Will the Senator’s salary be suspended?

Saturday 31st October 2009, 2:59PM GMT.

From Peter Howard.
SENATOR Stuart Syvret is reported in your newspaper as asserting that he will fight any attempts to bring him back from London.

Senator Syvret was elected to the States Assembly by no fewer than 15,131 Jersey voters. He – like all other elected representatives in the Assembly – receives a salary from the public purse of at least £40,000 a year.

As the Senator will not be available to take part in the deliberations of the Assembly for the foreseeable future to whom should his 15,131 electors turn for representation?

Moreover, will his salary be suspended until he takes up his parliamentary duties once more?

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Tony B

October 31, 2009 at 3:55 pm

More burden on my taxes I suppose.

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Magnolia Man

October 31, 2009 at 4:32 pm

I concur with the sentiments expressed by Mr Howard.

Senator Syvret himself has often expressed the need for getting value for the Jersey taxpayers’ hard-earned money.

Why, therefore, should he be paid while he is hiding in London, away from the States Assembly and away from representing his constituents’ interests?

To excuse Senator Syvret’s selfish behaviour, as apologists for him are doing, by blithely saying that there are “52 other deputies and senators” to do his duty is specious, misleading and insulting the electors’ intelligence.

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kate

November 1, 2009 at 9:44 am

I understand the salary is not able to be suspended and that you can take the role of a states member and not have to attend one sitting in the states. If this is the case then the law of the staes needs to be looked at.
Syvret was the same at scholl and he hasn’t changed now.Why is he and his Parlement friend worried we will bring him back. His friends are the same as he. Has anyone told his mates we do not want him back in Jersey. Why can’t we just leave him over there.

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camelia

November 4, 2009 at 11:00 pm

No Tony B.The burden on your taxes has has been caused by the failings of government.Stuart is trying to rectify these failings and he should be getting more support from the electorate and be commended for what is is doing.

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kate

November 5, 2009 at 12:10 pm

CAmeila
Stuart would have been hung drawn and quartered a couple of hundred years ago for treason at what he has done to this island. Even the people such as I who voted him in years ago would not give him the time of day now. Why do you think he has gone to the UK he knows he has lost face in the island and the people

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Carl

November 5, 2009 at 2:13 pm

How about we pay an hourly rate for attendance in the States Chamber? Get them to clock in and out, bingo – problem sorted!

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