Category Archives: war on Jersey

I see that BBC gives great prominence to the Howard League for Penal report whingeing on about the fact that children in Jersey have allegedly “less protection” than children elsewhere in the UK because the evil Jersey government has NOT signed up to the utterly risible to the UN convention on the rights of the child. This means, for example, they lack a Children’s Commissioner.Well now, I guess the next of kin of Baby P will take solace in the fact that at least the mighty UN Convention applies in England, right? I also note the way in which Howard League spokesman compares Somalia and the USA in the interview. As ever, the BBC is supplicant to this biased left-wing pacifist bleeding-heart organisation and does not provide for an alternate view to its insinuations about Jersey. The BBC must also have been broken–hearted to discover yesterday that the alleged killing fields of Haut de la Garenne are not quite it has coat-trailed for months. Don’t get me wrong; I am not saying Jersey is perfect but I do not quite see why it invokes so much sustained ire from the BBC although I am sure you may suggest a few….