{"id":11606,"date":"2011-08-22T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2011-08-22T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:45:18","slug":"11606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/22\/11606\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories, the Big Society and Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jersey Evening Post<\/a> has published a gushing report saying:<\/p>\n

PRIME Minister David Cameron should come to Jersey to see his vision of the \u2018Big Society\u2019 in action, according to one of his MPs who has been in the Island this week.<\/p>\n

Conservative MP Daniel\u00a0Kaczynski\u00a0has been in the Island for an official visit, and he has echoed the comments about Jersey\u2019s community spirit that departing Lieutenant-Governor Andrew Ridgway made two months ago.<\/p>\n

Mr Kawczynski \u2014 a junior agriculture minister who chairs two committees on relationships with the Arab world \u2014 said that Jersey\u2019s system of voluntary and honorary service was the model of the more caring society that Mr Cameron spoke about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, let me set some facts straight.<\/p>\n

Mr Kawczynski is not a junior agriculture minister. He has never held\u00a0ministerial\u00a0office - although his\u00a0personal\u00a0web site says he is a member of the 'shadow' foreign office team<\/a> - indicating that he has not updated it since May 2010 - such is his attention to his duties. What he actually is is\u00a0parliamentary\u00a0private\u00a0secretary\u00a0to a junior agriculture minster -\u00a0something\u00a0very different\u00a0indeed.<\/p>\n

And Mr\u00a0Kawczynski is not a member of any select\u00a0committees\u00a0at all right\u00a0now\u00a0-\u00a0because\u00a0he so rarely turned up when he was<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So Mr\u00a0Kawczynski seems best noted for being that sort of Tory MP whose concept of the Big\u00a0Society\u00a0is getting elected to a pretty safe seat,\u00a0ignoring the constituents, for whose\u00a0benefit\u00a0he can't even\u00a0communicate\u00a0what he's doing, going on some nice jollies to places like Jersey and doing as little as posible in Westminster.<\/p>\n

And we're supposed to be impressed by this man's opinion?<\/p>\n

Oh come on\u00a0Jersey! When you can't even report his status properly please don't ask us to believe the guff as well.<\/p>\n

And guff it is.\u00a0Because\u00a0the reality is Jersey is a place riddled by fear, populated by people\u00a0who\u00a0can't afford to buy homes, who know their\u00a0government\u00a0is going bust, who are having more tax demanded of them just to support tax avoiders and evaders\u00a0and which is running an illegal tax regime to ensure that the place continues to be\u00a0considered\u00a0a pariah on the international stage.<\/p>\n

And that's the Tory vision of the Big Society?<\/p>\n

Well, maybe it is.<\/p>\n

I take it all back.<\/p>\n

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