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What more do you want us to do, Chief Minister?
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From Monica Conlon.
THOUSANDS of public sector workers are now facing a two-year pay freeze.
The Chief Minister says ‘we must maintain jobs, rather than have large pay increases’, a little one would do, thank you very much, Chief Minister.
Then he goes on to say ‘no pay increases due to lack of funds’. How dare he say that, after a certain person walks off with over half a million pounds of taxpayers’ money
States Departments have more than met savings as required by the Comprehensive Spending Review, voted for by the States Members, this has included voluntary redundancies taken as part of the efficiency savings.
States workers are the backbone of this Island, and any person in the private sector who thinks that states workers should be grateful just to have a job, should think again.
Health Minister Anne Pryke quotes ‘we know we have a problem recruiting nurses and medical staff’. This is due not only to low wages, very high housing and living costs, but now the most damaging factor of all, a two-year pay freeze.
Let us just think of the people this is going to affect. All hospital staff, airport and harbour staff, teachers and school staff, prison and custom staff, TTS, parking and library staff, police, fire, and ambulance staff, social workers and parish staff, to name but just a few. Without all these people the Island would come to a grinding halt.
David Warr, Chamber of Commerce President, wants the States to get ‘creative’ with free car parking, to help St Helier businesses survive after a 6.8% drop in footfall. Well, Mr Warr, I think it will take more than free parking to get people in town spending.
If you haven’t got the money to park, you haven’t got the money to spend. With the increased cost of fuel, electricity, mortgages, and of course the worst thing of all, the increase of GST to 5%, including on that ‘luxury’ item called food, is it surprising the footfall is 6.8% down in King Street.
People are now doing their shopping in an out-of-town supermarket, and items like a restaurant meal, clothing etc, will now be a luxury at the bottom of the shopping list.
The backbone is about to crumble, and without the public sector’s money in the private sector’s till, you won`t need to change the till roll, and it won’t take long to cash up.
We have made savings, Chief Minister. What else do you want us to do? You cannot keep increasing the cost of living and expect the same level of public spend without supporting the backbone. That’s us, Chief Minister, the hard-working people of Jersey who put you there in the first place.
Over to you, Nick Corbel. United we stand?
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