Sunday, October 25, 2015

SAJ's Comments on Electoral Reform Refreshing

Rightly calling PR a komeraz. Who wouldn't? After seeing what happened to election results in Rodrigues. It's the same feeling one got when going through the dumb and dangerous Sithanen electoral galimatia: a heap of rubbish that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to demolish. A bit like his 2005 promise that a flat tax would generate average robust growth rates of 8% forever after: 2015 will be the 5th consecutive year growth rates will be less than half of that.

Besides PR is so unLabour: Phillippe Rozemont was expelled from the Labour Party when he voted in favour of it. And roughly six decades later Navin Ramgoolam lost power and his seat after he flirted with PR. When an overwhelming number of Mauritians -- using an attractive feature of our wonderful FPTP system but one that Sithanen wants to get rid of with party lists -- said no to an electoral proposal that is vote wise and outcome foolish. There is no need to use a bazooka to get rid of a very mild headache.

Refreshing indeed. Reminded me of what another of our PMs said back in May 2010: "Ki zot tile? Pran zot dan godi dir ayo papa Euro! Euro! donn zot bibron? Pa Pwena! Devaliasyon zame tienn solisyon. Nu bizin vinn pli konpetitif".

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Any 'refreshing' comments from SAJ on the low flat corp tax?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Didn't hear any. And this will spell a lot of trouble for Mauritius.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Some common sense from the RRA which rejected the dangerous double candidacies and other thoughtless recommendations of the Duval committee.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Serge Clair is right to call PR a kuyonad.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

The myth of the economic miracle has now exploded but SAJ has probably a last chance to make a mindful tweak to our electoral system to comply with the UNHRC ruling.