#  @GuyPlummer34449 Guy Plummer Guy Plummer posts on X about guernsey, jersey, money, in the the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1902069672025239552/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +38% - [--] Month [------] +56% - [--] Months [------] +129% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1902069672025239552/posts_active)  - [--] Months [---] +34% ### Followers: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1902069672025239552/followers)  - [--] Week [---] +0.79% - [--] Month [---] +4.10% - [--] Months [---] +31% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1902069672025239552/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [currencies](/list/currencies) **Social topic influence** [guernsey](/topic/guernsey) #19, [jersey](/topic/jersey), [money](/topic/money), [in the](/topic/in-the), [finance](/topic/finance), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [lack of](/topic/lack-of), [has been](/topic/has-been), [barbados](/topic/barbados), [we are](/topic/we-are) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@advocategreen1](/creator/undefined) [@guernseypress](/creator/undefined) [@oldfarmhorace](/creator/undefined) [@richarddigard](/creator/undefined) [@davidpiesing63](/creator/undefined) [@govgg](/creator/undefined) [@mattfallaize](/creator/undefined) [@pvbsc1](/creator/undefined) [@yvonneburford](/creator/undefined) [@rosslebrun](/creator/undefined) [@guernseygirl6](/creator/undefined) [@alasdairmilroy](/creator/undefined) [@bbcguernsey](/creator/undefined) [@haleycamp](/creator/undefined) [@drandysloan](/creator/undefined) [@stonedecroze](/creator/undefined) [@robcurg](/creator/undefined) [@jayneozanne](/creator/undefined) [@lindsaygsy](/creator/undefined) [@marylowe501](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [FIGS, Inc (FIGS)](/topic/figs) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@guernseygirl6 @oldfarmhorace I was there. Not sure what I expected My view great speech from [--] year old wanting to make Guernsey his home. There were coherent policies for youngsters as well as gretschers like me. Well thought out plans and objectives set out by committed passionate folk. I liked it" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1904272131287928856) 2025-03-24T20:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @guernseygirl6 [--] This presentation had plans for cheaper wind energy and keeping young people here who might actually innovate as compared to my cohort who bafflingly seem more interested in playing golf" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1904275419475460464) 2025-03-24T20:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DavidPiesing63 @alasdair_milroy This increase isnt the reality for most people. Logical default position for people starting their careers now is CS. Over 50% working pop in Public Admin Risk/reward for other careers over the long term now looking reckless How can GSY ensure economic growth/resilience" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1908827911294943367) 2025-04-06T10:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This is why stating that Guernsey CS costs were inline with the UKs and therefore there were few savings to made was always a highly specious argument. Cabinet Office to axe [----] civil servant jobs https://t.co/9YOWFVJptb Cabinet Office to axe [----] civil servant jobs https://t.co/9YOWFVJptb" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1910324042340446361) 2025-04-10T13:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Urgent - Dont tell Guernsey Airport Unless we turn Lancresse into a giant concrete skatepark (youngsters you could vote for this if you sign up to the Electoral Roll) the indigenous rabbit population will halt all flights forever. A United Airlines flight had to return to Denver last week after ingesting not a bird. but a rabbit. https://t.co/LGppocOc0Z https://t.co/w8bLs5o9ot A United Airlines flight had to return to Denver last week after ingesting not a bird. but a rabbit. https://t.co/LGppocOc0Z https://t.co/w8bLs5o9ot" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1912849869552882044) 2025-04-17T12:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@alasdair_milroy @pvbsc1 The thing is with democracy even people who like privacy are allowed to be involved in politics do research and have opinions SM puts many able people off from taking a more public role. Its ideas and policies which count" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1914758615539339611) 2025-04-22T19:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "At last a candidate if elected able to fulfill his promise without needing [--] other to support him A platform of saving money and less hot air. If you want to register a protest vote this could be the one #GuernseyElection25" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1914951344458191066) 2025-04-23T07:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernsey_dairy @waitrose Good to have it clarified. Guernsey Butter spreading across the UK" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1915126346746916992) 2025-04-23T19:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@mjconcanno60904 @sashakmiller @PeterRoffey5 @GuernseyPress @vote4guernsey Minimum wage introduced to guernsey I think in [----]. I worked as an employee for nearly [--] years before it was introduced without any problem Not sure this legislation was ever necessary for Guernsey when there has nearly always been full employment" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1915392242237186536) 2025-04-24T13:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DavidPiesing63 @andrew_niles @RobCurg @StoneDeCroze @oldfarmhorace @jjh @samitchell78 [--] so consumers already face [--] Relatively high interest rates on large mortgages [--] Parents facing higher child care costs plus more are paying for their kids to go private - say 1k per month per child. [--] wealthy boomers worried about their porfolios thanks to Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1916178218219954198) 2025-04-26T17:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DavidPiesing63 @andrew_niles @RobCurg @StoneDeCroze @oldfarmhorace @jjh @samitchell78 [--] So decreasing amount of people have much cash to spare. Yes Jersey takes in a lot but they have more people and erm how can I say this politely - are more inclined to conspicuous consumption than our traditionally wiser Guernsey brethren😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1916178922288394691) 2025-04-26T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@GSYElection2025 Under [--] you need to register Guernsey is going to be overrun by Gretschers as early as Christmas - Fact Walking frames will clog up STPP They need to be taxed & there needs an immediate new law - Zimmering without due care & attention U can make it happen if u register" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1916552806468641011) 2025-04-27T17:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard A very personal view is that there are sizable cadre of ppl who would like to see very little action on housing. And if they can just get past the demographic issues Guernsey can return their version of an idyll which is Alderney but with a better runway" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1916759021123436800) 2025-04-28T07:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @JEPnews @Govgg [--] But for some fingers- crossed. if they can just get to [----] and the grail of GST they can kick the biggest can ever made down the pot- holed road. Namely what should the State now provide and pay for in declining unproductive European economies" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1918588129717391766) 2025-05-03T08:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matt_fallaize @jjh @richarddigard @JEPnews @Govgg Hi M can you elaborate Say a ministerial gov is able to instruct a short back and sides for say the Education back office whereas under a consensus system such a decision might be harder to reach and so savings not made" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1918734322493694277) 2025-05-03T18:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@matt_fallaize @richarddigard @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg Who decides tho what is an unchallengeable reality and what should be regarded as shibboleth. And what happens if consistent resistance to doing things differently can only eventually be broken by a scattergun Trumpian disruption" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1918989457497141428) 2025-05-04T11:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jjh @richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @JEPnews @Govgg All the pox of an employer registering with a pension provider providing due diligence uploading employee details and making monthly submissions all to find the employee would have been better off doing it themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1919414950352535821) 2025-05-05T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg And currently is it certain that all filk would want to invest in the market in this Trumpian period of uncertainty Id say cash is king. Let people run their own lives" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1919447013600493899) 2025-05-05T17:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg What happens in a market crash or decline The State will have enacted occupational pensions with all the attendant expense - & people will have lost money Given the current geopolitical situation we cannot look to the past to guarantee anything in terms of expected returns" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1919451274799386921) 2025-05-05T17:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg I was too polite to mention 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1919454544905261442) 2025-05-05T18:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg If private sector had compulsory defined benefit no biz would come to guernsey And no Gsy biz could sell anything to anyone anywhere at a price that would cover costs and that customers would accept or afford. Thats the private sector world" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1919482175696654681) 2025-05-05T19:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @GuernseyPress @Govgg Plus its burnt 700k of private cash and time that cant be used elsewhere and eroded the trust of private/public collaborations It hard not to hear a little bit of quacking 🦆😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1920741083882893672) 2025-05-09T07:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times This points to the most important fact about the British predicament. We are on the edge of a pecuniary precipice Further when Theresa May addressed this & suggested removing triple lock pensions it was almost fatal electoral poison" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1921444919727546534) 2025-05-11T05:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Hard decisions need to be made imo #GuernseyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1921445538064450029) 2025-05-11T06:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matt_fallaize @flick2leg @AltoAngel @drandy_sloan Yes I get that of course but did they go to where young people might be on and off line at the right times with an appropriate offering For old gubs like me civic duty is enough but young ppl with grrr their full and exciting lives maybe needed a bit more oomph" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1922377714859725226) 2025-05-13T19:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Katieci @matt_fallaize @flick2leg @Richard_D_E @AltoAngel Yes hed get my vote. Another scion of the Invincibles - [----] Assembly" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1922379375896404391) 2025-05-13T19:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@pvbsc1 @advocategreen1 @richarddigard @StoneDeCroze @YvonneBurford @NigelStaples @CherlyGsy @matt_fallaize @MaryLowe501 @drandy_sloan @sashakmiller @GuernseyPress ATM I will vote for a few of the current deputies but will leave some space for left field candidates who offer more in their manifestoes than: I love Guernsey and I believe in joined-up fact-based educational house building for young first-time pensioners. #GsyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1922727455573385572) 2025-05-14T18:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @GuernseySpeaker All govgg money spent on travel should be given to me help research my hobby - antique barnacles from Mauritius. Failing that Im v happy that some of it goes to help @letocq do something more useful with it as he has been doing for a least [---] years" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923292444914762179) 2025-05-16T08:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @GuernseySpeaker @letocq @letocq first trip for Guernsey was in a balloon with the Montgolfier brothers where his gift for languages first came to fore #GsyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923293142385631476) 2025-05-16T08:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize Govgg initiatives have most successful this term in imposing extra burdens on biz These would be easier to sustain if the economic pie had grown. With more burden on biz to come Econ Dev becomes vitally important in [----] and beyond. Choose wisely. #GsyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923326750173417840) 2025-05-16T10:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize [--] but the most revealing memory about the system and its need to control everything was the speech about quaffing Dido and whining. Following which the assembly felt moved to pass legislation with barely a ripple banning private sales of FISH in Guernsey #GsyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923331870021812264) 2025-05-16T10:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @GuernseySpeaker @letocq 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923401298574975433) 2025-05-16T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@StoneDeCroze @DavidPiesing63 @guernseyliz14 [--] So maybe GST+ is the answer but there has to be some slack in the housing stock first. Imo. #GsyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923667247131750625) 2025-05-17T09:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Nickleh @Katieci @ScribblerJB @Ronst21 @Stormbooks_co Oh and for the sake of good order it wasnt me it was them😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1923840593123250581) 2025-05-17T20:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @DavidPiesing63 @StoneDeCroze @guernseyliz14 Why not have a higher rate on luxury goods. Like me as a Boomer hes probably bought all his high end good already😀 hurrah" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1924130513914151103) 2025-05-18T15:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jviddy @DavidPiesing63 @jameswpen @pvbsc1 Many would agree with you but my view and again prob not popular is that those ppl (not you) who do not want to see new homes built will use any delay to the max and many folk need somewhere to live ASAP" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1925882797866029070) 2025-05-23T11:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@richarddigard The perpetual promise of news homes in #Guernsey is an example what I call Billy Bunter politics. In order to repay debts Billy Bunter always claimed he was about to receive a postal order from his aunt. In the entire series of books the PO never arrived #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1925936258754163047) 2025-05-23T15:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Richard_D_E @GollopGuern @oldfarmhorace @sashakmiller If Ii was me I would do what Denmark have done and make arrangements for State pension to be set at [--]. How many of us in our 60s can really say we have paid enough in to take it at [--] And use that for social housing #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1926173060287049965) 2025-05-24T07:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Now the manifestos are out I am more convinced that collaborations/parties are the way to go. Why Failure of previous assemblies to act effectively on housing & growing the economy Forward Guernsey has a coherent set of polices. I will use some of my votes for these folks First in series. Listen to @RylattTom and @StuartJehan explain: - Why standing - Why with Forward Guernsey - Whats the relationship with Future Guernsey - Wheres Ryan And more #DeliveringChangeTogether #ForwardGuernsey https://t.co/0nFjufrsqC First in series. Listen to @RylattTom and @StuartJehan explain: - Why standing -" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1926327049905373574) 2025-05-24T17:18Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@guernseyliz14 @matt_fallaize My prediction before the number of registered voters was known was [----] for the candidate coming 38th . If you put a prediction in this thread the closest will receive a free breakfast for two at the new restaurant Nutmeg Victoria Park. Feel free to retweet #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1926604798314283430) 2025-05-25T11:42Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@pvbsc1 @guernseyliz14 @matt_fallaize Cmom folks if @pvbsc1 wins well never hear the last of it. Let me know your predictions #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1926606026280681925) 2025-05-25T11:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize At what point are we going to