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Richard Digard: Political incontinence is baked into the system (opens the original)
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Apologies to those of you with a sensitive disposition, but I’m beginning this week by quoting Nigel Farage, he who insists that Britain needs Reform. Why? ‘Every problem we face comes from the same root: weak, failed… leadership,’ he says. Well, that’s a bingo since even his political opponents agree with him. Obvious to highlight, but successful governments are the ones that Get Things Done. It helps if they’re the right things, obvs, but doing stuff – ooh, I dunno, building social housing or
Richard Digard: Still awaiting redemption (opens the original)
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Here’s a little puzzle for you. Go back a few years and around 50p in every pound taken off you by a rapacious States of Guernsey went on the payroll costs of its own employees. Yet today (2025 Accounts) that’s dropped to 33p. I mean, what the actual? How can that be when the size and cost of government has never been higher? The answer, as you’ll have guessed, is our old friends at Treasury managing the figures. Accounting standards and reporting methods have changed, particularly incorporating
Richard Digard: Sorry, but things are going to get worse (opens the original)
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While an unknown and unsupervised number of civil servants were lolling around, oops, busy working from home this week, some of us were more productively occupied going through S&P Global’s latest report on whether it’s safe to lend money to the States of Guernsey. And, basically, yes it is. Forget the A+/Stable/A-1 jargon. What it means is government has a strong capacity to meet its financial commitments, although it remains somewhat vulnerable to adverse economic changes. Which we all knew be
Richard Digard: Our grandson will never know Guernsey... (opens the original)
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Thanks to the dramatic arrival of grandchild number one and some unexpected but happily successful interventions by a highly skilled NHS team, I’m putting this together a week earlier than usual. And courtesy of Harold Wilson’s famous quote during the sterling crisis in 1964, we all know a week is a long time in politics. And many other things as well, as we’ve just discovered. Not least because the GST debate seems to go from bad to farcical, with even ratings agency S&P Global – wrongly – bein
Richard Digard: Just listen to Andy (opens the original)
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The irony wasn’t lost on you, I’m sure. A States of Guernsey with a richly deserved reputation for screwing things up couldn’t manage its own time well enough to conclude the GST debate before packing up for their summer holidays. Some, it has to be said, were out of the door – beach towel and a dog-eared copy of Jilly Cooper’s Riders under their arm – well before then. Ah, but what can you expect when you pay deputies collectively only £5,500 a day to look after your interests? And this attenti
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