Airport project to bring in up to 150 staff for two years
Friday 17th June 2011, 2:30PM BST.
UP TO 150 workers will be brought into the island for the £80.4m. airport development project.
The figure was revealed today in Public Services’ latest report, which will seek approval for the sum and the appointment of Lagan Construction to undertake the main contract work.
The project will improve the airport’s runway, taxiways, apron, lighting and drainage and bring safety areas at either end of the runway up to international aviation standards.
It will take around two years to complete and in that time up to 150 skilled construction personnel will relocate here.
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‘International standards’. The herring in the pot is finally out.
So how many international sized airports are within flying distance of the current aviation profile for the airport…. not many. So why go to that level? Or is it that ‘if’ the runway were really extened then there would be more airports within reach as the aviation profile would increase.
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As we already have aircraft flying between Guernsey, France and Switzerland then that makes us International. Why oh Why do we have to have these continuous negative comment? Anyone who has lived here at least since the last war must know that the Airport will continue to be developed and those who own property at either end have had to live with the noise for the past 65 years.I ask why would anyone want to buy or build in this area in the first place?.
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I think Guern Abroad, says it all,”Guern abroad”!
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Guen abroad
More than you think!
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International standards are NOT the same as being an international airport Guern Abroad. It is saying it will bring the standards up to those which are currently acceptable internationally.
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£80 million and two years translated into Guernsey Business patois means: £160 million and 4 years, then the companies involved will go into administration leaving some local business’s in the *hit.
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Is there no one brave enough to stop this madness, this search for ego hunters that we have?
Goodness me. Have the people no longer any say in their Island.
STOP THIS MADNESS.
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It doesn’t matter how long the runoff is, a crashing aircraft is likely to end in tragedy.
I’m more concerned that 150 foreigners will be on our island, taking up housing, using our roads. That could be 150 more cars on our already crowded road network. Will they be paying full tax into our economy? Will they speak fluent English?
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Whilst I agree we do need to do this project. Has anybody asked asked if the Tax on profits made will be paid locally and will ALL staff on site pay local taxes and Insurance?
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Never been against the maintenace work required and the upgrading of items, just against the scale of the project in some areas.
International, having acknowledged posts above went and looked again at the term and it can mean less as in two or more countries as opposed to how I took it.
Why should I not be interested in local projects, I pay tax to.
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Do we really 150 workers brought in, We will obviously need some expertise but can the work shy who queue up at the social every week not be given some kind of roll in this project??
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Looks like the happy landings will be busy.
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The runway needs replacing, no doubt about that!
But the rest is cloud cuckoo land (oh, the foggy bit!)
By time project finishes will cost over £80 million by a lot. When us taxpayers have finished paying costs there won’t be any planes flying (oil reserves all depleted)
Back to horse and cart, sailing boats too
Why does Guernsey need all this? Maybe a referendum would suffice to save £60 million!
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@Mr G
What a strange post. A crashing aircraft will almost certainly end in tradgedy. An over shooting one with the right measures in place probably not. As for the comments re the workers. The article stated that they will be in purpose built accomodation, even if they bring 150 cars they will be sleeping during the day due to working all night and they will no doubt be paying a fair bit into the local economy whilst they live in the island be it through tax or other means.
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If we really need the runway resurfaced, and it seems we do, let’s spend the 80 million. But, as always with tax payers money, the Startes are already saying that they cannot guarantee the price! Why not. Why they cannot budget using the previous two years price rises in materials is unaccepatable. The States cannot remain within budget on a five million spend, we all know that 80 million will end up costing us 120 million.
There is no bottomless pit of cash nowadays. If a supplier gives them a price, then that is what it should cost. That should be made clear at the outset.
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So the airport will will have vast sums of our money thrown at it whether the people want it or not. And the work will be done by 150 foreign workers whether we want them or not. How many will go back home at the end of their contracts? About half, I’m guessing. Then the States can waste some more of our money on consultants to find out why the island is overpopulated. God, its depressing.
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Perhaps a temporary runway at Longue Hougue and an Aurigny shuttle service to La Villiaze would obviate any traffic problems.
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The extended RESA proposed will be on reprofiled land I understand, that land will be higher then the sourounding areas. So as far as I can make out it will only work ‘IF’ a plane lands and overshoots pretty square to it. Otherwise there will be a 2-3 metre land fall.
It is not too late to consider EMAS at the western end. Until a proper quantivie plan is done we can not say it would be more expensive, because for one we would not need all those tonnes of material being used to profile all that land etc. so there may well be a similar cost picture. The cost of EMAS was only given in isolation I thought, not an alternative costed option within the proposed project.
