The majority cannot be wrong
THE vote was very close on the schools/education debate and a one-vote win in favour of having a bit of common sense, and what it appears the majority of people wanted, stands only to prove that if two people missing from the meeting had been in the house to vote it may well have gone the other way.
It also stands as proof that there are a lot of individuals in this bunch who are determined dictators who refuse to listen to the opinion of the people who voted them into their position of power and are concerned about their children’s futures.
I suggest people keep a record of the ones who totally ignored them and are standing in the next election. Make sure you do not vote for them and put them back in power. It’s fine to be intelligent on paper, but if one has no savvy, which some of our politicians appear not to have, the same trouble and problems will only arise again.
These (we like to think) intelligent people voted on an idea put forward by Education with no infrastructure in place and let them try to fill it in as they went along. No one asked any questions like which two schools Education were looking at in this so-called two-school model or the flow of traffic in the areas to be used – or, even more important, asking the teachers (after all they are the professionals in the trade) if the idea could work, along with many other things to see if (in my opinion) this silly idea would be viable.
I think it is also about time the people had the power to remove the dead wood in the States during their four years in office as well.
As for the debate on education, taking so many days was a waste of time as well. On just about every amendment the same people got up and said the same things over and over again day after day.
Those for it said the same things in favour and those against said the same things against it. That points to another problem. The deputies should have a time limit of, say, 15 minutes maximum making their speeches, and this may stop them standing for ages saying nothing but ‘em, em, em’. I mean, some of them not only said the same things over and over, but spent 45 minutes plus saying it.
Even with the school at St Sampson’s as it is now, the States did not cover themselves in glory in respect that they put in a one-way system that leads all the traffic from that school towards another school just up the road to double the traffic flow around that school. Then they are looking at putting just about half the island’s pupils down there.
Education is one thing. Common sense is another. Like me everyone has an opinion, but the majority cannot be wrong.
ROD HAMON
5, Rosemount,
Mont Arrive,
St Peter Port.