Most candidates are not worthy to be your deputies

We might assume that they are going to study all the information placed in front of them and then make fair and free unbiased decisions when they vote on our behalf in future.

If the States makes a decision to spend our taxpayer money on a report compiled by experts which also includes consultation with those involved in the island, then we might expect them to carefully consider it before voting on our island’s future policy.

But we would be wrong.

Almost two-thirds of newbie deputy candidates have already decided on the future of our secondary-education system without any of those facts available.

In fact two of the three political ‘parties’ seem to have already decided their favourite secondary-education model and they form part of their party manifestos.

So how are they going to vote when faced with a review that may recommend some other model – are these newly-elected deputies going to break their ‘promise’ to those who elected them and vote to support the findings of the review?

I doubt it, that would destroy the trust with those who voted for them.

So if you vote for candidates of either the Alliance Party or the Guernsey Party then you are not going to get their support for the results of the Education review – you are going to get whatever they have committed themselves to based upon their predetermined biases.

Now let’s be honest, ‘newbies’ are not the only offenders – many previous deputies either just retired or from previous houses are equally at fault – they’ve already decided what you the electorate want and won’t bother to listen to the results of the review anyway. So the stark truth is that probably over half of the 118 candidates are not worthy to be your deputies.

They won’t make sound judgements based upon the evidence put in front of them when it comes to the education debate, so why should you trust them to make sound judgements on any other matter in the next four years?

Please vote for those candidates who have the sound judgement and intelligence to listen to all the evidence before making decisions on our children’s future.

RICHARD BRACHE

rbrache@guernsey.net