What is the States going to do about crippling costs?
WELL what a surprise, on reading Mark Helyar’s article in the Guernsey Press of Monday 21 March [‘Someone else can pay’], he seeks to defend the wealthy and corporates once again.
So while we all try and ‘separate the fact from the fiction’, (Mr Helyar’s words) while your team ‘leaves no stone unturned’, why doesn’t the States start to think more realistically about average Guernsey people and tell us what you intend to do in relation to a reduction in fuel duty and the other crippling increases that we are all facing at this time.
How many wealthy residents are downsizing their fuel-guzzling vehicles, while the rest of us are unable to fill our cars and using the bus instead?
What is the States going to do to help us survive?
And while Deputy Helyar continues to suggest that GST remains an option, perhaps he would like to take a walk through Town one day and note how few people are enthused to shop at this time, and perhaps put forward some bright ideas to get Town buoyant and profitable again.
ART ALLEN-O’LEARY
St Martin’s