Senator’s insult a breach of conduct
Thursday 3rd June 2010, 2:59PM BST.
Senator Jim Perchard
SENATOR Jim Perchard broke the States Members’ code of conduct by insulting a blogger who called into a radio programme, an inquiry has concluded.
The Privileges and Procedures Committee has found that the Senator broke the part of the code that requires States Members to ‘treat other members of the States, officers, and members of the public with respect and courtesy and without malice’.
On the BBC’s Talkback programme on 25 March, Senator Perchard insulted ‘Voice for Children’ blogger Neil McMurray, sparking three complaints to the committee.
On the programme, Senator Perchard said to Mr McMurray: ‘I think you’ve probably got too much time on your hands. I think like many of the people who are unemployed or on benefits you would really be better off getting a proper job.’
He then added: ‘I was not talking about everybody that’s unemployed or people on invalidity benefits. I was talking about Neil McMurray.’
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What hasn’t come over in this is just how personally insulting this was to the person involved. Senator Perchard knowing the physical circumstances of the individual deliberately chose his words . Hopefully Neil through Team Voice will expand on this as it is should be in the public arena but it is up to him. Over to you Neil.
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Cannot keep a good man down! It seems that Senator Perchard has a tendency, and certainly previous for, for this style of attempted put-down.
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Sorry to go against the grain but I actually agree with Senator Perchard with his tongue in cheek comment!
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This daft citizens media does not know when its crossing the line and some of these States members are having to deal with cyber insults nobody has ever witnessed before.
Okay maybe Senator Perchard should not of told this caller to get a job but he obviously knew who he was talking to and it doesn’t read like an ordinary member of the public to me.
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Errr… Grow up springs to mind.
He probably shouldnt have said that – true. Its not cool
BUT
McMurrey – Im guessing he’s an adult, get over it.
It was 2 months ago now and its in the news.
Is there not more pressing issues that need to be addressed like where the next ugly statue is going to be erected (hehe) against the public opinion
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The man he insulted has only one hand,so mr.perchard should think before he makes these sweeping statements.
The same told SS to go and slit his wrists last year.
What lessons will children learn when
they hear these comments from a senator?
Time we had a clean sweep with these so called leaders.
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You would expect no less of a comment from this man, he already insulted Senator Syvret in the States Chamber, manners was never a strong point with this person.
Only ignorant people behave like that.
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I agree with Jimmy Perchard’s comments entirely
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Perhaps Sen. Perchard would be better off getting a proper job. One he is better suited to at least. Remind me again what we are paying hime for?
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Well said!!! Far too many people on benefits on this island who are fraudsters just because they are too lazy to get a job and know social will support them!!!
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Jimmy Perchard along with Terry Le Main should be thrown out of the States without another penny of tax payers money…..
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Perchard your only saying what the many of us are thinking however he could have expressed himself a little better. If your out of work regardless of the reason as so many people are naturally you have more time on your hands and there is no reason for it because this week is Help Charity week and I know when I was out of work several years ago and couldn’t gain a position through no fault only that there were no positions to be had I put a lot of my time into help the Parish. There are many things you can do with extra time and put that time to good use.
What Perchard defines as a proper job has to be established and nowadays it is no easy to gain any job but to claim that this is a breach I feel it a little harsh.Surely he is as entitled to his opinion as the rest of us Staes Member or not. I do believe the states has become far too personaland so many scoring points off each other rather than getting on with the job in hand.
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Why hasn’t Stuart Syvret ever been brought to account for the way he treats some members of the public by PPC?
This complaint was pathetic by the way.
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Fair play Jiminy Cricket!
You just said what everybody else is thinking.
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I know 2 people who have both lost hands and they both hold down full time employment. In fact I also know of 2 people who are quadraplegic and they too both work.
I think it’s time that this was investigated. If this man is capable of chasing politicians all over the island with a video camera, then surely he is able to work.
That’s my tax money that’s being dished out needlessly here.
And if Senator Perchard is going to be bought to task regarding his comments, then surely Mr Syvret should be bought to the many many insults that he has delivered over the past couple of years.
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There are people here making judgements on a man they do not even know. Firstly the person on the receiving end of Mr Perchard’s very nasty and personal comments has a disability. Furthermore that disability was as a result of an accident caused AT WORK!!
