What hope now for consensus government?
IT SEEMS ironic indeed that a reader from Jersey (letters 21 October) should be the first to comment on the result of our election for committee presidents.
We voted in our thousands for Deputy St Pier, not only in appreciation of his response to the Covid crisis, but in the belief that he would continue in his role as president of Policy & Resources. Now more than ever we are in need of his clarity and vision, but this has been denied by factions in the new Assembly, seemingly intent on excluding him from any position of authority and expanding their own power base.
What hope now for consensus government and moving forward together?
The will of the majority of the electorate has been totally ignored and I very much doubt that I am alone in my feelings of anger and frustration. Mr Sinclair was right to pose the question: ‘What have you done?’ Time will tell, but we, the people of Guernsey, have elected representatives determined to put party politics over and above the wishes of the general public. Not an auspicious start to our island-wide voting regime, already marred by negative campaigning and less than transparent agendas.
ELEANOR HENDERSON,
L’Etiennerie Farm,
Castel.
