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Picking up the pieces
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The decision to reject the result of April’s referendum on electoral reform undoubtedly marks a new low in public perception of the Island’s government, even though it was neither entirely unpredictable nor, in all the circumstances, entirely unreasonable.
The vote has nevertheless generated a sense of shock and fury at a level rarely seen in Jersey, where the States Assembly was not exactly held in consistently high regard to begin with. That is so because, regardless of the merits and nuances of the arguments on which this week’s 28-21 vote was based, it will always look like an arrogant, contemptuous dismissal of public opinion.
Read the rest of this leader in Friday’s JEP.
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