hear the slogan. For a better job by Niles @andrew_niles #GuernseyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1927419434458550731) 2025-05-27T17:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 Le Lievres WoolworthsMarquand bros Keyhos Teleskill Au Caprice Vanity Box. Town is poorer with their passing Coop Homemaker Quayside St Sampsons similarly" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1928796894454550816) 2025-05-31T12:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@jojomay1 Coffee and a cold drink. Youll soon be offering Guernsey Leaping Tours" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1929126300880445855) 2025-06-01T10:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseymoz @guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 And because my aunt started Nautilus I also remember Butterfly Turkoman and Little Red. #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1929602627551080518) 2025-06-02T18:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 Scores on the doors based on the Big Blue Book:- Defo [--] Maybe37 No32 Total82 #Guernsey #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1930328314041766143) 2025-06-04T18:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard Question for @DavidPiesing63. If Jersey can cater for its finance sector by not owning its own airline cld Guernsey do the same or is it just Jerseys larger population and runway that mean that it doesnt need to do so" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1930887925350183317) 2025-06-06T07:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseyliz14 @AltoAngel @mitchell_di I think his first name was Genial😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1931027566535614590) 2025-06-06T16:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matt_fallaize @DavidPiesing63 @GarryCollinsGSY @pvbsc1 @jojomay1 @Govgg @EYnews Lets not forget tho even tho GST+ might be the best option its arrival will not be a cause for celebration by Guernsey biz or most Guernsey residents. #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1931329377452667333) 2025-06-07T12:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: AI could cause recession and many job losses says Klarna boss. Bosses already shedding jobs due to AI Implications for Guernsey #election2025 Candidates what are your thoughts https://www.thetimes.com/article/587c8669-9615-47a9-a6e4-ba268e18f174shareToken=3da5af54a3f9c37be0a0780af029bf18 https://www.thetimes.com/article/587c8669-9615-47a9-a6e4-ba268e18f174shareToken=3da5af54a3f9c37be0a0780af029bf18" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1931391395400421840) 2025-06-07T16:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@matt_fallaize @DavidPiesing63 @GarryCollinsGSY @pvbsc1 @jojomay1 @Govgg @EYnews Need a plan on AI as well- as a diversion to avoid what is becoming perhaps a bit of an unseemly pile -on regarding tax of all things 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1931392997838467575) 2025-06-07T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @PeterRoffey5 @alasdair_milroy @GarryCollinsGSY @richarddigard AIs rubbish at generating puns for hosting the Cock and Bull meat draw tho. Check it out if you dont believe me. Thats Grok not the meat draw Ill probably be the last of my age cohort to still have a job - mores the pity" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1931441314425409899) 2025-06-07T20:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Watching a repeat of @BBC #OldGreyWhistleTest featuring a young Billy Joel with a perm. He looks like the love child of Leo Sayer and Sylvester Stallone" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1931769235178475991) 2025-06-08T17:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley 2) So if we cant/dont look after the aged we are in moral decline. But H H Humfrey also applied his test to those in the dawn of life as well. And what happens if we cant afford the former. As well as moral failure we would have to admit that . #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932059675828068718) 2025-06-09T12:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley [--] re discussion on LTC we would have to admit looking at fiscal deficits alongside HH Humphrey speech As a community - Guernsey As a nation - UK As a continent- Europe As a culture - Western We are in moral and financial decline #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932060874916901101) 2025-06-09T13:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley Which is a highly unpalatable meal to serve especially at #Guernsey #Election2025 time" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932061121587839486) 2025-06-09T13:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley [--]. The fiscal position is unarguable. In the past we cld talk about cradle to grave care from gov UK had a bit of a stashfrom Cheap power & innovation from being first in the Industrial Revolution race and empire & North Sea Oil We have the exact opposite now" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932063055787287027) 2025-06-09T13:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley And in Guernsey terms the finance goose is tiring. Legislation can easily be copied by others and there are cheaper jurisdictions. HH Humpfreys ideal is now not feasible to the same extent - all imo of course. Esp given the increase in avg life expectancy #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932063752007889380) 2025-06-09T13:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @matt_fallaize @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Unlike us Scandinavian countries wealth underpinned by natural resources and they actually make stuff too - even if like Denmark its only out of LEGO" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932111738046124389) 2025-06-09T16:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey The main election issue for me apart from housing is that Guernsey is living beyond its means and so far no candidate comes close to admitting that truth or come up with any meaningful solutions to arrest public spending. #Guernsey #Election2925" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932130070799471023) 2025-06-09T17:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Candidates feel free to respond #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932130223866200158) 2025-06-09T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Eg who can persuade me they are a one term politician capable of making some much needed but highly unpopular decisions which reduces their chances of being re-elected Are candidates in it for public service or a sincecure #GuernseyElection2025 #" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932131107002036301) 2025-06-09T17:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@alasdair_milroy @richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Cant remember if FTP included encouraging departments to charge for services" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932313401818308896) 2025-06-10T05:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@MartynRoussel @richarddigard @Govgg @GuernseyPress I couldnt even open an additions savings account with the Gsy bank I have used for ever Without filling out a [--] page form asking for info I had long since forgotten but was undoubtedly on their system. And sending it to the IOM A good way of not paying savings interest" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932358359065247967) 2025-06-10T08:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@MartynRoussel @richarddigard @Govgg @GuernseyPress Needless to say Id long since spent my coin of stoicism and didnt bother applying. One up for the bank and an incrementally improved net income position" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932359235691487365) 2025-06-10T08:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@gustaflepelley @YoungGuern @Freedomisle11 Buses are a public service doing a great job currently 😀Have you tried hailing a chelsea tractor Most drivers wouldnt see you their noses are too close to the windscreen as they try to judge the width of their vehicles as they mount the pavement by Capelles school" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932861256748400874) 2025-06-11T18:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@gustaflepelley @YoungGuern @Freedomisle11 [--] The best vehicle for #Guernsey and its a Rectory Hill Im prepared to drive on is a minivan. and the minivan with the best name is indisputably the #BedfordRascal When you drive it you become a little rascal and everyone likes a little rascal" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932900557032992946) 2025-06-11T20:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@gustaflepelley @YoungGuern @Freedomisle11 I used to have #BedfordRascal I used to rascal easily along the Brigade Road. I used to rascal in the lanes rascal up Viccy Road without mounting the pavement And when I got the top of Viccy Road ppl would let me out cos I wasnt a Merc or an Audi I was a LITTLE RASCAL" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1932901837251977497) 2025-06-11T20:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@VoteforChangeGG Gold fever found to be more contagious than COVID. BREAKING 🚨: Euro Gold has overtaken the Euro as the world's 2nd largest reserve asset accounting for 20% of reserves with the Euro slipping to 16%. The U.S. Dollar is still firmly #1 at 46% of reserves. https://t.co/OArHngnlba BREAKING 🚨: Euro Gold has overtaken the Euro as the world's 2nd largest reserve asset accounting for 20% of reserves with the Euro slipping to 16%. The U.S. Dollar is still firmly #1 at 46% of reserves. https://t.co/OArHngnlba" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933099245688770595) 2025-06-12T09:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Eg King Mausolus whose Mausoleum was one of the wonders of the ancient world lived in a conflict filled era He died aged [--] & never even tasted a Walnut Whip What a loser We Boomers dont know how lucky we have been. Lets share our good fortune #HousingCrisis #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933160564282515523) 2025-06-12T13:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 Ah another man of good judgement and distinction Is true Im a tail end Boomer - so called Generation Jones ie missed out on defined benefit pensions and really really cheap houses - so always in a bit of mood Can you tell😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933225066013339801) 2025-06-12T18:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @GuernseyPress Yes agreed the new Assembly needs to decide on priorities. Then we look at tax but apart from #forwardguernsey with a commitment to reduce public spending no candidate so far has been particularly persuasive on how they intend to control public expenditure #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933564446506467583) 2025-06-13T16:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize 😀😀Normal conditions😀😀 Ive just switched on the TV and it looks like the start of WW3 I hope to Hallmark Cards can be a bit more creative opportunity than. Wishing you a Happy Global Nuclear Armageddon. #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933774317830938708) 2025-06-14T06:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @three_141592653 @GsySill I say sell Aurigny and use the annual savings to subsidize electricity -a real economic enabler esp if what ppl say about AI and the transformative effects on biz and eg healthcare is true AI likely to use #Guernsey s entire supply of electricity on its ohm. #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933831634752516492) 2025-06-14T10:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize Breaking news: Ranting madman finally makes sense after employing an infinity of monkeys with typewriters #Election25" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933933239074275419) 2025-06-14T17:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@YoungGuern How to say Im alright Jack without saying it. You might ask him how to grow the economy with so many people economically inactive #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933938822808818010) 2025-06-14T17:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@YoungGuern You might also ask why us Boomers havent invented anything of worth in Guernsey in the last [--] years and really apart from a few other enterprises only the founders of Specsavers have provided anything of real value to Guernsey #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933942045468721194) 2025-06-14T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @guernseygirl6 @matt_fallaize It would be democratically unsustainable under IWV youd get [--] [---] mainly incumbents with a huge amount and the rest picking up the pieces imo" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933942832324346179) 2025-06-14T17:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 Tweet of the day 😀😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933949354512941102) 2025-06-14T18:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @guernseygirl6 @matt_fallaize Just think about it. Youd only need [---] people giving you [--] votes and that would get you [----] votes prob more than enough to get in. Give them all 5pds to vote for you it would cost less than 1000pds - be the cheapest campaign ever😀 #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933986997950951641) 2025-06-14T20:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize It used to be deals in smoke-filled rooms I suppose its vape- filled open plan safe spaces these days" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1933991814853464327) 2025-06-14T20:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@gsywtours @GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace The cash is in the post" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934301834337714262) 2025-06-15T17:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@gsywtours @GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace Obviously with me and my long standing GOLD FEVER there is only one true currency and one true standard" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934303970752676299) 2025-06-15T17:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@gsywtours @GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace There is no known antidote for @oldfarmhorace. He is highly resistant to any form of criticism - which of course makes him of great interest to the public 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934307952443404323) 2025-06-15T17:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Great article and observation on house sizes In the last [--] years Cobo to Vazon has turned into the Amalfi Coast of the west - with prices to match. And dont get me started on Homes for Horses not People - Fort Road I dont mind as long as normal houses are built as well. Superb article in todays @GuernseyPress by former States member John Langlois well worth a read. John worked incredibly hard during his time in the States as President [--] major committees plus on other committees yet still had his business & charity work. https://t.co/YkEyU2wmLR Superb article in todays @GuernseyPress by" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934586359479451930) 2025-06-16T12:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "1) The other point to make that JL makes and he didnt need a million word policy to understand or enact was the issue of conspicuous consumption on a 25sq mile island - with no suburbs or cheaper areas. #Election2025 #Guernsey #PolicyState" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934646653237006384) 2025-06-16T16:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@ValeBeryl @jviddy @gsyblue @StoneDeCroze @Govgg I reckon I could save 100k easy . It would have nothing to do with stationery" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934698404837282290) 2025-06-16T19:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Concerns for overpopulation leads to calls for an Island wide speed limit of 15mph to make Guernsey feel a little bit larger Size envy compared to the other bailiwick also thought to be a factor. #guernseyelection2025 Action group calls for 15mph speed limit https://t.co/ncQh65Jcay Action group calls for 15mph speed limit https://t.co/ncQh65Jcay" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1934947468170481682) 2025-06-17T12:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 [--] Ahem why wait . At 8pm tonight I will be telling you who is in the New Assemby Way before actual result is announced [--] numbers in the hat. I will draw [--] of them for the [----] Chancers Assembly Please Retweet #GuernseyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935316475742413305) 2025-06-18T12:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 [--] My contention is that the Age of Enlightenment PR was far too good and human affairs are far too complicated to get anywhere by thinking And so I bet my chance Assembly will be at least as good as the real one #GuernseyElection2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935317132314821080) 2025-06-18T12:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 The result will only take [--] mins cost nothing & did not require any thinking hustings manifesto booklets or shouting at [--] @matt_fallaize interviews You the public will then be invited to choose your P&R cabinet from the [----] Chancers Assembly Please retweet #Guernsey" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935319113401790812) 