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Young Islanders invited to influence local opportunities through Brave Island survey

Brave Island, the  dedicated platform for 14 to 25-year-olds living on the Isle of Wight need your help.

They are launching a new annual survey to help them better understand young people on the Isle of Wight, your likes and interests, the challenges you’re facing, and how they can help.

Help shape future opportunities and support
Your answers will directly inform the opportunities and support Brave Island offers over the next year, so please share your honest opinions.

A chance to win £50
The survey is completely anonymous and by completing it you have the option to be entered into a prize draw to win a £50 cash prize.

Take the survey
If you are aged 14-25 and living on the Isle of Wight then you can complete the survey, please head over to the Ventnor Exchange website to complete the survey.

Join Brave Island
If you’re aged 14-25 and living on the Isle of Wight and not already signed up to Brave Island, all the opportunities they offer are completely free. Joining is really easy, just create your account via the Brave Island website.


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chausettes
2, November 2019 10:28 am

Finally some pragmatism!

Jenny Smart
2, November 2019 10:47 am

Now we just need Labour to stand aside!

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  Jenny Smart
2, November 2019 11:13 am

Nonsense. Even together the Liberal and Green vote was less than Labour’s at the last general election.

chausettes
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
2, November 2019 11:38 am

You’re missing the point here Geoff – the appeal is that Lib and Green are prepared to work together.

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  chausettes
2, November 2019 12:01 pm

So why don’t the Liberals just disband and join the Greens? It would be more honest.

hialtitude
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
2, November 2019 4:52 pm

@Geoff Brodie The real foe is the Tories, they are responsible for austerity, they are responsible for dividing the country with their daft Brexit referendum. They are responsible for the huge growth in foodbanks. The increases in homelessness and poverty. Surely you as an ex-Labour member should realise that? We need more co operation between opposition parties if the Tories are to be removed from power both… Read more »

snowey
Reply to  hialtitude
2, November 2019 7:12 pm

“daft Brexit referendum” backed by the Liberals when they with Cleggy were in coalition. Now they don’t like the result and no longer respect democracy. Seems to be a Scottish female trend to ignore referendum results when you don’t get what you want.

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  hialtitude
3, November 2019 8:06 am

You have forgotten the LibDems craven participation in the Tory lead coalition government that was responsible for austerity.

hialtitude
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
3, November 2019 12:01 pm

@Geoff Brodie Nope, I have not forgotten, and I am unlikely too because I have a child that has just finished a very expensive university degree. Please don’t make assumptions on my behalf. That aside I stand by my remarks in my previous comment regarding cooperation. The Tories are the architects of austerity and this more than any other factor has resulted in the current dire situation… Read more »

snowey
Reply to  hialtitude
3, November 2019 3:25 pm

Geoff, never forget that the EU export UK jobs with our money. Thousands of jobs at the home of the Ford Transit Van were exported from Eastleigh, Hants, not many miles away, to Turkey – thanks to the EU giving the money to the Turks – our money and of course Ford were very happy!

iain mckie
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
2, November 2019 11:41 am

I would expect that the biggest beneficiary from the Lib Dems not standing will be the Independent candidate Karl Love. The Greens are a far Left party and would not (I think) suit many of the middle of the road types within the Libs. Never in a month of Sundays would Labour stand aside to help a candidate who has come a distant third on two occasions.

peterj
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
2, November 2019 11:43 am

Dealing with actual data seems to be a problem that both the Greens and the Lib Dems share.

One conflates projections with polls and the other with their ridiculously wrong tactical-voting recommendations (and other assorted wildly mis-leading leaflets).

I guess some people fall for this nonsense, it’s all very depressing though.

ian123
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
2, November 2019 1:36 pm

Which is irrelevant. There aren’t enough people on the island prepared to vote Labour to win the seat, even in a good year. And so far things are looking much worse than that for Labour. All progressive voters need to get behind a candidate who can beat the Tory, and this time the Green will be the only chance, even then a slim one. Labour should do… Read more »

ohnhai
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
2, November 2019 3:24 pm

In 2017, you would be right but all national polling (not projections) since then have shown a national labour slump from ~43 to ~24 not good in anyone’s books. So many labour voters I talk to seem to Believe that such a National trend across all polsters can’t possibly be applicable to the island. The national trend has seen labour shed % along with the Tories. Lib… Read more »

ohnhai
Reply to  ohnhai
2, November 2019 3:33 pm

If the reports of an alliance in favour of green are true and all their vote goes to green then that puts Green on 39 with Tories on 40. Well within range. And without the need for Labour as BRX are likely to steal a few points from Tory. Now Labour can chose to be embarrassed with a 9% showing while green and blue slog it out… Read more »

egros
2, November 2019 11:41 am

I was planning to vote Lib-Dem. What do I do now because I will not vote Green.

