Sarah
Your campaign in these elections is predicated on the concept that you are a champion of “accountability”. You would have the public believe that you are committed to battling to make the States more cost-effective.
To quote your own election material, you “want to make the States more efficient and give value for money”.
Brave words, indeed.
But what of the reality of your voting record in the States?
Let us take two examples.
On the 9th September you – quite extraordinarily, given you professed political objectives – voted AGAINST the establishment of a Committee of Enquiry into the catastrophic failure of public administration which has led to St. Helier’s land reclamation sites – including the “Waterfront” – being giant toxic waste dumps riddled with 500,000 tonnes of toxic incinerator ash.
Not even the official comments of the Council of Ministers could argue with the facts as described in my proposition.
A more corporate, gross, dangerous and expensive example of States incompetence and inefficiency as the ash dumping scandal is almost too difficult to imagine.
How do you square you election sales-pitch with the reality of your pro-active support for protecting from accountability, the system which caused this disaster?
Moving to my second question.
On September the 11th, 2007, you voted in favour of the proposition to have me dismissed as Minster. The dismissal motion against me – as was well-documented at the time - had been engineered by a number of grossly incompetent, dangerous and dishonest - and immensely expensive – civil servants.
The prime motivation of the civil servants in question was to get rid of me in order that they be able to hide the fact that so incompetent, lazy and unethical had they been – they’d been running for years a child custody system which was illegal and abusive. A fact which had been explained to me by the whistle-blower, Simon Bellwood – who I believed – instead of believing my plainly lying civil servants.
Fast-foreword to 11th October 2008. In an illustration of just how right me and Bellwood were – and how disastrously wrong the civil servants – and those like you who passively supported them were – even The Rag says this: “Grand Prix system was abusive and illegal”. It goes on to say, “Locking children up in solitary confinement.....was abusive and illegal a damning report will reveal.”
Again, I must ask – how do you square the traditional, dismal failure of States members to hold the civil service to account – as exhibited by you – with your election spin as a champion of “accountability”?
I put it to you that, in fact, your entire election pitch is predicated on an utterly fictitious “record” of holding the system to account; that in reality – you are as hopeless, weak and incapable of imposing discipline on the civil service as all the rest of the supposed “champions of efficiency” in the States?
I look forward to your answers to the three questions above.
Stuart.
