Hello all from a complete newbie
This is all great stuff people! But I think that rallies (sounds a bit twee doesn't it?) and pertitions are a little bit temps passé. The real people of this island, and that includes people from ALL walks of life, need to take some very positive action to bring about change before its too late again!
A big fat Demo is, I think, a good idea to try to get this bafoon out. Lots of noise, banners, placards and angry (but peaceful) protest. Not on a weekday when many cannot attend but on a Saturday am perhaps. Don't bother inviting our local media because like all good forlock tuggers they will turn it into something it ain't! Invite the UK national papers and the telly/radio folks as well. Perhaps one or two UK politicians could pop over to see for themselves the strength of feeling? But remember people, you need an alternative to the man! Think about it very carefully, out of the frying pan and into the fire and all that.
The gathering should be also a place to show our soldarity with all those who silently suffer abuse and I would suggest at least a two minutes of total silence as a mark of respect. Local politicians should also be invited, even Shaft Walker himself could attend and answer his beloved fellow islanders for which he cares so very much
To spread the news a leaflet campaign could be started with said leaflets being handed out in town and or from door to door. Don't rely on the JEP to hand out any with the post coz the lifestyle/property freebies take up far to much space!
I also suggest a boycott of the JEP with immediate effect! This Walker/States/Establishment rag is only useful for lighting your fire at home or checking the hatched/matched/dispatched bit at the back. Why anyone would purchase this utter trash is beyond me. Have you noticed how few letters re the last weeks terrible news have been printed. They must have had bucket loads, just check out the 'Have your say' section of the BBC Jersey website to see how many have voiced their opinions! Yet we have been treated to pages of former residents of care homes telling us how wonderful it all was
Phew, anyway thats my spleen vented. So all of you who listen, get out there and change it folks because it isn't going to change itself! Use a big dollop of 'People Power' and stand up for yourselves because your politicians and the wealthy that dominate this little rock won't.
Right, better get back to work before I get the sack for rabble rousing
