Following my recent interventions on tax in Jersey the Jersey Evening Post ran a poll on whether the island should have introduced its zero / ten tax regime, which I opposed from 2005 onwards.
Now of course such polls do not prove anything per se as they are no scientific but the outcome was still of interest. This was the question:
And this was outcome:
I'd call that pretty a pretty emphatic endorsement for my position.
No doubt the Jersey authorities would not.
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How many people responded to this self-selecting survey…?
I have no idea
But the JEP obviously thinks these things are useful
I stress, I did not organise it
The JEP probably think it might sell newspapers
By placing a single vote and watching the change in %, approx. 500 people voted so far
Big then for Jersey
500 people out of 100,000? 0.5%? That’s hardly “big”. It’s the equivalent of 300,000 in the UK out of 60 million!
Ever heard of 300,000 people responding to a newspaper survey?
Some haven’t got that many readers
You simply could not afford to live in Jersey and are jealous. Pathetic.
How bizarre
Why should I be jealous when I have never ever thought of living in Jersey and am more than happy living where I do?
Could the problem be all yours
And the envy yours alone?
If it is correct that only 500 people completed the poll then around 340 of the 100,000 people in Jersey have said that they hold the same view as you so perhaps saying that the people of Jersey agree with you is stretching the point a little, surely?
Your other comment that the survey is not scientific seems a better view.
Oh dear: you really are a pedant aren’t you?
It’s not as if I did not give a risk warning