We're being forced out

Another part seems to be that they don't want too many people in the island, unless they're very, very rich, so they're making the price of living go so high that few of us can afford to buy our own house, or even rent a home. So we leave the island for somewhere we can afford to live, as I'm now being forced to do. People brought up in wealthy families do not have the same understanding of how to handle money as Guernsey people who've had to fight and struggle all their lives, working all the hours that God sends. This is why quite a lot of older Guernsey people have decent homes – they've slaved in their greenhouses for them, no holidays, few days off, just work.

Guernsey people want the people they vote into power to do what they want them to do. They want a better life and they've earned it. They don't want Guernsey mucked about with any more, nor do they want their island overwhelmed by the sea. They don't want people from other countries coming here and making money by building monstrosities that don't fit in with previous buildings.

Guernsey people want deputies who know their jobs, not learners who don't seem to have a clue, can't make up their minds and who are so busy having 'visions' that they cannot be practical and put the Guernsey people first. And we're not first, we're last. The States members' interests are first – they proved that within weeks of being voted in, which was appalling.

This latest 'vision' is how to rectify past States members' careless use of our money in the quickest time possible, by taking as much money off the Guernsey people as they can get away with. They don't seem to realise the animosity they create by doing this, which is akin to stealing our hard-earned money.

The cost of renting/buying a home is gradually removing all but the most wealthy Guernsey residents and our States members can't seem to see it, or do anything about it.

When a wealthy man feels he hasn't got enough garden and buys the house next door purely for the garden, while others cannot afford a house to rent or to buy, there is something very wrong with the island's government, particularly when that government represents a great many people who rent out homes at exorbitant rates. What's the word for this? Shame.

Will we want them back in power? No. What sort of legacy will they leave behind? Something similar to the disgust we feel when remembering people involved in the slave trade.

Some of our States members should listen in when they're being discussed. If they're capable of it, they would blush. Few people have anything good to say about any of them, nor do they want to discuss them except to say, 'none of them seem to know what they're doing'.

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