Let's get down to business
THIS States is getting itself into a right muddle as it breathes its last before the summer’s general election.
At the close of business last Friday, members fairly conclusively agreed that they didn’t want five-day meetings in April, and neither did they want four-day meetings.
To do so, many said, ranged from poor governance to terrible democracy, while if we believe the worst fears, the standard of debate come the close of the meeting would be dragged even further into the gutter.
So nobody quite knows where the ever-growing stack of policy letters prepared over the last couple of weeks will end up. Debated or pulped?
As, bizarrely, there seems to be a school of thought that a new States, and new committees, can’t take some of these projects forward.
As if a corporate board would start again given a change of chairman?
There may be no commonality in political membership between now and then, but there will still be officer support.
If a committee really doesn’t like proposals it’s been left, then it could seek to withdraw, but surely some projects would be fine for members to get up to speed with and take forward?
Fresh analysis of reports would be welcome, and it could end the situation where the government achieves next to nothing in its first 100 days (frankly, several weeks more that that).