Stuart Syvret

Stuart Syvret
Stuart Syvret at St Helier Parish Hall at the nominations for Senator, September 2011
Minister for Health and Social Services
In office Dec 2005 – Sep 2007
Preceded by	None
Senator
In office Nov 2005 – Apr 2010
Constituency	Jersey
Majority	15,131 (13.1%)
Personal details
Nationality	British
Website	http://freespeechoffshore.nl/stuartsyvretblog/

Stuart Syvret is a political activist in Jersey. He held elected office as a member of the States of Jersey assembly from 1990 to 2010. From 1999 to 2007, Svyret had executive responsibilities first as President of the Health and Social Services Committee and, after the 2005 constitutional reforms, as Minister for Health and Social Services in the Council of Ministers. He was dismissed from ministerial office in September 2007 and returned to the backbenches until he was disqualified from membership of the States in April 2010 due to his absence from the island. He has been involved in a series of legal proceedings, as a defendant in a criminal prosecution in Jersey and as a claimant in judicial review and civil claims in Jersey and London.

Stuart Syvret was born in Jersey and educated at Halkett Place School, St Helier Boys School and Highlands College. He obtained City and Guilds Craft and Advanced Craft in carpentry and joinery and went on to become a Member of the Institute of Carpenters. He was a Cabinet maker before entering politics.

He has been described by journalists as "the 'bete noire' of Jersey politics", a "self-taught intellectual", an "agitator", "critical of the finance industry", "one of the island's most outspoken senators" "a rarity, an anti-establishment Jersey politician", "a maverick politician" and having a "ludicrous vision of a corrupt state bent on limitless cover-ups, victimisation and systematic injustice".

Syvret was elected, at his third attempt, to the States of Jersey in 1990 for a three-year term as Deputy of Saint Helier District 3&4 as a member of the Jersey Green Party.

Standing as an independent, Syvret was elected for a six-year term as Senator in 1993, coming second in the poll for six vacant seats with 14,388 votes. He was re-elected in 1999, coming top of poll with 15,212 votes, and in 2005 (again top of poll for six vacant seats with 15,131 votes).