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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.

Readers' Letters|Apr 18, 2023
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