(02-02-2015, 03:17 PM)Max Power Wrote: If this was such a good idea, why was it not handed over to tender for companies to do their own research and come up with a proposition? That would have cost nothing

Exactly my thoughts on the subject, it should have been done that way around, unfortunately Manx Government history is littered with expensive and embarrassing fiasco's involving 'consultants' and 'Promoters'

For example there is still a bad smell around from the infamous 'Signature Sponsorship' deal of a few years ago which was supposed to be a deal to promote the TT, it delivered nothing and cost a small fortune, questions were asked in parliament about this but no satisfactory answers were ever given and it all seemed to quietly disappear into history.

We are currently (I say 'we' as I live here and my tax bill helps to fund these barmy waste's of everyone's contributions) £200.000 poorer as a result of this latest hairbrained idea, we will never see a return on this money, there will be no TT World Series and the consultants will stroll away patting their back pockets in approximately 9 months time.

At which point the IOM government will either say nothing, or trot out the old 'lessons have been learnt' line which they fondly use as a fall back statement when banged to rights over anything.