‘Flimsy’ security report will be padded out later
Tuesday 17th March 2009, 1:00PM GMT.
TWO States departments yesterday defended a ‘flimsy’ report seeking to introduce eBorders security locally.
A Treasury and Resources spokesman said the Billet d’Etat section about the system, which would cost the taxpayer an estimated £1m., would be followed by more substantial details at the right point in the prioritisation debate.
‘The report is likely to be flimsy. It’s a brief outline and that department will come back with more detail,’ he said.
‘When each comes to the States it will have its own 10-, 20-, 30-page policy letter.’
Deputy Home minister Francis Quin (pictured) said the details of the system were not yet certain.
‘Negotiations have not finished with the UK yet – we can’t release lots of information until we have got it,’ he said.
He said that when the time was right there was likely to be a presentation to States members on the details.
‘In the past, all you would get was a report but now you often get a presentation, too,’ he said.
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If this is insisting on by the UK, make the UK pay for it. They want it, not us. It is about time this island stopped being this labour governments’ lap dog. It doesn’t help one bit anyway, they are quick enough to talk about clamping down on tax havens, and include the crown dependenices on this – they order us around one minute then get political capital out of inferrring they have control where they have no jurastiction. STOP THIS NONSENSE NOW. Guernsey should have a referendum. This is a step too far to big brother and SHOULD BE STOPPED.
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ID cards and dispersal orders next the UK has lost its way.
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i have had the unfortunate displeasure of having to take my shoes off and have my bags empited by a bunch of officious, over zealous jobsworths at the guernsey airport of departure. we now have eborders and what appears to be metal detectors at the entrance to the Royal court. little by little civil liberties, the guernsey feeling are being eroded by the fear of our own shadows.
what guernsey does best is over react to uk legislation and apply it to the letter without any thought for the damage is does to the social fabric of the island and it people. ridiculous situation and the gradual undermining of all that was our island.
this island does love its little Hitlers and power mongers
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States members beware.
This has all the hallmarks of seeking an ‘agreement in principle’followed months later with a ‘but you have ALREADY agreed to this proposition’ argument when the nitty-gritty is released.
Deputy Mellor used this trick in the early days of the paid parking debates and it was always used as a tool to clobber opposition to paid parking.
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It is absolutely crazy. Members of the EU can travel freely and yet Guernsey has to be regulated within an inch of its life – because it is a Crown Dependency rather than a member of the EU.
It is absolute nonsense and local politicians have to have the backbone to say enough is enough. What worries me is that they don’t seem to have a clue what is going on. First we are told the reciprocal health agreement has come to an end (without even a whimper from our politicians), we have the UK Government calling us tax havens and now we have the e-border nonsense.
I agree; a referendum is needed urgently. I am with Dave Jones on this one. The Guernsey way of life is being eradicated and we must do something about it – and one of the really disturbing things is that a lot of these decisions are being made by people who have no interest in the long term stability of Guernsey plc.
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Having been subject to airport security screening over a number of decades in various places, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s no protection at all against determined terrorists. The authorities want us to believe they are thinking of our safety while they are really thinking of saving their own backs. The intolerable inconvenience cannot be justified even as a placebo for our fears since few people now believe it to be effective.
Introducing even more bureaucracy will make me feel even less safe.
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Cause Guernsey maximum discomfort, forcing us to join the EU but only as part of the UK only after we have given up providing any financial services and then be forced into begging the EU for big grants so that the 40k people left in the island can still eat!!!!
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Dear Guernsey Press, please do not let this issue die. I have people telling me it is already signed up over 6 months ago and there is nothing we can do about it. The impact of this, combined with everything else happening to the island will have a serious effect on its viability and the issues must be addressed now. Who in the States will be providing real leadership to ensure our civil liberties are not destroyed by those who do not live here, and to represent truthfully the desires of the electors. Benjamin Franklin said “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.”
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