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European Union, that is certainly not shared the further east you go | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
into Good evening. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
A goods and services tax cotld be introduced in Guernsey in fhve | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
years' time. A confidential document's been leaked to the media | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
highlighting ideas to tackld the island's deficit. It suggests | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Treasury and Resources should look at the implications of introducing a | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
consumption tax by 2019, but as Mike Wilkins reports not everyond is in | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
favour. GST, VAT, sales tax, whatevdr you | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
want to call it ` Guernsey doesn't have one but the government is | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
considering introducing it. This wasn't supposed to be public | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
knowledge but a confidential Policy Council report has been leaked to | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
the media, something the Chhef Minister Peter Harwood has described | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
as disappointing, counter` productive and not helpful for good | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
governance. Say no to GST! Say no to GST! | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
GST was introduced in Jersex almost six years ago amid protests that | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
ultimately failed. We managed 16,000 signatures on our | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
petition. Perhaps, if they lanaged 60,000 signatures on their petition, | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
their ministers would actually pay some attention and not introduce it | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
` unlike ours. So, if there's so much resistance to | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
a goods and services tax, why is the government considering it? Well | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
it's concerned the present tax system is too reliant on direct tax, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
such as income tax and soci`l security contributions. Therefore, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
states revenues are very exposed to the health of the jobs markdt. This, | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
coupled with an ageing population and less people paying incole tax, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
means the government could see their revenues drop significantly. Some | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
high street retailers are fhercely opposed to any GST. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
You are chipping away again at any form of profit that the ret`ilers | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
make. Rents are going up all the time. This is just another `dded | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
burden. However, there are some in the | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
business community who feel something does need to be done to | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
balance the books ` but whatever it is, it needs to happen quickly. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Yeah, I think there's a bit of politics here. There is a c`se of | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
putting it out there when everyone is dead set against it. Those that | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
are against it should at le`st come up with an alternative. I think | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
that's partly why they're s`ying, do it for five years. They do need to | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
take steps to try and protect those who will be adversely affected by | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
it, but I'm not sure it takds five years to get to that point. I think | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
the shame of this is that wd're putting something off. I can | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
understand the political re`sons for putting it off, but it would be much | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
better if they reached a decision quicker, whatever that might be and | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
just get on with it. GST is not guaranteed ` no decisions | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
have been taken yet, and a report will be put before the Statds in the | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
summer. Well, one of the Ministers who has | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
been heavily involved in discussions about the future role GST could play | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
is Deputy Allister Langlois ` Guernsey's social security linister. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
I asked him how likely it w`s that the tax would be brought in. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
We have had to look at all the options. If we didn't look `t every | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
possibility in a review likd this, we would be criticised. A broad`base | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
consumption tax has been mentioned, and will almost certainly form part | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
of the report. Fresh allegations about conduct by | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
some staff members at Jersex's La Moye Prison are to be investigated | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
by the Home Affairs Minister. The allegations were sent in an | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
anonymous e`mail to Senator Ian Le Marquand, as well as certain states | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
members and the media. William Bailhache will be Jdrsey's | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
next bailiff. Currently deptty bailiff, he will take over from Sir | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Michael Birt when he retires next year. William Bailhache's | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
appointment follows in family footsteps ` brother Sir Philip | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Bailhache also served as bahliff. Jersey's Field Squadron is to begin | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
recruiting army reservists hn Guernsey for the first time. Next | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
week will see the start of ` drive to encourage islanders to shgn up, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
as the British Army seeks to boost numbers of reservists. The Jersey | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Field Squadron is the only @rmy Reserve Unit in the Channel Islands. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Voters in two St Helier districts in Jersey will go to the polls tomorrow | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
to elect two new deputies. Five candidates are standing for the seat | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
made vacant by Trevor Pitman in St Helier number one, and four for | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Shona Pitman's seat in St Hdlier number two. We'll have the latest on | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
BBC Channel Islands tomorrow night at 6.30 pm and 10.25 pm herd on BBC | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
One. Major repairs will be needed to one | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
of Guernsey's sea walls, after extensive damaged caused by the high | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
tides and strong winds. A l`rge hole appeared in the Vazon sea w`ll this | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
morning. States engineers h`ve been examining the site, today, `nd | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
trying to put in place temporary fix. Penny Elderfield reports. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Assessing the damage, and one gigantic hole in one of Guernsey's | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
main sea defences. It goes to show that nature is the overall | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
conqueror. It's something we will alwaxs | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
struggle against. When they told a bit of the Vazon | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
sea wall had collapsed, I dhdn't expect to come down and see | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
something like that. That is quite impressive. It's about 30 foot wide, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
22 foot high ` you could easily fit a Guernsey bus through it. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
And it took other people here by surprise, too. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
It's a bit of a shock. To sde a big hole like that in the wall ` I've | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
never seen that before. It's such a massive hole. Obviously, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
it's quite good for the surfers I suppose. | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
There's a silver lining to dvery cloud, I guess. Work started | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
straightaway to try and infhll the hole, in the hope that come the next | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
high tide it stands put. But whether it will is another question. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
It's going to have to. If it doesn't, we start again in the | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
morning. It's got to. The storms have already takdn a toll | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
on the island's sea defences ` with Environment saying its budgdt is | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
rapidly running out. But thd money for a permanent fix here will have | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
to be found. An unforeseen incident has occurred. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
It will be costed, and the loney will come out of budget resdrve once | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
an application is put in to T There'll be a lot of fingers crossed | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
that the temporary fix works tonight. But it does highlight the | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
vulnerability of Guernsey's coastal defences ` and the need for Guernsey | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
States to look long term at whether they're up to the job. | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
Let's look at the weather. Hello, good evening. We might get some | :06:27. | :06:38. | |
sunshine tomorrow, which wotld make a change. Higher temperaturds and | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
light winds cash it might even feel like spring. Just enough cloud | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
around to give us a spot of drizzle. That will move awax | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
tonight, and with clearing skies it will also turn quite chilly. Inland, | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
we might get down as cold as three or four . Tomorrow, a chillx start. | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
For most of us, it's plenty of sunshine. 11 degrees is the top | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
temperature. Wind direction changing during the day, becoming | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
southeasterly. On Wednesday, it stays predominantly dry. A bit misty | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
in places. Similar conditions on Friday. Fine weather can stomach | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
returns on Saturday. That's all from me. Here's the summary. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
will stay miles into the weekend. And with more on that, here is the | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
National forecast. Good evening. The skies across | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
England and Wales are clearing. It will turn cold once again. A | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
different story for Scotland and Northern Ireland. But ahead of that, | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
the skies are clearing for England and Wales. It will turn cold, so we | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
will start tomorrow with a frost and will also be some fog around. The | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
frost will set in, getting down to three below in rural spots. It is | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
not until the latter part of the night where we will see the fog | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
thickening up. All while, the wind is increasing. And | :08:16. | :08:16. |