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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 13:22 11 Jun 2024
I don’t like Farage, but we live in a democracy with freedom of speech and he is perfectly entitled to articulate his views, and we should all defend that right. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 07:50 11 Jun 2024
He needs to go - end of. In my opinion he’s shown he’s not up to the job. |
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Reply | Teachers
at 21:58 10 Jun 2024
And their parents would have been brought up by the previous generation in 60s and 70s. Wasters are wasters, unfortunately their numbers double or treble every generation. |
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Reply | 2 12 year old boys
at 20:50 10 Jun 2024
I once apprehended a car thief who was breaking in to a neighbours car in the middle of the night and it was quite a scary experience - my heart was racing like train. I’d gone to bed and heard something outside, when I peeped out the curtain I saw a shadow trying to break in to a car. I called 999, put my shoes, threw the door open and rushed him. I took him by surprise and stuck him in an armlock and pressed him against the car so he couldn’t move. I then shouted a few orders at him making enough noise to wake the neighbours. The police got there very quickly and recovered a long screwdriver off him, it turns out the kid was a regular with them and had absconded from a care home earlier that night. I didn’t think about it at the time, but I could easily have been stabbed that night.
Anyone who carries a knife should be looking at porridge unless there are serious mitigating factors. |
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Reply | General Election
at 20:35 10 Jun 2024
The Royal Mail started taking pension holidays in 1990 and the arrangement came to an end in 2003 which makes it almost a 50/50 split time wise between the Conservatives and Labour. The pension holidays should never have been allowed. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 22:12 9 Jun 2024
If he doesn’t resign he should be dismissed. |
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Reply | Teachers
at 21:59 9 Jun 2024
I can understand there’d be the odd case as some kids have developmental issues, but it should be a requirement that kids are potty trained to start school.
Wifey used to work in a school until a few years ago and saw a fair bit of it. This is the result of poor parenting where the great unwashed and chavmungus are having kids when they’re barely capable of looking after themselves. It spans several generations because if a parent hasnt sorted it you’d think the grand parents would intervene.
It’s a difficult one to solve, being a parent is probably one of the most difficult things to do, there’s no qualifications, no suitability tests etc and the chavmungus can crack on with no responsibility. It’s no wonder the social services are so busy. |
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Reply | General Election
at 18:08 8 Jun 2024
I think Brown was wrong to take the money from the pension funds, or if it needed to be done it could have been done for a few years and then stopped.
Brown has rightly copped a lot of flack on this, but not one of the subsequent chancellors from the Conservative governments between 2010 and 2014 have reversed Brown’s change - in fact it’s never even been discussed. |
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Reply | Taylor Swift phenomenon
at 16:44 8 Jun 2024
One of my kids thinks she’s the bees knees and has got tickets for the concerts, Im with you on this. I think it’s all the same - a kind of drab monotonous lift music. |
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Reply | General Election
at 16:38 8 Jun 2024
The figures don’t support the fact that the debt is entirely attributable to Blair and Brown. Debt reduced to its lowest level in 1991 and 1992 and then started increasing rapidly iuntil Blair and Brown came to power. It initially stabilised under Brown, then reduced for 5 years to almost 1992 levels before starting to climb again to £35.69bn in 2008. Then we had the bankers crash/financial crisis and debt went up significantly.
The lowest levels since 2011 under the Conservatives are double are the highest figures under Labour.
I’m not saying Labour were great, but a lot of what we’ve come to accept has been pumped out by the Conservative supporting media. Check it out for yourself on the ukpublicspending website. |
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Reply | D Day commemoration
at 23:53 7 Jun 2024
Sunak leaving yesterdays D Day event to do a TV interview to try and rescue his position after his fibs about the Treasury costing the Labour plans as a £2k hit to tax payers (which also gave the impression of being £2k per year and not over the 5 years of the parliament) when it was nowt to do with the Civil Service is really poor. He seems to have appointed a couple of village idiots to his Special Advisor team, because they’re leaving him wide open.
D Day was a major moment in WW2 and yesterday’s events will probably be the last major anniversary where veterans who actually participated in the landings will be present. Around 5,000 allied personnel gave their lives that day and a similar number were injured - it beggars belief that Sunak and his SPADs thought it was more appropriate to Foxtrot Oscar to a TV interview than stay at the event, it’s a massive insult to the service personnel.
I used to work in a place where the guy in charge went on to become a Special Advisor. Before leaving and becoming a SPAD, he oversaw a significant deterioration in performance which took years to address. He was also very arrogant and believed he was above the rules. If Sunak and his ministers are surrounding themselves with people like that, it’s no wonder they’re messing things up. |
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Reply | Improved train service for the Cardiff area
at 23:11 7 Jun 2024
A lot of deprived communities in the South Wales valleys are going to benefit from the metro which will enable people to commute in to Cardiff etc for work and it will hopefully see increased opportunities and prosperity in the valleys.
