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I don’t save ideas for election year
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From Deputy Geoff Southern.
WHILE it is always reassuring to get a mention in the columns of your esteemed political correspondent, Ben Quérée, a journalist much admired by my former colleague Ted Vibert, I must take issue with his comments on electioneering.
Unlike some, I do not save my ideas and propositions for election years. I have too many for that. Indeed I have lodged over 60 propositions and amendments over the past six years. As a politician of principle, I have no need to electioneer. My electorate know what I stand for and expect me to deliver. I believe I do so.
The fact overlooked by your columnist is that my school milk proposition (first taken up in 2002) is only before the Assembly this year because the Council of Ministers refused to accept my proposition in 2007 which would have backed school milk for a three-year period.
Similarly, were I convinced that funding for the Town Park was secure and not subject to a renewed bidding war among ministers later this year, I would see no need to lodge my ‘Plan B’ funding from the Rainy Day Fund. Unfortunately, I am not. When the vote is finally taken on capital expenditure for 2010 and the park is certain, then I shall rest easy.
Others may be busy crafting sweet forms of words and heavenly promises to tempt the electorate later this year; I shall continue to devise principled, well-researched alternative policies for the serious voter to consider.
La Rochelle,
Bellozanne Road,
St Helier.
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