A DECISION by the BBC to drop Carol Thatcher from The One Show after she used the term golliwog has been welcomed by the man who tried to sack Bernard Flouquet for using the same word.

THE deputy chief minister publicly apologised yesterday for the third time for the racist joke he told in late November.

BERNARD Flouquet failed to show the judgement, integrity and conduct expected of a deputy chief minister, according to a motion of no confidence.

WHEN the deputy chief minister and the racist ‘joke’ story broke in November, this newspaper suggested that if he wanted to survive, the best course of action was to resign. Now that the official report of the incident has come from the States Assembly and Constitution Committee, it is clear that the matter has worsened [...]

THE forthcoming vote of no confidence in Guernsey’s deputy chief minister, unfortunate though it is, will come to be seen as 2009 unfolds as further evidence of the deficiencies that remain in the island’s system of government.

DEPUTY chief minister Bernard Flouquet made no reference to resigning when  he addressed the States this morning over the racist ‘golliwog’ joke he told  at press conference last week.

THE States is to review the way it deals with its employees in determining pay and conditions.

THE Policy Council has survived a challenge to its authority.

THERE are many politicians leaving the States next month. Some have decades of service behind them and they will make serious withdrawals from the island’s political bank of experience.

EDUCATION has failed to deal with the problems within its management structure, it was claimed yesterday.