Jamaica: 44% republic, 40% status quo

Submitted by LJ Holden on 13 March, 2012 - 20:40

The Jamaican Observer reports that:

JAMAICANS are nearly evenly split on the issue of whether or not to cut ties with the British monarchy, with 44 per cent for and 40 per cent against.
A majority — 31 per cent — of those who want the country to become a Republic, said it would mean that Jamaica was "finally independent" of the monarchy.
Conversely, a majority — 29 per cent — of those against, suggested that Jamaica "needed all the help we can get".

The views were expressed in the first CVM/Don Anderson polls for 2012, which sampled 1,000 persons over 18 years of age in all parishes between February 10 and 24, on the eve of the arrival of Britain's Prince Henry (always known as Prince Harry) to mark the Jubilee of The Queen, his grandmother.

This is certainly a lot tighter than some in the British media have suggested.

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Submitted by Anon on 15 March, 2012 - 13:37.

Why does the RMANZ ban its own members!? Why won't the chairman answer difficult questions?

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Submitted by LJ Holden on 15 March, 2012 - 17:22.

No member of the Republican Movement has ever been banned from posting comments on this website. The individual you refer to knows that. I'm more than happy to answer "difficult" questions, I assume you mean about the same individual, because he has outed himself as a former member of the Republican Movement (because he didn't renew his membership) - there's no privacy issues.

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Submitted by Anon on 15 March, 2012 - 17:37.

Here's a difficult question: why delete people's comments because you don't agree with them?

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Submitted by LJ Holden on 15 March, 2012 - 17:54.

In this case no comments were deleted. There's plenty of comments on this website I don't agree with that haven't been deleted, because they've stayed within the Terms of Use of this website.


Having said that, I admit I did threaten to delete Geoff's comment. This was because, as I explained in an e-mail I thought would be kept private, he'd basically attacked Republican Movement strategy publicly. As I've pointed out to Geoff in another e-mail, that's kind of like an All Black running onto the field mid-match, slagging off all his team mates for the way they were playing the game, then complaining when he was pulled up for it.

I don't have an issue with members contacting me about strategy, in fact members are constantly e-mailing me about it. But they don't go posting comments on our website about it.

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Submitted by Anon on 15 March, 2012 - 19:18.

Why threaten to delte a comment? Becaus you can't stand someone sticking upfor himself!?

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Submitted by LJ Holden on 16 March, 2012 - 16:47.

Geoff was a member. As I've explained, he could've written to me, called me or attended our AGM to discuss his concerns about our strategy. And the exec would've responded to those concerns and asked Geoff the same question I've often asked him (which he's not published or replied to): what's your alternative? He's got none, or at least not one that can be seriously implemented or achieved.

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