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Yeah, the Isle of Man does actually have its own elected Parliament but it isn't overwhelmingly independent these days. The UK government has quite direct impacts on us even if we don't vote in the General Election and aren't technically directly governed by them. For example, I'm a teacher and we've had a lot of staffing issues over the past few years because teaching in the Isle of Man is very largely similar to teaching in the UK. At the moment very demanding and not very rewarding. However, Labour's promise to train up 6,500 new teachers, if they manage to follow through with it, would have a very big impact on us because we recruit most of our teachers from the UK and that would therefore go some way to fixing our staffing issues. We do also have a lot of differences in some ways. For example the UK has a school inspections organisation called Ofsted which is largely deemed toxic and not fit for purpose by the teaching community in the UK. Indeed a primary school headteacher even committed suicide last year, mostly due to the pressure of her school being inspected. On the Isle of Man, we don't have Ofsted at all and have the freedom to organise our own inspection system internally. So yeah, it's a bit of a grey area overall really. We have some independence to do our own thing but generally follow what the UK does. Either way, the Tories have been corrupt, dishonest and incompetent in their time in power, each Prime Minister worse than the one that came before them. From a simple "right thing" perspective, it will restore some of my faith in humanity and the electorate to see them get absolutely decimated. 11 hours until the exit poll.

Ok, so after watching this latest episode, my current theory is that

And she touched his light saber. What kind of mind-games is SW playing with us now.

Stupid Sexy Sith.