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Reply | Welsh education
at 19:37 14 Apr 2024
No Welsh politician at any level has to take a recommended pay rise.
They are quite at liberty to refuse any such rise. |
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Reply | Vaughan Guessing
at 01:49 22 Mar 2024
3 years time locals.
2 years Welsh Assembly or whatever they're calling themselves this week.
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Reply | Wales v Italy 6 Nations ...
at 23:07 16 Mar 2024
This isn't an interim or rebuilding of the national team. Its all we've got.
I've been pointing out for years ( even on national TV news warning of the state of the game over 20 years ago after nagging a TV reporter friend of mine to investigate and run a pice on the six O'Clock news ) that the grass roots game has been neglected to the point that I doubt that parks rugby has more than 4 or 5 years before it collapses.
I'm not entirely sure that the clowns running the show think where the next generation of players good enough for the International game are going to come from when grass roots clubs all over Wales are collapsing at a rate of knots.
The playing base of Welsh rugby is now so low that its almost struggling to call itself a mass participation sport.
I'm afraid that its far too late to save the game in Wales now it needed to be addressed those 20 odd years ago and in truth was probably too late even then.
Those who take their kids down to various clubs youth and mini Rugby set ups on a Sunday morning and insist that there's hundreds of youngsters participating so rugby is in fine fettle clearly don't acknowledge that out of the hundreds participating at such a young age I doubt if 15 of those kids go on to play senior rugby.
Those like myself who actually watch a fair bit of parks rugby up to 1st Divison and Championship level have watched in dismay for years the plight of club after club struggling to put more than one team out or even just the one senior team.
So its not a case of rebuilding the national team there is very little if anything behind the shambles on display today.
We've simply run out of players due to the low numbers playing and the increasingly collapse of the feeder systems below regional and international level.
The level of talent on display today was acutely embarrassing,
If that Wales team on the park today had played the all Blacks this afternoon I'd have put money on a 100 point job personally. |
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Reply | Germany Legalises Cannabis ...
at 13:43 27 Feb 2024
I don't claim to be an expert in these matters.
However
A couple of years ago I read a full page article written by the Dutch Chief Medical officer, in which she stated that anyone who thought that the legalising of Dutch Cannabis cafes proved that that everything was Hunky Dory in the legalised cannabis stakes was off their tiny little rockers.
She went on to articulate fully the horrendous schiczophrenia and Psychotic disorder Tsunami that was engulfing the Dutch healthcare Service.
So I suppose on balance I can either give credence to the opinion on this matter of bloke down pub / football message board
Or
The Chief medical officer of Holland who took the trouble to detail her considerable experience of the subject.
And my vote goes to.................drum roll......
The Chief Medical officer of Holland.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2782906/The-terrible-truth-cannabis-B |
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Reply | Welsh Farmers revolt
at 16:46 21 Feb 2024
Like many you seem to be unaware that EU money is money contributed by member states.
So as a net contributor the EU money that you refer to was British tax payers money redistributed back to British farmers after a large chunk was taken out to hand over to farmers in other EU countries and other projects.
Simple mathematics would dictate that without the large redistribution chunk handed over to grateful recipients in other EU countries that even more could now be spent by the UK government on our own agricultural industry and infrastructure.
The fact that this may not be happening has nothing to do with Brexit but with the decision making of various national and regional government bodies around the UK. |
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Reply | Is this the start of a kick back
at 12:38 20 Feb 2024
As my friend pointed out its not farmers who will struggle for food if this politically inspired madness continues. They're the only ones who won't have to worry about food shortages.
Its the rest of us who will be scrapping in Tescos and elsewhere for the last loaf of bread.
Whether you're fond of farmers or not and happy to point out any of those driving around in top of the range vehicles and other displays of wealth etc etc I certainly wouldn't be anywhere near hard working enough to farm plus living on my nerves in regards to whether my crops planted are going to survive torrential drenching rain rotting the seedlings or blistering sun with too little water in any particular year.
Some years crops are wiped out in their entirety due to weather conditions and others like last year although surviving crop yields can be devastated down to 30% to 40% of normal yield due to too much sun and not enough rain for example.
Resulting in shortages and much higher prices in the shops.
I don't think that many people realise how delicate the balancing act of food production is and how easily we could be hitting a crisis at any given time. [Post edited 20 Feb 12:42]
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Reply | Is this the start of a kick back
at 18:45 18 Feb 2024
A farmer friend of mine mentioned that Cardiff Bays edict would mean him taking 50 acres of his land out of food production and him having to plant trees on the land.
At the same time the parish council down the Bay has got an application in to build almost 600 houses on its own prime farm land in the area.
Hypocrisy and lunacy are two words that spring to mind.
One would have to wonder how the rest of us and the occupants of all these new houses built on current farm land are to be fed after the houses are built on green sites and other farms have to lose 10% of their previous crop producing land. [Post edited 18 Feb 18:49]
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Reply | Far post
at 20:28 5 Feb 2024
To be honest I'd imagine most posts would be too agile for our players and have the ball off them in an instant. |
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Reply | It’s only a laugh !
at 15:38 5 Feb 2024
Well this is more of an unusual actual experience than a joke but here goes.
Some years ago I lived in Edinburgh. Many if not most people around the UK are unaware that there is a very nice sandy beach in the Edinburgh district of Portobello with a small funfair and long promenade
Anyway one nice Summer morning I was sitting on a bench on the prom enjoying the lovely day when I noticed a couple with a young child arguing furiously and in an increasingly heated fashion.
Then to my horror the man, who was carrying a large stick presumably picked up off the beach, struck his wife with the stick knocking her to the floor.
