What do islanders want politicians to prioritise?

Jean Renouf said while fixing transport links was her priority she also wanted to see improvements made to pay and conditions for nurses

With a year to go to Guernsey’s general election, what are voters' biggest concerns?

"The cost of airfares and Condor being cancelled so frequently are the top of my list," Jean Rouget told me over a cup of tea.

But fixing the island's transport links was not her only priority - in between me knocking on her door in L'Eree and trying other houses Mrs Renouf had made a list.

Improvements to the island's health system was her next priority.

"I used to be a nurse and we still aren't paying them enough and training them locally," she said.

Not everyone wrote me a list as I trekked around the island, but it was clear off-island travel was a top priority for many.

'Ridiculously expensive'

One man in a quiet clos, around the corner from the Last Post, was busy packing for a hastily rearranged flight when I rang his doorbell.

"I'm supposed to be going to France on Friday, but I've got to now go tomorrow so I've not got much time to talk to you," he said as he ushered me off his doorstep.

"It's ridiculously expensive and they chop and change at a moment's notice," he said.

He had been affected by recent changes to Aurigny's schedule, which meant he was now having to fly two days earlier than planned.

The message from the States-owned airline has been "we're sorry and we're fixing it", with a promise to focus on the core services and reduce disruption after recent “one-off” events.

Despite some certainty being provided on the future of secondary education by ESC, Rhian Whitchurch is still concerned about the future

Of the 50 or so homes I called at the second biggest topic was the future of education, but there was not a clear dividing line of two-schools versus everything else like in 2020.

Mother-of-two Rhian Whitchurch said her top priority was the future of education as she thought it was "a bit of a mess at the moment".

Education, Sport and Culture (ESC) would argue it has provided certainty with the progress it has made towards a new post-16 campus at Les Ozouets and plans to move the sixth form centre to La Mare De Carteret High School.

But Ms Whitchurch was not convinced.

"When it comes to secondary education I want to make sure that everyone is catered for, not just a few," she said.

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Small business owner Tracey Thomson, from St Peter Port, was also concerned about the future of education.

"We need to see a more direct approach," she said.

"I have kids who are doing A-levels and it's been uncertain... for the kids coming through, [and] as a parent, it must be so difficult at the moment [to see] what the future looks like."

'Leaving the island'

There is political consensus Guernsey is in the middle of a housing crisis, with few properties built this political term and the affordability ratio of local housing - effectively what multiple of your salary do you need for a local property - at 16 which makes it the most unaffordable housing within western Europe.

Tracey Loveridge was surprised when I rapped on her door, but once she recovered she could not stop telling me about the problems the island's housing crisis was causing.

"For a lot of people needing deposits, wages aren't high enough to get it and it means a lot of young people are leaving the island," she said.

One woman at one of the social housing estates in the south of the island said there were people homeless and sofa-surfing who could only be helped by more houses being built.

Employment and Social Security President Peter Roffey, who is standing down at the next general election, agreed not enough had been done to ensure houses were built and suggested the States should get into the housebuilding game.

He is all too aware though, while the States can buy up land like it has this term, with a contracting and already scarce construction sector turning that land into housing is a long process.

Brian Gallienne said he was fed up with indecision and had lost faith in local politicians

But not everyone I met believed politics could be a force for change.

Brian Gallienne said he was fed up with politicians.

"They can't make decisions, they are costing us money and I've got no time for it any more," he said.

"I've voted for years, but I shan't do it anymore."