Just because he runs a Blog which is informative (more so than the local media), means that anybody is privy to a lot more than they otherwise would be, and for that he should be thanked.
Mr Perchard seems to have a penchant for opening his mouth and putting his foot in it which is not the way he should behave. He is another that should be got shot of.
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Well Said Mr P, Island is too small for people who purposely think that they can drain the state coffers!
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Could,nt agree more!
(7)He dos,t need a proper job as he is a millionaire!
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Jimmy Perchard for Chief Minister! I did not know anything about this until now but I like it!
At last a Senator who really does say what people think for a change!
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I wonder how many of you who agree with Senator Perchard’s sentiments actually know Mr McMurray and what suffering he endures. Or could it be you’re all a bunch of bandwagon jumping hypocrites?
Kage – comment 5, Mr McMurray got over it ages ago, but it’s not his fault PPC take so long at investigating complaints!
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Not the first time he forgot to engage his brain first.
Get rid of him – more money saved here philip!
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He should have gone altogether the first time..how many times do these types need to show their true colours..His situation is completely untenable…he failed to do the honorable thing last time…now he must go or be pushed…how undignified to stain his office twice and clearly knows no remorse, just words.
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Farmer Jim just can’t help himself can’t he ?
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He’s a potato farmer playing at politics, what do you expect??
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My opinion is that Senator Perchard was only expressing an opinion, He would be right in saying that people on benefits should keep their head down, and be grateful for what we, the tax payer hand out to them and , not to bite the hand that feeds them.
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Is this some kind of joke? Senator Perchard has been insulted constantly by this man and his friends, including one ex-senator. He only said what the majority of us who read blogs are thinking. Well done, Jimmy!
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So, expressing an opinion that a capable person should “Find better things to do with his time and should get a job and stop sponging off society ” is worthy of public censure to the Senator involved , whilst accusing people of mass murder, being rapists or worse being paedophiles is quite ok in the PPC’s version of good governance? What a sick society we live in.
Well done Jimmy for telling those capable who believe its their right it is to claim benefits where to get off.
People who think its their right to lambast politicians on the radio or on thier blog or anywhere else, really ought to look closer to home.
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How can PPC really be taken seriously now, they really are a joke?
Syvret, when a States member would spray abuse and lies at any random target. Why did he never have a report done by PPC about his behaviour and breach of the code. So regular and multiple was Syvret’s abuse they could have written a report every day of the week for the last 3 years.
No, I say good on Senator Perchard for telling Mr McM to do something useful and that he would be better off getting a job and contributing to the society that he dislikes so much
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Wake up people – Perchard is right – these people are antiracists,typical of Syvret supporters. This man is agenda driven –
GET A JOB Mr McMurray.
My wife and I have difficulty maintaining our family, paying our rent, buying essentials and treating our two children to small treats. We cant afford to kee you as well. Please contribute to society.
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PPC. Who are they? They must be nuts, what this all about ?
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I know Neil quite well – he is bright and competent.
There is something in what Perchard says.
Why shouldn’t Neil be expected to work after all he is smart and able to contribute.
I want my taxes to be spent on those who are genuinely weak and vulnerable.
I am sorry, this may sound harsh but GET A JOB if you can
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Nothing wrong with telling people to put their free time into getting a proper job. Senator Perchard has just gone way up in my estimations. Well put and well said so good for him!
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The way this Island is going Neil may not have any choice but start looking for a job. People on benefits are now losing their GST food refund amongst other things like free pescriptions if you read the small print. Jimmy was only making a suggestion so fair play to him. These blogs have been getting nasty sometimes.
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I hate the fact it is an offence to say what you think! He has one hand but I dont see the problem here, by which I mean he should still be able to get a job as there are laws that prevent employers discriminating against him. If he has any issues file a complaint against the people who refused to employ him, obviously if they didn’t employ him for a valid reason.
@20. Debbie, be quiet, It always annoys me when people generalise against any opposing view, I mean what makes you right? and everone else is jumping on the band wagon! What a ignorant statement against anyone who doesn’t agree with you.
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Having listened to the programme, I was shocked at the attack by Perchard, he obviously felt cornered and like a rabid dog attacked in the most despicable way. He was after all talking to a member of the voting public, his employer in fact.
Combine this with the outrageous comments to Stuart Syvret, and the fact that he LIED about them, in my book it’s 3 strikes and you’re OUT !
