GST and the erosion of your Voting Rights

In the States Assembly recently we had more attempts to remove GST from food and to reinstate Senators. I voted in favour of exempting food as I have never been able to agree to the fundamental principle of taxing life’s essentials like food, neither did I agree to having the most democratically elected seat of the Island-wide mandate got rid in favour of ‘Districts’ and our voting rights reduced from 10 votes to 4 with no material reduction in the number of States Members.

I have personally brought both these propositions to the Assembly in the past and the outcomes were similar, very close but alas defeated. We now watch Guernsey go through similar arguments to those we had when introducing GST, and it will be interesting to see if they look to exempt food.