At a time when the ordinary man on the street is struggling to put food on the table it is both unnecessary and unseemly to spend thousands of pounds of tax payers' money on an extravagant dinner for retiring States members  (not forgetting their partners) for whom the electorate have already shown their displeasure by failing to vote for them at the recent election.  As a further gesture of contempt, soon to be ex-Senator Sarah Ferguson has reportedly commented 'Of course I'm going, it's a free dinner' correction Ms Ferguson, your free dinner was paid for by the hard-working Jersey tax payer........