2025-06-18T12:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize [--] For the sake of transparency the [----] Chancers Assembly will use the following electoral devices:- A raffle booklet. Note @govgg all stationery for this election has been sourced locally from St Peters Post office And note @govgg again a hat from St Pierre Park golf shop" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935352338748784660) 2025-06-18T15:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @argyllscricket @GuernseyPress @advocategreen1 Im hoping my alternative to IWV the results of which to be unveiled at 8.15pm tonight will change the face of Guernsey politics. #ChancersAssembly" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935390901758738893) 2025-06-18T17:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseyliz14 My contention is that the Age of Reason has let us all down big time which is my results will be so much better for Guernsey" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935401887282405516) 2025-06-18T18:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford #ChancersAssembly Then next [--] are Marc Leadbeater SallyGilman @JayneOzanne Tim Carre Barry Harris Charlie Murray-Edwards Andy Le Lievre Adrian Dilcock Lexi Lundberg Neil Inder" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935415371839979991) 2025-06-18T19:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne The next [--] for the #ChancersAssembly is David Goy @MaryLowe501 Marc Laine Christopher Le Tissier Bruno Kay Mouat Charles Parkinson Tom Rylatt Gavin St Pier Stuart Jehan Lindsay de Saumarez" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935417397239742893) 2025-06-18T19:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun So that makes the [--] members of the [----] #ChancersAssembly #GuernseyElection2025 I think you can agree it is awesome and at least as anything as good as IWV will produce and it all it cost was [----] for some meat draw tickets and a bottle of wine" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935421711920648237) 2025-06-18T19:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun All you need to do know is tweet your [--] members of P&R from this epic #Guernsey Assembly I will sell rights to the C.R.A.P to @govgg for another bottle of #CannonBallMerlot What a bargain" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935422352034046047) 2025-06-18T19:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseyliz14 @richarddigard @matt_fallaize What do you think of this Assembly Surely now given how awesome this Assembly is you must agree that there is no need or place for analysis and reason and of course expense in #Guernsey politics @guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun So that makes the [--] members of the [----] #ChancersAssembly #GuernseyElection2025 I think you can agree it is awesome and at least as anything as good as IWV will produce and it all it cost was [----] for some meat draw tickets and a bottle" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935423631359885548) 2025-06-18T19:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun @Govgg Is that your P&R choice 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935441417364717925) 2025-06-18T20:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun @Govgg I still reckon this is an amazing Assembly mixture of youth and experience and reasonably diverse Just think if you set some minimum standards for standing for election this shows it could be done on a lottery basis and still be better than IWV as it takes away incumbency 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935442914177646771) 2025-06-18T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun @Govgg If a deputy was only guaranteed one term it would make for better decision making for Guernsey as a whole imo. Look at the decisions that were made late on this term with one eye on the election #Guernsey" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935447020468072800) 2025-06-18T21:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@GuernseyPress The C.R.A.P. Method is better than IWV [--] Quicker it took [--] MINUTES [--] Cheaper it cost [----] paid to a local stationers. [--] Shld reduce Incumbency Effect [--] No need for Road maps (@flick2leg 👏) And when the [----] Assembly is dubbed the Worst States Ever it wont be YOUR FAULT" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935590726005375185) 2025-06-19T06:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jviddy @GuernseyPress @flick2leg Yes a small saving 😀but I would have had to wait for it to arrive and hold the Election today or tomorrow instead 😀 And I albeit incrementally did my bit to make sure St Peters Post office continues to provide its valuable service Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935647958789210490) 2025-06-19T10:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@gsyblue @jviddy @GuernseyPress @flick2leg This is amazing you and AI just put me out of a job I created for myself less than [--] hours ago. I didnt even get the chance to pitch it to @govgg for 2m per annum for 10years" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935672801165267140) 2025-06-19T12:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseygirl6 @gsyblue @jviddy @GuernseyPress @flick2leg @Govgg Have you seen how many followers I have I think it is safe to say my ideas arent very attractive to a wide audience or according to @DavidPiesing63 any audience at all😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935677597100519641) 2025-06-19T12:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@pvbsc1 @gavinstpier @RylattTom Worst day of my life I owe @pvbsc1 a cock and bull burger" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935745431239106830) 2025-06-19T17:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Congratulations to @RylattTom of Forward Guernsey or as I like to call him Future England Captain" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935751367823388745) 2025-06-19T17:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@jojomay1 The Chancers Assembly delivered [--] out of [--] by lottery in [--] mins for [----] and a bottle of wine How about that for buying from local suppliers Value for Money type stuff. #Guernsey" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935780702257037543) 2025-06-19T19:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@StoneDeCroze @DavidPiesing63 @guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 @JohnFernandez1 Sounds like somebody one of my wives would have run off with 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935781273949123019) 2025-06-19T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Nickleh @StoneDeCroze @DavidPiesing63 @guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 @JohnFernandez1 Ive missed our whimsy @Nickleh" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935782069201752354) 2025-06-19T19:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@guernseyanne @guernseyliz14 @coughlin66 I think theyll outsource the top job to Amazon and get [--] months free Amazon Prime" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935801646971314418) 2025-06-19T20:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@jviddy @BrocqChristine @gsyblue @BBCGuernsey I think people need to vote. We have a demographic deficit overweight no not like that but maybe in homeownership So if again not many homes get built this term that might be what voters actually want. #Guernsey #Election2025" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1935976114960179421) 2025-06-20T08:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @matt_fallaize @gsyblue @sashakmiller @DavidPiesing63 @GuernseyPress And who is allowed to walk a dog" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1936543886169493959) 2025-06-21T21:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@andreaustin1 Can I be the first to wish you a Happy Global Nuclear Armageddon😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1936721447386239311) 2025-06-22T09:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@MaryLowe501 @pvbsc1 @GarryCollinsGSY 20k is a desperately low number. And I would say it is skewed towards my demographic Some of which can be described as - Set Guernsey in Aspic and Migration is the issue In which case the previous Assembly with its no houses & reducing Right to Works was epically successful" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1936729388877308245) 2025-06-22T10:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @SBuckEnglish Even as you typed you maybe knew that wasnt true😄 Your interest in politics is so innate its is like a bookie who takes bets all day gets stressed out needs a complete break and.finds himself choosing. LAS VEGAS Just give it a couple of minutes" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1936797894142575057) 2025-06-22T14:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@oldfarmhorace It has to be a more unified & pleasant Assembly this term But two vital features are missing namely TRUST & RELEVANCE to the community it serves Evidence The [----] election showed only 20k/56k over [--] ie about a 1/3 bothered to vote. And it was a skewed electorate" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1936805451460493694) 2025-06-22T15:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@oldfarmhorace So my point is if my figs are correct what sort of mandate to govern does the [----] #Guernsey Assembly have with only about a 1/3 of the eligible population bothering to turn out @matt_fallaize @richarddigard Esp when tough decisions are called for" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1936807911730127176) 2025-06-22T15:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@YoungGuern You raise a good point. Healthcare costs are not out of control but they are spiraling. Healthcare costs need to be mitigated by a user pays solution quickly as part of the fiscal equation" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937063570078122480) 2025-06-23T08:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@YoungGuern And maybe @richarddigard thats where the democratic deficit comes in. A rise personal healthcare costs wld be unpopular with the voters hence put on the back burner But it needs to be done for the population as a whole even tho nearly 2/3 feel disconnected from the Assembly" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937066724513194109) 2025-06-23T08:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "1 Jenni Russell in @thetimes Adults are increasingly discouraged through over-regulation from running informal events such as playgroups children's kickabouts and flower shows. We're advised not to intervene when we witness trouble: harassment muggings stealing" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937076562219667564) 2025-06-23T09:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "2 IMO. The State steps in everywhere no wonder taxes are rising and taxis are arriving - to take us unaffordable to destination Bankcuptcy In Guernsey think of the Vintage motor show we cld have had this year and now another [--] years term of undoubtedly more regulation" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937077763174994071) 2025-06-23T09:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matt_fallaize @GarryCollinsGSY @Govgg The velvet glove of @matt_fallaize falls off mid tweet😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937237374121197612) 2025-06-23T19:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@marcwinn @DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @YoungGuern @Govgg That sounds a little bit odd 😀 If there are more people living longer even if funds are managed by Mrs Golden Goose funds will run out" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937593724516901179) 2025-06-24T19:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "At the bar most people were talking unimaginable gibberish - which I was later able to interpret as golfing banter Eg a person spying my partners empty wheel chair asked if I had left her at the first tee I laughed Hope his friends dont find the freshly turned earth too soon" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937869666036125927) 2025-06-25T13:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@Nickleh The Higgs Boson particle took so long to be discovered because it was quite small. The complementary scone offered by airlines in the 1970s on the UK/GSY route was even smaller But not as tiny as the scoop of ice cream brazenly offered as dessert in this hotel restaurant" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937889536060592351) 2025-06-25T15:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Nickleh And another thing it was wheelchair friendly in name only. Obvs when theres the inevitable zombie apocalypse the oeuvre demands we all head to a shopping mall When the Daleks invade Im going back to this hotel. Ill be perfectly safe - it had more steps than Machu Picchu" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937896567396245884) 2025-06-25T15:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @jessgill03 Thats the instruction now. Government doesnt encourage intervention ( in fact discourages it) but wont admit it is too hapless to protect. The State writing a cheque of protection it cant possibly cash" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1937920620110745613) 2025-06-25T17:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @advocategreen1 The dream now is leave the island come back when ur folks have passed - which you will view with some sadness but also plans for a new conservatory for your own house in Swindon" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938365989797642386) 2025-06-26T22:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @advocategreen1 Of course other UK dormitory towns are available to Guernseys Boomer children" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938567033534484902) 2025-06-27T11:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @oldfarmhorace @richarddigard The only way to growth is through the private sector Why then has Guernsey felt emboldened to increase costs and legislative burden to business One of many trust issues govgg needs to address. Why say youre planning for growth when actual actions say the opposite" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938678026109362179) 2025-06-27T19:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@DavidPiesing63 @LeonieLeTissier @ChasMcHugh When all else fails some scaly crickets will be found and development halted. Scaly crickets are an unproductive widespread and invasive species - given as much protection as the other scaly demographic found in Guernsey So says this scaly critic" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938687478107643961) 2025-06-27T19:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @richarddigard 😀Well yes and no. Airport building inappropriate plus funded bogus Nigerian contractor. Court buildings - too grand Salarie car park encased in a grand granite walkway as might have been imagined by Chinese dynasty rulers" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938697183269970230) 2025-06-27T20:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "V True Even in the turbulent Middle Ages only 0.5% of the population chose to be monks and nuns They had food and whole life care. But you had to sit a desks making pictorial ledgers 99.5% of pop schose the poss of hunger & violent death in exchange for LIVING😀 @oldfarmhorace @advocategreen1 @GuyPlummer34449 @richarddigard Working in finance I saw many locals unfulfilled by their work and role. Leading to poor mental health and lifestyle choices. Unlocking different opportunities that allow locals to thrive have a strong community and home ( we may need to look at alternative models)" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938854459993657359) 2025-06-28T06:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "And we are surprised that people who are not suited to desk life but think if only they can get to [--] and allow themselves the thought of [--] retired years in relatively good health - thats their best hope of a life No wonder over 1/2 the scripts are anti-depressants" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938856554079666423) 2025-06-28T07:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The advent of Finance in Guernsey meant that usually at least one household member needed to be in finance to buy a house for their family In the 90s mum & dad both in finance was optimum Now with no housing for the young [--] wages is the prime number as they cant move out" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938860254952837248) 2025-06-28T07:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 Is there another Guy Plummer a non-ranting rational commentator on the lived experience Id start listening to him" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938927950268654066) 2025-06-28T11:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 I was to get out of the office. In [--] Ernst Young employed a young Thompsons gazelle instead of a monk in waiting to be an articled clerk In didnt work out well for either of us . Oops I mean the gazelle and EY" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938931985872789723) 2025-06-28T12:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @jjh @advocategreen1 Its inevitable here in Guernsey too. In its current culture and mindset aided by a centre left Assembly this time the only major infrastructure project to be funded this term will be. The Highway to Public Sector Serfdom It will be very successful in its own terms" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1938993904277483746) 2025-06-28T16:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@paul_luxon @DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @jjh @advocategreen1 I detected a distinct movement from those relatively few folk who bothered to vote towards people minded to observe the rights of scaly crickets rather than actual people" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939054641691664661) 2025-06-28T20:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@paul_luxon @DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @jjh @advocategreen1 And by people I mean those starting out rather than those on the home straight" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939055338680131612) 2025-06-28T20:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Ahem Matthew Syed in @thetimes To what extent is this true in #Guernsey" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939205796597813310) 2025-06-29T06:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@alasdair_milroy @guernseygirl6 @pvbsc1 @GuernseyPress Universal Basic Income . Invented by people who think we are all entitled to cash for doing nothing But of course this far too good a deal for for people Much better if UBI ( eg tax and SI seen as an entitlement for the State is only for govgg and doing work is charged extra" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939236087853170968) 2025-06-29T08:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@alasdair_milroy @guernseygirl6 @pvbsc1 @GuernseyPress Agreed 👍" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939246104693923925) 2025-06-29T08:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Residents asked not to destroy Asia nests as they can be used as another invasive species to protect in case someone wants to build an affordable house in Guernsey. 