No sign of the States changing

It is very obvious to the layman that any company offering to do work in Guernsey can put another nought on their estimate, turning it from thousands to millions, and get it accepted.

The influx of foreign labour has destroyed many a local person's chances of work on our own island as one hears the sickening stories of local people applying for a job and being turned down because they are not of foreign dependency.

It is sickening when you hear a family having to reach out to the public for help in raising money for their son to have an operation to save his leg and help him live a normal life because of any help being turned down by our own States who give money away to people not willing to work.

Also making a statement that they are not satisfied the operation will work when the same procedure has already taken place and was a success.

Funny how a blind eye can be turned to buying stupid planters to obstruct everything around the seafront with no worries at all about throwing the taxpayers' money away.

Funny how our government can get locums into the health service for a few months and change them time and time again because they have placed someone in a job that cannot do it and end up paying an extortionate hand-out to get rid of them and do the same thing over and over again.

Funny how an increase in money is not a problem for deputies but is a problem for the manual labourer.

Funny how schools (like St Peter Port) were in a state of disrepair and no longer usable, yet the building still stands and is used.

Funny how a perfect granite building like the old college had to be pulled down and housing built in its place and yet there are hundreds of sites elsewhere available for building on.

While on that subject, it does not take a genius to work out that greenhouse sites are in line to be given permission for housing to be built.

One cannot help but think why this turnaround in allowing building houses on horticultural land is suddenly being looked at.

Could it be that these sites were already being looked at behind the scenes and they are being bought by people in the know? Even under an alias. Only a question, but it does make one think.

Just before I sign off from another of my moans.

What a great job is being done to the buildings/houses by the power station just off the Bridge (going towards the Vale).

It seems every time someone mentions anything about them we get the answer they are coming down or work is being done on them.

First the roofs were removed and they stayed like that for an age. Then scaffolding was put up around them and they have stayed like that for an age.

Probably now I have written this, boarding or something will go up to make it look like something else is happening.

The other one is the great job being done on the old Guernsey Brewery site.

Guide the visitors to be dropped off at the bathing places and let them pass that way. Let them see the real Guernsey and not the make-believe one on show through the Town.

ROD HAMON,

5, Rosemount,

Mont Arrive,

St Peter Port,

GY1 2AF.