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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 18:31 19 Jun 2024
Yes cat that poll doesn't show a great support for Labour even though it's still around twice the Tory vote.
But as far as I can see, out of all the polls taken JON has picked the one with the worst numbers for Labour. Even the Telegraph tracker as of today puts them at 43%. |
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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 16:18 19 Jun 2024
Well I honestly believe things will be better under Starmer.
You're right, he isn't inspiring and the Tories are doing their best to lose it. But the fact that he's uninspiring doesn't alter the fact that he's done a fantastic job in turning around the Labour party after JC's disastrous efforts.
So maybe he'll do a very good job of running the country. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 18:39 17 Jun 2024
When people talk about immigrants working in the UK they regularly say that the immigrants are needed because British people are too lazy to do those jobs.
One job they always use as an example is fruit/vegetable picking. A lady from Cambridge rang one of the radio stations a few days ago and she was asked about this very subject, that area having a huge number of that type of job. She said local people had always done those jobs but when employers had the chance to recruit overseas workers at cheaper rates that's exactly what they did.
In other words the British people, at least in this example, weren't lazy at all. The problem is the greedy b*s*a*d employers and the fact that successive Governments have allowed them to get away with it.. |
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Reply | Mumbles tram. A long term no brainer?
at 12:44 11 Jun 2024
Res - this thread has been about the possibility of Swansea Council subsidising the redevelopment of St Helens to the tune of £10 million. You suggested the money would be better spent on rebuilding the Mumbles Train or maybe a tram line. Others pointed out that the train costs were £235 million a long time ago and would be £500 million now, likely as not a lot more than that. And they quite rightly said it was too expensive and difficult.
Then you compare that situation with the cost of the Olympics, Crossrail, and HS2 saying they were not considered 'too expensive'.
The reason they were not considered 'too expensive' was because those projects were designated by Westminster as being for the benefit of the whole of the UK so the whole of the UK ended up paying for them. No matter the cost.
So the only reasonable comparison you could make would be if the UK government designated the rebuilding of the Mumbles Train as a project that would benefit the whole of the UK and that the whole of the UK would pay for it. No matter the cost
If you just guess that rebuilding the train would cost eventually £1 billion the cost to Wales (not Swansea Council tax payers) would be £50 million while the rest (£950 Million) would be born by the rest of the UK.
I'd imagine that if that was on offer the Council would take about a split second to say yes. |
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Reply | Improved train service for the Cardiff area
at 18:23 10 Jun 2024
Well logically cj you'd only see people using it if you just happened to be passing just before a train arrives for the passengers to get on.
If that's once an hour for example how likely is that. Not your best argument. |
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Reply | Mumbles tram. A long term no brainer?
at 18:15 10 Jun 2024
I didn't understand it either Boundy.
Res - slow down when writing your posts and read them back before hitting enter. Give us a chance to understand please. |
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Reply | Mumbles tram. A long term no brainer?
at 18:13 10 Jun 2024
It is right that a place that is the Capital City of a country should get more money invested in it. Also that should happen to allow for the fact that that city usually has the highest population.
But there's a limit. Even allowing for the above Cardiff has had far more than it's fair share.
The same applies to London. |
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Reply | Levelling Up
at 19:01 9 Jun 2024
I sent this to our local MP recently as a pretty radical levelling up idea. All thoughts welcome.
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Something has been broken in this country over the last fourteen years and what is needed is something radical to address, and hopefully fix the fracture that the Tories have created.
Finances, or lack of, will be the major problem facing Labour when they form the next Government. I have a suggestion that will have a number of huge positives for the country over the next ten years or more which I believe Labour should implement.
As things stand at the moment Labour will be hamstrung with spending when they are elected. Imagine if the chancellor was able to say we will be able to free up £20 billion (just a guess - I have to put some number to it) over the next ten years to invest in essential services while also being able to boost the economy.
The idea will achieve the following. It will provide a HUGE ‘levelling up’ boost to the North of England and also free up an enormous amount of money for the services I mentioned above, at least over time. It will also be an incredibly attractive idea to millions of Northern voters making the UK feel more like one country rather than a them (London/South East) and us (everywhere else).
My idea (it’s not a new one) is to finally make the decision to scrap the refurbishment of the HOP in favour of a new Government site in the midlands. This new site for parliament will cost a fraction of the refurb option of the current HOP and free up the enormous amount of money I’ve mentioned above.
The new HOP could be created in a fraction of the time the refurb option would take. Then, when not required as the centre of Government the best use of the current HOP would be as a fantastic museum which would generate an absolute fortune (obviously not free entry) the proceeds of which could then be used for the restoration work. I appreciate that would also take a long time. But I imagine the refurb for that purpose would almost certainly be a lot less than a refurb for continued use as the current centre of Government.
Currently the British public are being told that there’s no extra money for the NHS, education, the Police and justice system, local councils to fill potholes and so on. Imagine telling them that in spite of the dire financial constraints the country faces there’s at the same time going to be a blank cheque to refurb the current HOP.
They would, quite rightly be up in arms saying it’s the Westminster bubble again, If ‘they’ need it they will get it and never mind the rest of us. And they will become increasingly uninterested in our so called democracy.
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Reply | Levelling Up
at 14:30 9 Jun 2024
I don't blame you Boundy. |
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Thread | Levelling Up
at 12:44 9 Jun 2024
Here's something I wasn't aware of from the Budget in March.
The general belief, as far as i'm aware, was that levelling up funding was designed to help bridge the chasm in wealth between London and the rest of the UK.
What a surprise to find that that rundown Northern community Canary Wharf (population apparently 18,000) was awarded £242 million while Wales (population 3,100,000) was awarded £170 million.
Thoughts anyone ? |
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Reply | Trump
at 15:06 1 Jun 2024
I wonder how many votes he'll have to lose by this time to accept that he lost. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 17:55 26 May 2024
I know. Let's go for the treble. Let's get rid of Luke this Summer so that he can get a job elsewhere and lead them to the PL similar to Steve and Russ.
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Reply | General Election
at 18:15 22 May 2024
I don't disagree Cat. People have very short memories when it comes to these things hence my response to the major's post.
And although i'm jubilant that the GE is finally happening and sincerely hope that Labour win with a good overall majority i'm just hoping, not expecting, that they do a good job. |
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