Action one day?

For starters, States members were told the long-anticipated Leale’s Yard housing development might not happen until 2026, if at all, due to ‘enormous complications’ associated with the site.

It was confirmed that the review of the Island Development Plan has been delayed until the next political term, to allow for a further round of public representations to be undertaken.

We were told that the redevelopment of Alderney airport is currently in limbo, with the scheme agreed nearly two years ago looking likely to be scrapped due to costs and a replacement plan yet to be agreed.

And it was revealed that the cost of a new health IT system has soared from £17.3m. to £22.2m. That being just the latest budget-busting issue for HSC, following the shocking news earlier this year that the estimated cost of the second phase of the PEH redevelopment had escalated from £120m. to £150m.

To top it all off, we learned that almost £16m. could be wiped off income tax receipts this year due to a downturn in profit forecasts at a single bank.

All of which begs the question, with the States now in its final parliamentary session of this term, will it manage to achieve anything substantial in these final months, or even command financial control of the projects that have already been agreed?

Horace Camp makes the point in his column today that success in business does not equal success in politics. He’s quite right – and if the States of Guernsey was a business, one has to wonder if it would still be trading.