tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post8256347558605941864..comments2024-01-09T16:41:49.300+00:00Comments on Deputy Tadier's Blog: Jersey's Secret Party - Going Strong since 1948Deputy Montfort Tadierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02702165660857648225noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-68461859311409533232011-09-12T01:29:04.763+01:002011-09-12T01:29:04.763+01:00Anon, sorry for the delay. Unforeseen circumstance...Anon, sorry for the delay. Unforeseen circumstances resulted in a busy than expected couple of weeks. Back up and running now!Deputy Montfort Tadierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02702165660857648225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-12762290027826655942011-09-10T20:00:38.652+01:002011-09-10T20:00:38.652+01:00Montfort.
Will Scrutiny PAY THE PRICE?Montfort.<br /><br />Will Scrutiny <a href="http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2011/09/will-scrutiny-pay-price.html" rel="nofollow">PAY THE PRICE?</a>voiceforchildrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825129148579102037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-10588440371652732032011-09-09T18:06:44.916+01:002011-09-09T18:06:44.916+01:00Every day this week, I will be publishing a new bl...Every day this week, I will be publishing a new blog as part of a series focusing on the idea of political DNA.<br /><br />You posted that on 29th August, what happened to 1st and 2nd of septembers blogs, i was enjoying reading them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-75116562723681661912011-09-03T15:43:41.175+01:002011-09-03T15:43:41.175+01:00Montfort.
In an Abuse Survivor's own WORDS.Montfort.<br /><br />In an Abuse Survivor's own <a href="http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-abuse-survivors-own-words.html" rel="nofollow">WORDS.</a>voiceforchildrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825129148579102037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-45238933898049093832011-09-01T20:46:03.443+01:002011-09-01T20:46:03.443+01:00Going strong since 1948, gone by 2018.Going strong since 1948, gone by 2018.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-24916447644015699842011-08-31T17:47:20.165+01:002011-08-31T17:47:20.165+01:00Moan as much as you like but the sad fact is the l...Moan as much as you like but the sad fact is the lack of genuinly "progressive" candidates and a cohesive, shared mandate for voters to believe in.<br />The pursuit of profit is a very simple policy that unites the "establishment" and is easily understood by the electorate.<br />The progressives have a much harder task but have failed miserably election after election, to get organised.<br /><br />With all the open goals of the past 3 years, defeating the establishment "for profit party" should be almost easy. In fact it will be a struggle even to maintain the status quo on elected numbers of "progressives" on 19 October and this is our first ever "general election."<br /><br />Vote? What for?<br /><br />Tom Gruchy asksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-36466530428792387802011-08-31T16:53:03.911+01:002011-08-31T16:53:03.911+01:00Hang on, you are missing the first most basic prin...Hang on, you are missing the first most basic principle of party politics... that the party members (and I don't mean MP's, I mean grass roots) decide the policy. <br /><br />Admittedly this does not happen now, but neither did it happen with the JDA. Geoff Southern I am afraid simply did not represent anywhere near a majority of people and continued to extol his personal views on other people, rather than saying 'here is the results of our survey/referendum, this is what the majority of people in Jersey want'.<br /><br />That is much harder to oppose, even for the establishment, than one man saying this is what I think.<br /><br />First you have to have a mechanism to measure public opinion in place, (treating the entire island as one political party)... then individuals can see whether their views are represented by that process or if they are usually in the minority.<br /><br />At the moment no one is really represented under the current system and so as everyone is in the same boat, the first step is to ensure that people are represented.<br /><br />Once that process is in place (and I hasten to say that my own proposition for implementing this one which I will seek election is not the only one, but I could not arrive at a better one) then certain sections of the island will find that they are always in the minority and are thus not represented and will want to form a breakaway party.<br /><br />However the breakaway party has to retain the whole 'public representation' aspect, albeit perhaps coming from a different direction.<br /><br />To suggest that their is an 'establishment' is correct, to suggest that there is an 'establishment party' is not correct. They have no interest in what the people outside the inner circle think.<br /><br />Real opposition to the establishment has to be based on the areas that they consider to be their strengths...<br /><br />The Finance industry, which is not being looked after as is in fact being drowned in regulation.<br /><br />The Economy, they are wasting too much money pursuing a Keynesian/Socialist approach of high taxation and high spending which is destroying business.<br /><br />Their supposed strengths are actually their weaknesses.Darius Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207593799348887450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-61828477118852287252011-08-31T08:37:03.639+01:002011-08-31T08:37:03.639+01:00The more serious issue with the Senatorial electio...The more serious issue with the Senatorial election is not the numbers , but the fact we elect en block with no concept of PR. The winner takes it all mechanism means a small majority in the voting electorate can multiply up to give a disproportionate number of votes in the assembly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-82676714023354494812011-08-31T07:24:52.754+01:002011-08-31T07:24:52.754+01:00after all, for the poor country dwellers of Trinit...<i>after all, for the poor country dwellers of Trinity and St Ouen, these were the only elections in which they got to vote!</i><br /><br />It's no better in St Saviour No. 3, which is hardly "country"!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09194881271051758232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258990332470277140.post-9735242252703763852011-08-31T04:24:53.424+01:002011-08-31T04:24:53.424+01:00There is still a non-sequitur in trying to link th...There is still a non-sequitur in trying to link the holding of a proper general election with partially stripping us of our main way of influencing the makeup of the States by our votes. Reducing my vote from nominally 14 and effectively 12 Members to 10 and 8 does not enhance my democratic rights or political engagement in the slightest. Admittedly, this time around I can't find even 4 of the candidates declared so far whom I am keen on voting for, but that should not affect the principle. If the non-establishment candidates are of insufficient quality or quantity to fill the seats, then it is functional democracy for the other lot to get back in.Ugh, It's Him!https://www.blogger.com/profile/06194792008692398706noreply@blogger.com