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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 23:39 3 Jun 2024
Not seen the programme, but I’d have thought Starmer would wait until after the GE to maintain harmony etc - UNLESS he wants to really exert his authority, show some ruthlessness and make an example of someone. There could be mileage in the latter approach, but it could cause a lot of disaffection. |
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Reply | General Election
at 23:36 3 Jun 2024
The Conservatives are currently imploding.
I’m genuinely surprised Sunak called the GE when he did as I thought he’d have held on a little longer, it will be interesting to hear the rationale and see what comes out in the wash when the GE is over. I get that older people ( likely to vote conservative are more likely to come out and vote on a summers day as opposed to an icy rainy November day and that inflation had edged down, but it’s not as though the feel good factor was ripping through the country. Has he called the GE because he knows there’s more bad news coming down the line? Based on what’s happening now, while it’s early days and it ain’t over till the fat lady signs it looks like Sunak’s advisors have messed up. |
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Reply | Farage
at 23:20 3 Jun 2024
I think he’ll draw support from the right and the left, the immigration card is a major concern for many, we saw that during Brexit.
The last 14 years have seen a significant fall in the standard of living for many people, we’ve also had Brexit, which, whatever one’s view on it hasn’t proved to be an overwhelming success, we’ve also seen a surge in house prices with many people being priced off the housing market and we’ve had unprecedented numbers migrating to the U.K. Lots of people are pretty @@@@@@ off and it’s easy for some to portray immigration as the root cause of many of the problems.
The bottom line when it comes to immigration is that we are importing students and their families, NHS professionals, carers, agricultural workers and people with specialist skills as well as undocumented migrants in small boats. We’ve got a problem in this country which some don’t want to acknowledge which is that we’ve got a couple of million Brits who don’t want to or can’t work. The question d like to see answered is what are our politicians going to do to get the people who can’t be bothered to work to get off their backsides and make a contribution - work has to pay and for many it’s not worth the effort as they’re better off on benefits - that is something which needs to be addressed but nobody is actually talking about it. [Post edited 3 Jun 23:21]
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Reply | General Election
at 23:04 3 Jun 2024
The 20 mph was a core part of the Labour manifesto, it could be argued that those who didn’t want the 20 mph brought in should have voted for a party opposing it. Voting Labour was tantamount to supporting their manifest commitments and not voting at all could be seen as acquiescing or indifference.
I knew the 20mph was there and didn’t vote Labour. I have no objection to a 20mph limit in some places, but not the way in which Lee Waters has introduced it. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 22:50 3 Jun 2024
We need a robust independent media in Wales and across the U.K. unfortunately, many of the media outlets are owned by wealthy individuals who are aligned to political parties when what we really need are completely independent entities who have no allegiances to anyone and will ask the awkward questions and tell it as it is.
The judiciary is another entity which should be totally independent and beyond government interference, sadly the current lot have sought to limit the ability to hold them to account.
It looks to me that Gething is turning in to Welsh Labour’s version of Boris - if Starmer wins the GE I hope he asks some serious questions of the First Minister. |
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Reply | Diane Abbott barred from standing as an MP
at 23:08 2 Jun 2024
Getting to Cambridge is an achievement end of. I know some really clever kids at our local state school, Straight A* combined with really good sporting talent and they didn’t get a sniff of Oxbridge.
I don’t like her, but credit where credit’s due she got to Cambridge in the days when only something like 10% went to Uni. |
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Reply | General Election
at 22:59 2 Jun 2024
I’ve also worked at election counts. As you say some of the party activists, (from my experience it was generally the Conservatives) were strange lacking the ability to engage with staff and officials. |
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Reply | Rob Barrow
at 21:38 2 Jun 2024
My mother in law worked in palliative care and she’s often said MND is probably the worst illness she’s encountered.
I recently lost my father to cancer, fortunately his illness was very short and he passed peacefully and didn’t appear to suffer excessivelly. I can’t imagine what Rob Burrow, his family and friends have gone through over the last 4 years - it must be truly harrowing.
Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield both struck me as being really down to earth, humble people. Sinfield has done so much to raise the profile of MND and deserves recognition far beyond what he’s been afforded. It galls me to see some of these politicians or special advisors getting Lordships and knighthoods and worthy nominees getting very little.
The world will be a poorer place without Rob Burrow, may he RIP. |
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Reply | Diane Abbott barred from standing as an MP
at 13:00 2 Jun 2024
Abbot was educated through the state system and earned a place at Cambridge University - that’s hardly “thick as shite.”