Disgraceful behaviour.
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Jimmy Perchard has my full backing. Neil is a tough cookie and will not take these comments personally. But on the whole the Phone-in is taken up with a few people who don’t work and just moan so maybe it was time for a few home truths to be told! These Health conspriacy blog theories and Haut de la Garenne coconuts have gone beyond a joke and we are ALL fed up with it never mind Senator Perchard!
Neil should now channel his time in better ways.
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Now lets get this right. Stuart Syvret has even had the Chapman Report dedicated to the way he treats civil servants and members of the public yet he doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist by PPC. Yet a very well known blogger who has been harrassing Senator Perchard together with the ex-senator manages to get him ticked off after Senator Perchard rightly told the blogger to get a job on radio. How one sided can you get? And when is Syvret and his fellow blogger going to concentrate on Island issues that actually matter for a change and stop intimidating people with rubbish about Graham Power and the HSS? I read this morning yet more intimidating attacks on Senator Perchard, is this how the majority of Island voters want this Island run? Come on, come 16th June 2010 we can change all of this and get rid of Stuart Syvret for good! Now is the time to do something!
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Some people just can’t handle the truth.
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I listened to the radio programme and I thought the comments were uncalled for because they went straight into personal attack and it was made even worse because it was on live radio.
Anybody who knows Neil or spent anytime speaking to me will tell you that all he does is ask questions about events that either do not add up or do not make much sense. Nothing wrong with that and if you read most of the dozen or so other local blogs they are all doing something very similar.
But I cannot agree with what was said and the way it was put, frustration or not it was wrong.
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it would appear that some of Syvret’s supporters are over egging the pudding here. Perchard’s comments are, in my view, perfectly acceptable. Publishing some semi-literate, partisan rant on a blog-site does not a journalist make. These so called “Citizen Media” types are just unemployed people with too much time on their hands. They might as well stay at home playing “Operation” and describe themselves as Surgeons. Jimmy is right, stop whinging and go and get a job.
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Jon H are you out of your mind? Try watching some of the youtube videos of harrassment against Senator Perchard and loads of others and you will see their behaviour is disgusting.
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Look if politicians cannot cope with direct public questions with a camcorder then they shouldn’t be in the job and there are some genuine questions emerging from some of these blogs from both sides which remain unanswered and what is wrong with asking questions about them? If we have a scenario where people say, “oh you cannot ask that”, then we may as well all be living in North Korea.
I am not taking any sides here I am just saying that I thought the radio outburst was a step too far and PPC have acknowledged that so do not start having ago at me because I just so happen to think the attack on Neil was out of order. I am sure it may take two to tango but then again two wrongs do not make a right so shove it if you do not like my take on it all… Grrrrrrr!
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The whole point of being a statesman is that you don’t stoop to whatever is thrown….Perchard tried coming over on the radio as a smart ass…that is not what is required…can you imagine,”well Barak old chum ,we had a dissenter on local radio,but I soon told him where to get off,lazy git” one of the most glaring problems of this Govt is it’s dysfunction and gutter level behaviour of those placed in positions of trust.
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I agree with Jon H & Truthseeker, Senator Perchard lost it on the radio. He lost it in the States. When will he lose it again? If its too hot then get out of the kitchen, we need stronger stuff than this representing the Island.
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Stuart Syvret’s behaviour is much worse than this though. When is he going to be held to account for all the lies and anguish he has caused against others? Perchard is in the wrong I agree with that but its on the light side of weak when compared to that Stuart Syvret’s behaviour.
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What I find sick is that Neil has a handicap and is limited to what jobs he can do so Senator Perchard hates his questions as well does he? Well tough, Jon H is right, if you cannot handle it then get out of politics, there were a 101 ways to deal with Talk Back questions but never lose your temper.
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I think Mr Perchard should go back to picking spuds. he’s hardly the sharpest knife in the tool box is he?
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Having read the VFC website, not all of it but a lot of it this evening I have not found anything on it that shows an attack on J Perchard as opposed to the one he makes on the bloke blogging his own view.
I didnt see one exerpt where he slags him off in such distain as Mr Perchard did to him. Fair enough moan about Stuart Syvrets slagging off of people, thats what he does but this Neil bloke hasn’t stooped to that level at all.
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This is a Stuart Syvret nominator isn’t it?
