Talk:Jersey Democratic Alliance

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Hello to all our ex-friends in the Centre Party! It is an unethical abuse of the Wikipedia concept to sully it's pages with untruthful black propaganda. I promise upon my honour not to stoop to your level of wilful inaccuracy, but, if you insist on continuing to vandalise our entry, I shall at least tell truths you would prefer to gloss over in unsympathetic terms in your entry. The decent thing would be to call a truce with your edit of yours and our edit of ours, with NO LIES and a link to the other entry for the benefit of users wishing to use Wikipedia for it's intended purpose.

David Rotherham, JDA Secretary.

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[edit] JDA Page protected

Hi Dave,

I have added a semi-protection to the page to prevent anonymous abuse (have had to do this to a few pages).

Darius


Nice one, Darius.

Now that we have got our pages into a shape we can live with between us, we shall just have to be vigilant.

Dave.

[edit] Capricious Individual Policies?

Not sure if that is not POV, whilst I grant you the vast majority of people are elected without ever giving any intention of what they intend to do this is generally because they intend to do nothing!

Perhaps this could be altered to read 'without a clearly defined unified set of aims and ambitions'?

I leave alterations up to your good self however. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.20.179.211 (talk) 19:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

Thanks to Tony the Prof for tidying up and finding references - your effort is noted and appreciated.--Daverotherham 04:24, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias

I have marked where citations are required for certain statements if we can get some references for these points then it would be great.

RichardColgate 03:52, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

Three inexplicable errors:- Geoff Southern stepped down as leader in May 2006, as noted in the body of the article, the colours have always been blue and red against a white background - no authentic JDA materials have ever used a red colour scheme and, although some individual members would proudly describe themselves as socialists, no agreed party policy has ever had any explicit or implicit basis in socialist principles. The symbolism of the party logo, with the red being kept to the centre by the surrounding blues is actually an accurate reflection of the reality. The party's position does indeed meet the definition of centre-left in the linked article, however. Daverotherham 14:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the corrections. The leader of a party, afaik, is the leader of a party in the house, that would mean it would have to be either Geoff Southern, Shona Pitman or Judy Martin, however if the JDA have not had an election then they can not have a leader. Steve Pallett is the Chairman, and thus controls (with the rest of the board) the party outside of the house. I assumed the JDA worked in this way, sorry. RichardColgate 04:45, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment of listing me as Chief Executive Officer, but actually the running of the party is a genuine team effort and I cannot rightfully steal the credit. I have therefore deleted the entry.Daverotherham 15:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes 2nd August 2007 - citations still needed

I've tried to just change the flow a little, add recent events, and a few more references, a couple of citations are still needed as below. Looking at the 2005 election results it wasn't as bad as all that, three and almost five members elected. RichardColgate 21:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Manifesto

If anyone has an online link to the election manifesto of 2005 that would be a great help. RichardColgate 21:31, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GST meeting

The ref is to www.isthisjersey.com but I cannot find the specific URL for the newsitem, I will update as soon as I can uncover it. RichardColgate 21:37, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Found it RichardColgate 22:10, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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