Just a quick PSA for my fellow gris ventres - following a request by yours truly to update the
Parish of St. Ouen website, the Connétable, Richard Buchanan, has made significant additions to the website to include names and contact details for each and every elected parish official - Procureurs, Centiniers, Vingteniers, Constable's Officer, Roads Inspectors and the members of the Roads Committee and the Rates Assessment Committee. This comes after Deputy Sam Mézec's
major attack on the current state of Parish democracy posted on his
blog last Wednesday exposed the anti-democratic bent of the Comité de Connétables, the lack of information available about elected roles and the general vestigial state of Parish democracy to a massive degree (
something we also analysed, asking what Jersey's democracy movement could learn from libertarian socialism and the ideas of Murray Bookchin).
St. Ouen continues its slow, slow crawl towards something resembling the 21st century!
You can view the newly-posted information
here.
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