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It’s almost a certainty, that the finance people have a say in all this.
They have an exaggerated ideas of their importance, and need to be taken down quite a few pegs.
They say like small children if we don’t get it we’ll leave and go elsewhere, this on most things they demand.
My answer to them Take condor , but leave.
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150 foreign workers probably means at least 200. Anyway, at least 100 of them will form “relationships” with locals and 50 of those will rear children together, either way staying in the island forever and increasing the permanent population by at least 150 – and all for some questionable project on a par with that white elephant of a new airport we have.
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Every day we hear about new projects, costing a lot of money.
And I like many are not a great lover of EU, yet at times I think the States of Guernsey are their own little EU–
And there is no one willing to stop them.
Now all these ventures wanting to be done would be helped by EU, and we would in fact be better off.
How the EU, or anyone in the world can allow these Finance people drive a concern that holds back taxes to their own countries boggles the mind.
And it’s done openly, Osborne knows it- and does nothing. The only ones that gain are those whose money is protected,
Not the place where the business is run.
We see that every day. Airport sewage, harbour Buses it never stops.
And if it does one day in the far future they’ll dream up someting else.
Time for MADAME GUILLETINE:
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Donkey Doo, maybe we need to limit the size of aircraft then – this would be a far cheaper option.
There are plenty on the dole that could do some shovelling instead of standing outside having a fag.
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Mr G, for god’s sake get a clue. Your comments are bordering on offensive and certainly xenophobic.
‘Our’ island would be stuffed without external skills coming in.
They will make more of a contribution than many do that were born here no doubt.
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Without bringing in Labour, wage inflation would spiral. Yesterdays paper saw Ronez cancel the Free Drinks at Les Vardes, things are tight, and the tourist industry does’nt need builder types littering up our top Restaurants or having time off with Money left over for drinking.
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wooden_spoon, how do YOU know exactly what sort of labor the company will be needing and if it is (or isn’t) necessary for them to be imported when they themselves don’t yet know (allegedly)…?
i think the point being made here is that many people are aware that companies regularly – and easily – circumvent the essential licence process, as they can get cheaper labor that way.
People are quite right to ask such questions when it is their tax money being used to foot the bill, especially when one considers the geniuses that we have foolishly put in charge of spending it, and quite frankly, w_s, why should outsiders (oooh, non pc xenophobe remark. SUE me) increase their profit margin by saving on costs with cheap, (sometimes unnecessarily) imported labor, rather than our local populace and declining local building industry benefit from this total fiasco?
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I think most of the men will end up going out with a local so they can get a license to live here, and i would employ more police for the bridge area as there is going to be a lot of drinking going on when its time off, yet again the states could be making a big mistake.
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@wooden_spoon
You did not comment on Mr G about limiting aircraft size! So what companies will fly in larger craft once the work is done?
That is the question! Will the extension bring in a large amount of extra revenue? No!
Get real all, a spend not needed for the extension.
If it goes ahead believe me next will be filling in that valley north end! Yes, wow jumbos could then land. Happy bunnies all?
Actually we could end up with an airport so big, it deters visitors from coming.
And the finance sector are rich enough to pay for hiring small planes if needs be
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Frankly, with all this utterly ridiculous arm waving going on Billy just doesn’t know where to begin.
I’ll just ask two questions – on such specialised work which in order to keep the airport open will no doubt have to be on very strict timings, do we really want the local “workshy”? “Sorry, taxpayer, I know you insisted on using the local unemployed, but we’ve wasted £10,000 of concrete last night because they were dragging their feet too much”
And the second – to all those predicting all these Johnny Foreigners will latch on to our women and be here forever more (why would they want to live with the “Guerns” anyway?!) – how many workers from the Airport Terminal project are still in Guernsey?
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I have said this over and over again with this project. Rebuild the airport at the land reclamation. The land value of the airport site to developers would easily pay for a brand new airport and runway. Therefore not costing the island a penny and with the value of land for such a huge site the states may even come out in profit. The current airport land should be half private housing, a quarter states housing and a quarter woodland. To developers this land would be worth one hundred million to build four hundred good size family homes.
The added bonus would be less fog issues !!!
