Full election results as they happened. See Thursday’s Jersey Evening Post for full reports, reactions, analysis and pictures.
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Good time to debate population
AS the triennial States elections rapidly approach, headline-grabbing initiatives by sitting States Members keen to keep their seats must often be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Call to freeze the population
A FREEZE on immigration has been proposed until the States get to grips with population policy.
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New brooms for a catalogue of failures
From Deputy Daniel Wimberley. WHICH way to vote – that is the question? I have put together a website which is aimed at helping the voter (whichwayshallivote.wordpress.com) but may I offer here some thoughts, or rather questions? Firstly, are the business party, or the ‘old guard’, competent? This is, after all, how they present themselves: […]
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Pleading for the States to be sympathetic to happiness levels is echoing PM Cameron
HAVE you heard the one about the States Member who wanted an expensive Saville Row suit to wear on a foreign junket?
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Abuse inquiry: ‘Whole of government blameworthy’
FAILURE to manage the historical child abuse inquiry stretched right across the sector of government, former police chief Graham Power told a Scrutiny panel on Friday.
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Deputies’ election results
Results of the Deputies’ elections as they happened. See Thursday’s Jersey Evening Post for full reports, reactions, analysis and pictures.
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The one thing States Members have in common is that they all reckon they get a hostile press, and that no one else does
SO here’s a question: which is worse – to break an election promise to ‘robustly oppose any increase in GST’ or to blag people into signing a petition to sack the Treasury Minister by telling them it’s an anti-GST campaign?
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Spending is under control, insists Deputy
A GROUP of States Members have been accused of misleading Islanders by claiming that public spending is ‘out of control’.
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Our broken electoral system needs fixing
From Deputy Daniel Wimberley. THIS week I am bringing a proposal to the States to set up an electoral commission whose task will be to find a better electoral system for Jersey. Our present system is broke and it needs fixing, in spite of the minor reforms which have been made. Many members of the […]
