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From what I’m told you could also (allegedly) include “attending second job in London”.
But I’m sure that can’t be true…
Here’s a Spanish headline for you relating to a town of fewer than 100,000 run by 25 elected councillors.
Where would you spend the ~£300,000 a year such a move would liberate here in Guernsey?
You raise a much wider point.
Can any system, structured or not, work in Guernsey context where competence isn't criteria for election and island-wide means voters have little to no chance of understanding candidates or their capabilities or motivations?
bridgeheadcommunications.com…
You could vote to delegate more powers to P&R in particular areas or authorise it to overrule cttees where silos get in the way of sensible development like East Coast Development?
Excellent promo for the Channel Islands – win the weight of your baby in Bean Jar* (Guernsey) or Bean Crock* (Jersey)
*Other popular local specialities available 🙂
Is this implying that P&R hasn't been monitoring senior appointments?
And v odd development since Bill Bell was doing just this when he was a committee president up to (I think) 2008.
Looking at the massive push-back from States departments to even the modest cost savings they’ve already endorsed, you have to ask why nothing ever changes.
Here’s my explanation in today’s @GuernseyPress - and it’s all down to a chap called Pournelle…
This is classic States playbook stuff - “cuts” immediately transferred to users. The organisation remains untouched, unchanged and as costly as before the “economies”.
Odd that we’re “tax havens” but the biggest beneficiary - Ireland, with an expected annual €3.5bn increase in corporation tax revenue from Pillar Two - somehow isn’t.
Guernsey, Jersey and other havens rake in revenues from global minimum tax ft.trib.al/Y88TfY5
Nice initiative that seems poised to take off
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
Remind me, why did we dump tried and tested CT Plus – on April the First I note – for this new, underperforming operator @Govgg ?
A couple of headlines today reinforcing @AlexSnowdon5’s fears over @States_Alderney’s pie-in-the-sky data centre ambitions?
Only 35% of such plans credible says @FT report.
Talking of statistics, here's an interesting chart from Marcus Cicero showing how buying a house has moved out of reach for so many islanders.
Methodology and caveats from him here:
cicero.me.uk/blog/guernsey-h…?
Today's @GuernseyPress headline is hardly a surprise but it demonstrates States members' detachment from the pressures facing island families after a decade+ of falling real incomes and rocketing housing costs.
Where's the extra tax coming from?
@AlexSnowdon5 certainly puts himself through it in questioning Alderney’s data centre ambitions.
bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge…
Still at it!
Putting aside his method, the questions posed by the data centre are considerable and serious.
Especially the allegations of Guernsey collusion.
bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge…