Get a job? Tschhh.
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A serious question to all who would accuse SS of worse….why has he not been taken to court for such….? and why has no one challenged him at the hustings about such…methinks those who bitch about him should put up or shut up,had I been libeled or berated unfairly I would have done so,and please not the it’s not worth it he’s skint excuse for if all the so called outrage and hurt feelings are genuine the size of any claim would be irrelevant…….No I did not think so….he may well be irksome and an irritant to some with delicate feelings…but boy does he have staying power and not afraid to challenge the COM which let’s face it are crumbling as the real cracks appear even if the core establishment clones close ranks for TLS the rest of us see him for what he is and know the game is up…Jersey deserves so much better representation….
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I think Perchard has got “balls” he is one of a few politicians who actually speaks his mind and says what he feels.
I remember when Perchard wrote to the JEP about cyber bullies! You will remember that he took some flak for that letter on the blog sites, especially on the Syvret blog !
Did he have any support from his colleagues in the states? Well if he did they kept quiet and hid in the shadows probably because they were scared, as they didn’t, themselves want to become victims of Syvret’s blog. They were bullied and were cowardly in response.
Perchard has courage and I salute him. If I were in the trenches and going over the top, he is the sort of guy I would want to cover me and on my side.
As for PPC who ever you are SHAME ON YOU
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I heard the phone-in that day. My recollection is that the caller rang and ranted on and on. Kirsty eventually told him to ask a question. Senator Perchard accused the caller of being a conspiracy theorist and that he seemed to have to much time on his hands and that he would be better off getting a job.
Blunt, yes but put this in perspective. This was a political phone-in.
Grow up.
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Neil should not be on trial here because at the end of the day its all down to what is right and wrong.
If we go around shooting every messenger then this Island would be in chaos.
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I have always, until now, had difficulty understanding how a small and chaotic “Workers’ Party” in the early 1930s, with no coherent policies, could have so successfully intimidated opponents and crushed dissent, in one of the (historically) most civilised nations in Europe.
Reading the self-styled “citizens’ media” blogs, over the past year or so, has given me a chilling insight into how that process must have worked. Only the technology has changed.
I am very far from being a fan of Senator Perchard’s, but PPC have made themselves look ridiculous by picking on this trivial matter, while studiously ignoring infinitely bigger targets.
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Senator Perchard is the one who needs to grow up. He is an elected representitive being paid by the tax payer and should not have behaved in such an immature and childish manner.
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52 joel…sorry can’t resist it..”Time on his hands” Err Hum he actually only has the one…lost the other one in an excruciating accident….while….WORKING.
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It seems that Mr McMurray can dish the dirt but can’t take it. He was moaning on the radio the other week how disgraceful it was that he and Stuart Syvret were being bullied. I laughed so much I nearly choked on my sandwich.
Perhaps Mr McMurray could actually explain why he cannot work. Yes he has a physical disability but then so have many other people in full time work. He may not be able to do manual labour but there are plenty of other roles that he could fill. He can operate a video camera, use a key-board and drive a large four wheel drive so again I ask, can he please explain why he cannot work.
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truthseeker i think it is about time you gave us your alternetive goverment of ministers you have a lot of opinions but you do seem a bit biased so i would like to see if you would name them so as we could be sure that you have the interest of the island at heart not just your own.
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Any civilised society should provide for the weak, vulnerable and infirm. However, with an ageing population this philosophy will become increasingly demanding on the public finances. This is why, if persons are able to contribute to society, rather than sponge off the taxpayer, they should be expected to do so. Give and not take.
If people are partially limited by their ability to work because of illness or disability they should be expect to receive partial support.
This all or nothing system is bonkers.
The system should encourage people like Neil (who is extremely capable) back to work.
It’s not only morally wrong to take funding from society what should be spent of those who are genuinely needy, it is not affordable any longer.
Benefits and financial support must be targeted at those in genuine need.
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Stuart Syvret is the bully, he just has a few people around him who are scared of crossing him.
