A man from Peel says a radical shift in the Island’s economic and industrial policy is needed by government.

Gordy Quane announced in the Whitehouse this week that government policy is “shite” and “letting people come over here and take Manx jobs and houses”.

He revealed his plan is to force people on benefits to repair potholes, and organise chain gangs from the prison to work in the community – although paedophiles would be hanged first.

Mr Quane says that, coupled with a return to fishing and farming and reinstating the birch, would solve the Island’s economic woes.