Interesting post in HDLG farce:
"The Diversionary Tactics of Stuart Syvret that have become known as the Haut De La Garenne Farce.
It might be useful to remind readers of the real Stuart Syvret in action and what happened, and then look at some of the decisions made during his administration of the Health and Social Services Department.
1: While Minister, the former Senator decided to close a number of wards at Overdale Hospital in 2006 and 2007 and outsource their facilities to the private sector.
2: the cost to the taxpayer was some extra £3.5million per year.
3: No staff at Overdale lost their jobs because of this strategy;
4: Rather than refurbish and upgrade publicly owned facilities, the former Senator Syvret was prepared to spend an extra £3.5 million a year of taxpayers money with English and Middle Eastern companies new to the Island, who have bought up old hotels to house Jersey’s ageing population and who most probably will not pay any local taxes;
5: The former Senator blames the Islands financial predicament on the last three decades of government as though he was a newcomer. He had been in office for nearly 20 years. Does he honestly believe that economic factors outside the Island had nothing to do with Jersey’s economy or the problems in any other jurisdiction? He is now complaining about legal costs he has caused both at the office of the Data Protection Commissioner and the Law Officers and other Departments. He has never commented on the costs racked up by his friend Lenny Harper and the whole engineered farce that was the Haut De La Garenne investigation.
6: He repeatedly complained bitterly that the health budget of £150+ million per annum did not allow the Department to purchase up-to-date cancer and other drugs. Perhaps when he was Health Minister, he should not have volunteered to cut £15million from capital budget as the HSS contribution towards the proposed £ 100+ million needed for the new incinerator plant.
7: The former Senator abandoned the Belle Vue project at Les Quennevais, which was to provide new accommodation for the elderly, sick, infirm and vulnerable who were suffering in appalling conditions in the old Leoville and Mc Kinstry wards at Overdale (his own description of a “Victorian slum”). The former Senator’s quick-fix answer to this was to decant the patients into private sector nursing homes at an extra cost to the taxpayer of £3.5 million per annum.
8: Then, when questioned by the Overdale Scrutiny Panel in 2006, how this situation had arisen, he attacked the whole Scrutiny process. That Scrutiny Report into Overdale states clearly that the former Senator was un-co-operative to a point guilty of obstruction. When the report was published, the former Senator then set out on a character assassination of States Members who were authors of the report because they dared criticize him. Those members were Anne Pryke, Roy Le Herissier, Deidre Mezbourian and Sean Power.
9: This man was Head of Health for some seven + years. Under his control, that Department spent and disposed of over £1 billion of taxpayer’s money. Has it all been accounted for? Where has it gone? Was the Health Department managed and run as it should have been? What has it been spent on? Why for several years, did he not co-operate with the Public Accounts Committee under the then Deputy Ferguson when they consistently requested information regarding expenditure at Health?
10: Stuart Syvret appears to be anti-everything. He is Anti-finance industry, anti-small business, anti-tourism, anti-rich, anti-anyone-who-earns-more-money-than-him. A pattern of jealousy has emerged that is obvious and this is also true of Deputy Tadier.
11: Do these two Bozos, Syvret and Tadier not accept that wealth has to be created before it is distributed and these two are not and never will be a wealth creator. They take taxpayers money. Both are ( one still is) spenders of taxpayer’s money and both receive a salary for doing so. They are both obsessed by the rich and both mention the rich very often in speeches. Most successful people have worked extremely hard, taken immense personal and financial risks to achieve their wealth.
12: Mr. Syvret has gone on and on about the Waterfront Development being built on a toxic waste dump. That has caused deep anxiety amongst many of the home owners down there who are now rightly concerned that if any of this is true, their mortgages and insurance policies may be voided. Yet, he and his Health protection Department , under his leadership, signed off some of the reclaimed land as fit for habitation.
13: As Health Minister or it might have been President had a public private partnership with Dandara Ltd. This scheme was never tendered.
He boasted about the fabulous deal he had with the development carried out on the Newgate Street site. A new Dental Clinic was built on publicly owned land in exchange for relinquishing the airspace above. That deal could be construed as naïve and poor for the taxpayer. Dandara built for the Health Department, a new dental clinic on land that the public owned, covering approximately less than 2, 000 square feet, probably at a cost to them of £300,000. Dandara in turn have built 6 flats above the clinic, which would probably cost them say, £450,000. Those flats were sold for over £1,250,000. That was good business for Dandara and full marks to them.
14: The former Senator has used the official government email system to attack States members, officers and the public. The States e-mail system is paid for by the public. It is impossible to justify behaviour like this whereby attacks are launched from publicly funded facilities. If the former Senator had been employed by any private company and behaved like this, the result would be instant dismissal. Why does he consider himself again and again to be above the law?
15: He has constantly attacked the local media, the JEP, BBC Jersey and Channel TV simply because they do not report his views on life, Jersey, justice and the world. However, he praises attack dog type reporting by bloggers and the so called Citizen media including the Voice mob.
16: He was the sitting Health Minister when during a routine operation in early 2006, a woman died. While this has been investigated, it was on his watch.
17: We now know that the former Senator, in his 7+ years in charge of health did not once visit any facility managed and run by the Corporate parents for vulnerable and abused children taken care. This also included facilities for children who had gotten into trouble.
18: This man now runs his infamous blog from a couch somewhere in London where he says he is in exile from Jersey Law and corrupt Jersey officials. His Google blog hosting service is in the USA somewhere, most likely Nevada. He has led everyone on a merry dance, PPC, the Data protection Commissioner, the Crown Officers and the Assembly itself. So far he has been untouchable and nobody has managed to close him down or bring him to account.. He has managed to avoid any interference from any part of the great machinery of government. However, some of those he has mentioned on his blog, be they States Members, the public or those States Departments listed above, have been working individually and together to bring the former Senator to account.
19: He now has a very good idea as to what is going on in the background. The law is sometimes ponderous and slow to react and get going. However, this is now happening and a day of reckoning will come soon for him. He will be held to account.
20: Therefore the former Senator may or may not be eligible to stand for the seat he vacated by his own non-attendance. If he is not eligible to stand, then that seat will be filled on the 16th June next. The former Senator will then choose where to live, what to do and how to defend himself.
21: if the former Senator were to win the by-election, a number of matters will occur. As in the above, he will then choose where to live, what to do and how to defend himself.
22: The litigation against Stuart Syvret is significant and rising. He will have more than one Court order against him. These actions will run into many tens of thousands of pounds, possible hundreds of thousands of pounds. In the unlikely event he was to be elected, it is quite a possibility that he would not be able to serve his term owing to the many civil actions pending. His term could be terminated by ill-health, financial problems or bankruptcy.
In conclusion, the former Senator’s future will be filled with legal actions of his own making. That is why the whole world of the former Senator is now based on the blog sideshows and attacking anyone and everyone that does not agree with him. This is well documented on his blog and his new blogsite.
He is becoming increasingly, a sideshow himself and he knows this. His own utterances are unsustainable and he repeats the same old turgid message time and time again.
However he may think it, his future is not now a matter for the former Senator himself and it will not be up to him to decide how all this ends. It is far too late for him to start making amends or for him to try reconciling himself to the community of Jersey that he has so demonstrably attacked and hurt.
His future may well lie in the hands of others."
Josie