That said, the WG need to do more in South West Wales, we need a better integrated transport service, open up Cockett and Landore stations for starters, I’d love to see a monorail running between the Amazon/old Ford plant/ Bay campus and Mumbles. |
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Reply | General Election
at 22:33 7 Jun 2024
There was a big increase PFI which I think is an outrage, but some but not all) of the issues with PFI are attributable poor negotiating from the public sector negotiators.
I agree with your comments about the pension funds, it’s had a terrible impact on pensions however, the Conservative's have had 14 years to reverse the changes and they haven’t. My personal view is that the government should be encouraging people to provide for their future - failure to do so is only stating up problems for the future.
National Debt under Blair hovered around £35bn per year and peaked in 2009 and 2020 at £49bn and £65bn after the bankers crash. Cue the Conservatives, in 2011 the figure rose to £71bn and after then it kept going up - in 2019 (last pre Covid year) it was £81bn - higher than any point under Labour. It’s gone up even further since Covid, but I think unfair to compare the pandemic with the non Covid periods. The bottom line is that without the bankers crash, a national Debt under Labour was roughly half what it was under the Conservatives. The figures are a matter of public record. The conservatives have done a great job over the years gaslighting us on the the debt narrative, they are responsible for most of it. The question I’d like an answer to is where did the money go to put us this much in debt?
In terms of the privatisations, the vast majority of the privatisations in the 90s took place between 1990 and 1996, check out the list on Wikipedia. There were far less privatisations between 1997 and 2010 than there were under the Conservatives. Check it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_privatizations_by_country
The Human Rights Act has some positives, but aspects of it have become a nightmare and we’ve ended up with what we have now. I’d change the Human Rights Act, I’d change Article 8 which is Right to respect for private and family life, I’d make changes to weaken the protections so that more emphasis is place on conducive to the public good and less emphasis on the rights of the individual. Criminals (especially the foreign ones) shouldn’t be able to hide behind the HRA to avoid sanctions and deporting. |
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Reply | General Election
at 09:52 7 Jun 2024
Tony Blair’s conduct in relation to the Iraq war was disgraceful and that taints everything for me, but other aspects of his time in government were much more positive.
Had Tony Blair not got embroiled in the Iraq business, then he’d be seen in a much more positive light because his tenure coincided with big rise in standards of living and NHS performance. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 00:04 7 Jun 2024
I’ve lifted her comments from the BBC.
“Ms Rathbone told BBC Radio Wales Drive that the "reputation of the Senedd is at risk" and that accepting money from people convicted of environmental offences "is a problem".
She said the issue had been raised on the doorstep during the general election campaign.
Asked if Mr Gething could brush off the defeat and carry on as before, she said: "I don't know. It's a very uncertain environment. We'll have to wait and see."
"It is uncomfortable because we've all been dragged into this," she said.”
If it’s a problem and the reputation of the Senedd is at risk, why didn’t Rathbone vote in favour of the motion instead of voting against it thereby supporting Gething. I have to be honest, I think this is poor show on her part and in my opinion questions her judgement - Gething out - Rathbone out too. |
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Reply | Sunak v Starmer tonight
at 09:18 6 Jun 2024
The BBC is far from being run by left wingers, the government appointed prominent Conservative supporter, party worker, previous advisor to GB News Sir Robbie Gibb to its board in 2021 and he’s there until 2028. He’s not the only one. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 22:14 5 Jun 2024
Drakers is still an AM in the Senedd, he’s only stood down from the First Ministers post. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 22:10 5 Jun 2024
Nor I, but I really hope he does.
I was also rather pleased to see Drakers in a bit of a tiz yesterday after the Education lead pulled the plug on the changes to school terms / holidays. As she pointed out, if you have a consultation exercise you have to listen to the feedback which is what she’s done. Credit to her. Drakers needs to go. |
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Reply | Sunak v Starmer tonight
at 10:16 5 Jun 2024
You make a really good point about the pensioners allowance being higher than the non pensioners allowance. In fact, there were 2 bands for pensioners, one of the 65 - 75 year olds and a second, higher threshold for the over 75s.
Cameron’s coalition government axed them in 2010, if they were still in existence and had been index linked, then they would be worth between £14.5 and £15k today. The bog standard personal allowance would be worth around £9.5k instead of the current £12.5k. It’s worth noting that all allowances are frozen until 2028 so there’s going to be a huge fiscal drag which will bring lots of people in to the tax regime.
It’s worth pointing out that Sunak made a lot of play on “Treasury” costings which would cost families around £2k each during last nights debate, it now looks like the Treadury are refuting that and it seems Sunak has been caught being economical with the truth. |
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