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.

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.

LATER this month, members of the Public Accounts Committee will face a vote of no confidence for… well, what, exactly?

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.

OVERWHELMING support for the island’s system of government coloured yesterday’s debate on Deputy Matt Fallaize’s requete.

DISCUSSION of the Wales Audit Office’s report on the States must not turn into a debate about executive versus consensus government, according to the Scrutiny Committee.