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58 the voice…Happy to answer any questions really….it is not so much a case of choosing from this sadly polluted bunch…though there are some of whom I actually admire and support…the old boys club is what must go…the way elections are rigged to keep the ruling elite in place is flawed and not fair…what would be fair is a reform designed on open fairness….the removal of situations where one minister can overrule an entire planning committee in favour of a fellow politician for instance….any autocratic situation works against the people..we also need a proper constitution..based on true values, honesty and good standards…it would serve to ensure correct behaviour and guard against all these personal agenda’s and deals for the old pals act.we currently have a dodgy group who are using our money to ensure continued secrecy…if secrecy is the prime concern it is because dark agenda’s are rife that and can only lead to an even more totalitarian state,where if someone does not like you…you can become an enemy of the state…and we all know where that leads…dawn raids by rabid police,privacy violation,search and seizure..no warrant nescessary.need I continue…rules and good order are too important to leave to personalities in a world with plummeting standards….a constitution is insurance against the codeless materialistic power brokers, bullies and grabbers.we need a govt that we can trust and therefore respect,you’d think they’d know that and behave accordingly..so it show’s how omnipotent the personal agendas have become.so the COM have become no more than a gang of like minded wealthy boys…and get all affronted when they are called Gangsters.such feigned righteousness is puke making to the average person.
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Mr Jersey your spot on.
Similarly to what you write -the Old age pension will not be able to be paid to all 65 yr olds in the future.
We are an ageing population and we are living longer. People at 65 are young and at 65 one can still do great things in the work place.
So people who can contribute like fit and able 65, 66, 67 yr olds, the likes of Mr McMurray who don’t seem to want or expect to work should be encourage through a mechanism of reducing benefits if they fail to accept work offered.
NO MOR FREEBIES
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Mmmm…Another 11 Jim Perchards as Senators and we might just get there.Love him or hate him he speaks his mind and I can see from the other 62 comments he is far from totally disagreed with.Real pity that rather than disciplining one of our finer politicians a little more effort was made to sort out Stuart Syvret whose behaviour has been nothing less then a complete disgrace in recent months but is allowed to run circles around the estalishment.Its just not cricket(sorry about the pun Jim)!
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#58 I think you’re going to have to vote for truthseeker (61).
Anyone who can say “Happy to answer any questions”, and then spend several hundred words carefully not answering the one that’s been put, has a natural talent for politics.
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Wake up everbody.
Support those in need – Of course. Support those who fall on hard times – Absoultly.
Support those who can but dont want to work ! No Never.
Your quite right Mr Perchard.
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Good on you Jimbo
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truthseeker by the old boy club i will assume you mean the present ministers so i will ask once again please name there replacements from the rest of the people elected. i wait for your reply.
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67 the voice…the old boy club..just take the collective of constables who despite their protestations to the contrary pretty much vote en bloc….are hopelessly enmeshed..so what you are asking is I choose from those there..and I am saying I would not choose many as the system within which they currently are demands that they capitulate with one anothers agendas…so unless they are freed by constitution they remain compromised…If you are determined that the question remains unanswered I can only assume you want to….most followers of local politics who understand how the game works will completely understand…I would not want what is presently there as the theme of the old boys network remains the same whoever is there..let me give an example Juliet Gallichan came in being a bit of a girl for the people in her image…look now.establishment through and through..so much so Tadier quit the privliges and procedures committee as she will not censure any of the aforementioned…need i say more…?
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I am totally unimpressed with some of these attacks against Neil McMurray. How can people say that some of the blogs out there are behaving badly when its no different on here?
People should not be discussed like this, its not fair.
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Truthseeker – Tell us all –
What is your take on Juliette Gallichan and her PPC lot, not having taken against Syvret when he was in politics? Do you agree that his outbursts, lies and comments on “the Vile blog” were obscene and disgraceful and that PPC should have delt with him ?
Why report on Jimmy Perchard for telling a bloke to get a job ?
My view for what its worth is, that the PPC is incompetent, pathetic and should be removed by states members asap.
I talk to many elected members and am reliably informed that PPC are a laughing stock amongst States members and officers of the States.
I was with 3 Ministers recently who just shruged their shoulders with a grin and said “what do you expect from the likes of Mike Higgins, Ben Fox and Colin Egre?”
These three titans of judgement are sat on by Juliette Gallichan as Chairperson !!!!
They bring our government and States into complete disrepute.
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Alex, what do you think of the Syvret attacks on people ? DO YOU CONDEM THEM OUTRIGHT .
No, I thought not.
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Stuart SYvret’s blog should have been closed down as soon as he was charged by the Police for breaking data protection law. What is wrong with them? It is sheer evil what he has done or tried to do to some people.