'Report Asian hornet nests don't destroy them' https://t.co/eyQeRfK5nT 'Report Asian hornet nests don't destroy them' https://t.co/eyQeRfK5nT" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939299808851726493) 2025-06-29T12:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@LeonieLeTissier @oldfarmhorace Trust issue no [---] above Everything gets out eventually Trust issue [---] Trying to persuade us the diving board fiasco was a closely managed triumph of public and gov working together - instead of the sly closure notice issued on the coldest Friday in February" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939414847588065682) 2025-06-29T20:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@alasdair_milroy @advocategreen1 @guernseygirl6 @pvbsc1 @GuernseyPress Horace for HSC and there was something on a new site in the North pre election" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1939421849307496566) 2025-06-29T20:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "This is bad news in our sister Island I fear obvs for my tribe (small biz) in Gsy s no growth economy and increasingly burdensome environment. Cimandis is a big pan island biz in an economy in ostensibly better shape than Guernsey. Its closure feels significant The Channel Islands' largest food wholesaler Cimandis will cease trading in Jersey at the end of this month after "significant increases in rent and shipping costs". [--] people will lose their jobs. https://t.co/YWon66fDmh The Channel Islands' largest food wholesaler Cimandis will cease trading in Jersey at the end of this month after" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1940101413436031023) 2025-07-01T17:33Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@GuernseyPress Govgg accounts overstate profit again as [--] Mrs Le Pages get charged [------] each instead of [----] One of them said I just paid it - I thought it might have something to do with the Long Term Health Care fund" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1940709207457857546) 2025-07-03T09:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@CherlyGsy @Govgg Are you saying the Revenue is a digit short of a bank account 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1940824124018061367) 2025-07-03T17:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @Ronst21 Is Sir trying to persuade me of the primacy of choice Good luck with that😀😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1941017094503752035) 2025-07-04T06:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Nickleh @jameswpen @guernseyanne @Katieci @coughlin66 Not sure what to make if anything of Beetons closing and Vraic opening virtually in the same week" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1942307503779237957) 2025-07-07T19:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@guernseyliz14 @Nickleh @jameswpen @guernseyanne @Katieci @coughlin66 Maybe this is further indication of an emerging two state Guernsey in a 25sq mile space - quite an achievement One of which is Malibu beach houses along Cobo Michelin Stars and public Lauberge view now turned private the other - many working families waiting to be housed" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1942317664661299409) 2025-07-07T20:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@ITVChannelTV Guernseys economic growth v poor compared to Jersey tho that didnt stop ESS using Jersey as a yardstick for its own initiatives Surely it will be better with @sashakmiller at the helm and can I say A better job by Niles on the basis I find myself infuriatingly amusing" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1942643999778410745) 2025-07-08T17:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@gassyguern @oldfarmhorace @Lindsay_Gsy Guernsey Electric is using tax payers money to its promote its energy against cheaper private sector alternatives . Encouraging us to pay double for heating compared to oil Have I got that right And then wondering why people are struggling to pay their heating bills" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943405552761238006) 2025-07-10T20:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace @argyllscricket The way for the Bailiwick economy to roar is for the Assemby to admit unlike any other European democracy that Govgg cannot possibly afford all that it sets out to provide and reset fiscal policy accordingly. It should do it soon. Only [--] months until the next election😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943653763912528248) 2025-07-11T12:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @matt_fallaize @argyllscricket When you add up private fees and ESC cost attributable to primary and secondary education say in [----] compared to know per pupil (adjusted for inflation) to [----] that might give a rough indication as to the change in ESC productivity" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943737644069884112) 2025-07-11T18:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Why are you always soREASONABLE😀 The other major factorin the poverty gap is high housing cost Again a defining feature of last Term was the building of Guernseys one new affordable home A more effective solution to the poverty gap would be a dent in the power of the NIMBY" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943956975441916181) 2025-07-12T08:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne So in Gsy growing the economy & building more houses are the best methods to alleviate poverty Whereas cutting & pasting law from other locations and presenting it as progress not so much. Eg whats the point in extra paternity leave if no one can find a house to live in" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943965960152416485) 2025-07-12T09:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Oops and finally finally I promise 😄 to say we want growth and innovation and sound like we mean it - we need NOT to have anymore biz legislation which is the equivalent of the carpet bombing of Dresden Eg Secondary pensions for biz with [--] employee" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943997763760664893) 2025-07-12T11:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jjh @advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Unless youre employing people in Somalia😄 where the State is so small and powerless you need ur own private army to be safe Id perhaps suggest Gsy might be headed in the wrong legislative direction" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1943999799600329025) 2025-07-12T11:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne 😀i know Im more hyperbole than litotes😀 But In May2024 LdS reported that [--] affordable homes will have been built in [----] term - so EVEN if [--] were built -is still a v poor effort vs a great effort by those worship erNIMBrod. And affordable is doing a lot of work" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944063672252338595) 2025-07-12T15:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne 😀But of course you are correct I am wrong Given the multiple of earnings required to buy a home in Guernsey these days and lack of loan providers imo NO affordable homes were planned built or sold since about [----] 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944064785311535345) 2025-07-12T16:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne I think @advocategreen1 is the only one who understands/puts up with me😀 He has seen my descent from ardent cheerleader the of [----] reforming Assembly to a dried up old gretscher with a completely different view on the role of Gov post global peace and a no growth economy" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944099694453354947) 2025-07-12T18:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne For me its about resetting govgg priorities AND redefining the responsibilities as between State and individual/family in the current context of global uncertainty and no cash. & learning lessons from bankrupt western democracies And regaining trust. Even small things count" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944114647767871653) 2025-07-12T19:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@marcwinn @RossLeBrun @jjh @JayneOzanne @sashakmiller Surely there are @BBCNews rules against using ticking time bomb for this now 😀 Hardly anything ticks anymore. Although we are BOOMERSwe are not in danger of actually exploding. We do simmer a bit tho. So maybe we cld start using pressure cooker instead" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944290056560422956) 2025-07-13T06:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@marcwinn @RossLeBrun @jjh @JayneOzanne @sashakmiller @BBCNews Although it does bring up images of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible so maybe its quite apt after all" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944293870512021652) 2025-07-13T07:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Yes of course and is a massive subject But perhaps for me maybe because I was radicalised by @shelaine2000 😀 recognition of disability is by far the most important dimension of inequality and can only be sorted effectively at State level" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944326947573760173) 2025-07-13T09:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Times: No [--] warned against gagging officials from speaking in public. Uk gov guidance described as chilling. To what extent if any Is it true that the CS in Gsy sign something banning them from speaking about govgg issues https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e4f9c4a-1f99-4ac4-afe2-345509e1d189shareToken=e254f8c3aa0ae839ea78bdfb22365137 https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e4f9c4a-1f99-4ac4-afe2-345509e1d189shareToken=e254f8c3aa0ae839ea78bdfb22365137" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1944827434286899261) 2025-07-14T18:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@BrazierMary @Nickleh You should know @Nickleh is always on enquiry in these matters. He has already terrorised the mild folk of #Guernsey with warnings an impending land invasion of octopods" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945070992377679927) 2025-07-15T10:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@RossLeBrun @jviddy @jjh State pension scheme is efficient/effective to operate & provides a safety net for the rash and is therefore sufficient. I come from a [--] generation family of the relatively short lived. Their SI contributions were taken by others 😀 Fairness is always difficult to ensure 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945130758877728848) 2025-07-15T14:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 Im thinking of travelling the world and changing my name to Bilious Fogg" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945216316509389024) 2025-07-15T20:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 Maybe there was a tiny %age of say monks in waiting during these times of the one job- they were just waiting for a new roles to arrive. And just like 10% are left handed there is a relatively stable %age of the pop happy to sit at a desk and colour things in/ input stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945513188952293382) 2025-07-16T15:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I only ask one thing of the AI superfuture Make opening a bank account as easy as it was in [----]. British banking in the seventies. More branches. Better customer service. Intelligent employees. https://t.co/JZRqzmUCWe British banking in the seventies. More branches. Better customer service. Intelligent employees. https://t.co/JZRqzmUCWe" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945570693514408228) 2025-07-16T19:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@Nickleh Its so easily done ohum. a friend tells me. You read ur local paper @GuernseyPress. Misread the the vowels in an article. And panic when you see the word shortage Next thing youve bought a large freezer. Er. mlud" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945713580122259560) 2025-07-17T05:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The Times: Is Labour heading for a Great British tax revolt. Last week an article in @thetimes called some tax rises surreptitious. Today this article calls some of them underhand and eventually the public wises up. https://www.thetimes.com/article/98d7757e-64cf-42aa-a5b2-c495c7ac5fa6shareToken=49fb330444932925585a8c6231dd40d5 https://www.thetimes.com/article/98d7757e-64cf-42aa-a5b2-c495c7ac5fa6shareToken=49fb330444932925585a8c6231dd40d5" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945724247181086882) 2025-07-17T05:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Nickleh @GuernseyPress In this case easily done. Why would anyone need skills shortage explained in a glossary Unless perhaps they were already deficient in the skull department to the tune of one cranium" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945726280357363849) 2025-07-17T06:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 @jviddy This is all very well but dont you know Guernsey has a SKULLS shortage @govgg what are you going to do about it 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1945906482941210769) 2025-07-17T18:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @richarddigard @GuernseyPress Already the battle lines are being drawn across the generations between the haves/have nots or (Im alright) Jacobites vs Spartans The purchase of Leales Yard perhaps being yet another damp squib which fails to ignite the explosive action required build more houses QUICKLY" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1946299870866034957) 2025-07-18T20:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@oldfarmhorace @richarddigard @GuernseyPress The issue we have is if nothing much is built apart from Homes for Horses etc until [----] that will amount to [--] years housing inertia for normal people. That will mean HALF A LOST GENERATION" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1946308082218250365) 2025-07-18T20:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: Burberry boss calls for return of VAT-free shopping. https://www.thetimes.com/article/6cc3ab5d-de1d-4202-bec5-557ec6bc891bshareToken=95bbcbe39c935129cd12783651d748aa https://www.thetimes.com/article/6cc3ab5d-de1d-4202-bec5-557ec6bc891bshareToken=95bbcbe39c935129cd12783651d748aa" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1946408934165590093) 2025-07-19T03:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 Superficially appealing but Ive read a lot of books about canines and I still cant decide what my favourite dog is" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1946836181334769792) 2025-07-20T07:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@advocategreen1 Pah to the Age of Reason and the supposed wisdom of owls - they just had better PR and comms" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1946838227429577020) 2025-07-20T07:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@advocategreen1 😀In fact I cant think of a notion with a more grandiose name that overpromised and so obviously under-delivered than the Age of Reason" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1946842389420617926) 2025-07-20T07:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: Bar caf and retail jobs are society's heartbeat. https://www.thetimes.com/article/22d43e5a-f82b-497a-9fa9-0fc8809e33d6shareToken=c568c2c72b121f648a31d00fd7d7a4c2 https://www.thetimes.com/article/22d43e5a-f82b-497a-9fa9-0fc8809e33d6shareToken=c568c2c72b121f648a31d00fd7d7a4c2" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1947277778367177197) 2025-07-21T12:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: