A MOTHER of two who claims that her human rights were breached because she was refused housing qualifications is considering taking the States to court.
The woman from Thailand, known as Mrs X, was one of 32 applicants refused residential qualifications under hardship grounds so far this year.
Figures seen by the JEP show that there have been 75 applications already this year, of which 40 were approved, 32 refused and three are still pending.
Mrs X’s application was turned down by the Population Office and the Housing Minister, who said that there are ‘thousands’ of people living in a similar position in Jersey.
Article posted on 10th November, 2009 - 2.56pm
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I, like many others waited the full 20 years to become a plastic bean. It has always been at the back of my mind, who was going to be the first to try and bring a human rights case against the States for making them wait longer for their quals, than people who qualified after a shorter time, as the qualification period reduced. This possible latest action will leave the door wide open to all sorts of claims, if successful. Immigration is necessary, but had it been controlled, not by housing regulations, but by work permits or license, this very discriminatory situation would now, not be a problem. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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Good luck sweetheart I hope you beat the system and open the floodgates, it is high time the apartheid system was abolished
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Would Mrs X tell us how foriegners are treated in her country, i.e. are permanent visas’ required, is buying and OWNING land or property allowed etc. and would WE be accepted as ‘residents’ say after 30 years ??
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While this poor woman is suffering the agonies and torture of the Jersey legal system, J-category States workers on five-year contracts are allowed to buy houses and flats.
Is this just? Answers on a postage stamp, please.
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Yeah lets open up the floodgates and then you can moan once again when house prices rise further out of most peoples reach.
If you dont like it dont come here go and work and live someplace else if. See if you even manage to get a work permit or a visa. I am not going to quote that boat in the morning rubbish I am simply saying you know before you come here or at least you should and if you dont think you will like our rules dont bother gracing us with your whining presence.
I do have sympathy for Mrs X though as it is likely she would have had no idea when brought over but the rest of the moaners why did you come here if all you are going to do is moan about the quallies rules. Go home.
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If Mrs X gets her way, then I will be able to get on to the housing ladder much quicker, My wife and I have been in Jersey three years now and am trying to get something better than what we now have.
If mrs X gets her quallies through the human rights way, the we shall also, same rights fall all.
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yes very selfish i lost my quali after 40 years here and work hard 70 the week ;i thing they take the best the rverythig ;so many got house in france and use the social system and never paye contribution in france ;but in jersey put you out easily please not give my name ;i got relative in jersey thank
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Just arrived – well I hope if you want to get on the Jersey property market you have a 30% deposit which on a 500,000 would be 150,000, so you could then have a 350,000 mortgage.
Wouldn’t it be alot cheaper to live in the UK?
If this goes through we will be flooded with people from all over. And tax payers will doubtless get hit with paying yet more benefits.
What a wonderful world
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A migration free-for-all? Bring it on….. I’ll sell my little house for x times its current value, the entire island can end up concreted over and I’ll be retired rich elsewhere!
Or we can try to limit our population – it doesn’t take a genius to work it out. I most certainly would point out the boat in the morning!
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Er is this some kind of joke? there are local people over here who have their basic human rights violated every day! welcome to Jersey .. Think it is time that the states start adapting the same methods as Australia.. if you cant afford to support yourself or you are not local don’t bother. We are definately way overpopulated as it is. No I am not being racist or snobby just factual.
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For the record, where someone is born is purely an accident of their birth. No one has more or less moral right to any land anywhere. We are all people and all citizens of this planet. Those who advocate people getting on the next boat show their colours as self-interested and thoughtless. As for the raping of this island and the house prices issue … look no further than Jersey born people for doing this, i.e. the States.
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Jersey is and should be for those of us who are making the biggest contribution to its financial health – end of. If we leave you would have to go back to a peasant existence – with a few landlords employing the masses to look after their potato fields and herds of cows or work in their dodgy boarding houses. You never had it so good and the reason is down to foreign workers building a finance industry you didn’t or do not have the intellectual ability to develop or run yourselves. So stop your bellyaching and wake up to reality.
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AAA….. I remember the 50s well, doors left open neighbour takes washing down when it rains,
Potato lorries loosing new potatoes when going down Mount Millais on the bend then collecting them for lunch on way home from ST. James school.
leaving car keys in so that anyone blocked in can move your car out of way, no car thieve, in those days, only borrowing a car was permitted.
Cod liver oil after lunch, bovril after supper, Marmite sandwiches for school, if one was posh , and plum jam from coop if not.The mail boat in the morning for those who won´t fit into “The Jersey way”. Smallpox jabs, polio scares and then polio vaccine on a bit of sugar, Toilets emptied into the sea at Havre des par AAAA….I remember it well, great times, No finance industry , no immigrants, no jobs, no Doctor calling beceuse mum couldn’t afford the bills,,,,, yes great times…
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Thinker, yes, the one world mentality.
Let us all go to America and tell them how to run their [sorry all of our] country.Who needs a visa when we are planet citizens, man?
What about doing the same in the arab states? I am sure that they would be most impressed with this leftist, progressive ideology. Wonderful! Don’t forget to send a postcard from the prison.
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