Town Park Vote Fiasco

The JEP reported on the States decision to spend £10m on a town park. It is interesting to look at the votes for (including the erroneous vote of Senator MacLean) and wonder where the politicians that want the park really think the money comes from. Do they really believe that the majority of the Island wants a town park. That would have been something to put to referendum.

But no, we have politicians who do little for the people, but vote to spend our money. We have a States owned body, Jersey Post, competing against Island businesses.

We now have Jersey Telecom, another States owned business, advertising in the recruitment section of the Times for a Chief Executive Officer, using a recruitment agency called Brooklands Recruitment based in the UK. Are the Jersey based businesses not good enough for them?

Back to the town park, is this vision of loveliness going to replicate the other town parks, People's Park and The Parade and provide us with benches peopled with drunks and feral youth, which make them such a delight to walk through during the day. Will it be home to a ten hour Rock in the Town Park concert which the neighbours will be forced to listen to.

The politicians could have had a better suggestion - these are hard times - £10m - what could we spend it on - well if we must spend it what about a cost of living rise for the workers or spend it on cleaning the weeds from the roads.