tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095270985170721876.post7962888178227291690..comments2024-03-24T23:22:43.753+00:00Comments on Tony's Musings: The Penultimate Senatorial Election?TonyTheProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486414706261508994noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095270985170721876.post-74777530712238011072010-06-24T08:51:18.885+00:002010-06-24T08:51:18.885+00:00The trouble is that apart from mid-term Senators, ...The trouble is that apart from mid-term Senators, and those not standing, being part of the Council of Ministers is a good way of ensuring you do NOT have Island wide popularity!<br /><br />Council of Ministers + Constables Block vote, and supportive Deputies would be quite enough to force change through, especially if most Senators were opposed to the current Council.TonyTheProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10486414706261508994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095270985170721876.post-54888745112697368032010-06-24T03:26:58.442+00:002010-06-24T03:26:58.442+00:00Possibly a Council of Ministers mostly made up of ...Possibly a Council of Ministers mostly made up of Deputies would wish to kill off the role of Senator.<br />However there are two important justifications for keeping it, that would have to be brought up in defence.<br />At present, I have 14 States Members I have voted for, or more often against, representing me. Abolish Senators and I have just two. The other is that candidates who represent a broad minority all around the island may have more difficulty in finding a single constituency where there is a concentration of their supporters, and be unable to even get nominated, let alone elected, diminishing the overall representation of the public in the House.Ugh, It's Him!https://www.blogger.com/profile/06194792008692398706noreply@blogger.com