After 13 years as a politician I decided to take time out in the real world. That means this site, which I used for my election campaigns, and to update what I was doing as a Deputy, is changing to reflect that. Look out for musings on what’s happening in Guernsey, as well as other areas of interest to me. I hope you enjoy it.
It’s Election Year!
Guernsey’s general election will be held on 18th June 2025. In order to vote you must register to be on the electoral roll. A new roll is opened for every general election, so if you haven’t registered yet, please do here https://election2025.gg/register/. Around the world we are seeing democracy being…
A Fairer Alternative
Below is a media release regarding the GST free amendment that Deputy St Pier and myself are going to lay against the Tax Review Policy Letter. The amendment and report are available to download from here: Amendment A Fairer Alternative GST-free amendment to tax reviewTwo experienced deputies have put together…
Channel Islands Pride
What a fantastic day! It was such an uplifting experience meeting so many lovely people on Saturday. A day I will not forget. Well done to all those who helped make it a real success.
COVID press briefing 8th September 2020 – English regions
This briefing was called to advise that regions of England has gone on the Group B watchlist and it was likely that they would move into Group A on 14th September. Here are the slides from the presentation I gave with Dr Brink. https://www.heidisoulsby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Briefing20-20820September20v5.pdf
COVID press briefing 28th August 2020 -Phase 5c
This briefing was called to advise the community about what Phase 5c would like. In effect, it meant that we would retain Group A, B and C countries. Group A countries are those with a prevalence rate of over 30 in 100,000. Group B I where prevalence less than that…
COVID press briefing 5th August 2020 – 7 Day isolation
At this press briefing, Dr Brink and I spoke to a set of sides explaining our approach and details around the introduction of 7 day isolation and testing from 17th August. I also mentioned that we would shortly be entering into a Reciprocal Health Agreement with the Isle of Man…
COVID press briefing 24th July 2020
I made the following statement at the press briefing on 24th July which was designed to give clarity to a number of issues. I am keeping my update relatively short and sweet today as we have a bigger panel than normal. Firstly, you may have seen the front page of…
COVID press briefing 10th July 2020
I made the following statement at the press briefing on 10th July 2020. OK so you’ve heard about the plan to move to phase 6, how we will shortly be introducing business tunnels and looking to extend our air bridges. I’d just like to talk about one final change that…
Revive and Thrive
I made the following speech during debate on the Revive and Thrive Recovery Plan debated in July 2020. Sir, It is only because of the sacrifices made by Islanders over the last few months that we are now able to focus on recovery. And Do it. Not just talk about…