When will the States address population?
Tuesday 20th January 2009, 3:00PM GMT.
From Ken Taylor.
RECENTLY, our ministers announced that they would be meeting at the Hotel de France, to discuss the plan for the way we would be going for the next three years.
Once again was there no mention of capping the Island population. We are grossly over-populated, and still people are flowing in, apparently unchecked, bringing more traffic chaos, more strain on the overstretched services, longer queues everywhere more cramming in of houses. We have long passed saturation point, and with the increasing job losses in the UK I can only see this influx increasing.
I think I will be speaking for many people when I say that we had high hopes at the time of the election, but alas, we all know what happened and with the old guard back in charge, no change. So as we continue down this road (bumper to bumper) we appear to be heading for yet another disaster with the sunken road and second finance centre development still looming, given our present economic climate, which is still being ignored by our Chief Minister.
No recession in Jersey, to quote his recent claim. It seems we are going only one way, and it is not our way. Some future, eh?
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Probably when those said ministers have to live in the cramped and dingy flats that the masses are increasingly forced to call home on this overcrowded island I guess!
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Look on the bright side – if masses of people are coming to live here Jersey must be a honey pot!
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Mr Taylor – quite right.
Immigration control is something the majority of people did want in some shape or form (ie entry visas / checks etc to at least screen criminals out and only allow those workers we need in)during the recent elections and some of the new States members are very much in favour of this, however our council of ministers refuse to even consider it. As their friends in the States are in the majority there’s not much hope of being able to do anything about it at present.
Bear this in mind in 3 yeras’ time please.
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