AN INDEPENDENT RECORD OF EVERY PROMISE MADE IN THE STATES OF JERSEY
Visit the Guernsey edition →The manifesto sets out a programme centred on parish life in St Peter: protecting rural character, pursuing sensible planning, addressing traffic and road safety through dialogue, seeking reductions in PFAS levels in drinking water, and completing community projects subject to available finances. The manifesto describes how working with youth services and community organisations helped address antisocial behaviour in the parish. Commitments are framed in directional language throughout, with no figures, dates or named mechanisms attached to any pledge.
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The manifesto centres on parish continuity: protecting rural character, maintaining community life, and addressing longstanding local concerns including PFAS, traffic and youth issues. There is no cross-portfolio reform programme and no named investment envelope. The reach is local and incremental, with the PFAS pledge representing the furthest stretch, and even that is framed as a wish rather than a commitment to a specific outcome.
No pledge carries a figure, a date or a named mechanism. The planning and development commitments use words such as 'sensible' and 'carefully considered' without defining what that means in practice. The community projects are noted as conditional on parish finances without naming the projects themselves. The PFAS pledge names a goal but no route to achieving it.
The manifesto acknowledges constraints throughout: development pledges recognise the need to balance access with character, the community projects are conditional on parish finances, and the PFAS pledge acknowledges that legislation was delayed. The traffic and road safety section avoids overcommitment by calling for dialogue rather than specific infrastructure. The pledges are modest enough that none require a revenue source that is not named.
The Scorecard records Vibert as Minister for Children and Families and as a member of the Comité de Connétable. The manifesto's references to youth services and antisocial behaviour sit in the same subject area as the Children and Families post. The planning, PFAS, traffic and parish finance pledges would depend on Assembly support, a majority of 25 of 49 members, and on engagement with other decision-makers, as no single member controls those outcomes. The community projects pledge is explicitly conditional on parish finances.
A significant portion of the text consists of general statements of values and intent: caring deeply about the parish, the importance of practical solutions, the belief that parish government works best when approachable. Several sentences restate the same theme of protecting rural character without adding new commitments. The closing lines in particular are statements of feeling rather than pledges.