Names of Proposers and Seconders
- Valerie Broomfield
- Elizabeth Le Gallou
- Chantelle Le Luyer
- Annick Le Luyer
- Jacques Tobias Le Breton
- Patricia Jennie Funk
- John Hardcastle
- Lady Davina Hives
- Lord Matthew Hives
- Stephen Charles Foster
HISTORY
My family roots in Jersey go back to the early 1920s with the arrival of my widowed grandmother and her two small children. My mother and father were married in St Saviours and are buried there. My life has taken me away from the island, for education, for work, for marriage but then brought me back to live here 20 years ago.
WORK
I am a journalist by passion and an editor by default. I established a publishing company in Rome when I lived there with my husband, bringing up a young family. I know what it is to run a small business, to worry about staffing and accounts.
WHY I AM RUNNING FOR ELECTION
THE NEED FOR CHANGE
I feel that Jersey is at a cross roads, with hard choices ahead. The post-Covid and the post-Brexit world have brought uncomfortable changes, and the challenges of the climate emergency are still ahead. An unexpected war in Europe has also changed our comfortable assumptions. Economic growth and infinite resources can no longer be a measure of our success.
So many sectors need our attention
Agriculture
Arts and Culture Climate change Diversity
Education at all levels Employment Environment
Health care Housing
The young and the very young Tourism
COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION
We can only achieve these transformations with open, informed and all-inclusive debate. Good communications, a free flow of information. democratic dialogue, must be brought back centre stage. Too many of us feel side-lined, left out of the debate, ignored and treated with indifference.
“Why should I bother to vote, what difference does it make?” Only a century ago women were still fighting for the vote. Now we are throwing it away, not because of indifference but because of despair. We urgently need to bring back the States as an organisation that engages its voters. We need to bring passion and esteem back into politics at all levels. What better place to start than among the young in our parish communities, with their schools, their green spaces and beaches, their village shops and institutions.
THE NEW HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE
We need change for our future health care. However we need to question the run-away costs for the new hospital and its plans. A new and smaller design that fits the lie of the land at Overdale, as well as remodernised hospital departments at Gloucester Street, would mitigate the destruction of the surrounding Overdale community and its environment. We should also question the Jersey Care Model. No business would dare present a model like this for funding, so why should we, the voters, pick up the costs, especially as no-one can even tell us what they are?
With your vote I shall continue to ask questions.
I shall continue to
LISTEN, TO LEARN AND TO CAMPAIGN FOR CHANGE