Manx people are entitled to undertake non-violent direct action to protect the Isle of Man, themselves and their families.

That’s the view of the Mannin branch of the Celtic League’s director of information Alastair Kneale in a hard-hitting blog on the Transceltic website.

He accuses the Manx government of arrogance and describes MHKs as ’self-serving’ - while the public are ’fed a diet of pay freezes, increased utility charges, means testing, prescription charges, the removal of work permits that protected the conditions of Manx workers and a whole series of other stealth charges’.

Mr Kneale continues: ’People did not vote for representatives that would work to destroy this island, its culture and impoverish Manx people.

’If that’s what some of these MHKs think then they had better think again and Manx people are entitled to undertake non-violent direct action to protect the Isle of Man, themselves and their families.’

Stressing these are his personal views, he points out that within any society there is a right and ’even a necessity’ to undertake non-violent direct action, and that most campaigns for social change in the world would not have succeeded without this form of action.

Mr Kneale writes that Manx people are very cynical about their elected representatives, not least, he says, because once elected they undertake actions for which they have no mandate and they fail to represent those that voted for them.

He notes: ’Over the years there have been some notable exceptions. However, the feeling is that MHKs are above all self-serving rather than servants of the public. There have been so many examples of this over the years that thinking of them can induce nausea.’

Mr Kneale claims the present administration, just like the one before, is failing in its duty to protect the interests of the Manx people.

’When the people object they are fed platitudes and false claims,’ he writes. ’Occasionally they are thrown the bone of a bogus public consultation, where the government purport to ask Manx people’s opinion then promptly ignores the results. So much so people are reluctant to partake. It makes you suspect that is the aim.’