A backbench MHK launched a scathing attack on Tynwald members during the Tuesday’s Post Office debate.

Chris Robertshaw (Douglas East) suggested members’ ire should be directed closer to home, claiming he was ’embarrassed’ by Tynwald.

’We sit here today nit-picking around management issues when we, Tynwald, have yet again failed to address strategic issues,’ he complained. ’We simply have not got the capacity to deal with it strategically.’

He said Tynwald should set the strategy but leave the Post Office to deal with the management.

’If we are going to be managers and directors, let us resign as members now and go out into the private sector.’

He added one of the issues that needed to look at was the gig economy and the role of private sector parcel firms employing people on zero-hours contracts under-cutting the Post Office.