failure of Manx evangelicals to solicit public funds for services
which, to be honest, they never supplied anyway.
The Well, fleapit café in the basement of the
Broadway Batwit HQ, is closing. The story suggests that this will mean a loss
of vital services to several dispossessed communities.
For year the Batwits, so the insider joke goes,
calculated clientele for any funding bid by plucking a prospective number of punters
to one activity from thin air, adding a 0, next applying that figure to every
other ‘workshop’ and suggesting the total represents different individuals. So,
we can safely ignore that concern.
All you really need to know is that
developers are sniffing around the area and have made discreet enquiries at the
Land Registry (where the Batwits have a mole) and the Evangelical Alliance get
the final proceeds of any sale of the church site.
To be fair, they would not be the only ‘local’
evangelical organisation owned and controlled lock, stock and barrel off-island
and where all important decisions over
income and assets are taken by off-island individuals without consulting the
apparent worshippers.
Also this week I had confirmation that at
least one flat-earth sect trying to gain access to kids in island schools as
guest speakers have been refused and are now, effectively, blacklisted.
Considering which other dodgy outfits not only do so (with blatant disregard
for the Education Act guidelines on religious education) but get public money I
must confess I am at a loss to know what they did to overstep the mark. Shame
that, as if anyone knew we could encourage the other klingons to emulate them.
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