There has been something of a political revolution in Jersey in the past couple of years. Most of the same faces are still involved, and new policies have not grabbed many headlines outside the island, so the changes might not seem obvious.

Electoral reform has hardly been grasped and there are 53 members of the States, or parliament, making the Island’s 90,000 inhabitants among the most over-represented people on earth. Political parties have still made no inroads into a system based around individual politicians.