Now if my memory serves me correctly Wendy Kinnard became a Senator because the public felt she had a solid base of social policies and the necessary drive to see them through the States.
Ministerial Government however did not seem to suit her - or rather the Ministers she was working with had very different political ambitions and she became isolated - and so it seems from an outsiders perspective that rather than stick to her guns she backed down and went with the flow. Not an easy thing to do if you’re an intelligent woman.
So why now, having kept her head down for years and with only weeks remaining of her term of office coupled with the earlier announcement that she won't be seeking re-election, does she throw the towel in over what amounts to a legal technicality? I don't get it. There were far more important political issues that Wendy Kinnard could have railed against in the last six years but she didn't and in doing so it might be argued let down those that voted for her.
One point of view which was put to me this lunchtime in the Royal Square was that her actions were an act of petulance designed to show her disapproval at the way she has been treated by her ministerial colleagues and by Frank Walker in particular. I've no way on knowing if that's true or not.
My own personal view is that there were far more important issues of moral conscience and principle which she chose to ignore during her term and she might have better served the people of Jersey by resigning three years ago and fighting for reform from the backbenches.
