Aren’t deputies there to cut through the bureaucracy that civil servants love to create?
DEPUTY HEIDI SOULSBY: ‘With government, it’ll generally be slow … charities benefit from not having all that bureaucracy around them and can focus on what they’re there to do’. Guernsey Press, 25 February. Talk about a guilty party condemning herself out of her own mouth.
Aren’t deputies there, among other things, to cut through (better still clear away) all the bureaucracy that civil servants love to create to justify their comfortable lives? Not simply accept it as a given. What hope have we to escape the failure to govern we have endured in recent years with this attitude among such senior politicians?
No one doubts that charities in Guernsey do brilliant jobs and how lucky residents we are to have them, but if they can do those jobs effectively and efficiently, so too should the politicians and civil servants we pay so much to run things.
Perhaps we should let charities run Guernsey. Couldn’t be any worse at it.
Be cheaper too.
STUART GARNER
Jerbourg