Steve Roberts, who is also against the data centre concept, is clearly frustrated, both with the current divisions in the States, and with this latest development.
‘The new system of our code of conduct seems to be being used as a political weapon. I asked for calm and I’m getting anything but – it seems like bad governance,’ he said.
‘Mr Snowdon has been vocal in his fight against a data centre and the plans for Alderney. That is his right to take up this cause.
‘But following this latest punishment of one of the hardest-working members, to me I can only describe it as a travesty and bad governance, and the commission system now here shouts recall. It is blatant shutting down of the democratic right to speak, should you not agree.
‘I only care for Alderney. I only care for a system of justice that should not be used as a tool to destroy any view other than your own.
‘It is blatant that this is indeed the case, and it is working against Alderney’s example of good governance.’
Mr Snowdon has also alleged that a private investor has just pulled out of a £500,000 investment in recreational facilities in the island because they no longer trust the States.
He has also claimed a crisis of confidence among Alderney’s civil service and anger within the Alderney public.
One of the latest two complaints which the commissioner has upheld against Mr Snowdon concerns his failure to comply with one of her earlier rulings instructing him to apologise to a fellow States member.
He is making clear that his stance over the possibility of doing that remains unchanged – that he would do so when the data centre project was halted.
And in a letter to the commissioner Mr Snowdon says the next step is to escalate the dispute further: ‘I am doing this not because l expect you to change any of what you say, you have already demonstrated that your investigations are neither fair nor unbiased, but rather to record in writing my concerns and objections.
'I cannot accept what you say as I believe it to be politically-motivated and I intend to challenge it by requesting a full judicial inquiry.’
Former Alderney States member Robert McDowall, who made the code complaint which has seen Mr Snowdon suspended from the States for a month without pay, said he believed that the new code was ‘a huge improvement’ on its predecessor which ‘kept issues in the family’ and was ‘very tribal in approach’.
‘It is essential that there is external evaluation and oversight of members’ conduct from outside the Channel Islands, which are too prone to resistance to outside evaluation of their activities,’ he added.
‘It is essential that it is supported and not subject to destructive antics, which happened in the States of Guernsey when members did not like the results.’
He said that he hoped that if Mr Snowdon continued to not apologise, that others would take up the matter.
‘Otherwise I fear the code of conduct legislation will suffer disrepute.’