Lt-Governor will depart in style
Friday 18th February 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Lt-Governor Sir Fabian Malbon on board HMS Daring when it was in island waters in 2009. The destroyer will take Sir Fabian and Lady Malbon to the UK at the end of his term of office. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0710162)
INSTEAD of driving his car onto a ferry like some of his predecessors, Guernsey’s Lt-Governor will say goodbye to the Bailiwick in style next week by helicopter and destroyer.
Sir Fabian and Lady Malbon’s five-year stay on the island will come to an end on Wednesday – the same day that Guernsey’s affiliated warship, HMS Daring, is due to be in Bailiwick waters.
To honour Sir Fabian’s position as a vice admiral, Daring will send its Lynx helicopter on a special mission to land at Government House.
After it has dropped a liaison officer off in the garden, the Lynx will take off again. Meanwhile, representatives of the Royal Court, the States, the emergency services and youth organisations will be gathering outside Government House.
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You’d think with all the debt the UK is in which have brought about very serious cuts in defence spending along with the huge job loss’s for public service workers that these kind of wasteful antics would cease.
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He will be missed I hope. What a great job he has done. I don’t know him personally, just been at a couple of dinners where he has been a guest and he pops up all over the place. A warm, genuine person who has taken is job very seriously. A great job Sir Fabian, and thank you for all the effort you have put in while you have been here.
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Funny Pete, I was thinking the self same thing as I was reading the article. Although stopping this particular antic isn’t likely to bring the Ark Royal back, it’s more a matter of principle.
On the subject of waste, although I’m open to persuasion I’m still not convinced we need a Lt Governor over here.
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Any number of training elements to such an exercise that can only serve to hone the crew’s skills. It will be good to see them back in local waters.
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Roll on independence. 100k a year salary, and God knows the consequential costs of running that Office to the Island. A million, 2 million, staff and grounds and security.
Total waste of money and high time we moved on from this 17th Century hangover
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isit?
Time for someone to organise a mass protest in Church Square,but only if the College Cadet Force can be relied upon to remain neutral
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