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Given that the airport is likely to just keep growing due to obsession with ‘elf & safety’ I think Damo might be making a valid point. Many airports around the World are built on reclaimed land and they do offer a number of advantages. In most cases they have solved precisely the difficulties we currently face, even including fog. At the moment a large strip across the island suffers from the noise of aircraft, surely that would be lessened if the runway was more or less over the sea? Later additions would also be more straightforward without having to worry about compulsory purchase and noise pollution issues. Hmmmm.
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Damo and Beanjar
I imagine you don’t live in the North of the island!
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What a load of sour grape posts.
We have voted in as our reps in government many non ‘locals’ over many years…. now popularity for their expertise is taking a back foot over common sense. Some posters appear to have lost common sense, due to dogma and insular prejudice.
If workers are bought in they will contribute towards the island’s economy, they will be on and earning, high wages and will I hope enjoy our restaurants and evey other culture that some of us take for granted.
None of us know what their pursuits or interests will be and it is offensive to suggest that they will make mayhem in their few hours off. They may meet up with ‘locals’ and may stay beyond the life of their contract as a result. I have no doubt that the Tax & Housing Authorities will monitor where necessary.
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Stilletto
We have indeed voted in many non-locals over the last few years. Is it just a coincidence that we have probably had the worst goverments ever over the last to sessions?
I hope your last comment is correct, as I mentioned further back in this post, we do need non-locals for these works, but lets please ensure that like the rest of us thet ALL pay Local Tax & Insurance …..I have my doubts!
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@ Burdock
It has nothing to do with living in any part of the island, it must benefit all both financially and socially. And for the sake of argument i live in the middle, if slightly to the north.
Building out into the sea onto reclaimed land as beanjar says has proved to be a very successful idea worldwide. Also you may note that where this has happened in areas of high population density it has freed up land for housing, parks etc.
The flight path would affect which homes? How many houses are behind the land reclamation site? It is an industrial area…
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@Scarlett:
You are right that they need to clarify what they mean by this. It would be better if GP gave more detail rather than just publishing inflammatory headlines with little information.
Then again, considering the cost of building work on this island, and how long it usually takes most of them to get round to even turning up, why shouldn’t they then look at other options. £90,000 is what it cost to re-damp-proof my house and clear up some damage caused by damp recently. And I clearly remember we had to wait quite a while for them to start because they had a backlog of work. Sorry but I just don’t buy the poor-local-builders spiel.
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The States could kill millions of birds with one stone by moving it to land reclamation.
1) Build more houses on current airport site. Help rein in the uncontrollable increase in price.
2) Less fog = more reliable service = more money for the island
3) Recomission the existing terminal building as the cinema!
Take the £80m they’ve budgeted for this and extra revenue derived from the above… surely they could afford to just build a new airport?
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Goodness me, so many shortsighted people on here.
Anyone think there’s a sense of irony about SPECSAVERS being right next to the airport!!!!
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Local Lass
I’ve read some funny posts but yours is right up there with the best of them!
“and i would employ more police for the bridge area as there is going to be a lot of drinking going on when its time off”
…and of course all our local men are tee total puritans!
“I think most of the men will end up going out with a local so they can get a license to live here”
I’m a local who married a foreign lady and recall having to consent to it. I presume that hasn’t changed? Not only is it perfectly legal but I certainly wouldn’t have married her just so she could get a licence. I imagine the huge majority of our local ladies feel the same way.
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…hang on a cotton pickin’ minute!!
If the Longue Hougue site – that was also earmarked for a recycling area, another fabulous case of non-joined up thinking there, well done our leaders (!!) – is going to be used as these imported workers ‘accommodation’, that intimates to me they are NOT planning to import the ‘highly skilled’, ‘essential’ and ‘highly paid’ ‘valuable to our economy’ workers that some seem to believe they will.
I mean, come ON, we don’t have to be geniuses to work out that this ‘accommodation’ (permission for the building of which appears a given, good for them, shame that Environment don’t extend the same courtesy to struggling LOCAL businesses when they need a bit of land) is NOT going to be a 5 star hotel, it’s going to be a flop house for cheap imported laborers, without question, un-vetted (too expensive) being brought in to increase Lagan’s profit margin.
Lagan must be laughing up their sleeves at the people who’ve approved all this, sadly, I’m not, as I’m one of the mugs that’s paying for it.
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Islander I see another dig at the finance industry from you, can you please tell me what will happen to Guernsey if the finance industry collapses there is nothing else so yes we do need them here. But also if we need to get tourists back into Guernsey we need the airport upgrade. So all you people who are now experts on the way to run an airport give it a rest.
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@ local lass
What the hell are you going on about???
