We do have a class divide in Guernsey

SO ACCORDING to our chief minister we have no second-class citizens in Guernsey. Some may choose to differ. For a start I would say the struggling pensioners and the people who sat on the benches alongside the Town Church that got moved on may have a different view on that. Mind you, from Jersey’s point of view Guernsey as a whole are second class – as anyone will have gathered – if listening or watching Channel Islands news.

As for victimisation – just the system in which wage rises in Guernsey are made the lower paid are victimised. Percentage rises will always cheat the lower paid as anyone with any sense will know. It is obvious that the high paid will get a massive increase in pay while the lower paid get the thin edge of the wedge. Surely if all things are going to be equal a rise of a set amount should be paid right across the board.

There is no equality in the island and one cannot see it ever happening. The nurses who were so built up and respected during a pandemic have soon been forgotten. I may be wrong – but if local nurses are getting a lesser pay and conditions package than people imported to do the same job, don’t they have a claim for victimisation?

Also people waiting on operations who have potential life-threatening symptoms, having to wait for weeks and months while a person prepared to pay an extortionate amount can get the job done with only a couple of days waiting time. Are they not being victimised? No – sorry to all you guys in the States who think we do not have a class divide. I am afraid you are looking through blinkered glasses.

Rod Hamon

5 Rosemount

Mont Arrive

St Peter Port

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