States agrees to signing off our national ID
Monday 1st December 2008, 11:30AM GMT.
GUERNSEY will sign off an international identity framework document with the UK.
Chief Minister Lyndon Trott (pictured) had been poised to put pen to paper on the agreement before the Policy Council acceded to a letter from 26 members that it should first be debated.
Leading advocates had raised concerns that the document was a weakening of the island’s position, but this was firmly rejected by Deputy Trott.
There was little dissent, with only two members voting against it. In his longest speech to the Assembly in eight years, Deputy Trott said the document was a positive step.
‘Why? Because it expressly recognises that this Assembly, comprising directly-elected representatives of the people of Guernsey, is a “responsible, stable and mature democracy with our own broad policy interests” – policy interests that are delegated to departments and committees of the States with some functions delegated directly to the Policy Council by this Assembly,’ he said.
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Can anyone tell me exactly what we have signed up to here – and what were the concerns of leading advocates that we were weakening our position?
The explanation that the signing of this document…
“expressly recognises that this Assembly, comprising directly-elected representatives of the people of Guernsey, is a “responsible, stable and mature democracy with our own broad policy interests” – policy interests that are delegated to departments and committees of the States with some functions delegated directly to the Policy Council by this Assembly”
…doesn’t exactly tell us much.
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I do not see how any sensible, moderately well-informed person can be expected to recover even one useful fact from this article.
It is the job of journalists to work out the meaning of apparently meaningless strings of nouns like “identity framework document”, and tell us about it. This article does exactly the opposite.
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What a load of nonsense.
A framework is a document that stipulates how a Department should operate in accordance with guidelines set out by international, regional, local or academically recognised institutes.
So from what Trottski is saying there will be a professionally based document structured around an agreem framework that the UK has likely developed and is implementing with other offshore juristictions.
What it does not say is what does it mean by ID?
Does this mean it recognises Guernsey’s indepence but wants Guernsey to come into line more, i.e. tow the line.
Is it referring to the identity of Guernsey residents, including Open Market rich folk, so the UK and Guernsey can track them and record their movements in accordance with UK or EU law?
Who knows, however the article is about as informative as a vacuum.
Then again, I think James you might be being a tad unfair on the newspaper – lets face it, Trottski is hardly Mr Dynamic and informative – he probably does not want the public to know what the document is, hence the vagueness around it.
Nice.
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