Old well-trodden system of voting was better than what we now have
WELL, the recent ‘thoughts of Horace Camp’ are the best ever – he hits the nail on the head. All of what he says is a direct result of island-wide voting, which I voted against. What IWV did was to allow minority groups to organise themselves, and concentrate on voting for their mouthpiece resulting in the useless government that we are left with. In the past the deputies were never accountable, but at least they would think about their actions because they would have to face their parishioners, who by and large they were accountable to. All we now have are good talkers with no substance, your typical pub lawyer. How many of the current ‘Crazy Gang’ attend parish meetings, I wonder? In the past they would have attended their parish meetings, but now they don’t feel obliged to.
When the vote for the IWV referendum was formulated it should have been only, ‘Are you in favour of island-wide voting, yes or no?’ It seems to me that obviously the vote against was watered down by the alternatives that were offered – it almost guaranteed that the IWV lobby would win the day. With IWV it was impossible to hold hustings, you had to make a decision based on the nonsense that was written in their manifesto, which as we know wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. As I remember it, this all stemmed from the few – again the minority – who cried that there were candidates in other voting areas that they wished to vote for, and couldn’t because they were not in that area. Well tough, that goes for everyone – you cannot have all you wish for in life.
We all have to give up things for the greater good.
Now somehow this decision has to be reversed, we cannot possibly go through another four years of this nonsense – we need to go back to the old well-trodden system, that as we know worked.
It wasn’t perfect but it was better than what we now have. On that island to the south of us we are a laughing stock – they must be rubbing their hands.
M Bourgaize