Juan Turner has been dropped from the Department of Infrastructure - just hours after be branded it ‘the Parking and Anti-motorist Department’.
Mr Turner was contacted by Infrastructure Minister Phil Gawne after yesterday’s Council of Ministers’ meeting and told he was no longer in the DoI.
He said this had ‘come as no surprise’.
Mr Gawne insisted he had not sacked Mr Turner and had been willing to keep him on - but the view had been taken that he could not retain his role if he was actively lobbying against the department.
Mr Turner told iomtoday this week that he could not support plans to charge senior civil servants and Tynwald members to use government parking spaces in central Douglas. He insisted he would not be buying a space as he could park elsewhere for free nearby.
‘The Parking and Anti-motorist Department has created a false value,’ he said.
Mr Turner has also criticised the dumping of silt from Peel marina at Poortown, insisting it should have been dumped at sea. He has objected to ‘nonsensical’ airport parking charges and the ‘dreadful’ shared-space scheme for Douglas promenades.