This is the speech which Richard has written about here:
Last evening I spoke at a meeting in St Helier, talking, seemingly to the audience’s pleasure for 30 minutes and taking questions for more than 75 minutes after that, the while thing only slightly delayed by local television interviews.
The text is here.
Now I’ve been sent an email which tells me that:
I hope this may amuse you. One thing the Channel TV piece you linked to neglected to mention: only six people turned up to his little talk, according to our local rag. I believe three of them were politicians from the “party” that invited him.
Now I have no way of checking this at all other than to ask anyone who did go to the meeting (or who can find the newspaper report) whether this is true or, as Richard himself says, attendance was better than that:
I guess about 100 came
Do we have any Jersey readers here (other than the one who emailed me)?Anyone with a link to the report in hte local rag?
Update from our correspondent in Jersey:
Good instincts on your part, as it seems I have made a bit of cock-up – for which I sincerely apologise. As Richard Murphy points out in the comments to that post, the attendance-of-six was a lecture he held for all States Members (53 in total), not the public meeting.
15 responses so far ↓
1 Richard Murphy // Jan 27, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Let me put you out of your misery
Six politicians came to a meeting on Tuesday morning
About 100 on Monday night
Different events
Different numbers
No conspiracy – just a desire to see one on your part
2 JuliaM // Jan 27, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Conspiracy? Who mentioned a conspiracy?
3 Johnson // Jan 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm
100 people came to your naff meeting when 10,000 signed a petition to sack the politician responsible for a GST hike (though to be honest half of the signatures were probably conned out of them – see http://www.thisisjersey.com/2011/01/26/duped-names-will-be-removed-from-sack-ozouf-petition/). Pretty pathetic if I may say so, Dick.
Your mission to kill my island will fail, Dickie. I’d advise you to quit now.
4 Stephen // Jan 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Everything’s a conspiracy, didn’t you know?
Love, Julian Assange
5 Ambrose Murphy // Jan 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Misery – conspiracy – on Richard’s site this would summarily be removed by the moderator as abusive (“as all right-thinking and not-deliberately-obtuse and/or evil people would agree”).
that was a good story for about a minute.
6 David // Jan 27, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Richard this shows why Tim is right to let people who disagree with him comment on his blog.
Why don’t you do the same?
7 Harry // Jan 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Murphy is write (as he might say).
8 Natalie Solent // Jan 27, 2011 at 4:57 pm
“Richard this shows why Tim is right to let people who disagree with him comment on his blog.
Why don’t you do the same?”
Very good point. And the principle is true in wider circumstances, too.
9 Sean // Jan 27, 2011 at 5:12 pm
cause’ he is a leftist shite, stuck in his paradigm. (sorry to be so rude)
I too can of occasion find fault in Tims views, but at the end of the day if I agree with him or not, I trust him. thats why I visit.
Trust is everything, its irrational and unquantifiable something the “left” have a big problem with when it comes to running a economic “model”
Its why economics is not a science, something Tim might find fault with.
10 Dan // Jan 27, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Ha ha ha – instant response to this one from Richard, who clearly watches this blog like a hawk.
So why doesn’t he leap in to correct all the other demolitions?
11 Dizzy Ringo // Jan 27, 2011 at 9:44 pm
I am told by someone who attended that about 60 were at the public meeting.
My mole tells me that it felt like a paen of praise to one R.Murphy….
12 Dizzy Ringo // Jan 27, 2011 at 9:51 pm
http://www.thisisjersey.com/2011/01/25/island-critic-has-plan-b-for-economic-survival/
for those who want to wade through the lot.
I am sure Richie is a competent accountant – not sure about his economic credentials though.
13 Colin George // Jan 31, 2011 at 1:01 am
I do not feel that anyone has been coned into signing a petition against the GST increase, it is unwaranted. If the Island was run as a business, on behalf of the shareholders, ie, jo-public, there would be no reason for any increases in any form of taxation. In order to change things into a system that I feel the majority of the public want, it would mean a very large turn out at the poles at the Island Wide and localised elections, with a big vote against those with their own self interests
14 Colin George // Jan 31, 2011 at 1:06 am
The Island does not have any real economic problems in the same way that other Jurisdictions, so why keep following the others, when it is quite capable of being alone and staying totally independant, and self sufficient
15 The Remittance Man // Jan 31, 2011 at 10:42 am
So less than 12% of the legislature could be arsed to attend an event which was presumably laid on specially for them.
Mmmmmmm.
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