Renters face higher monthly bills than mortgage holders. I wonder if this is true in #Guernsey https://www.thetimes.com/article/e6833652-cc41-436f-a59c-a55a6a93b641shareToken=f7e794cd5e63028d1b6ccc2dc4cfa7f6 https://www.thetimes.com/article/e6833652-cc41-436f-a59c-a55a6a93b641shareToken=f7e794cd5e63028d1b6ccc2dc4cfa7f6" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1947880757617106994) 2025-07-23T04:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Times: The top economist who believes intuition is a secret superpower. The most successful people in the world are those who have learnt how to develop harness and activate their gut feel. https://www.thetimes.com/article/11fd037a-1010-4588-981f-4e0967f229f8shareToken=4c6e2bfb81cedc627e91a64dfe0d486d https://www.thetimes.com/article/11fd037a-1010-4588-981f-4e0967f229f8shareToken=4c6e2bfb81cedc627e91a64dfe0d486d" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1947883502529028558) 2025-07-23T04:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The Times: Universal basic income is not the answer if AI comes for your job. My take We have other issues to address as well as skills shortages What happens when skills arent required at all- coming to a decade near you. https://www.thetimes.com/article/be8b61dd-5941-4d9f-ad6f-806480fa0641shareToken=7b78e75fec3eac02edad3d195a67614c https://www.thetimes.com/article/be8b61dd-5941-4d9f-ad6f-806480fa0641shareToken=7b78e75fec3eac02edad3d195a67614c" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948250769670455297) 2025-07-24T05:15Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@BBCGuernsey Ahem - its getting worse In Guernsey stats from the States showed average local market rents were [----] a month in the first quarter of [----] - 1.5% higher than the previous quarter; 8.2% higher than the first quarter of [----] and 51.7% higher than five years ago" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948255291549655070) 2025-07-24T05:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@GuernseyPress In other news Govgg wants the current and the bun. WFH to be combined with plush new offices at Les Varendes. Students to stay temporarily in Hotel La Mare. For those who hope to dine on aspiration and choice the Restaurant menu is fresh out of IBs for at least a year" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948261702463553762) 2025-07-24T05:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@BBCGuernsey Income redistribution working well esp if you want it to go to landlords and their land of tax breaks and capital appreciation" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948286756685529575) 2025-07-24T07:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Who will be Guernseys Javier Milei 🔵 Kemi Badenoch described Argentinas president Javier Milei as the template as she attempted to sharpen the Conservatives economic message. Read more here https://t.co/23bdcDUBVT https://t.co/XxPe3GsabI 🔵 Kemi Badenoch described Argentinas president Javier Milei as the template as she attempted to sharpen the Conservatives economic message. Read more here https://t.co/23bdcDUBVT https://t.co/XxPe3GsabI" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948295412177309863) 2025-07-24T08:13Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@JohnFernandez1 [--] So what the States likes to do is set up structures to outsource problem areas. So GHA new builds per their annual reports 2017-45 2018-50 2019-69 2020-40 (inc [--] in Jan 21) 2021-33 but might be [--] see above 2022-16 2023-0 2024- Anyone see an issue" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948414664683016669) 2025-07-24T16:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@JohnFernandez1 [--] And now we have the new Housing Committee as well as GHA and existing Planning and E&I So weekly I ask- What do we say to our young families who need accommodation now I have yet to receive an answer. Im bored with my tweets as is everybody so please make me stop" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948439823263400379) 2025-07-24T17:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@matt_fallaize Metric Schmetric. 😀Im sure Argentinas got stuff like an army and national debts and Malbec tasting. And look at its shape think of border patrol cost 😀 😀My metric of choice is gov employee per sq. km. 😀" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1948733195819573258) 2025-07-25T13:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Times: Whyyou should never rely on the state to fund your retirement. As per the article In Britain there is a widespread if not strange belief that the state has a duty to provide and care for us in old age. https://www.thetimes.com/article/06bdd0f2-dd85-4816-858b-7d2dc19ff37fshareToken=44c7f9ccac6a938478342bf88a921b05 https://www.thetimes.com/article/06bdd0f2-dd85-4816-858b-7d2dc19ff37fshareToken=44c7f9ccac6a938478342bf88a921b05" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1949354924686422416) 2025-07-27T06:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Times: Entitlement will destroy Britain .nimbies. You're quite right. We should build more infrastructure But in this case housing dev the arguments don't quite stack up. Honest. Local people are worried about how it will spoil their views https://www.thetimes.com/article/a92365c4-f8db-4c26-954f-a6c85a23fb19shareToken=b3f8b7529edc8c37be4fae34572f809d https://www.thetimes.com/article/a92365c4-f8db-4c26-954f-a6c85a23fb19shareToken=b3f8b7529edc8c37be4fae34572f809d" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1949381418775171269) 2025-07-27T08:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@richarddigard @DrRebeccaTidy @GuernseyPress @gsyelectricity I cant believe how few people in govgg seem to be involved in furthering cheaper energy initiatives rather than progressing in comparison dead end policies and ways of thinking. Like housing cheaper power needs to be progressed at pace" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1949383394816934278) 2025-07-27T08:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The Times: French in denial about the size of their debt Proposal to freeze public spending for a year an anne blanche during which government budgets pensions and welfare programmes wouldn't automatically increase with inflation. https://www.thetimes.com/article/101487b7-8f5b-4b0b-9c88-e22ebfbf7bf0shareToken=4f86a6ad93f664d3c0361493df925067 https://www.thetimes.com/article/101487b7-8f5b-4b0b-9c88-e22ebfbf7bf0shareToken=4f86a6ad93f664d3c0361493df925067" [X Link](https://x.com/GuyPlummer34449/status/1950427936554656114) 2025-07-30T05:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @advocategreen1 @guernseypress @oldfarmhorace @richarddigard @davidpiesing63 @govgg @mattfallaize @pvbsc1 @yvonneburford @rosslebrun @guernseygirl6 @alasdairmilroy @bbcguernsey @haleycamp @drandysloan @stonedecroze @robcurg @jayneozanne @lindsaygsy @marylowe501
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"@guernseygirl6 @oldfarmhorace I was there. Not sure what I expected My view great speech from [--] year old wanting to make Guernsey his home. There were coherent policies for youngsters as well as gretschers like me. Well thought out plans and objectives set out by committed passionate folk. I liked it"
X Link 2025-03-24T20:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @guernseygirl6 [--] This presentation had plans for cheaper wind energy and keeping young people here who might actually innovate as compared to my cohort who bafflingly seem more interested in playing golf"
X Link 2025-03-24T20:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DavidPiesing63 @alasdair_milroy This increase isnt the reality for most people. Logical default position for people starting their careers now is CS. Over 50% working pop in Public Admin Risk/reward for other careers over the long term now looking reckless How can GSY ensure economic growth/resilience"
X Link 2025-04-06T10:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This is why stating that Guernsey CS costs were inline with the UKs and therefore there were few savings to made was always a highly specious argument. Cabinet Office to axe [----] civil servant jobs https://t.co/9YOWFVJptb Cabinet Office to axe [----] civil servant jobs https://t.co/9YOWFVJptb"
X Link 2025-04-10T13:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Urgent - Dont tell Guernsey Airport Unless we turn Lancresse into a giant concrete skatepark (youngsters you could vote for this if you sign up to the Electoral Roll) the indigenous rabbit population will halt all flights forever. A United Airlines flight had to return to Denver last week after ingesting not a bird. but a rabbit. https://t.co/LGppocOc0Z https://t.co/w8bLs5o9ot A United Airlines flight had to return to Denver last week after ingesting not a bird. but a rabbit. https://t.co/LGppocOc0Z https://t.co/w8bLs5o9ot"
X Link 2025-04-17T12:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@alasdair_milroy @pvbsc1 The thing is with democracy even people who like privacy are allowed to be involved in politics do research and have opinions SM puts many able people off from taking a more public role. Its ideas and policies which count"
X Link 2025-04-22T19:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"At last a candidate if elected able to fulfill his promise without needing [--] other to support him A platform of saving money and less hot air. If you want to register a protest vote this could be the one #GuernseyElection25"
X Link 2025-04-23T07:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernsey_dairy @waitrose Good to have it clarified. Guernsey Butter spreading across the UK"
X Link 2025-04-23T19:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@mjconcanno60904 @sashakmiller @PeterRoffey5 @GuernseyPress @vote4guernsey Minimum wage introduced to guernsey I think in [----]. I worked as an employee for nearly [--] years before it was introduced without any problem Not sure this legislation was ever necessary for Guernsey when there has nearly always been full employment"
X Link 2025-04-24T13:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DavidPiesing63 @andrew_niles @RobCurg @StoneDeCroze @oldfarmhorace @jjh @samitchell78 [--] so consumers already face [--] Relatively high interest rates on large mortgages [--] Parents facing higher child care costs plus more are paying for their kids to go private - say 1k per month per child. [--] wealthy boomers worried about their porfolios thanks to Trump"
X Link 2025-04-26T17:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DavidPiesing63 @andrew_niles @RobCurg @StoneDeCroze @oldfarmhorace @jjh @samitchell78 [--] So decreasing amount of people have much cash to spare. Yes Jersey takes in a lot but they have more people and erm how can I say this politely - are more inclined to conspicuous consumption than our traditionally wiser Guernsey brethren😀"
X Link 2025-04-26T17:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@GSYElection2025 Under [--] you need to register Guernsey is going to be overrun by Gretschers as early as Christmas - Fact Walking frames will clog up STPP They need to be taxed & there needs an immediate new law - Zimmering without due care & attention U can make it happen if u register"
X Link 2025-04-27T17:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard A very personal view is that there are sizable cadre of ppl who would like to see very little action on housing. And if they can just get past the demographic issues Guernsey can return their version of an idyll which is Alderney but with a better runway"
X Link 2025-04-28T07:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @JEPnews @Govgg [--] But for some fingers- crossed. if they can just get to [----] and the grail of GST they can kick the biggest can ever made down the pot- holed road. Namely what should the State now provide and pay for in declining unproductive European economies"
X Link 2025-05-03T08:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @jjh @richarddigard @JEPnews @Govgg Hi M can you elaborate Say a ministerial gov is able to instruct a short back and sides for say the Education back office whereas under a consensus system such a decision might be harder to reach and so savings not made"
X Link 2025-05-03T18:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @richarddigard @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg Who decides tho what is an unchallengeable reality and what should be regarded as shibboleth. And what happens if consistent resistance to doing things differently can only eventually be broken by a scattergun Trumpian disruption"
X Link 2025-05-04T11:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jjh @richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @JEPnews @Govgg All the pox of an employer registering with a pension provider providing due diligence uploading employee details and making monthly submissions all to find the employee would have been better off doing it themselves"
X Link 2025-05-05T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg And currently is it certain that all filk would want to invest in the market in this Trumpian period of uncertainty Id say cash is king. Let people run their own lives"
X Link 2025-05-05T17:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg What happens in a market crash or decline The State will have enacted occupational pensions with all the attendant expense - & people will have lost money Given the current geopolitical situation we cannot look to the past to guarantee anything in terms of expected returns"
X Link 2025-05-05T17:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg I was too polite to mention 😀"
X Link 2025-05-05T18:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @PeterRoffey5 @jjh @JEPnews @Govgg If private sector had compulsory defined benefit no biz would come to guernsey And no Gsy biz could sell anything to anyone anywhere at a price that would cover costs and that customers would accept or afford. Thats the private sector world"
X Link 2025-05-05T19:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @GuernseyPress @Govgg Plus its burnt 700k of private cash and time that cant be used elsewhere and eroded the trust of private/public collaborations It hard not to hear a little bit of quacking 🦆😀"
X Link 2025-05-09T07:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times This points to the most important fact about the British predicament. We are on the edge of a pecuniary precipice Further when Theresa May addressed this & suggested removing triple lock pensions it was almost fatal electoral poison"
X Link 2025-05-11T05:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Hard decisions need to be made imo #GuernseyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-11T06:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @flick2leg @AltoAngel @drandy_sloan Yes I get that of course but did they go to where young people might be on and off line at the right times with an appropriate offering For old gubs like me civic duty is enough but young ppl with grrr their full and exciting lives maybe needed a bit more oomph"
X Link 2025-05-13T19:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Katieci @matt_fallaize @flick2leg @Richard_D_E @AltoAngel Yes hed get my vote. Another scion of the Invincibles - [----] Assembly"
X Link 2025-05-13T19:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@pvbsc1 @advocategreen1 @richarddigard @StoneDeCroze @YvonneBurford @NigelStaples @CherlyGsy @matt_fallaize @MaryLowe501 @drandy_sloan @sashakmiller @GuernseyPress ATM I will vote for a few of the current deputies but will leave some space for left field candidates who offer more in their manifestoes than: I love Guernsey and I believe in joined-up fact-based educational house building for young first-time pensioners. #GsyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-14T18:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @GuernseySpeaker All govgg money spent on travel should be given to me help research my hobby - antique barnacles from Mauritius. Failing that Im v happy that some of it goes to help @letocq do something more useful with it as he has been doing for a least [---] years"
X Link 2025-05-16T08:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @GuernseySpeaker @letocq @letocq first trip for Guernsey was in a balloon with the Montgolfier brothers where his gift for languages first came to fore #GsyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-16T08:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize Govgg initiatives have most successful this term in imposing extra burdens on biz These would be easier to sustain if the economic pie had grown. With more burden on biz to come Econ Dev becomes vitally important in [----] and beyond. Choose wisely. #GsyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-16T10:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize [--] but the most revealing memory about the system and its need to control everything was the speech about quaffing Dido and whining. Following which the assembly felt moved to pass legislation with barely a ripple banning private sales of FISH in Guernsey #GsyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-16T10:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @GuernseySpeaker @letocq 😀"
X Link 2025-05-16T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@StoneDeCroze @DavidPiesing63 @guernseyliz14 [--] So maybe GST+ is the answer but there has to be some slack in the housing stock first. Imo. #GsyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-17T09:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Nickleh @Katieci @ScribblerJB @Ronst21 @Stormbooks_co Oh and for the sake of good order it wasnt me it was them😀"
