No such thing as "society" in Jersey?

Following last week's  appearance of CM Ian Gorst before the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel consisting of Sen Sarah Ferguson, Deputies Power and Rondel with Constable Murphy - I was preparing a lengthy scribble with all sorts of moralistic arguments and suchlike....

This seemed especially relevant since the death of Margaret Thatcher had been announced that day and CM Gorst was saying how the Ozouf Jersey savings plan was still operative and another £20 millions had to be clawed back this year from public spending....

...he was backing that up with calls to refuse any further TU pay claims for States' workers and that the persistently unemployed may face reductions in Income Support soon if they cannot find work etc to encourage them ...
...and the Panel members were inviting him to be even more "Thatcherite" in his policies...though they did not describe it in that way...
and Gorst joked at one stage about no handbags being hidden under the table....
and I had even asked him before the meeting commenced if State funerals were likely to be introduced in Jersey for passing leaders....

and it was all rather jolly in a cosy surreal sort of way...

but the next day Sen Ozouf announced that he had found another £30 millions under his Treasury bed and was scattering it about in payments to the Rugby team,  promoting the Royal Mace (where oh where did that crazy idea come from!!!), the £10 millions Innovation Fund and similar bizarre projects which did not seem to have much relationship with the real probelms that so many people face in this divided Island...

and as the week progressed and the post Thatcherite divisions in UK society (apparently there is such a thing in spite of what she claimed) were discussed more and more with increasing bitterness and acrimony being displayed....

it just simply became too absurd to endure - so I tore up my original text (pressed delete in fact) and called upon Ian (the blogger - not the CM) for some help in the image department and he produced this montage for me...

and although this does not describe all my anger and frustration  it adequately hints at my feelings about this Jersey government which will dish out £200,000 to a crazy film project - with virtually no checks or security - whilst it treats so many working and non-working people with such contempt...

and I realised that the ethos of Mrs Thatcher's brand of capitalism is most certainly not dead in Jersey and it won't be buried with her this week either...

I feel a bit better now.