Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦

Guernseyman, love my island & parish, boater, cyclists, motorcyclist, optimist (1⬇️ rest r ⬆️), boxer-dogs. Views are own, retweets aren't endorsements.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@richarddigard @DavidPiesing63 @TigGuern 🤣

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@YvonneBurford @richarddigard @Govgg Why don't do what they have been instructed to do? RPI-1%.
The assembly votes through GST, then goes on a spending spree.
How do deputies believe they will regain public trust if they don't live with fiscal discipline 🤔

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@LeonieLeTissier I must have missed something. Accounting systems come with VAT/GST built in. Invoices in, one extra entry, invoices out automatic. Where is the extra work? Get AI agent to complete any form from the data from accounts system.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

Beautiful ride to work.
Take time to appreciate the island and bailiwick in which we live.
#guernsey #herm #bailiwickofguernsey #beautifulislands

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

So States vote through GST, next the vote down fiscal restraint. Now the publish 2 budgets. A) per mandate a saving of 1% or B) what committees have asked for.
Lets guess which they will vote for.
#taxandspend @Lindsay_Gsy @drandysloan

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

Wildy excessive in his eyes.
I don't want an island full of drugs, destroying people's lives.
If these sentences deter 1 dealer, importer, they are proportionate and will have done there job.

[Bailiwick Express @bailiwickxpress]

Deputy questions ‘wildly excessive’ sentences for non-violent drug offences https://t.co/newSNADw4y

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@cobolegend Especially some further up your road.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@RossLeBrun @torirobert In the right place for the right reasons. I don't understand why they are trying to defend a mistake. Mistakes happen. Learn, correct, move on.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

Fresh paint at the top of these steps — but it's on the back of the tread, not the nosing. For visually impaired pedestrians that's not a warning, it's a trap. States of Guernsey should know better. #AccessibilityFail #Guernsey

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

Good piece in @GuernseyPress by @oldfarmhorace.
I’d go 1 step further. States resolved committees will save 1% and keep to inflation.
All @Lindsay_Gsy & P&R need to do is add inflation to last year's costs, minus 1%, and let committees prioritise.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@RossLeBrun @torirobert Pity they didn't let the person painting it know why it was being painted. If you empower your staff so they know why they are doing something they do it better

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@argyllscricket @DavidPiesing63 @GuernseyPress No James I’m not pinning this on the Press. Just making it clear where I got my data from that was being quoted.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@pvbsc1 @DavidPiesing63 @andrew_niles @gavinstpier So 2% on everything the working earn. Or 3% on everything everyone spends.
One targets a group, while the other spreads the pain to everyone.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@myPhilTaylor @TheOnlyGuru Well if the routes are so profitable we'll see DFDS take them over.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@andrew_niles you've got to stop this attack on the working. No-one wants new taxes, but if the demonstrated that the island needs to raise more. After fiscal restraint, control of States pay and waste.
The tax must be equitable, not just the working. Everyone!

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

Front page headline by @GuernseyPress. Where's the evidence. Why would any reasonable person prefer to pay extra 2% on everything they earn rather than 3% on only the money they spend.
Another hit on the working rather than spreading the tax to everyone.

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@DavidPiesing63 Thanks

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@myPhilTaylor @TheOnlyGuru No blame, only thanks

[Paul Watts 🇬🇬🇺🇦 @StoneDeCroze]

@myPhilTaylor @TheOnlyGuru Ask deputy Morel. In Guernsey we thank him every time we use the ferry. Better times, direct sailings, more reliable (except 1 breakdown).