X Link 2025-05-17T20:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @DavidPiesing63 @StoneDeCroze @guernseyliz14 Why not have a higher rate on luxury goods. Like me as a Boomer hes probably bought all his high end good already😀 hurrah"
X Link 2025-05-18T15:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jviddy @DavidPiesing63 @jameswpen @pvbsc1 Many would agree with you but my view and again prob not popular is that those ppl (not you) who do not want to see new homes built will use any delay to the max and many folk need somewhere to live ASAP"
X Link 2025-05-23T11:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@richarddigard The perpetual promise of news homes in #Guernsey is an example what I call Billy Bunter politics. In order to repay debts Billy Bunter always claimed he was about to receive a postal order from his aunt. In the entire series of books the PO never arrived #Election2025"
X Link 2025-05-23T15:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Richard_D_E @GollopGuern @oldfarmhorace @sashakmiller If Ii was me I would do what Denmark have done and make arrangements for State pension to be set at [--]. How many of us in our 60s can really say we have paid enough in to take it at [--] And use that for social housing #Election2025"
X Link 2025-05-24T07:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Now the manifestos are out I am more convinced that collaborations/parties are the way to go. Why Failure of previous assemblies to act effectively on housing & growing the economy Forward Guernsey has a coherent set of polices. I will use some of my votes for these folks First in series. Listen to @RylattTom and @StuartJehan explain: - Why standing - Why with Forward Guernsey - Whats the relationship with Future Guernsey - Wheres Ryan And more #DeliveringChangeTogether #ForwardGuernsey https://t.co/0nFjufrsqC First in series. Listen to @RylattTom and @StuartJehan explain: - Why standing -"
X Link 2025-05-24T17:18Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@guernseyliz14 @matt_fallaize My prediction before the number of registered voters was known was [----] for the candidate coming 38th . If you put a prediction in this thread the closest will receive a free breakfast for two at the new restaurant Nutmeg Victoria Park. Feel free to retweet #Election2025"
X Link 2025-05-25T11:42Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@pvbsc1 @guernseyliz14 @matt_fallaize Cmom folks if @pvbsc1 wins well never hear the last of it. Let me know your predictions #Election2025"
X Link 2025-05-25T11:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize At what point are we going to hear the slogan. For a better job by Niles @andrew_niles #GuernseyElection2025"
X Link 2025-05-27T17:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 Le Lievres WoolworthsMarquand bros Keyhos Teleskill Au Caprice Vanity Box. Town is poorer with their passing Coop Homemaker Quayside St Sampsons similarly"
X Link 2025-05-31T12:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@jojomay1 Coffee and a cold drink. Youll soon be offering Guernsey Leaping Tours"
X Link 2025-06-01T10:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseymoz @guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 And because my aunt started Nautilus I also remember Butterfly Turkoman and Little Red. #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-02T18:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Scores on the doors based on the Big Blue Book:- Defo [--] Maybe37 No32 Total82 #Guernsey #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-04T18:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard Question for @DavidPiesing63. If Jersey can cater for its finance sector by not owning its own airline cld Guernsey do the same or is it just Jerseys larger population and runway that mean that it doesnt need to do so"
X Link 2025-06-06T07:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseyliz14 @AltoAngel @mitchell_di I think his first name was Genial😀"
X Link 2025-06-06T16:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @DavidPiesing63 @GarryCollinsGSY @pvbsc1 @jojomay1 @Govgg @EYnews Lets not forget tho even tho GST+ might be the best option its arrival will not be a cause for celebration by Guernsey biz or most Guernsey residents. #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-07T12:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: AI could cause recession and many job losses says Klarna boss. Bosses already shedding jobs due to AI Implications for Guernsey #election2025 Candidates what are your thoughts https://www.thetimes.com/article/587c8669-9615-47a9-a6e4-ba268e18f174shareToken=3da5af54a3f9c37be0a0780af029bf18 https://www.thetimes.com/article/587c8669-9615-47a9-a6e4-ba268e18f174shareToken=3da5af54a3f9c37be0a0780af029bf18"
X Link 2025-06-07T16:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @DavidPiesing63 @GarryCollinsGSY @pvbsc1 @jojomay1 @Govgg @EYnews Need a plan on AI as well- as a diversion to avoid what is becoming perhaps a bit of an unseemly pile -on regarding tax of all things 😀"
X Link 2025-06-07T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @PeterRoffey5 @alasdair_milroy @GarryCollinsGSY @richarddigard AIs rubbish at generating puns for hosting the Cock and Bull meat draw tho. Check it out if you dont believe me. Thats Grok not the meat draw Ill probably be the last of my age cohort to still have a job - mores the pity"
X Link 2025-06-07T20:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Watching a repeat of @BBC #OldGreyWhistleTest featuring a young Billy Joel with a perm. He looks like the love child of Leo Sayer and Sylvester Stallone"
X Link 2025-06-08T17:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley 2) So if we cant/dont look after the aged we are in moral decline. But H H Humfrey also applied his test to those in the dawn of life as well. And what happens if we cant afford the former. As well as moral failure we would have to admit that . #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-09T12:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley [--] re discussion on LTC we would have to admit looking at fiscal deficits alongside HH Humphrey speech As a community - Guernsey As a nation - UK As a continent- Europe As a culture - Western We are in moral and financial decline #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-09T13:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley Which is a highly unpalatable meal to serve especially at #Guernsey #Election2025 time"
X Link 2025-06-09T13:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley [--]. The fiscal position is unarguable. In the past we cld talk about cradle to grave care from gov UK had a bit of a stashfrom Cheap power & innovation from being first in the Industrial Revolution race and empire & North Sea Oil We have the exact opposite now"
X Link 2025-06-09T13:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ShaneLanglois @matt_fallaize @gustaflepelley And in Guernsey terms the finance goose is tiring. Legislation can easily be copied by others and there are cheaper jurisdictions. HH Humpfreys ideal is now not feasible to the same extent - all imo of course. Esp given the increase in avg life expectancy #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-09T13:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @matt_fallaize @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Unlike us Scandinavian countries wealth underpinned by natural resources and they actually make stuff too - even if like Denmark its only out of LEGO"
X Link 2025-06-09T16:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey The main election issue for me apart from housing is that Guernsey is living beyond its means and so far no candidate comes close to admitting that truth or come up with any meaningful solutions to arrest public spending. #Guernsey #Election2925"
X Link 2025-06-09T17:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Candidates feel free to respond #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-09T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Eg who can persuade me they are a one term politician capable of making some much needed but highly unpopular decisions which reduces their chances of being re-elected Are candidates in it for public service or a sincecure #GuernseyElection2025 #"
X Link 2025-06-09T17:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@alasdair_milroy @richarddigard @YvonneBurford @guernseyliz14 @BBCGuernsey Cant remember if FTP included encouraging departments to charge for services"
X Link 2025-06-10T05:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@MartynRoussel @richarddigard @Govgg @GuernseyPress I couldnt even open an additions savings account with the Gsy bank I have used for ever Without filling out a [--] page form asking for info I had long since forgotten but was undoubtedly on their system. And sending it to the IOM A good way of not paying savings interest"
X Link 2025-06-10T08:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@MartynRoussel @richarddigard @Govgg @GuernseyPress Needless to say Id long since spent my coin of stoicism and didnt bother applying. One up for the bank and an incrementally improved net income position"
X Link 2025-06-10T08:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@gustaflepelley @YoungGuern @Freedomisle11 Buses are a public service doing a great job currently 😀Have you tried hailing a chelsea tractor Most drivers wouldnt see you their noses are too close to the windscreen as they try to judge the width of their vehicles as they mount the pavement by Capelles school"
X Link 2025-06-11T18:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@gustaflepelley @YoungGuern @Freedomisle11 [--] The best vehicle for #Guernsey and its a Rectory Hill Im prepared to drive on is a minivan. and the minivan with the best name is indisputably the #BedfordRascal When you drive it you become a little rascal and everyone likes a little rascal"
X Link 2025-06-11T20:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@gustaflepelley @YoungGuern @Freedomisle11 I used to have #BedfordRascal I used to rascal easily along the Brigade Road. I used to rascal in the lanes rascal up Viccy Road without mounting the pavement And when I got the top of Viccy Road ppl would let me out cos I wasnt a Merc or an Audi I was a LITTLE RASCAL"
X Link 2025-06-11T20:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@VoteforChangeGG Gold fever found to be more contagious than COVID. BREAKING 🚨: Euro Gold has overtaken the Euro as the world's 2nd largest reserve asset accounting for 20% of reserves with the Euro slipping to 16%. The U.S. Dollar is still firmly #1 at 46% of reserves. https://t.co/OArHngnlba BREAKING 🚨: Euro Gold has overtaken the Euro as the world's 2nd largest reserve asset accounting for 20% of reserves with the Euro slipping to 16%. The U.S. Dollar is still firmly #1 at 46% of reserves. https://t.co/OArHngnlba"
X Link 2025-06-12T09:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Eg King Mausolus whose Mausoleum was one of the wonders of the ancient world lived in a conflict filled era He died aged [--] & never even tasted a Walnut Whip What a loser We Boomers dont know how lucky we have been. Lets share our good fortune #HousingCrisis #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-12T13:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Ah another man of good judgement and distinction Is true Im a tail end Boomer - so called Generation Jones ie missed out on defined benefit pensions and really really cheap houses - so always in a bit of mood Can you tell😀"
X Link 2025-06-12T18:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @GuernseyPress Yes agreed the new Assembly needs to decide on priorities. Then we look at tax but apart from #forwardguernsey with a commitment to reduce public spending no candidate so far has been particularly persuasive on how they intend to control public expenditure #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-13T16:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize 😀😀Normal conditions😀😀 Ive just switched on the TV and it looks like the start of WW3 I hope to Hallmark Cards can be a bit more creative opportunity than. Wishing you a Happy Global Nuclear Armageddon. #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-14T06:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @three_141592653 @GsySill I say sell Aurigny and use the annual savings to subsidize electricity -a real economic enabler esp if what ppl say about AI and the transformative effects on biz and eg healthcare is true AI likely to use #Guernsey s entire supply of electricity on its ohm. #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-14T10:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize Breaking news: Ranting madman finally makes sense after employing an infinity of monkeys with typewriters #Election25"
X Link 2025-06-14T17:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@YoungGuern How to say Im alright Jack without saying it. You might ask him how to grow the economy with so many people economically inactive #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-14T17:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@YoungGuern You might also ask why us Boomers havent invented anything of worth in Guernsey in the last [--] years and really apart from a few other enterprises only the founders of Specsavers have provided anything of real value to Guernsey #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-14T17:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @guernseygirl6 @matt_fallaize It would be democratically unsustainable under IWV youd get [--] [---] mainly incumbents with a huge amount and the rest picking up the pieces imo"
X Link 2025-06-14T17:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 Tweet of the day 😀😀"
X Link 2025-06-14T18:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @guernseygirl6 @matt_fallaize Just think about it. Youd only need [---] people giving you [--] votes and that would get you [----] votes prob more than enough to get in. Give them all 5pds to vote for you it would cost less than 1000pds - be the cheapest campaign ever😀 #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-14T20:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize It used to be deals in smoke-filled rooms I suppose its vape- filled open plan safe spaces these days"
X Link 2025-06-14T20:55Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@gsywtours @GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace The cash is in the post"
X Link 2025-06-15T17:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@gsywtours @GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace Obviously with me and my long standing GOLD FEVER there is only one true currency and one true standard"
X Link 2025-06-15T17:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@gsywtours @GuernseyPress @matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace There is no known antidote for @oldfarmhorace. He is highly resistant to any form of criticism - which of course makes him of great interest to the public 😀"
X Link 2025-06-15T17:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Great article and observation on house sizes In the last [--] years Cobo to Vazon has turned into the Amalfi Coast of the west - with prices to match. And dont get me started on Homes for Horses not People - Fort Road I dont mind as long as normal houses are built as well. Superb article in todays @GuernseyPress by former States member John Langlois well worth a read. John worked incredibly hard during his time in the States as President [--] major committees plus on other committees yet still had his business & charity work. https://t.co/YkEyU2wmLR Superb article in todays @GuernseyPress by"
X Link 2025-06-16T12:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"1) The other point to make that JL makes and he didnt need a million word policy to understand or enact was the issue of conspicuous consumption on a 25sq mile island - with no suburbs or cheaper areas. #Election2025 #Guernsey #PolicyState"
X Link 2025-06-16T16:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@ValeBeryl @jviddy @gsyblue @StoneDeCroze @Govgg I reckon I could save 100k easy . It would have nothing to do with stationery"
X Link 2025-06-16T19:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Concerns for overpopulation leads to calls for an Island wide speed limit of 15mph to make Guernsey feel a little bit larger Size envy compared to the other bailiwick also thought to be a factor. #guernseyelection2025 Action group calls for 15mph speed limit https://t.co/ncQh65Jcay Action group calls for 15mph speed limit https://t.co/ncQh65Jcay"
X Link 2025-06-17T12:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 [--] Ahem why wait . At 8pm tonight I will be telling you who is in the New Assemby Way before actual result is announced [--] numbers in the hat. I will draw [--] of them for the [----] Chancers Assembly Please Retweet #GuernseyElection2025"
X Link 2025-06-18T12:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 [--] My contention is that the Age of Enlightenment PR was far too good and human affairs are far too complicated to get anywhere by thinking And so I bet my chance Assembly will be at least as good as the real one #GuernseyElection2025"
X Link 2025-06-18T12:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 The result will only take [--] mins cost nothing & did not require any thinking hustings manifesto booklets or shouting at [--] @matt_fallaize interviews You the public will then be invited to choose your P&R cabinet from the [----] Chancers Assembly Please retweet #Guernsey"
