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This is why I voted against
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From Dan Murphy, Constable of Grouville.
I WAS saddened and surprised at your editorial last Friday. I and other States Members certainly do not recognise ourselves in your description as small-minded and short-sighted. The use of insults such as ‘crass’ also demeans the quality of your argument.
We acknowledge that the JEP has taken a stand on Plémont but to ignore the counter arguments does not do you any service.
I know that before the vote people approaching me were 8-1 against purchase and, even afterwards, reactions were roughly the same.
The reasons that I voted ‘contre’ were as follows:
• did not want the Council of Ministers to have a blank cheque after the fiasco of Lime Grove.
• Compulsory purchase (in my view) was not a suitable vehicle in this case.
• The last-minute valuation was flawed. Even after allowing £1m for site clearance, the value of the sites was only assessed at £196,500 each or £5.5m.
• The money which was earmarked for the purchase was to come from the Contingency Fund, according to the Treasury Minister, and yet the Economic
Development Minister says that those funds have already been allocated. This meant that a capital project would have to be cancelled,
The JEP is perfectly entitled to run a political campaign but I am sure that you will acknowledge that it was certainly not evenly balanced in any way.
I have to say that, sympathetic as I am to the National Trust, I will not be bullied by journalists or, indeed, by a coalition of the establishment and the chattering classes.
It is a great shame that the JEP did not carry out an independent poll of ordinary Jersey people because they would probably have come to the same conclusions that I did.
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