GUERNSEY’S business community has expressed doubts that Guernsey and Jersey will ever cooperate significantly together.

When audience members at yesterday’s G4: Looking Forward event were asked to indicate whether they would like to see greater cooperation, the vast majority did so.

However, when asked if they thought this would actually happen, there were next to no hands in the air.

The topic was one of many aired during the discussion, which also raised concerns about the direction of the States, its willingness to reduce expenditure and ability to handle the borrrowing issue.

Chamber of Commerce president Paul Luxon (pictured), who sat on the G4 panel yesterday, said he, too, doubted the feasibility of Channel Island cooperation at a time like this.

‘I don’t believe it will happen, we can’t even agree in this room,’ he said.

He said opportunities to economise had arisen but been missed in the past.