X Link 2025-06-18T12:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @matt_fallaize [--] For the sake of transparency the [----] Chancers Assembly will use the following electoral devices:- A raffle booklet. Note @govgg all stationery for this election has been sourced locally from St Peters Post office And note @govgg again a hat from St Pierre Park golf shop"
X Link 2025-06-18T15:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @argyllscricket @GuernseyPress @advocategreen1 Im hoping my alternative to IWV the results of which to be unveiled at 8.15pm tonight will change the face of Guernsey politics. #ChancersAssembly"
X Link 2025-06-18T17:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseyliz14 My contention is that the Age of Reason has let us all down big time which is my results will be so much better for Guernsey"
X Link 2025-06-18T18:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford #ChancersAssembly Then next [--] are Marc Leadbeater SallyGilman @JayneOzanne Tim Carre Barry Harris Charlie Murray-Edwards Andy Le Lievre Adrian Dilcock Lexi Lundberg Neil Inder"
X Link 2025-06-18T19:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne The next [--] for the #ChancersAssembly is David Goy @MaryLowe501 Marc Laine Christopher Le Tissier Bruno Kay Mouat Charles Parkinson Tom Rylatt Gavin St Pier Stuart Jehan Lindsay de Saumarez"
X Link 2025-06-18T19:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun So that makes the [--] members of the [----] #ChancersAssembly #GuernseyElection2025 I think you can agree it is awesome and at least as anything as good as IWV will produce and it all it cost was [----] for some meat draw tickets and a bottle of wine"
X Link 2025-06-18T19:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun All you need to do know is tweet your [--] members of P&R from this epic #Guernsey Assembly I will sell rights to the C.R.A.P to @govgg for another bottle of #CannonBallMerlot What a bargain"
X Link 2025-06-18T19:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseyliz14 @richarddigard @matt_fallaize What do you think of this Assembly Surely now given how awesome this Assembly is you must agree that there is no need or place for analysis and reason and of course expense in #Guernsey politics @guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun So that makes the [--] members of the [----] #ChancersAssembly #GuernseyElection2025 I think you can agree it is awesome and at least as anything as good as IWV will produce and it all it cost was [----] for some meat draw tickets and a bottle"
X Link 2025-06-18T19:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun @Govgg Is that your P&R choice 😀"
X Link 2025-06-18T20:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun @Govgg I still reckon this is an amazing Assembly mixture of youth and experience and reasonably diverse Just think if you set some minimum standards for standing for election this shows it could be done on a lottery basis and still be better than IWV as it takes away incumbency 😀"
X Link 2025-06-18T21:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @advocategreen1 @YvonneBurford @JayneOzanne @MaryLowe501 @oldfarmhorace @GollopGuern @letocq @RossLeBrun @Govgg If a deputy was only guaranteed one term it would make for better decision making for Guernsey as a whole imo. Look at the decisions that were made late on this term with one eye on the election #Guernsey"
X Link 2025-06-18T21:18Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@GuernseyPress The C.R.A.P. Method is better than IWV [--] Quicker it took [--] MINUTES [--] Cheaper it cost [----] paid to a local stationers. [--] Shld reduce Incumbency Effect [--] No need for Road maps (@flick2leg 👏) And when the [----] Assembly is dubbed the Worst States Ever it wont be YOUR FAULT"
X Link 2025-06-19T06:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jviddy @GuernseyPress @flick2leg Yes a small saving 😀but I would have had to wait for it to arrive and hold the Election today or tomorrow instead 😀 And I albeit incrementally did my bit to make sure St Peters Post office continues to provide its valuable service Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-19T10:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@gsyblue @jviddy @GuernseyPress @flick2leg This is amazing you and AI just put me out of a job I created for myself less than [--] hours ago. I didnt even get the chance to pitch it to @govgg for 2m per annum for 10years"
X Link 2025-06-19T12:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseygirl6 @gsyblue @jviddy @GuernseyPress @flick2leg @Govgg Have you seen how many followers I have I think it is safe to say my ideas arent very attractive to a wide audience or according to @DavidPiesing63 any audience at all😀"
X Link 2025-06-19T12:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@pvbsc1 @gavinstpier @RylattTom Worst day of my life I owe @pvbsc1 a cock and bull burger"
X Link 2025-06-19T17:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Congratulations to @RylattTom of Forward Guernsey or as I like to call him Future England Captain"
X Link 2025-06-19T17:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@jojomay1 The Chancers Assembly delivered [--] out of [--] by lottery in [--] mins for [----] and a bottle of wine How about that for buying from local suppliers Value for Money type stuff. #Guernsey"
X Link 2025-06-19T19:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@StoneDeCroze @DavidPiesing63 @guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 @JohnFernandez1 Sounds like somebody one of my wives would have run off with 😀"
X Link 2025-06-19T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Nickleh @StoneDeCroze @DavidPiesing63 @guernseygirl6 @jojomay1 @JohnFernandez1 Ive missed our whimsy @Nickleh"
X Link 2025-06-19T19:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@guernseyanne @guernseyliz14 @coughlin66 I think theyll outsource the top job to Amazon and get [--] months free Amazon Prime"
X Link 2025-06-19T20:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@jviddy @BrocqChristine @gsyblue @BBCGuernsey I think people need to vote. We have a demographic deficit overweight no not like that but maybe in homeownership So if again not many homes get built this term that might be what voters actually want. #Guernsey #Election2025"
X Link 2025-06-20T08:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @matt_fallaize @gsyblue @sashakmiller @DavidPiesing63 @GuernseyPress And who is allowed to walk a dog"
X Link 2025-06-21T21:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@andreaustin1 Can I be the first to wish you a Happy Global Nuclear Armageddon😀"
X Link 2025-06-22T09:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@MaryLowe501 @pvbsc1 @GarryCollinsGSY 20k is a desperately low number. And I would say it is skewed towards my demographic Some of which can be described as - Set Guernsey in Aspic and Migration is the issue In which case the previous Assembly with its no houses & reducing Right to Works was epically successful"
X Link 2025-06-22T10:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @SBuckEnglish Even as you typed you maybe knew that wasnt true😄 Your interest in politics is so innate its is like a bookie who takes bets all day gets stressed out needs a complete break and.finds himself choosing. LAS VEGAS Just give it a couple of minutes"
X Link 2025-06-22T14:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace It has to be a more unified & pleasant Assembly this term But two vital features are missing namely TRUST & RELEVANCE to the community it serves Evidence The [----] election showed only 20k/56k over [--] ie about a 1/3 bothered to vote. And it was a skewed electorate"
X Link 2025-06-22T15:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace So my point is if my figs are correct what sort of mandate to govern does the [----] #Guernsey Assembly have with only about a 1/3 of the eligible population bothering to turn out @matt_fallaize @richarddigard Esp when tough decisions are called for"
X Link 2025-06-22T15:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@YoungGuern You raise a good point. Healthcare costs are not out of control but they are spiraling. Healthcare costs need to be mitigated by a user pays solution quickly as part of the fiscal equation"
X Link 2025-06-23T08:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@YoungGuern And maybe @richarddigard thats where the democratic deficit comes in. A rise personal healthcare costs wld be unpopular with the voters hence put on the back burner But it needs to be done for the population as a whole even tho nearly 2/3 feel disconnected from the Assembly"
X Link 2025-06-23T08:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"1 Jenni Russell in @thetimes Adults are increasingly discouraged through over-regulation from running informal events such as playgroups children's kickabouts and flower shows. We're advised not to intervene when we witness trouble: harassment muggings stealing"
X Link 2025-06-23T09:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"2 IMO. The State steps in everywhere no wonder taxes are rising and taxis are arriving - to take us unaffordable to destination Bankcuptcy In Guernsey think of the Vintage motor show we cld have had this year and now another [--] years term of undoubtedly more regulation"
X Link 2025-06-23T09:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @GarryCollinsGSY @Govgg The velvet glove of @matt_fallaize falls off mid tweet😀"
X Link 2025-06-23T19:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@marcwinn @DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @YoungGuern @Govgg That sounds a little bit odd 😀 If there are more people living longer even if funds are managed by Mrs Golden Goose funds will run out"
X Link 2025-06-24T19:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"At the bar most people were talking unimaginable gibberish - which I was later able to interpret as golfing banter Eg a person spying my partners empty wheel chair asked if I had left her at the first tee I laughed Hope his friends dont find the freshly turned earth too soon"
X Link 2025-06-25T13:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@Nickleh The Higgs Boson particle took so long to be discovered because it was quite small. The complementary scone offered by airlines in the 1970s on the UK/GSY route was even smaller But not as tiny as the scoop of ice cream brazenly offered as dessert in this hotel restaurant"
X Link 2025-06-25T15:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Nickleh And another thing it was wheelchair friendly in name only. Obvs when theres the inevitable zombie apocalypse the oeuvre demands we all head to a shopping mall When the Daleks invade Im going back to this hotel. Ill be perfectly safe - it had more steps than Machu Picchu"
X Link 2025-06-25T15:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @jessgill03 Thats the instruction now. Government doesnt encourage intervention ( in fact discourages it) but wont admit it is too hapless to protect. The State writing a cheque of protection it cant possibly cash"
X Link 2025-06-25T17:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @advocategreen1 The dream now is leave the island come back when ur folks have passed - which you will view with some sadness but also plans for a new conservatory for your own house in Swindon"
X Link 2025-06-26T22:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@richarddigard @oldfarmhorace @advocategreen1 Of course other UK dormitory towns are available to Guernseys Boomer children"
X Link 2025-06-27T11:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @oldfarmhorace @richarddigard The only way to growth is through the private sector Why then has Guernsey felt emboldened to increase costs and legislative burden to business One of many trust issues govgg needs to address. Why say youre planning for growth when actual actions say the opposite"
X Link 2025-06-27T19:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@DavidPiesing63 @LeonieLeTissier @ChasMcHugh When all else fails some scaly crickets will be found and development halted. Scaly crickets are an unproductive widespread and invasive species - given as much protection as the other scaly demographic found in Guernsey So says this scaly critic"
X Link 2025-06-27T19:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @richarddigard 😀Well yes and no. Airport building inappropriate plus funded bogus Nigerian contractor. Court buildings - too grand Salarie car park encased in a grand granite walkway as might have been imagined by Chinese dynasty rulers"
X Link 2025-06-27T20:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"V True Even in the turbulent Middle Ages only 0.5% of the population chose to be monks and nuns They had food and whole life care. But you had to sit a desks making pictorial ledgers 99.5% of pop schose the poss of hunger & violent death in exchange for LIVING😀 @oldfarmhorace @advocategreen1 @GuyPlummer34449 @richarddigard Working in finance I saw many locals unfulfilled by their work and role. Leading to poor mental health and lifestyle choices. Unlocking different opportunities that allow locals to thrive have a strong community and home ( we may need to look at alternative models)"
X Link 2025-06-28T06:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"And we are surprised that people who are not suited to desk life but think if only they can get to [--] and allow themselves the thought of [--] retired years in relatively good health - thats their best hope of a life No wonder over 1/2 the scripts are anti-depressants"
X Link 2025-06-28T07:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The advent of Finance in Guernsey meant that usually at least one household member needed to be in finance to buy a house for their family In the 90s mum & dad both in finance was optimum Now with no housing for the young [--] wages is the prime number as they cant move out"
X Link 2025-06-28T07:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Is there another Guy Plummer a non-ranting rational commentator on the lived experience Id start listening to him"
X Link 2025-06-28T11:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 I was to get out of the office. In [--] Ernst Young employed a young Thompsons gazelle instead of a monk in waiting to be an articled clerk In didnt work out well for either of us . Oops I mean the gazelle and EY"
X Link 2025-06-28T12:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @jjh @advocategreen1 Its inevitable here in Guernsey too. In its current culture and mindset aided by a centre left Assembly this time the only major infrastructure project to be funded this term will be. The Highway to Public Sector Serfdom It will be very successful in its own terms"
X Link 2025-06-28T16:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@paul_luxon @DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @jjh @advocategreen1 I detected a distinct movement from those relatively few folk who bothered to vote towards people minded to observe the rights of scaly crickets rather than actual people"
X Link 2025-06-28T20:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@paul_luxon @DavidPiesing63 @richarddigard @alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @jjh @advocategreen1 And by people I mean those starting out rather than those on the home straight"
X Link 2025-06-28T20:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Ahem Matthew Syed in @thetimes To what extent is this true in #Guernsey"
X Link 2025-06-29T06:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@alasdair_milroy @guernseygirl6 @pvbsc1 @GuernseyPress Universal Basic Income . Invented by people who think we are all entitled to cash for doing nothing But of course this far too good a deal for for people Much better if UBI ( eg tax and SI seen as an entitlement for the State is only for govgg and doing work is charged extra"
X Link 2025-06-29T08:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@alasdair_milroy @guernseygirl6 @pvbsc1 @GuernseyPress Agreed 👍"
X Link 2025-06-29T08:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Residents asked not to destroy Asia nests as they can be used as another invasive species to protect in case someone wants to build an affordable house in Guernsey. 'Report Asian hornet nests don't destroy them' https://t.co/eyQeRfK5nT 'Report Asian hornet nests don't destroy them' https://t.co/eyQeRfK5nT"
X Link 2025-06-29T12:27Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@LeonieLeTissier @oldfarmhorace Trust issue no [---] above Everything gets out eventually Trust issue [---] Trying to persuade us the diving board fiasco was a closely managed triumph of public and gov working together - instead of the sly closure notice issued on the coldest Friday in February"
X Link 2025-06-29T20:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@alasdair_milroy @advocategreen1 @guernseygirl6 @pvbsc1 @GuernseyPress Horace for HSC and there was something on a new site in the North pre election"
X Link 2025-06-29T20:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"This is bad news in our sister Island I fear obvs for my tribe (small biz) in Gsy s no growth economy and increasingly burdensome environment. Cimandis is a big pan island biz in an economy in ostensibly better shape than Guernsey. Its closure feels significant The Channel Islands' largest food wholesaler Cimandis will cease trading in Jersey at the end of this month after "significant increases in rent and shipping costs". [--] people will lose their jobs. https://t.co/YWon66fDmh The Channel Islands' largest food wholesaler Cimandis will cease trading in Jersey at the end of this month after"
