{"id":315,"date":"2006-12-27T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/27\/not-all-jersey-politicians-are-alike\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T08:34:00","slug":"not-all-jersey-politicians-are-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/27\/not-all-jersey-politicians-are-alike\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all Jersey politicians are alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Shona Pitman of Jersey sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/d0cuments\/pitman1206.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">her summary<\/a> of her first year as an elected politician in Jersey shortly before Christmas. I am aware I was a number of recipients of this document after she had been rebuffed by the Jersey Evening Post, a rebuff they have now remedied having realised that Shona would get the publicity she sought for her views one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>I admire Shona's courage. She's the youngest member of the States. She's asking difficult questions rather than seeking to follow official doctrine in pursuit of a career. She questions what is happening, without damning anyone (although she's clearly unhappy with the Jersey political elite, and gives good reasons for being so).<\/p>\n<p>She asks questions which I welcome, without necessarily endorsing the answers I would provide. In summary, she calls for wider debate and a recognition by the Jersey establishment that they do not have all the answers, and that to ask questions is not treasonous. That has to be welcome. I hope that might set a tone for debate on the future of Jersey for the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Shona Pitman of Jersey sent me her summary of her first year as an elected politician in Jersey shortly before Christmas. I am aware<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/27\/not-all-jersey-politicians-are-alike\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}