The detail
The manifesto is the summary. These pages are the working behind it: the numbers, the sources, and the positions there wasn’t room for in a leaflet. Every figure links to where it came from.
The short version
Every position in one line each, with links to the working. A two-minute read with a printable A4.
Economy
Cost of living, energy and Net Zero, growing what we export, agriculture and fishing.
Fiscal
Where the money goes, the deficit and reserves, borrowing, pensions, and the headcount cap.
Healthcare
Fair funding, leadership, finishing the Manx Care handover; screening, mental health, growing older.
Local issues
Braddan Woods, the landlord register, childcare and family law, skills, and how I’d work in Tynwald.
Our Place in the World
The constitution, finance and data privacy: the long view.
Seven predictions
What I told Treasury fifteen years ago, scored against what happened, misses included.
Corrections log
Errors and changes of position, dated. Hold every candidate to one.
AI policy
How AI is used on this campaign, plainly.
Check my working — the Observatory
Before asking for your vote, I built the evidence in public at observatory.coalfinch.com: free, sourced, and open to anyone. The phone-friendly summaries are on this site; the full interactive tools reward a bigger screen.
The Island That Stopped Growing
Why output nearly tripled to 2019/20 and has fallen in every year but one since, and what actually funded a decade of public spending.
Fiscal Sources & Uses
Ten years of Government accounts on a single screen, instead of 2,500 pages, including how much of each year is funded from reserves.
The healthcare explorer
Every review tracked and benchmarked against five other British islands.