X Link 2025-07-01T17:33Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@GuernseyPress Govgg accounts overstate profit again as [--] Mrs Le Pages get charged [------] each instead of [----] One of them said I just paid it - I thought it might have something to do with the Long Term Health Care fund"
X Link 2025-07-03T09:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@CherlyGsy @Govgg Are you saying the Revenue is a digit short of a bank account 😀"
X Link 2025-07-03T17:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@alasdair_milroy @oldfarmhorace @Ronst21 Is Sir trying to persuade me of the primacy of choice Good luck with that😀😀"
X Link 2025-07-04T06:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Nickleh @jameswpen @guernseyanne @Katieci @coughlin66 Not sure what to make if anything of Beetons closing and Vraic opening virtually in the same week"
X Link 2025-07-07T19:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@guernseyliz14 @Nickleh @jameswpen @guernseyanne @Katieci @coughlin66 Maybe this is further indication of an emerging two state Guernsey in a 25sq mile space - quite an achievement One of which is Malibu beach houses along Cobo Michelin Stars and public Lauberge view now turned private the other - many working families waiting to be housed"
X Link 2025-07-07T20:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@ITVChannelTV Guernseys economic growth v poor compared to Jersey tho that didnt stop ESS using Jersey as a yardstick for its own initiatives Surely it will be better with @sashakmiller at the helm and can I say A better job by Niles on the basis I find myself infuriatingly amusing"
X Link 2025-07-08T17:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@gassyguern @oldfarmhorace @Lindsay_Gsy Guernsey Electric is using tax payers money to its promote its energy against cheaper private sector alternatives . Encouraging us to pay double for heating compared to oil Have I got that right And then wondering why people are struggling to pay their heating bills"
X Link 2025-07-10T20:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_fallaize @oldfarmhorace @argyllscricket The way for the Bailiwick economy to roar is for the Assemby to admit unlike any other European democracy that Govgg cannot possibly afford all that it sets out to provide and reset fiscal policy accordingly. It should do it soon. Only [--] months until the next election😀"
X Link 2025-07-11T12:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @matt_fallaize @argyllscricket When you add up private fees and ESC cost attributable to primary and secondary education say in [----] compared to know per pupil (adjusted for inflation) to [----] that might give a rough indication as to the change in ESC productivity"
X Link 2025-07-11T18:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Why are you always soREASONABLE😀 The other major factorin the poverty gap is high housing cost Again a defining feature of last Term was the building of Guernseys one new affordable home A more effective solution to the poverty gap would be a dent in the power of the NIMBY"
X Link 2025-07-12T08:53Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne So in Gsy growing the economy & building more houses are the best methods to alleviate poverty Whereas cutting & pasting law from other locations and presenting it as progress not so much. Eg whats the point in extra paternity leave if no one can find a house to live in"
X Link 2025-07-12T09:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Oops and finally finally I promise 😄 to say we want growth and innovation and sound like we mean it - we need NOT to have anymore biz legislation which is the equivalent of the carpet bombing of Dresden Eg Secondary pensions for biz with [--] employee"
X Link 2025-07-12T11:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jjh @advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Unless youre employing people in Somalia😄 where the State is so small and powerless you need ur own private army to be safe Id perhaps suggest Gsy might be headed in the wrong legislative direction"
X Link 2025-07-12T11:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne 😀i know Im more hyperbole than litotes😀 But In May2024 LdS reported that [--] affordable homes will have been built in [----] term - so EVEN if [--] were built -is still a v poor effort vs a great effort by those worship erNIMBrod. And affordable is doing a lot of work"
X Link 2025-07-12T15:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne 😀But of course you are correct I am wrong Given the multiple of earnings required to buy a home in Guernsey these days and lack of loan providers imo NO affordable homes were planned built or sold since about [----] 😀"
X Link 2025-07-12T16:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne I think @advocategreen1 is the only one who understands/puts up with me😀 He has seen my descent from ardent cheerleader the of [----] reforming Assembly to a dried up old gretscher with a completely different view on the role of Gov post global peace and a no growth economy"
X Link 2025-07-12T18:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne For me its about resetting govgg priorities AND redefining the responsibilities as between State and individual/family in the current context of global uncertainty and no cash. & learning lessons from bankrupt western democracies And regaining trust. Even small things count"
X Link 2025-07-12T19:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@marcwinn @RossLeBrun @jjh @JayneOzanne @sashakmiller Surely there are @BBCNews rules against using ticking time bomb for this now 😀 Hardly anything ticks anymore. Although we are BOOMERSwe are not in danger of actually exploding. We do simmer a bit tho. So maybe we cld start using pressure cooker instead"
X Link 2025-07-13T06:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@marcwinn @RossLeBrun @jjh @JayneOzanne @sashakmiller @BBCNews Although it does bring up images of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible so maybe its quite apt after all"
X Link 2025-07-13T07:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @JayneOzanne Yes of course and is a massive subject But perhaps for me maybe because I was radicalised by @shelaine2000 😀 recognition of disability is by far the most important dimension of inequality and can only be sorted effectively at State level"
X Link 2025-07-13T09:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Times: No [--] warned against gagging officials from speaking in public. Uk gov guidance described as chilling. To what extent if any Is it true that the CS in Gsy sign something banning them from speaking about govgg issues https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e4f9c4a-1f99-4ac4-afe2-345509e1d189shareToken=e254f8c3aa0ae839ea78bdfb22365137 https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e4f9c4a-1f99-4ac4-afe2-345509e1d189shareToken=e254f8c3aa0ae839ea78bdfb22365137"
X Link 2025-07-14T18:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@BrazierMary @Nickleh You should know @Nickleh is always on enquiry in these matters. He has already terrorised the mild folk of #Guernsey with warnings an impending land invasion of octopods"
X Link 2025-07-15T10:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@RossLeBrun @jviddy @jjh State pension scheme is efficient/effective to operate & provides a safety net for the rash and is therefore sufficient. I come from a [--] generation family of the relatively short lived. Their SI contributions were taken by others 😀 Fairness is always difficult to ensure 😀"
X Link 2025-07-15T14:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Im thinking of travelling the world and changing my name to Bilious Fogg"
X Link 2025-07-15T20:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Maybe there was a tiny %age of say monks in waiting during these times of the one job- they were just waiting for a new roles to arrive. And just like 10% are left handed there is a relatively stable %age of the pop happy to sit at a desk and colour things in/ input stuff"
X Link 2025-07-16T15:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I only ask one thing of the AI superfuture Make opening a bank account as easy as it was in [----]. British banking in the seventies. More branches. Better customer service. Intelligent employees. https://t.co/JZRqzmUCWe British banking in the seventies. More branches. Better customer service. Intelligent employees. https://t.co/JZRqzmUCWe"
X Link 2025-07-16T19:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@Nickleh Its so easily done ohum. a friend tells me. You read ur local paper @GuernseyPress. Misread the the vowels in an article. And panic when you see the word shortage Next thing youve bought a large freezer. Er. mlud"
X Link 2025-07-17T05:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The Times: Is Labour heading for a Great British tax revolt. Last week an article in @thetimes called some tax rises surreptitious. Today this article calls some of them underhand and eventually the public wises up. https://www.thetimes.com/article/98d7757e-64cf-42aa-a5b2-c495c7ac5fa6shareToken=49fb330444932925585a8c6231dd40d5 https://www.thetimes.com/article/98d7757e-64cf-42aa-a5b2-c495c7ac5fa6shareToken=49fb330444932925585a8c6231dd40d5"
X Link 2025-07-17T05:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Nickleh @GuernseyPress In this case easily done. Why would anyone need skills shortage explained in a glossary Unless perhaps they were already deficient in the skull department to the tune of one cranium"
X Link 2025-07-17T06:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 @jviddy This is all very well but dont you know Guernsey has a SKULLS shortage @govgg what are you going to do about it 😀"
X Link 2025-07-17T18:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @richarddigard @GuernseyPress Already the battle lines are being drawn across the generations between the haves/have nots or (Im alright) Jacobites vs Spartans The purchase of Leales Yard perhaps being yet another damp squib which fails to ignite the explosive action required build more houses QUICKLY"
X Link 2025-07-18T20:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@oldfarmhorace @richarddigard @GuernseyPress The issue we have is if nothing much is built apart from Homes for Horses etc until [----] that will amount to [--] years housing inertia for normal people. That will mean HALF A LOST GENERATION"
X Link 2025-07-18T20:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: Burberry boss calls for return of VAT-free shopping. https://www.thetimes.com/article/6cc3ab5d-de1d-4202-bec5-557ec6bc891bshareToken=95bbcbe39c935129cd12783651d748aa https://www.thetimes.com/article/6cc3ab5d-de1d-4202-bec5-557ec6bc891bshareToken=95bbcbe39c935129cd12783651d748aa"
X Link 2025-07-19T03:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Superficially appealing but Ive read a lot of books about canines and I still cant decide what my favourite dog is"
X Link 2025-07-20T07:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@advocategreen1 Pah to the Age of Reason and the supposed wisdom of owls - they just had better PR and comms"
X Link 2025-07-20T07:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@advocategreen1 😀In fact I cant think of a notion with a more grandiose name that overpromised and so obviously under-delivered than the Age of Reason"
X Link 2025-07-20T07:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: Bar caf and retail jobs are society's heartbeat. https://www.thetimes.com/article/22d43e5a-f82b-497a-9fa9-0fc8809e33d6shareToken=c568c2c72b121f648a31d00fd7d7a4c2 https://www.thetimes.com/article/22d43e5a-f82b-497a-9fa9-0fc8809e33d6shareToken=c568c2c72b121f648a31d00fd7d7a4c2"
X Link 2025-07-21T12:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: Renters face higher monthly bills than mortgage holders. I wonder if this is true in #Guernsey https://www.thetimes.com/article/e6833652-cc41-436f-a59c-a55a6a93b641shareToken=f7e794cd5e63028d1b6ccc2dc4cfa7f6 https://www.thetimes.com/article/e6833652-cc41-436f-a59c-a55a6a93b641shareToken=f7e794cd5e63028d1b6ccc2dc4cfa7f6"
X Link 2025-07-23T04:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Times: The top economist who believes intuition is a secret superpower. The most successful people in the world are those who have learnt how to develop harness and activate their gut feel. https://www.thetimes.com/article/11fd037a-1010-4588-981f-4e0967f229f8shareToken=4c6e2bfb81cedc627e91a64dfe0d486d https://www.thetimes.com/article/11fd037a-1010-4588-981f-4e0967f229f8shareToken=4c6e2bfb81cedc627e91a64dfe0d486d"
X Link 2025-07-23T04:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The Times: Universal basic income is not the answer if AI comes for your job. My take We have other issues to address as well as skills shortages What happens when skills arent required at all- coming to a decade near you. https://www.thetimes.com/article/be8b61dd-5941-4d9f-ad6f-806480fa0641shareToken=7b78e75fec3eac02edad3d195a67614c https://www.thetimes.com/article/be8b61dd-5941-4d9f-ad6f-806480fa0641shareToken=7b78e75fec3eac02edad3d195a67614c"
X Link 2025-07-24T05:15Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@BBCGuernsey Ahem - its getting worse In Guernsey stats from the States showed average local market rents were [----] a month in the first quarter of [----] - 1.5% higher than the previous quarter; 8.2% higher than the first quarter of [----] and 51.7% higher than five years ago"
X Link 2025-07-24T05:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@GuernseyPress In other news Govgg wants the current and the bun. WFH to be combined with plush new offices at Les Varendes. Students to stay temporarily in Hotel La Mare. For those who hope to dine on aspiration and choice the Restaurant menu is fresh out of IBs for at least a year"
X Link 2025-07-24T05:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@BBCGuernsey Income redistribution working well esp if you want it to go to landlords and their land of tax breaks and capital appreciation"
X Link 2025-07-24T07:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Who will be Guernseys Javier Milei 🔵 Kemi Badenoch described Argentinas president Javier Milei as the template as she attempted to sharpen the Conservatives economic message. Read more here https://t.co/23bdcDUBVT https://t.co/XxPe3GsabI 🔵 Kemi Badenoch described Argentinas president Javier Milei as the template as she attempted to sharpen the Conservatives economic message. Read more here https://t.co/23bdcDUBVT https://t.co/XxPe3GsabI"
X Link 2025-07-24T08:13Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@JohnFernandez1 [--] So what the States likes to do is set up structures to outsource problem areas. So GHA new builds per their annual reports 2017-45 2018-50 2019-69 2020-40 (inc [--] in Jan 21) 2021-33 but might be [--] see above 2022-16 2023-0 2024- Anyone see an issue"
X Link 2025-07-24T16:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@JohnFernandez1 [--] And now we have the new Housing Committee as well as GHA and existing Planning and E&I So weekly I ask- What do we say to our young families who need accommodation now I have yet to receive an answer. Im bored with my tweets as is everybody so please make me stop"
X Link 2025-07-24T17:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_fallaize Metric Schmetric. 😀Im sure Argentinas got stuff like an army and national debts and Malbec tasting. And look at its shape think of border patrol cost 😀 😀My metric of choice is gov employee per sq. km. 😀"
X Link 2025-07-25T13:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Times: Whyyou should never rely on the state to fund your retirement. As per the article In Britain there is a widespread if not strange belief that the state has a duty to provide and care for us in old age. https://www.thetimes.com/article/06bdd0f2-dd85-4816-858b-7d2dc19ff37fshareToken=44c7f9ccac6a938478342bf88a921b05 https://www.thetimes.com/article/06bdd0f2-dd85-4816-858b-7d2dc19ff37fshareToken=44c7f9ccac6a938478342bf88a921b05"
X Link 2025-07-27T06:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Times: Entitlement will destroy Britain .nimbies. You're quite right. We should build more infrastructure But in this case housing dev the arguments don't quite stack up. Honest. Local people are worried about how it will spoil their views https://www.thetimes.com/article/a92365c4-f8db-4c26-954f-a6c85a23fb19shareToken=b3f8b7529edc8c37be4fae34572f809d https://www.thetimes.com/article/a92365c4-f8db-4c26-954f-a6c85a23fb19shareToken=b3f8b7529edc8c37be4fae34572f809d"
X Link 2025-07-27T08:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@richarddigard @DrRebeccaTidy @GuernseyPress @gsyelectricity I cant believe how few people in govgg seem to be involved in furthering cheaper energy initiatives rather than progressing in comparison dead end policies and ways of thinking. Like housing cheaper power needs to be progressed at pace"
X Link 2025-07-27T08:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The Times: French in denial about the size of their debt Proposal to freeze public spending for a year an anne blanche during which government budgets pensions and welfare programmes wouldn't automatically increase with inflation. https://www.thetimes.com/article/101487b7-8f5b-4b0b-9c88-e22ebfbf7bf0shareToken=4f86a6ad93f664d3c0361493df925067 https://www.thetimes.com/article/101487b7-8f5b-4b0b-9c88-e22ebfbf7bf0shareToken=4f86a6ad93f664d3c0361493df925067"
X Link 2025-07-30T05:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
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