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The erosion of democracy. A grave mistake. A strike at the very heart of our centuries-old traditions of representation. A decision that could jeopardise our political stability. A move that might force the UK government to send gunboats into St Aubin’s Bay with nary a whiff of a UN Resolution…

OF all of the things that you’ll hear during the election campaign, my money’s on this one being a big hit among candidates: ‘This is the biggest election for years.’

From Daniel Wimberley. 97,857 – your headline had no exclamation mark; none was needed (JEP, 8 December). A disaster; a deceit: Islanders have always stated that they do not want the population to rise – and the Growth Party has ignored them. Population is one of the biggest issues facing the Island, affecting all other […]

ONE subject which it might have been imagined that the States of Jersey had had quite enough of debating by now is the States of Jersey.

From Deputy Daniel Wimberley. PLÉMONT continues the sad story. The feelings of a large section of the public expressed in a huge petition and the Line in the Sand count for nothing when set against the interests of a billionaire developer. Jersey is for sale. Trevor Hemmings ‘owns thousands of pubs, millions of square feet […]

A WEEK, according to former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, is a long time in politics. But when the inmates of Charlie Chuckle’s Laughter Factory are at their navel-contemplating best, an hour can seem like a lifetime.