Then unbelievably he started hitting the young child with the stick as well.
He hadn’t noticed that a policeman was just behind him who lunged at him but must have lost his footing and fell down under a shower of blows from the guy with the stick who clearly had lost all sense of reasoning.
By this time myself and several other blokes had started running towards the scene, we pushed through a crowd of young children in the way and were just about to grab the guy with the stick when a crocodile appeared from nowhere who proceeded to eat all the sausages.
It was all quite surreal. |
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Reply | Grimes says 'The squad is fine, we don't need signings'
at 13:12 23 Jan 2024
Well apart from a whole new defence of course.
The whole team was inside the box for the last Southampton goal and they still didn't manage to stop the Southampton player taking a shot on the edge of the box.
the defence is nothing short of appalling and seem to have no pace, no quickness of thought and absolutely no idea how to mark the opposition..
Absolutely hopeless. |
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 20:12 20 Jan 2024
Get onto the A48 at Bridgend or travel to jct 33 just past Jct 34 at Hensol and its a straight all the way road to the airport via the culverhouse junction.
Couldn't be easier or more straightforward either way in my opinion.
If I thought that it was even remotely awkward driving to Rhoose I'd offer that opinion in an instant, I'm not the PR department of the airport and don't have shares in the place.
But its not ( in my view) [Post edited 20 Jan 20:16]
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 00:18 17 Jan 2024
I wish that people would stop perpetuating the myth about poor road links to Rhoose airport.
M4, straight dual carriageway link road to Culverhouse, Port rd all the way to the airport.
It couldn't be more straightforward or easy. |
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Reply | Mr Bates and the Post Office
at 15:38 9 Jan 2024
Well picked up on.
I certainly wouldn't have known this without reading your comments as I'm sure virtually no one else would. |
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Reply | Mr Bates and the Post Office
at 15:01 8 Jan 2024
There are a few questions that Spring to my mind and I'm sure those of others that I feel should be the order of the day for investigators and the police.
1) Which individual or individuals issued the instructions that postmasters enquiring of the help line in regards to losses that enquirers be told that they were the only ones having trouble with Horizon.
2) Surely Post office management even way down the pecking order should have been enquiring themselves as to why there were so many apparent losses?
3). Surely Ed Davey and Co should have asked the very simple question of how many prosecutions had been made over discrepancies in the years 1999 to 2016 compared to the previous 16 years which presumably would have shown a massive increase, an indication that something was very very wrong?
4) It must have been apparent to all that there was a problem why didn't senior Post office managers investigate, the police investigate and government investigate?
After all there were plenty of media articles about what was going on I even expressed my astonishment to the owner of my local shop when he took on a Post office outlet in his shop about 5 years ago. He just shrugged his shoulders when I mentioned the Horizon problems and all the prosecutions and losses that had been well publicised up to that date.
He packed in the Post office bit within 18 months due to the derisory commissions for services paid by the post office and gave the opinion that it was costing him more in staff wages to man the Post office counter the he was getting back, even in any perceptible boost in shop trade.
So why has it taken this programme for the Police to start investigating when myself and presumably others were advising people not to take on a Post office franchise quite some years ago?
Similar question to the government and parliament?
5). Why has the Post office, the very organisation who carried out these misdeeds been allowed any contribution to the appeals procedure?
It said on the news this morning that 54 appeals against conviction had been dismissed. How has this happened given the facts that have emerged?
And who exactly has dismissed these appeals?
6) Also on the news this morning some hapless government schill called Bim something or other was boasting that 2,200 or so people had received compensation already even though those still having convictions weren't eligible and wouldn't have received any.
So if 775 at least received convictions and only 94 or so have had those overturned then where have 2.200 odd people recieving compensation come from?
Surely this would indicate that the numbers are actually far in excess of those already quoted in the programme and other media articles on the subject?
7) Who exactly nominated Paula Vennell for a CBE and who approved it? Shouldn't they be named, their identities publicised and them questioned as to why they thought the awarding of an honour suitable given the already known scandal unfolding at the time?
( I do see that a freedom of information request was put in 3 days ago and acknowledged )
8) Why isn't Fujitsu ponying up the compensation and other damages/ costs etc along with the Post Office?
9) That waste of space Sunak today has been saying that it hasn't taken an ITV programme to spark action into this matter?
Really? I think that it appears to most people that I speak to that of course it has, as the great and good suddenly start scrambling about trying to cover their backsides. [Post edited 8 Jan 15:08]
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Reply | A Brexit Benefit
at 11:34 30 Dec 2023
I see, so all the trade dealings really successful countries around the world who seem to manage their exports and imports with EU countries quite happily and are not in the EU are disasters as well then?
As I mentioned earlier, in my opinion the incompetent fools that are commonly described as the Conservative government are a complete and utter shambles.
That isn't the fault of those who voted Brexit as the country seems to be falling to pieces in all directions from previous EU and non EU related areas of control........ from law and order to education, health service, local authorities, national debt, housing immigration etc etc etc.
These are matters that both recent Conservative and labour governments have proved to be hopelessly out of their depth in administering.
The shambles that is the Northern Ireland situation indicates just what a mess the Conservative government is. The very thought that they have allowed the EU to have any say in how NI runs or trades is just ludicrous.
Just one perfect example of the tools handed to the British government free of EU control is the recent announcement of the UK's banning of live animal exports ( whatever anyones thoughts on the subject are) something that they seemed unable to do so as an EU member.
Voters can only give those in power the tools to work with not the competence to do so. [Post edited 30 Dec 2023 12:04]
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