Collective responsibility – or a lack of it?

So islanders don’t know what’s going on over Deputy Andy Cameron’s exclusion from discussions about secondary and post-16 education provision. We don’t have the detail behind the advice that saw him kicked out. Though we do know that ESC actively asked for it.

We might be given to understand that the concerns centre around Deputy Cameron’s opposition to the Ozouets plans being elevated in importance, ESC having realised that it is now pursuing a States’ direction rather than its own.

Maybe it expects that at this point a team player on a committee might consider that, chastened by initial defeat, they need to be corporate and be bound by some collective responsibility. But remember, this project might be on the rocks when the States reconsiders spending priorities next month.

And is the deputy excluded from other ESC matters? Sports funding, where he disagrees with the committee’s position, for example?

The other issue at hand is what will happen next? In another era, with another set of politicians, lobbying and the collection of signatures might be happening apace. After all, there’s been plenty of condemnation.

But save a successful rapprochement from what’s been described as ‘ongoing constructive discussions’ at ESC, this might rumble on throughout the summer holidays and back into the political season.