Comments on: Opinion: Starling On Fixed-Term Elections

By: CommonSensenBda

CommonSensenBda — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 03:04:19 +0000

A shame Mr. Starling wasn’t as “Ghung Ho”about ending the PLP’s reign while they broke the economy.

By: J lo

J lo — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:14:05 +0000

24 people voted for him in the general election – why, oh why, does anyone think that we are interested in his opinion?

By: frank

frank — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:55:51 +0000

I am for fixed turm elections but not on a holiday

By: Tylar

Tylar — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:24:37 +0000

All the youth that are back from school are too busy getting turnt up the night before to go out and vote smh.

By: Ignorance is not Bliss

Ignorance is not Bliss — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:15:22 +0000

jS. Why is 4 years more natural political time scale than 5? Party winning election has to have sufficient time to say reverse some actions of prior Government And also to implement , and see to fruition, its own policies. If fixed terms were in place then perhaps 8 years would be more suitable time scale.
Holding a general election on or around a Public Holiday is a non starter IMHO. Voters are not going to forego a day with the family at the beach, on the water or off Island for a long weekend in order to vote……. Well a handful might but vast majority would not – election officials would not be happy to lose their public holiday either.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:56:12 +0000

We don’t always agree Mr. Famous but with respect your spot on.

By: 2014 Media Articles | Vote Jonathan Starling

2014 Media Articles | Vote Jonathan Starling — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:56:35 +0000

[...] Starling on Fixed-Term Elections – Launch of a public consultation, by me, to develop legislation for Fixed-Term Elections; draft legislation and ask for feedback on it. Bernews, June 16th, 2014. [...]

By: Hmmmmm?

Hmmmmm? — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:20:20 +0000

so you suggest what exactly???

By: Navin Johnson

Navin Johnson — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:04:55 +0000

Election on a holiday? Great way to encourage no turnout.

By: Huh

Huh — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:51:55 +0000

Once again Mr. Starling wants to discuss rearranging the deck chairs as the Titanic is sinking

By: Starting Point

Starting Point — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:35:04 +0000

One of the better more constructive posts of late, provides and opinion and seeks some feed back. Thanks Mr. Starling.

I support fixed term for sure and also wish this seemingly simple piece of legislation had been done already.

I would suggest five years on the cycle as change occurs very slowly in this sector and 5 allows for a decent amount of time for a sitting government to make changes and see some outcomes occur. (not a huge sticking point for me however as even the US is on four years).

I feel the June window is a good one as we should ensure students are home to vote and this allows a potentially new government some considerable time to make changes to the budget submission prior to April the following year. Often a party gets in and has no time to make budget changes and thus we wait an entire year for improvements or budget changes due to the policies that we voted for etc.

I only see the need for postponement in cases of natural disasters etc. give too much lee way and our ‘politicians’ will abuse this power lol

I personally am not a fan of right of recall etc as currently it seems the trend is to take petty minor issues and blow them up into massive things. If we start debating ethics then the entire government would change every other month. If someone does something unethical then it is his/her parties job do do something, if someone does something illegal then the system seems to already have a mechanism to deal with this.

This seems such an easy piece of legislation to get done imo, I would have liked to see this and gambling legislation followed by medical MJ and efforts to reduce the stop list already done. Like I said, it seems to take for ever, Pati is how many years in the making through multiple parties?

By: Chris Famous

Chris Famous — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:29:21 +0000

Aeriously dude you want an election on during a holiday?

Go back to the drawing boas with that one mate

Total bollocks