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70MM I could not add much to your appraisal of ppc..either they have teeth or not and it seems not…Perchard did not simply tell the bloke to get a job ..it was a deliberate put down…unseemly and conduct unbecoming while on the media..imagine a loose canon like him on national T.V. ..you need to be able to conduct yourself in interviews etc…and say what you like about SS..he kicked Frank’s butt on Paxman..so it’s about Perchard’s clumsy public appearances and attitude not so much whether some phone in guy has or has not a job..disasabled or otherwise…now remember the channel T.V. interview with Perchard after the “Top yourself” outburst in the chamber..it was as cringeworthy a piece as one would dread..I do not want him representing me…and if people are going to lie then at least make it look convincing…he was not.
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What is this aroma that passes by ?
Ah yes of course.
It is the nauseating odour of PPC Double Standards .
Yuk how revolting
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I’m surprised BBC Jersey even broadcast the conversation, when they are capable of cutting 1/3rd of a candidates speech out on their St.Peters hustings. I’m sure you can guess whose speech it was, but no indication whatsoever was given that that candidate had been edited.
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Truth seeker – what then do you think of the Syvret attacks on people ?
DO YOU CONDEM THEM OUTRIGHT .
No, I thought not.
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76.MM do you think the only view is outright condemnation..? I do not for many have been proved correct and others remain to be disproved or otherwise….if they were as bad/false as you imply why have the courts not been the proving ground…?
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truthseeker.so i can take it you will not be answering my question.i can understand that because correct me if i am wrong but you seem to think that the majority of members are part of the establishment so you must be a supporter of the minority which is fair enough but surly from the people you support you could name your ministers you mention tadier in your answer so what position would you give him. please name the others you would put forward and what positions you would like them to take in goverment stop hiding behind a system you dont agree with just come out and name them you must have your preferance for people who could change that system so please share with us you never know we might agree with you .
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Having looked at the tirade of insults published by Mr McMurray on his “blog news” this compliant is a bit rich, like a very old and very dirty pot calling a kettle black. It is a shame that Senator Perchard resorted to bringing himself all the way down to his level but then why should people have to face such continued provocation and not retaliate.
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The blinked truthseeker who avoids the truth.
Just like the rest of them. ( ie the other 6or 7 discontents )
Very sad – bring on the revolution hey mr truthseeker !!
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An explanation is certainly overdue as to why the States and PPC have failed to protect States members, employees and members of the public for so long from the appalling accusations, insults and provocations from the likes of McMurray and others who seem intent to misuse “blogs” as a vehicle to attack others. Equally Ex Senator Syvret and his supporters seem to think that PPC have already gone to far in curbing their right to “free speech”.
What does appear to have been established from the comments above is that at least Senator Perchard is honest in his comments and that perhaps politicians should be encouraged to call a spade a spade. Well done Senator Perchard for having the guts to expressing publicly the opinions of the majority of Islanders who voted for you.
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I stopped taking any notice of this blog trash after reading insults against others because its attention seeking, but what gets me is how can Stuart Syvret even have the face or even the bottle to stand at the hustings amongst people he has done this to? Talk about double standards and I shall not be voting for him for this amongst multiple other things that have annoyed me.
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78…If you choose to think of hiding instead of getting the point there is little I can do for you,quite how you turned from a you to a “We” is intrigueing…I will however list those I find to have depth and sincerity….their skills though I maintain are hampered by a twisted system.A.Breckon.G.Butcher.Bob Hill,M.Higgins,T.Vallois.Dan Wimberley,S.Yates
P.Rondel,S.Crowcroft,Ben Shenton,Roy Le Herrisier..all the above have demonstrated their truth at personal expense.80 MM.I refer you to my last answer..and as for revolution..Oh I do hope so, for this COM is just a failure ,we know it,they even know it and are beginning to look askance at each other in a, how much longer can we keep the illusion up ,way.and you know what..you know it too..!
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The hustings last night was a joke. Syvret says that only he can change the States well dream on, because he has had 2 decades to do this and from where I am standing he can’t and to add to it the insults on his blog against other candidates are just getting worse.
