Author: Rachael Brooks
Paul Randle-Jolliffe: Independent Candidate: Isle of Wight 2010 Elections
2:20 pm Friday, 30th April, 2010, Isle of Wight
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To listen to and further consult with the whole Island for our future to develop a vision and plan for the Island so we become a place of opportunity and excellence for all with a Private Members Bill for an Economic & Social Act for the Isle of Wight.
For the Island to be a Special Economic Development Zone Area with a flat 20% tax for both local residents employed here and businesses, with a £12,000 tax threshold for all and the establishment an economic and social development and investment bank to fund community and locally owned social and business enterprises including a third ferry service, tidal energy and a digital wideband infrastructure, micro finance small business and including the establishment of a digital and technical university and a school of entrepreneurs these would create investment and employment with opportunities for all especially for our young.
This act would encompass all the practical solutions to the many issues we need resolving now with ongoing mechanisms to make our democracy work on an ongoing basis! WE SAY WHAT WE WANT AN I WILL PRESENT IN TO PARLIAMENT AS A PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL FOR THE ISLAND. I say lets help each other take control of our lives back but lets do it reasonably.
And for this to include the LA and other public services like police, health etc be accountable locally and not entirely run from the mainland so we have local decisions made by local people and not dictated by Gov or the EU.
To see the retired treated with dignity respect and care where their needs are really met and as an incredible untapped resource that can add so much wisdom, experience and life to our Island and its future, we are ignoring such wealth all around us and to see our young given opportunity.
To do this under a platform of “POLICIES and PEOPLE NOT POLITICS” and an Island wide collaborative process of Information, Innovation, Application and Transformation in Partnership. Starting with an MP’s Commission for the Island and an MP’s cabinet with people from various sectors with an advisory body of wisdom and experience to work with new and to be established local elected democratic forums to involve the whole Island in a new way of doing democracy, with People!
To show my personal commitment if elected as MP I would initially either refuse to take or to donate to the Island through the Island Foundation at least 50% of the MPs salary and would encourage other high paid public servants and others to do the same. I will also adhere to the MARTIN “BELL PRINCIPLES.”
Collective decisions cannot be made if one group has, or appears to have, all the power. If partners have respect for each other’s abilities and potential contributions, power struggles should be avoided. “A collaborative is most effective when all partners exercise leadership.” Partners need to work collegially instead of dominating those they perceive as less powerful.
Paul Randle- Jolliffe doesn’t have any leaflets on The Straight Choice
Paul Randle-Jolliffeon My Next MP
Any questions?
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My Mum always said “never trust anyone with a double-barrelled name”. And guess what….I don’t!
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Do you need to be rude.
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You obviously believed her Paul, maybe time to rethink that belief pattern, not good science or even superstition!
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You speak a lot of sense to me and if Pete Harris had not been running I may well have voted for you so am hoping you may join forces in the future forming a new party maybe called Action Wight…
I wish you good luck…
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Forming new parties will solve nothing – Get rid of the old.
Just look at all those silly posters all over our beautiful countryside.
Complain: Yes I did the Tory council said that it only happens once every four years – But not in their back yard.
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Are you sure the council didn’t say ‘******* well leave us alone!’
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I am speaking to the other candidates about working together after the election, no matter what the result, I dont think a party should be, but to work together for the Island, if its a party then that means the other parties are automatically excluded and that would defeat the objective, the idea is to work with people from accross the Island, so far the other candidates are mostly saying yes.
The idea is for a roling democracy accross the island not just every few years, so no matter who you vote for you can be involved and others if you want.
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I was chatting to an independent IW Councillor today, she said that you agreed to meet and ‘address them’ at County Hall. On the surface this seemed like a good example of your ‘let’s work together, yeah’ strategy.
Sadly despite all eight making the meeting, you did not, calling from the mainland to say you wouldn’t be there!
If you’re going to work together, it has to be at a mutually convenient moment, not whenever you feel like it.
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Yes I agreed to meet the independant councilors, just before the monthly full council meeting as they would all be there, but I had to call unfortunately to say I had to go to London I had to make a value judgement and I wrote to appologise, the meeting in London will I hope will be important to Island at some point.
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Oh yeah.
By the way, just a friendly bit of info, it’s independEnt not independAnt. Worth knowing if that’s what you’re standing as.
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Thats Dyslexia for you, annoying isnt it?
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@ Mr Justice
Oh Yeah!
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