Bruno Kay-Mouat

The manifesto covers several policy areas, including connectivity, housing, spending efficiency, and alternative revenue streams such as a ships registry and offshore wind or tidal farms. However, the connecting vision is directional rather than programmatic: the manifesto does not propose a named reform package, an investment envelope, or a cross-committee programme. The stated aim is collective action on broadly shared problems rather than a candidate-led policy agenda.

Almost all commitments lack figures, dates, or named mechanisms. The one quantified pledge concerns allowing the 20% tax on rental income to be offset against property expenditure. The remaining commitments, covering connectivity strategy, GHA housebuilding, self-build sites, ships registry development, and spending review, are stated without timelines, target outputs, or cost estimates. The housing section names the Guernsey Housing Association and private-sector partnerships but provides no further detail.

The manifesto recognises that spending and revenue are linked, and the opposition to vanity capital projects and routine consultant use reflects an awareness of fiscal constraint. The proposed alternative revenue streams, a ships registry and offshore wind or tidal farms, are identified without any assessment of scale, development cost, or timeframe, so their revenue contribution relative to public spending cannot be evaluated on the manifesto's own terms. The rental income tax offset pledge is internally coherent but no offsetting revenue source or saving is named for it.

The Scorecard records a Member role on the Committee for the Environment and Infrastructure, which is in the same subject area as the connectivity and infrastructure pledges. However, the manifesto's core commitments on spending review, taxation, housing, Bailiwick harmonisation, and alternative revenue streams all depend on other committees and a States majority of 20 of 38 deputies. The manifesto itself acknowledges the governance constraint, noting that 'as individuals little can be achieved, but collectively, we should be able to achieve plenty'.

A substantial portion of the text consists of general statements of intent and observations about States performance, for example remarks about incumbents being regarded as the worst ever, the need for less talk and more action, and the closing line 'a vote for Bruno, is a start and remember, you could do worse'. Specific commitments are present but occupy a smaller share of the text than directional commentary and values statements.