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Syvret’s blog is indeed getting worse. He, and his supporters are actively looking for any dirt that can be dished up on anyone who does not agree with them. They seem to have no regard for the families of the people they trash. Will they keep on until someone cannot take any more, and a tragedy occurs.Of course Syret will accept no blame. He never has done, or ever will. He insists on saying how brave he is to give up his seat in order to bring about this by-election. He did not give up his seat, he lost it because he ran away to the uk to avoid a court hearing. How brave was that!
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I see McMurray has a video on his blog of someone moaning about how the island doesn’t do enough for them. She claims that her rent is £133 a week and her living conditions not good enough. What is wrong with these people. Why can’t they get jobs and support themselves instead of just sitting around all day whinging and expecting hand outs from the states.
On top of the £1300 a month I pay in rent for me and my son to live, I have to fork out about £400 a month in taxes, most of which probably goes to support these people. Makes me sick!
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Its not just his blog but its his nameless contributors that are cowardly attacking other States members and civil servants all the time. Hardly anybody will stick their real name behind these attacks.
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Mr Syvret is now a one man act because all progressives have turned against him in this election by standing against him which he did not expect. Thats why the blog is becoming more bitter and twisted than ever because they have messed up his job prospects.
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Why oh why do you read his blog if it narks you so much..? and as for insults..and the attendant sensitivity to them, I have never known a community so obsessed with what other people think or,heaven forbid ,might think, why..? get over it.anything said about me is either true or false..if it is true then maybe I should address it..if it is false ,why would I give it head room.resentment is letting someone occupy your mind rent free,now at least as good Jersey citizens you surely would not want that …would you..?
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I’ve never really sat firmly on either side of the fence when it comes to Stuart Syvret. I have always admired the passion that drives the man to stand up to the old boys network, but at the same time have questioned the sanity of doing so in what is clearly a no-win situation. If there were a dozen SS’s in the States, we may have seen some radical change years ago, but the records show that anyone who has tried to rock the political boat in Jersey has nearly always been beaten down by the ‘fathers’ of the island. It’s no wonder the poor man has become paranoid and has been driven half mad by it all.
I often wonder how some of the more recent additions to the States who have a bit of an edge to them – mostly listed in Post 83 above and in particular Ben Shenton, would have faired had SS not paved the way for them. Ben, like his father, is a great politician and not afraid to reveal the truth, no matter how ugly it may be, but it has to be said that he probably only ‘gets away with’ much of this because of who he is and the fact that most things pale in comparison to anything that SS happens to be up to at the time!
As for commenting on this news story… Jim Perchard is a farmer trying to be a politician. Tact was never one of his greatest assets so what can you expect? No matter what the background to the argument, if, as an able-bodied man in a position of authority, he sees fit to publicly criticise a disabled person, he has to live with the consequences. But then Terry Le Main has a history of putting his foot in it in this way, yet it always seems to have been magically swept under the carpet and forgotten about within days, so I’m sure Jim will be giving him a call for a few tips on this one over the next few days.
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I see Syvret differently now in that he could never keep up with the people around him in the States after 20 years so he resorted to becoming a trouble maker instead and I seriously doubt the accuracy of everything he says now, actually I dissmiss it all. You cannot deny it and you have to ask yourself this, if the Island was run by blogs and his especially was so bang on with accuracy then why hasn’t anybody ever been charged for anything he claims and why doesn’t every States member run one seeing as they have such a captive audience? The blog world is Syvret’s downfall, yet he carries on as if nothing around him is happening.
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87 Marcus…and you are….? oh I see anonymous..now there’s a thing,well well.do you not know how destructive,spiteful and revengeful “The State” is…? and you wonder why some won’t post under their names……I will assume you are young.
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no 83 thank you for your answer even if i had to ask the question three times i found your selections very interesting but could i ask what you mean by personal expense.having read your article on over spending quangos cival servents and tax of which the majority of your comments i agree with i find it very strange to find the name of m.higgins there as it was not so long ago that he was suggesting that jersey should borrow money to pay for things that we needed to do as far as i am concerned not something i would like to see.how about you.
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93.By personal expense I do not mean £££ but in Flak taken,I think you’ll find that while money was cheap to borrow.M Higins thought it imprudent to pay for the incinerator debacle in one go,and keep some liquid dosh available…other than that like you I agree we should live within our means….something Roy Travert warns about. Hope he rolls out for election next time..would be a great candidate,plain speaking,honest and very smart.
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