Alfie sniffs glue as well as guzzles whiskey..and runs the place off the cliff and winds his way back home...and does it all again the next day! No Future In It!
Firstly why do we need so many mhk s for an island of no more than 90k people. Second how many have actually got qualifications. Third there are far to many fingers in a lot of pies. And i have a suspicion too many brown envelopes being passed around.fourth government and public sector is way top heavy. Money needs to be spent more wisely.
Yes, we must be the only bloody place in the world that has a multiple NON transferrable voting system. It's beyond weird. Excuse me for giving my long winded opinion but we need to move to a single transferrable vote (ranked choice for one candidate) and move the legislative council to a directly-voted-for system instead of a indirect system. In a place that brags about letting women vote before the UK did, we have a remarkably low bar for democracy. There are definately brown envelopes - the amount of vague descriptions and "other" costs in the financial documents and this new master plan they've got makes that an open and shut case in my eyes. There is nothing wrong with a large government, as long as the size is not related to excess bureaucracy. You are dead right with the term "top heavy" describing the public sector. A large government is only successful when that money is spent on staffing for hospitals, subsidies for small businesses and in much needed reforms, instead of on useless middle management that achieves very little and bills very large. Speaking of this master plan, notice how there is no mention of any electoral/government reform at all? In a plan supposedly focused on autonomy there is no reference to the commissioners or districts merely vague macroeconomic goals that contradict each other. For a plan like that to work a focus on federalism wouldn't go amiss - or at least a better approach at a unitary state. They want to keep it the way it is because the current system allows them to exploit us. The system isn't broken - it is working perfectly, just not in the interests of the populace.
Alfie sniffs glue as well as guzzles whiskey..and runs the place off the cliff and winds his way back home...and does it all again the next day! No Future In It!
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Firstly why do we need so many mhk s for an island of no more than 90k people. Second how many have actually got qualifications. Third there are far to many fingers in a lot of pies. And i have a suspicion too many brown envelopes being passed around.fourth government and public sector is way top heavy. Money needs to be spent more wisely.
Yes, we must be the only bloody place in the world that has a multiple NON transferrable voting system. It's beyond weird. Excuse me for giving my long winded opinion but we need to move to a single transferrable vote (ranked choice for one candidate) and move the legislative council to a directly-voted-for system instead of a indirect system. In a place that brags about letting women vote before the UK did, we have a remarkably low bar for democracy.
There are definately brown envelopes - the amount of vague descriptions and "other" costs in the financial documents and this new master plan they've got makes that an open and shut case in my eyes. There is nothing wrong with a large government, as long as the size is not related to excess bureaucracy. You are dead right with the term "top heavy" describing the public sector. A large government is only successful when that money is spent on staffing for hospitals, subsidies for small businesses and in much needed reforms, instead of on useless middle management that achieves very little and bills very large.
Speaking of this master plan, notice how there is no mention of any electoral/government reform at all? In a plan supposedly focused on autonomy there is no reference to the commissioners or districts merely vague macroeconomic goals that contradict each other. For a plan like that to work a focus on federalism wouldn't go amiss - or at least a better approach at a unitary state. They want to keep it the way it is because the current system allows them to exploit us. The system isn't broken - it is working perfectly, just not in the interests of the populace.