Gavin St Pier

🧠 Gavin St Pier: The Man, The Manifesto, The Multiparty Maze

If Guernsey politics were a Netflix series, Gavin St Pier would be the recurring character who keeps changing costumes but never leaves the screen. Born in 1967 and armed with more qualifications than a Swiss Army knife—Chartered Accountant, Tax Adviser, Barrister—he entered politics in 2012 and has been reinventing the wheel ever since.

🎩 From Minister to Mastermind

• First elected in 2012, Gavin quickly became Minister of Treasury and Resources, where he juggled public finances like flaming torches during a recession.

• By 2016, he’d climbed the ladder to Chief Minister (aka President of the Policy and Resources Committee), where he led Guernsey through fiscal storms and COVID lockdowns with the gravitas of a man who’s read every footnote in the budget.

🧬 Political Party Origami

• In 2020, he co-founded the Guernsey Partnership of Independents. It won big, then promptly dissolved—like a soufflé in a wind tunnel.

• Not one to be deterred, Gavin launched Future Guernsey in 2021, a movement so forward-thinking it couldn’t legally endorse candidates. So in 2025, he created Forward Guernsey, a party that could. Yes, he made a party to carry the manifesto of a movement that couldn’t be a party. It’s politics by Russian nesting doll.

📜 Manifesto Shenanigans

• Forward Guernsey adopted Future Guernsey’s manifesto “in its entirety,” which is like copying your own homework but submitting it under a different name.

• Gavin resigned from Future Guernsey to lead Forward Guernsey, keeping both entities legally separate but spiritually conjoined like a political Siamese twin.

🗳️ 2025 Election: Gavin vs. Inertia

• Gavin and his trio of candidates launched Forward Guernsey with a promise to end “endemic inertia and indecision.” Translation: less dithering, more doing.

• He’s campaigning on policy coherence, fiscal responsibility, and the kind of government that doesn’t need a secret ballot to decide what day it is.

🏡 Personal Life

• Married with three kids, living in Saint Sampson since 1997, and still working in trusts—because why not juggle politics and fiduciary duties at the same time?

If Gavin St Pier were a cocktail, he’d be one part technocrat, one part reformer, and one part legal workaround—served with a manifesto twist and garnished with electoral finesse.