This is about much more than the loss of a car park - This nonsense really has to stop. We are now paying civil servants to sit around dreaming about ridiculous and fanciful schemes that will never ever materialise - and paying a whole host of consultants to produce reports, publicity material, press releases, meetings, logos and mission statements and research into fantasy projects - in short idle dreaming at huge expense - half a billion pounds of work - we don't have half a billion, we will never have half a billion so stop the day dreaming and do some real work that we pay you richly to do - concentrate on the one or two elements that actually need to happen - rubbish about cruise liner berths - cruise ship passenges only contributed a miserly 1.3 million to the Guernsey economy last year so it is not worth wasting a torteval shilling on them - and probably cost our infrastructure twice as much by bussing around the island gawping at us locals and avoiding spending anything as they already have paid for their all inclusive meals and coffees on the ship - which incidentally will be pumping out masses of diesel fumes keeping its engines on tickover and clogging our harbour with its tenders . We aslo I note have a 380 million pound hole in our civil servants' pension pot - how on earth are we meant to plug that - and none of them want to contribute another cent themselves - in short the island is 1 billion pounds short if we completed the harbour wish list with a finance industry that is actively contracting and a retail sector that will inevitably go the same way as our main wage earners find they have no pay rises or even jobs - we need to get rid of any civil servants that are in "nice to have" roles and focus purely on those critical for the islands welfare and day to day existence - such titles as "arts development officer" or "recycling initiative co ordinator" say it all - great while we have oodles of cash to spare but really out of sync with economic reality. So civil servants, please no more sitting around idly staring out over the harbour dreaming about your fat pensions paid for by the taxpayer envisaging all manner of infrastructure projects - otherwise next we will have the Airport Director saying we could have a space travel launch pad to service possible Virgin shuttle trips, a Thunderbirds style cave and retracting swimming pool to house the chief minister's and his acolytes' escape pod when it all implodes and don't even get me started on what our Chief of Police might dream up in an idle moment
Voice For Victims
Voice for Victims is a campaign aimed at promoting the rights of those affected by child sexual abuse.
