CAG report backs Angry Men claims
Saturday 11th July 2009, 2:59PM BST.
The Angry Men pictured in 2008: Paul Collier, Peter Tabb, Peter Seymour. Front Row: David Le Quesne, Kevin Keen, Colin Parry and Roger Trower.
ANGRY Men campaigner Roger Trower says that taxpayers deserve straight answers after an independent report found that States departments have used poor financial controls to ‘cook the books’.
He says that the findings have vindicated what the ‘Angry Men’ have been saying for years: that the States are unwilling and unable to apply meaningful controls to spending.
The States independent spending watchdog, Comptroller and Auditor General Chris Swinson, published a report last week that set out how a culture of poor financial record keeping had allowed departments to fudge their accounts.
His report stated that: ‘The lack of discipline in financial record keeping has assisted departments in obscuring their cost profiles and this has been regarded by some as convenient.’
While ministers rejected what the campaigners were saying at the time, Mr Trower says that they now need to provide honest answers to questions about spending.
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Keep pushing for answers guys, you at least live in commercial reality…and for those who think I’m a civil servant basher…(1) you’re right, and I intend to keep pushing the point home until accountability and responsibility begin to emerge…and
2)..I told you so.
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Well if the angry men are so concerned why dont they stand for the states next time a seat comes up for election
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The Angry men – Always critical of Government, often seen bigging up their industries, all wealthy, and often speaking sense, but as soon as an election comes along, they go back underground. Come on guys, be real men, you can’t just keep shouting, without acting or else people will get fed up of listening.
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Being angry is seldom good for anybody.
In fact it is more than likely to lead to an early grave.
Would you want to do business with someone who styles himself as angry?
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As I have said many time before – The proposed La Collette mass-burn incinerator is a scandalous waste of public money.
BWV/ART offered the perfect alternative – totally Climate Change carbon neutral fully guaranteed solution to minimise the Island’s solid waste for £30 MILLION less than the contract established with a French company, CNIM.( this offer was made well before the exchange of contracts ).
Since when, the Government have saught to rubbish this alternative proposal in defence of their gross profligacy – even to the point of saying there was no substance in the offer; backed by Babcock Wilcox Volund’s sales director Mr Kenneth Jorgensen and ART Managing Director Tony Manser.
It might be a bit late in the day – but the offer still stands and even mre so as it is highly unlikely that the proposed mass burn incinerator will ever be able to operate within safe, emissions EU set parameters – Especially with regard to continuous 24/7 minimum operating temperatures of not less than 850 degrees centigade; absolutely critical to prevent highly corrosive hydrochloric and sulphuric acid furnace metal degradation and formation of poisinous dioxins and furans – not to mention heavy build up of glass-like silica in the boiler(s)
This government have been led by the nose on this one by outrageously expensive consultants into what will prove be a monumentally expensive outcome costing the Public Purse millions upon millions of pounds( euros ) more than necessary for what is now outdated technology; producing very expensive to control chimney emissions and more than 20,000 tons yearly of dirty bottom ash – highly contaminated furnace fly-ash concentrate and gas scrubber wash-down residues.
I’d have thought the now clapped out Bellozanne incinerator experience would have been enough for the Island to have said”Enough is Enough” – ‘Let’s move ahead with the times, and let’s have total resource recovery with highly reliable biomass combined heat and power engineering; with less than 6,000 tons of clean – uncontaminated, annual bottom ash arisings’.
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5. Well said Sir, Now will anyone in power speak about this,it is clear that we have purchased a Dinosaur. Now even this mob can not be that woefully incompetent ,so who led them, who gained,and who will stand up and admit you’ve been conned…again and again we suffer at the hands of these people.
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