Will the good old days ever make a return?
JUST a reminder for our spendthrift deputies to consider – the Guernsey that was such a delightful island home not so long ago, a haven away from the nanny state of the mainland with all its rules, regulations and charges, before most of them took office. And a delightful place for holidaymakers to visit, but are they trying to destroy that as well?
There was no plan for paid parking (what a backward step that is), we did not have a sales tax that would hurt everybody and costs jobs, nobody charged us £2 for a black bag or fined us if we put out the wrong one, income tax was kept at 20%, nobody dreamed up punitive mooring charges if you dared to have a boat in an island home and nobody dreamed up the idea of a huge tax if you dared to buy a new car less than one third the size of our ridiculous, bullying buses (which, incidentally, the States foisted upon us). We didn't actually need a grandiose school complex at four times the price they would pay in the UK, or a hugely expensive upgrade to the harbour and we did not (as we are supposed to be short of money) spend £2.6m. on Overseas Aid, which, as you will remember, included a motorbike for pregnant women in southern Sudan. Good idea, that.
Ah, the happy days.
Will they ever come back, unless we clear out this bunch of deputies who seem to have lost all sense of proportion or of living, as the rest of us have to, within our means?
BRIAN A. GROVES,
Sarum,
Grandes de Beauvoir,
St Peter Port,
GY1 1QT.
