Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski has been in the Island for an official visit, and he has echoed the comments about Jersey’s community spirit that departing Lieutenant-Governor Andrew Ridgway made two months ago.
Mr Kawczynski – a junior agriculture minister who chairs two committees on relationships with the Arab world – said that Jersey’s system of voluntary and honorary service was the model of the more caring society that Mr Cameron spoke about.
‘Jersey is the Big Society in action,’ said Mr Kawczynski. ‘I have just come from England, where we have had one of the biggest social problems that we have experienced, certainly within my lifetime, and I will be writing to Mr Cameron to say: “Come to Jersey and see the Big Society in action.”
‘The way that this community functions is extremely impressive.’
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