Originally Posted by Jason the Maverick
2035 in Jersey? Lets see…..
If finance is not here - One big ghost town………
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This is one
very serious aspect that Walker and his Finance Industry obsessed bum-chums have overlooked. Walker made a comment recently about not taking the Finance Industry for granted - but his "vision" for Jersey does exactly that. All the eggs are being placed firmly in one basket.
Just look at the way the financial world has changed over the past decade with the advent of the Internet. Who's to say we'll even be using cash by 2035 - it already looks as if the phasing out of cheques is on the horizon. By 2035 we could have reached the stage where all (or the majority) of financial transactions are computerised, and Jersey's finance laws are of no particular benefit to any large investor.
Indeed, just a simple couple of changes to Europe's own Finance laws could render Jersey useless as a tax haven, and kill it's status as a financial centre.
Walker likes to speak as if he's a man of vision, but all he's doing is imagining the situation in 2035 to be pretty much the same as now, but with more old people and a different date. If anything that exposes his complete lack of vision, and a complete unsuitability to be attempting to think ahead on behalf of the population of Jersey. This is part of the reason why I firmly believe he and the old boys need to be removed from the States. They are old men, thinking with the brains of old men, thinking in the style of old men.
But this is the modern world, and the future is unwritten.
Imagine Jersey in 2035
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