Blog posts pertaining to the States
Increasingly, Lester Queripel seems to lose the plot during the latter stages of his political career. That he cares deeply about islanders welfare is not in doubt. However, he seems to lack any practical appreciation of how bad this crisis is or what is needed to rescue it. That the business before the Assembly today…
This Deputy has no qualms about flagging up her total commitment to the environment as being at least as important as rescuing Guernsey’s economy in today’s States debate. Yet again, putting the world’s climate before the immediacy of the Island’s needs. There has already been a significant downturn in carbon emissions across the globe and…
Listening to the Assembly conduct it’s business yesterday (22 April) and indeed this morning, it is clearly obvious that although a small number of Deputies are awakening to the reality of our new Covid world, most have not comprehended that bickering over issues such as the IDP or the anti-tank wall have no relevance in…
That this assembly can vote itself another year in office and move our opportunity to remove them by a year, is completely unacceptable, let alone financially negligent. Far too many of the current deputies have no business expertise whatsoever and certainly next to nothing when it comes to management of our economy. I am not…
Well. The Education Requete debate really brought States Members emotions and political leanings to the fore didn’t it? It came close to hysteria for some particular Deputies as they sought to hold on to the 1 school, 2 location model. With a lot of exaggerated sighing, personal attacks and some even challenging the Chair over…
Guernsey is a very giving island. With 100s of registered charities in a population of 62,000, no one can doubt our generosity. However, it does come as something of a shock to find that in the last 20 years, Guernsey has also donated £43 million in overseas aid – from tax revenues (source: Richard Digard,…
