Guernsey is in a worse mess than our States are prepared to admit when it comes to sorting it out, and we all know it. We have enough to put up with supermarkets charging what they want, without the States overcharging us as well. The mark-ups and differences in prices around this island are shocking. Just last week, I saw blueberries priced at £5 in one shop, with the same weight and brand for £3.50 in another. It has come to the point where people are afraid to go to the till because every time one enters these places, half the shopping items have a 10, 20 and even up to 50p increase on them. Things do not rise annually any more, they increase weekly.
Trying to keep up with those food increases is bad enough, but after that, we have the government hammering us by taking tax out of the pensioners’ retirement pay, making us work until we are too old to appreciate a few decent years when we can still get about, and stinging us with every possible tax they can come up with. Every time I pass the electricity station building and see all those solar panels stretched across all the rooftops of that building, which is pulling in free power, I think, how can they justify a standing rate of over £81 before we have even used any electricity? I am already sick of hearing how the education system needs to be improved when no one knows what they are doing, or how wonderful it is all going to turn out in all areas of government with new people involved. Let's face it, we know it will not.
Rod Hamon
St Peter Port
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