tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2111456314243683939.post4205574016581714035..comments2023-04-02T15:53:46.924+01:00Comments on Senator Sam Mézec: 2013 - A Year for CampaigningSenator Sam Mézechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04072393815446147249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2111456314243683939.post-47413711743832100872013-01-03T23:49:42.591+00:002013-01-03T23:49:42.591+00:00The commentator is surely delusional. Rising unemp...The commentator is surely delusional. Rising unemployment is evidence of the failure of government policy. The collapse of fulfillment was there to be seen. FATCA US and UK will add to the pressure and decline of the finance industry. The result will be growing social polarisation with the elite well diversified and the suffering left to fall on working people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2111456314243683939.post-79141723539946198902013-01-01T14:22:56.405+00:002013-01-01T14:22:56.405+00:00Thanks for the comment.
On the point of a small n...Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />On the point of a small number of bus drivers abusing their power, as I have explained on my latest blog post, that doesn't stack up because all of the bus drivers have been on strike. Not just a handful of the well paid ones. It's a classic divide and conquer tactic. Turn the bus drivers against each other, and the other side will just walk all over them.<br /><br />Can it be proven that they were misled? Well, I think that given that the minister is extolling the virtues of the proposed new system suggests that he wanted it to be updated all along, despite it not being in line with what was meant to happen. If that's the case, then he was purposely misleading. Had he been open and transparent, the workers would have known about the coming changes months and months ago.<br /><br />I really think it's a mad contradiction to say we've had a great year at the same time conceding that the private sector is in decline. The two are not compatible as far as I'm concerned.<br /><br />"huge problems being thrust upon us by the outside world" typical Jersey insular attitude. Many of Jerseys problems have been our own doing. Fulfilment being the main one.<br /><br />"we have world class healthcare, education and welfare". Our healthcare system has uncompetitive wages that risk us losing our workers to other jurisdictions with higher pay and recruitment is acknowledged to be a problem. Our education system has a main school that is "not fit for purpose" and further education funding is being cut by £500k in a way that is going to affect kids from broken families. On welfare, the bill is going up because more and more people are out of jobs. You might be right to say that on balance things are good, but everything I just listed shows a regression in some areas. I believe complacency will make things worse.<br /><br />On democratic reform, well that has yet to be seen. The Electoral Commission has still provided a very clear and unnecessary path for any reform to be scuppered, and lets not forget that.<br /><br />"Our public sector is bloody well off". Please. Public sector nurses and other hospital workers get up to 18% less pay than people in equivalent professions in the private sector.Senator Sam Mézechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072393815446147249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2111456314243683939.post-33588962605154598342012-12-31T21:08:57.682+00:002012-12-31T21:08:57.682+00:00Sam
It's such a shame that you use the bus dr...Sam<br /><br />It's such a shame that you use the bus drivers dispute for political gain and ignore the overwhelming facts that don't fit your agenda. A small number of bus drivers have abused their power for years at the expense of the rest of the drivers and the public.<br /><br />Were they 'purposely' misled? Can you prove that? <br /><br />Interesting that you support the public sector in their quest for a pay rise when the sector that will ultimately pay for that rise is in decline. Have you done the maths?<br /><br />I personally think this has been one of the best years in Jersey politics that I have ever experienced. The COM have worked well together. The CM has been exceptional. Despite huge problems being thrust upon us by the outside world we have risen to the challenge. Our finances are in great shape. We have done enough to contain our finance industry decline (for now, but more needs to be done), we have world class healthcare, education and welfare. Democratic reform is on the way. <br /><br />Public sector unrest will be a wet blanket because at the end of the day our public sector is bloody well off and so after a token strike and demonstration they will retreat to their comfortable incomes and nice lives for another few years. I applaud the politicians who are brave enough to hold their ground. They are the ones that will ensure this Island prospers.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com