RETIRING Alderney States member Richard Willmott used his last speech in the Assembly to give the Bailiwick’s media a bit of a kicking and he chose three main themes.

GUERNSEY got value for money from its work with the Wales Audit Office, the Public Accounts Committee has said, after allegations surfaced that the organisation charged public sector bodies millions for work it never carried out.

SPEAKING in the Assembly last week, the Treasury minister made plain his irritation with those – and, by inference, this newspaper – who criticise government for not doing enough to curb States expenditure.

ON SATURDAY Opinion suggested that islanders ought to question the value they were getting from their politicians given the paralysis that appears to exist when it comes to introducing meaningful reforms to States spending, or even given the devastating WAO report on governance, the way it conducts itself.

CRITICISM by a Vale deputy of the Wales Audit Office’s report into good governance – or, rather, the lack of it – in Guernsey has a curious feel.

A REPORT that said the States failed basic principles of good governance is not worth the paper is it written on as the auditor who carried out the review has been discredited, a campaigning deputy has claimed.

LEON GALLIENNE was surprised to find out he was the subject of a vote of no confidence over his leadership of the Public Accounts Committee.

To paraphrase one of the best quotes used by the keynote speaker at this week’s Awards for Achievement ceremony, the means to success is to strive to be the very best, but never to accept that you have achieved it.

POLICE are investigating former Auditor General for Wales Jeremy Colman, who was involved in the review of good governance in the States.

BY A majority of three to one yesterday, States members instructed one of its watchdog committees to do what it was told – not tinker with the island’s machinery of government – when reporting back on ways of resolving the good governance issues identified by the Wales Audit Office.