The Jersey Democratic Alliance member has laid down the gauntlet to the Treasury Minister and has challenged him to a public debate at the Town Hall on 29 April ‘or at any time and place that suits him’.
Although not televised, the debate would be along the same lines as tonight’s big debate between the main party leaders in the build-up to the general election in the UK.
GDP percentage Deputy Southern has issued a ten-page paper arguing that ‘ideologically driven’ cuts should not be pursued at a time of recession, that the failed ‘zero-ten’ corporate tax policy is responsible for the deficit and that the deficit is a fraction of that in other countries as a percentage of GDP.
