When did we stop being nimble?
ANOTHER intriguing coincidence this week, as the new chief executive of the States declares that ‘as an organisation, we are just doing way too much’ at the same time that deputies are arguing about whether they need to be regulating quite so much.
It appears that the creep of government interference in our lives has come largely by stealth, rather than direct choice. Surely nobody asked for it?
But it seems that we are losing one of our best attributes, the ability to be nimble when it came to handling some of the worst that the UK, or the EU, can throw at us.
For years, it was one of those things we did best. Deservedly, we patted ourselves on the back about it.
But now, it appears that if we want to be a guest at the global table we have to play by everyone else’s rules – which means regulating, or clamping down harder where we just don’t see the need.
And that fuels the growth in regulation, and then, with a regulatory team in place, they look for something else to regulate. And before we know it, we’ve gone way too far.
You never know, we might be ‘doing way too much’.
The only way out of that for the States, and its new chief, is recognised as prioritisation.
History tells us that we should wish government good luck with that.