Really good post Aero Mad, thank you
Seems to me to be a less logical process, the books have not balanced (no one has really tried) since 1948, so it has to be a decision based on what is needed to move forward. In the long room it will benefit the whole Bailiwick
Alderney has carried it's weight in the past and may well again, but not if forced into being a 3rd rate backwater
Government, especially transport, cannot be based solely on bean counting over 3 years