Two emerge for top job in day of lobbying
Friday 25th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.
Former deputy chief minister Bernard Flouquet, left, and current Treasury minister Lyndon Trott seem certain to be the main contenders for the chief minister slot. Deputy Flouquet would look to nominate Deputy Charles Parkinson to the Treasury role. (Picture by Daniel Guerin, 0269391)
Lyndon Trott and Bernard Flouquet will fight it out to be chief minister. Both confirmed their nomination yesterday in a day of political twists and turns.
Deputy Flouquet appeared to be in the stronger position initially – he will be proposed by Deputy Charles Parkinson, who should bring with him a range of the new faces in support.
But winning would be an extraordinary coup for Deputy Flouquet, who failed twice in the last term to take the chief minister’s job. Frantic action behind the scenes saw the Flouquet/ Parkinson partnership having letters sent out to new deputies within hours of the results being declared.
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Lyndon Trott managed to blag his way through to the Treasury so no doubt he’ll fooll everyone into believing he can be Chief Minister too.
Oh dear.
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It is nice to see that Wendy Morgan has been voted out and will not get the chance to run for the top job. She has tried to ruin Education in the Island by introducing student loans and trying to close St Andrews school. She didn’t and does not represent the people and this has finally been shown. It is good to see she will not get into a position of power and destroy anymore of our Island! Either Deputy Lyndon Trott or Deputy Bernard Flouquet will be a far better choice than her.
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Tragic. What a bad day for Guernsey and what in the world does Parkinson think he is doing to his reputation. Its a dumb position anyway so I suppose its a pity both cannot fill the role.
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Student – in Wendy Morgan’s defence what did you want her (and the rest of the Education Department) to do – cut the budget for the rest of the schools by the £2+ million needed? And what exactly is wrong with closing a school that is too small to have the facilities that other schools have?
Bear in mind that the Education budget has effectively been cut in real terms over the past couple of years – but no doubt you’d be among the fist to criticise it for an overspend on its budget if it tried to continue all of its services with no increase in funding!
If you think you can do better perhaps we’ll see you standing in the next election…
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