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From the reaction to this story it is plain to see that Guernsey is still the knee jerk capital of the world.
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Surely these temporary homes could be built somewhere near the end of the airport,which would mean that there would be no need for a constant stream of cars, vans, and buses, to and from the north of the Island,plus as they would already be on site, work could start, and finish, on time every day, having avoided the inevitable traffic holdups.
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Of course the airport needs an upgrade.
But this is too much money for an airport in the wrong place.
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If the plan is to house this work-force at Longue Hougue, then that is certainly something that could be of concern. We do not need anything that would hold up implementing the waste strategy. We need space for a variety of waste/recycling businesses and Longue Hougue was ear-marked for that. Island waste would like to relocate there so that they could invest in new up-to-date sorting facilities of industrial waste. Paul Rouget has invested in £1.5m worth of machinery used to recycle building material, currently being used on the Bouet site….. he also needs a site before the end of July or he will be forced to sell his machinery off-island for want of somewhere to go. The popular scavenging yard has no where else to go…. and anyway that should be going into a water-tight building down there, asap.
And there are others. We don’t need the site to be unavailable for the next 2 years by becoming a dormitory for imported workers. We cannot afford the delay.
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A.J.
I agree.I would think that on a map only Fort Doyle is further away from the airport than the proposed lodging site at Longue Hougue,and won’t Longue Hougue need to be free of obstructions for the new Slaughter House and whatever else the Waste strategy finally comes up with? ( i.e. a massive incinerator!)
Sounds like somebody wants to introduce a further two year delay on waste by building accommodation at Longue Hougue
Find somewhere closer to the workplace at the airport and use caravans to avoid a permanent structure
For once I DO hope that the Environment computer says “No”
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Longue Hougue isn’t the only place they’re looking to house people. They’re also looking to put about 30 people plus a compound on the field next to the water tower opposite Le Trelade Hotel.
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Rosie, Ray, AJ.
It’s a shambles!
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@ Gilthead
You sound like p j falla. :-)
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Pete
A few posts and you call it the knee jerk capital of the world,
yeah ok right.
How about a bit of perspective? instead of a knee jerk reaction? from you :)
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If the States had saved a few houses at the Bouet the workers could have been placed there.
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Sorry bcb I though I’d thought about it long and hard.
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We need the job done quickly and efficiently by a company who know what they are doing.
If we use local labour they’ll stop for bank holidays, 4 weeks annual Holiday, Liberation Day, Friday meat draw, Sundays …..Oh!! Not forgetting Ormering tides too.
The Labourers that come in to do the job will work like Trojans, get the job done and move on to the next big job……..a lot of those guys have mortgages and wife’s back home
They are only here for the work…….And if one or two meet a local girl and stay so what?
Its healthy for the islands blood stock.
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John!
No John, I’m not digging at the finance gang, I’m telling bit as I see it.
You got kicked out from HongKong, big panic by the misers and their ill gotten gains.
The British Government wanted to get into EU, so once again dirty tricks; Spain and Holland wanted the English market for soft fruits- so you didn’t care much for Guernsey anyway,we weren’t a pushover like other Islands, so you literally left us stranded.
‘We were forced into accepting your trade: but many Guernsey people detest you.
you have since the 1300 hundreds laid claim to many places-we were too small resist you- it doesn’t mean we have to like you!
We are supposed to be a DEPENDENCY. what a laugh, you simply ride rough shod over all else In your greed for those rich who use your amenities.
You demand better facilities, well pay for them and lessen the load you put on us local people.
You insult me by your answer about digging at you. I don’t dig I tell it as I see it. a once happy Island living under the shadow of bully boys.
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Islander ….. I think you’re seeing things with blinkered eyes.
Finance employs a lot of local people, who are a lot better off than most in the UK
Or anywhere else for that matter.
I was at a party last year chatting to a local guy who was moaning about the finance industry and moaning about “all the rich bu—ers on the island, I asked him where he was working at the moment” …”Oh I’m tiling a bathroom at Fort George I’m making a fortune!!”.
It’s called the Knock on effect.
You may want to go back to the “good old days” of slaving away in a hot greenhouse for
With low wages …..But a lot of people don’t……..Oh and by the way i don’t work in finance i run my own local bussines.
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Islander ….. I think you’re seeing things with blinkered eyes.
Finance employs a lot of local people, who are a lot better off than most in the UK
Or anywhere else for that matter.
I was at a party last year chatting to a local guy who was moaning about the finance industry and moaning about “all the rich bu—ers on the island, I asked him where he was working at the moment” …”Oh I’m tiling a bathroom at Fort George I’m making a fortune!!”.
