I think most of the regulars are aware of my disdain for running a "TT" on the Billown course. I think it IS a good idea to re-introduce the 250's and 125's, but I object to the Billown races being given TT status.
Anyway here is a precis of the editorial from "The MotorCycle" (The Blue Un') dated 14th June 1956.

The time has come to discuss racing on the Clypse Course. When the innovation of using an alternative circuit was seriously considered in 1954, the primary object was to re-introduce the Sidecar TT, bearing in mind the small entry would be "lost" on the Mountain Circuit. In that year also the Clypse circuit was used for the 125cc race, an innovation in TT History. The Sidecar race proved a great success, and the 125cc Race delighted the spectators if only because such small capacity racing machines were unfamiliar. In 1955 both 250cc and 125cc races were run as well as the Sidecar Race. On that occasion opinion was less enthusiastic. The racing was of a high standard but the novelty of the previous year was absent. Inevitably,too, judgement on the day's sport was influenced by comparison with the glamour surrounding the Senior and Junior TT's on the Mountain course.
Posibly the criticism was harsh and overstated. But the fact is that, even allowing for the effect of the unkind weather, the events on Wednesday of last week failed to draw the crowds and aroused little interest among those who did attend....... For this reason, it is essential that thought is given to the programme without delay in readiness for next year's jubilee meeting.

So there. The journalists of the time make frequent reference to everyone's dislike of the Clypse Circuit, and as you probably know, it was dropped from the TT programme after 1959.
Nobody has managed to convince me that holding up a TT Trophy at the Southern will REALLY feel like a TT win. It is, in my opinion, the true beginning of the "dumbing down" of the TT, in readiness for the day when the silent majority on the Island have their way and have done with the Mountain course.
Can we possibly learn a little from the history of the event?