tracy
Reply to  egros
2, November 2019 2:28 pm

Just vote Green, that’s the best course of action

iain mckie
Reply to  tracy
2, November 2019 2:53 pm

This week the European Commission approved 55 fossil fuel projects including a terminal to import cracked and liquefied US shale gas. These are part of the 193 projects of common interest, all of which involve the transportation and burning of fossil fuel. It is a folly to think that the EU is ‘green’

hialtitude
Reply to  iain mckie
2, November 2019 3:36 pm

@Iain McKie

That is exactly why we should remain EU members, outside of the EU we have no say in its affairs, currently we have a prime seat at the head of the table, and can exert influence, it would be very foolish to give such a powerful position up.

iain mckie
Reply to  hialtitude
2, November 2019 4:19 pm

That makes no sense at all. The PCIs are part of the EEU which was launched with UK approval in 2015. There was never such a thing as UK influence as QMV saw to that.

tracy
2, November 2019 2:34 pm

I will be voting Green
If you want Brexit vote the Brexit Party as Tories didn’t deliver
If you are inclined to Remain and concerned about climate change vote Green not Labour who are divided on Brexit and slow to the People’s referendum party
Simples!
I am Green are you?

snowey
Reply to  tracy
3, November 2019 3:17 pm

When are you giving up electricity, gas, pumped water and sewage disposal and moving to a cave on the south of the island?

Steve Goodman
Reply to  snowey
3, November 2019 11:58 pm

When did you give up the ability to discuss grown up stuff like a grown up? And when are you going to look up the reasons why none of what you wrote applies unless and until we stop allowing continuing deterioration to the point when even the application of existing proven ‘greener’ much more sustainable options to everything listed will force that on many more people much… Read more »

hialtitude
2, November 2019 3:01 pm

Lovely to see the co operation.

Chapeau Nick Stuart.

ricky17
2, November 2019 4:26 pm

Great to see a sensible decision, well played Nick Stuart. I think it will be interesting if Labour do as well as in 2017, as this election could be more like 2015 where UKIP took a lot of Labour votes & the Brexit Party could do the same this time. I personally think Labour will struggle on the Island this time around.

Ian Young
2, November 2019 4:38 pm

Attempting to manipulate voters in this manner is fraught with danger for all concerned. I well remember a former local LibDem spokesperson telling us that in the absence of a LibDem candidate many supporters would in fact vote Conservative. To assume LibDem voters will seamlessly transfer their vote to the Green party is at best misguided and at worst foolish. As an aside, it is rather sad… Read more »

prof
Reply to  Ian Young
3, November 2019 6:50 am

Fully agree – something like this that deprives voters of choice is very likely to backfire. The collusion of two parties in order to manipulate the result of an election feels as if it ought to be illegal in some way which is bound to annoy voters, Given that the lib dems have a very different agenda and manifesto to the greens it seems likely that voters… Read more »

iain mckie
2, November 2019 6:44 pm

The IED gave 23 billion in subsidies to EUs largest polluters via free allocation of EUAs, the Linking Directive generated 2 billion unnecessary tonnes of CFCs, added 600 million tonnes of CO2 in Russia and Ukraine, the bio fuels policy of the EU has been slammed by Greenpeace Oxfam and Fern for increasing deforestation and increasing CO2 emissions. The EU is an environmental monster. This is the… Read more »

sculler
Reply to  iain mckie
2, November 2019 7:56 pm

Is that the only reason? the UK are super environmental and the Eu are just burning our planets future with no regard.
If this is true, please quote the british position and I too will vote Brexit

iain mckie
Reply to  sculler
2, November 2019 9:13 pm

That and the devastation caused by the EU refusing to listen to scientific advice and emptying the seas were the tipping points for me

oldie
3, November 2019 1:23 pm

This all sounds like the Liberals and Greens moving the chairs on the Titanic. The largest partys on the Island are still Tory and Labour at the present time.

Steve Goodman
3, November 2019 8:17 pm

Here’s how it seems to me that we got to this: Firstly, our mutated version of democracy means that for decades or longer our only permitted option was an often overdue opportunity to try to vote out those in power who had been around long enough to annoy and disappoint enough people, even when there seemed to be few differences between the only available candidates, and our… Read more »

Steve Goodman
Reply to  Steve Goodman
3, November 2019 8:21 pm

PS
I am not a Green Party member.
I am currently campaigning on the North Island for the best (Labour) candidate to replace a problematic (Con) MP.

Steve Goodman
Reply to  Steve Goodman
3, November 2019 11:32 pm

PPS
I am not a member of any political party.
I am doing my civic duty mainly in one of those most marginal constituencies which have been made so meaningfully exciting by our obviously unfit for purpose out of date addiction to deadlock in Parliament.

davimel
Reply to  Steve Goodman
4, November 2019 9:53 am

OK OK we get it!! Tories BAD… Labour GOOD.. Tories have done really bad stuff, and labour are always right…. except for Tony B Liar of course, he just killed thousands of innocents in a war that had no reason.. oh yes, and turned Labour into Tory light and broke the country for his own ends… and now we have Corbyn who wants something, but not sure… Read more »

Angela Hewitt
4, November 2019 8:59 am

As far as I can ascertain. Brexit and Conservatives = leave. LibDems and Greens = Remain. Labour = choice of either/or. Ignore the rest they are egotists. Well they all are really but…… the indviduals will be impotent. Maybe they can be used to show disgust in the whole event

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