It’s called the Knock on effect.
You may want to go back to the “good old days” of slaving away in a hot greenhouse for
With low wages …..But a lot of people don’t…. Oh and i don’t work in finance i run
my own local business
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@Rosie
Both projects are vitally important for Guernsey. Let us wait and see what PSD decide.
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@Forest
I liked your post, re ‘non locals we have voted in as our reps and, your comment that we have had the worst Government ever for the last two sessions’.
We appear to have currently, 25 sitting ‘local’ reps, approx 50% of the House, some 3 of which have recently resigned from their committees.
Which local reps do you think are worthy of re-election next year?
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I am aware that many people over the common cut off date of age 60 years, (which I believe is also, in most circumstances the criteria for Civil Service) are very able, fit and willing to take on other job prospects. Have or will PSD/Lagan consider interviewing likley candidates?
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Yes maybe my eyes are blinkered.
But hey hang on a bit, I’ll bet a penny to a pound the ones pressing for this upheaval of the airport are the finance people.
They want more modern planes and all that goes with the style of life they have made for themselves.
They talk about 150-200 extra workers.
Living place to the north east of Guernsey.
I suppose there still are a few who remember that district known as ‘Paradis’
During the occupation years it housed hundreds of foreign workers disease was rife, it was out of bounds to all Guernsey people, it was an atrocious place.
It would seem that it will all start over again under another name. So what’s in a name anyway, still blood chilling, and inhuman.
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Islander – it’s lovely to see that you revel in your prejudices about the finance industry and doubtless that keeps you nicely occupied during otherwise dull days. Even by the usual standards of nonsense that a minority of posters thrive upon here it was somewhat staggering to see you jump to a comparison with the shameful treatment of slave labourers during the Occupation. Good work chap – your mum must be proud.
Meantime I’d love to know what the topic of replacing a runway which is at the very end of its physically useful life has go to do with the finance industry. A trislander needs a safe surface as much as a private jet. Again, to bring in the horrors of the Occupation as a comparison is shameful.
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Abod, I’d much rather the finance industry left and we all started growing tomatoes again. It’d be great as I grow a few plants in my back garden.
In regards to your comment, the trislander aircraft fly to Alderney, their airport is far smaller then ours with limited runoff (a cliff) why aren’t they being forced to increase the size of their runoff? This project should just be the resurfacing of the runway, not extending it.
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Why do certain people commenting on this site feel it acceptable to air their xenophobic views – do you think it makes you more of a local? The real truth is that your type are too lazy to do the work yourselves.
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xenophobe n. A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.
Jock, I agree that there is a small and sad group of individuals that live in Guernsey – and post on these comments boards – who are just that, however, I am getting rather tired of that rather well used accusation being trotted out EVERY time someone raises a concern about imported labor.
For many, I think their angst regarding this latest costly States generated fiasco is because they are people (some ‘foreign’ themselves!) who live/work/own a business here, regularly support the local economy by paying their taxes/spending their hard earned cash locally, and are absolutely appalled that our States have allowed this company not only the liberty of assuming they can have 150 licences before the deals even done- whilst local companies struggle to get even one and have to follow due process – and that our leaders are spending HUGE amounts of OUR hard earned cash on a project where they have chosen to put absolutely NO provision in place to ensure people already resident in the island (lets avoid the term ‘local’) and ‘locally based’ companies are used WHERE POSSIBLE.
Someone posted this on another board, and expresses it more eloquently and adequately than I…
‘The statement made that work at the airport is to specialised for local companies is a flawed statement. Of the £50m value of Lagan’s contract at least £10m is for drainage works, installing service ducts, digging and constructing cut off trenches, building manholes, enabling works etc. There are plenty of local contractors and skilled tradesmen available to carry out those works. And plant operators, mechanics, engineers, administrative staff, security etc.
The question was asked of those attending yesterday’s Chamber of Commerce meeting if any business had been approached to supply services or carry out works for the Lagan contract. No one put up a hand. Have any of the numerous truck operators on the Island been approached to hire their services to move the vast quantities of aggregate? I think you will find the answer is no. What about Condor Logistics? I think the answer in no!!