I’ve no time for her or Corbyn, but it’s clear Abbot is very popular in her constituency as even last time out when Boris romped home, she picked up over 70% of the vote. |
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Reply | Champions league final interested?
at 23:08 1 Jun 2024
No interest in at whatsoever, not watched any of this years Champions League. I absolutely despise Real Madrid. |
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Reply | Trump
at 23:04 31 May 2024
Trump is a wrong un. End of. |
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Reply | Improved train service for the Cardiff area
at 23:00 31 May 2024
That’s not technically correct as Swansea also has 3 stations, High Street, Gowerton and Llansamlet but your point about improving train services west of Cardiff is very valid. [Post edited 31 May 23:00]
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Reply | Labour the new Tory party
at 22:51 31 May 2024
I’m not a Labour supporter, but the country is in a state after 14 years of Conservative rule, the last 5 years of which is just about the worst period of governance I can recall in terms of competence, corruption, rule breaking, dishonour, lying, gaslighting etc etc. There’s also been a huge transfer of wealth and we’re paying the price.
Immigration has gone off the Richter scale and we’re paying the price with massive increases in house prices, pressure on services, infrastructure and the NHS. Cameron sad he’d bring net migration down into the tens of thousands, but after 14 years of increases we’re now seeing a net increase of 3/4 million. We need invest in training, upskill int people and making people who’re on the dole work (there’s plenty swinging the lead) or do community service - work also needs to pay. I’d vote for a party who promised to deliver that, but none are. [Post edited 31 May 22:52]
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Reply | Royal Mail owner IDS agrees Kretinsky's £3.6bn takeover bid ...
at 22:44 30 May 2024
Commitment to retain the U.K. tax residency ……..
FFS what is the country coming to, it was a British company providing a service in the UK which WE are paying for through the nose, it has a monopoly on letters etc - there’s no way on earth it should be paying its tax elsewhere. In fact we need a serious review of the accountancy and tax rules, if companies want to headquarter in some island and pay no tax then so be it, but they should then be hit with a turnover fee to make up for it. |
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Reply | Trump
at 22:38 30 May 2024
He’s innocent mun - he’s the victim in all this!! Trump is claiming “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt,”
I’m of the view he’s as bent as a nine bob note, good enough for him. I just hope there are enough people the other side of the pond who can see through his bovine excrement.
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when the best the US can do is Trump and Biden. |
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Reply | Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
at 00:00 30 May 2024
Posters are squabbling about life expectancy and mortality rates across the north west and wales - open your eyes and look further afield and compare the North with the South East and the South West. That’s where the big differences are and I’d wager deprivation is a main factor. |
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Reply | Doing a runner
at 23:52 29 May 2024
Good enough for them, thieving @@@@@@@@‘s!
They’ve both got heaps of form and 20 odd aliases on the Police National Computer, so they’re not averse to telling fibs to conceal their identity and I suspect the number of convictions is just the tip of their offending history. |
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Reply | The return of National Service
at 23:44 29 May 2024
The dismantling of our armed forces has accelerated significantly over the last 14 years and staffing levels are bumping along at historic lows. I know the Conservatives traditionally claim to be the party of law and order and the protectors of the armed forces, but looking at things in terms of budgets that doesn’t seem to equate with reality.
In cash terms, spending on defence peaked under John Major in the early 90’s, it then started falling back before it started to increase under Tony Blair in 1997 (£39.9bn) peaking at £73.5bn in 2007. During the Labour years, spending on defence was around 2.5% of GDP.
Defence spending then fell back under Cameron/ Osborne and then May to £52bn (1.9% of GDP) in 2017 before starting to creep up.
Defence spending in 2022 was £69bn and around 2% of GDP - this is still lower than it was under Labour in 2007 and less than the 2.5% figure the Trumpster wants to see across NATO.
If Labour’s defence budget of £39.9bn from 1997 had kept pace with inflation, then we’d now be spending £76.2bn on defence per year. |
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Reply | Angela Rayner
at 21:12 28 May 2024
Not that you’d think that’s the case from the headline in The Telegraph. I suspect they are clutching at straws.
The story came about from an unofficial biography by a Conservative peer and has been pushed by the Conservative Party. Seemingly, no case to answer, which many suspected from day one. I’m not a Rayner fan, but she’s been exonerated.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/28/angela-rayner-no-further-action/
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