States 'wandering in the dark for past four years'
THE current States has been 'wandering around in the dark' after not setting a clear direction for itself, the new deputy for St Peter Port North has said.
Former Treasury and Resources minister Charles Parkinson, who was elected in the district's by-election on Wednesday, has been tipped by some States members to be the next leader, the president of the Policy and Resources Committee, under the reformed government system, if successful at next year's general election.
Deputy Parkinson said it was a role that he would like to take on.
The head of that committee would have more influence on the agenda, he said.
And an agenda was something that the current States had lacked.
'The next States will have to sit down and decide what they are going to do in the next four years,' he said.
'That involves Policy and Resources putting a plan together and we must end up with an agreed plan to go forward.
'The problem with this Assembly is it set off with no chat and has wandered around in the dark.'