The weak excuse given by PSD that Lagan are waiting to sign the contract before talking to local business must be a smoke screen. It is publically stated that they are bringing in 150 plus personnel, they have made arrangements with T&R to lease land at Longue Hougue etc. Those plans have been made without a contract in place…
When will the politicians in Guernsey realise that the Island needs money generated in Guernsey to be spent in Guernsey. Jersey does. The prediction is more local shops to close, more unemployment and lack of investment in local construction business and other service organisations that could indeed be carrying out works on these major projects with the Guernsey community as a whole benefiting from those efforts. Also how did Lagan manage or is going the be granted 150 local licences without even having to follow the process required of all other local business to advertise for the positions first and demonstrate a shortage of skills. Strange but true.
The people of Guernsey are not being told the whole story. It is our right to know where OUR money is spent and why is Lagan being granted special dispensation for this project.’
– if you own/are employed by a local company that could have benefited from this project and didn’t, then within the next year or two, lose your livelihood, Jock, you just might see things rather differently.
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No one, in truth, really LIKES the thought of their beloved country being forcibly invaded, Jock….
the Wars of Scottish Independence being a classic example, perhaps.
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The last time that Guernsey was “forceably invaded” was by the Germans on the 28th June 1940. liberated by British forces on the 9th May 1945. In no time since then has there been a “forceable invasion” of these dear little Islands.
Guernsey is allowing foreigners onto its soil by choice. Those “foreigners” work (in general) double the time for half the wages in jobs you wouldn’t get out of bed for. This is evidenced by the increasing numbers on the dole.
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PW Fudgedonut. It wasn’t meant literally, which I thought that was pretty obvious!!)….dear god. *sigh*
As I was so foolishly complex in my allegory, let me make it simpler…
A large majority of us can become a tad touchy about ‘invading foreigners’, that is, if we feel the situation is being forced upon us (i.e. the States and Lagan making the decision on our behalf) and consider that situation to our detriment (as per my example – and this).
‘Guernsey’ is absolutely NOT making the decision to import cheap labor, our Government is. It has been incredibly lax in the small print of this deal, and Lagan are simply taking advantage of that by using cheap imported labor to increase their profit margin – all proceeds of which will be sent off island.
I am NOT talking about the employment of Guernsey’s small but persistent band of unemployables, I am NOT denigrading people who come to our isle to work incredibly hard in the hotel/horticultural industry for peanuts (almost invariably doing jobs that ‘locals’ wouldn’t want), I am talking about our States giving a wack of money and apparent free rein to do as they please to a company that is pretty obviously choosing imported labor – rather than using the people/companies who are based locally and DO have the skills to do certain jobs – in an effort to do nothing more than increase their profit margin.
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Scarlett, bet you need a valium and vodka more than ever now eh? :)
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R G Falla bring in lots of foriegn labour which could be done by local (locally based) builders. Just take a look at some of their sites. And it is NOT because they cant get the labour locally, its all about price.
There are more and more builders doing this and eventualy it will have an impact.
Whats happened to proveing that they cannot find locally based labour first?. Did that used to be the rules?.
PW Fudgedonut
You are right about local people not getting out of bed for some of the jobs/pay the foriegn workers do but they wouldn`t either if they had a choice?.
Its about time many of them were paid a decent wage for what they do.
I know a good few that are employed by local builders and the one thing i have noticed is that the worst paid are often employed by foriegners that have taken up residence here and know how to exploit there own people.
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Why are people assuming foreigners are only here to do the jobs we don’t want to do? The finance industry is full of foreigners. I imagine they’re earning a fair wack. Saying locals wouldn’t want to do sh** jobs, that’s complete and utter rubbish, I know of many locals working in agriculture and in the retail industry.
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i most certainly did, Cheesed. Don’t know what happened, but just woke up in next doors garden!! ;0)))
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@ Scarlett,
Now if you had have said that in the first place I wouldn’t have had to correct you lol. I agree with most of your recent post pal. Other than
‘Guernsey’ is absolutely NOT making the decision to import cheap labor, our Government is.
It is also local buisness that chooses. It is local people who choose to use the resturants and the retail outlets. Also in regard to the politicians; these people are being chosen by the voters of Guernsey. No body else is putting these Deputies in power. therefore “Guernsey chooses etc.. so on and so forth”
I find the whole “local” v “foreigner” nonsense a bit galling and pretty non sensical.
At the end of the day we are all human beings. Your home is where you lay your head. Your homeland is where you were born. Guernsey, just like most countries borders and cultures will NEVER be the same. The change is irrevocable with todays technology. At the end of the day (sadly) the bottom line is the bottom line in business and that is what matters to these companies. If you want a Deputy with a backbone to stand up to “Big Business” then perhaps you should run at the next election?
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