At the Les Quennevais School hustings on Tuesday (14th June), the candidates were asked how they would deal with the cost of living crisis. I argued that the new government should come forward straight away with an emergency budget to offer immediate help. It is blindingly obvious on the doorstep that the public have lost … More Emergency Budget
A quick note to say that whilst I had hoped to knock on every door on the parish, with less than 10 days to go it is obvious that this won’t be possible. I’ll carry on knocking on as many doors as I can, but in the meantime, if you want to have a chat, … More Knocking on doors…
After several weeks of campaigning, here are my reflections so far (summed up in the accompanying video). First, unless I’m very much mistaken, this is going to be a change election. The desire to throw out the “current lot” seems almost universal and very passionately expressed. Old hands may well say that it sounds like … More Reflections so far
Green hustings at Durrell last night – a great event, which was also a reminder of just how much environmental issues permeate almost every issue that faces the island. I was asked what I would do to improve food security – here’s my answer. (Afterwards Andrew Le Gallais from Jersey Dairy chastised me for saying … More Green hustings
I said in an earlier blog post that I would provide an update if there was a decision about the new hospital, so here are my thoughts now that Deputy Young has approved the planning application. The first thing to say is that as I noted earlier, I was an objector to the planning application … More The new hospital part 2
Just took a look at my campaign website stats, and it’s interesting to see that people are accessing the site from all over the world. In the last couple of days there’s been a sudden surge of interest from China of all places. Some of it might be down to VPN’s, but surely not all… … More St Brelade election goes global…
Jonathan Renouf 