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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 17:52 26 Jun 2024
I don’t think so, it’s not remotely practicable for Gething to travel to India on a bike! Mind you saying that, he’d be out of the picture for a while! |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 13:40 26 Jun 2024
No doubt you’d be criticising him if he hadn’t shown any interest in the situation and hadn’t made any effort to interact with Tata. Given the stakes involved I would certainly expect him and others to get personally involved and be there in person as opposed to a zoom call. There’s a time and a place for zoom and I don’t believe with all that’s at stake, thousands of jobs at one of wales largest employers etc zoom is the way forward.
Gething is the first minister, he’s not the equal of Sunak but in my opinion he certainly outranks some of the cabinet ministers. No idea about the FOI or minutes, maybe it’s been minuted by Tata who have different rules, but I’m a believer in transparency so would hope they are made available.
I think expecting Gething to travel in Economy is ridiculous. [Post edited 26 Jun 15:19]
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 11:48 26 Jun 2024
How would you expect a senior politician such as the First Minister to travel, Economy or charter a plane? Do you seriously think Sunak and other senior and junior cabinet ministers would travel Economy? From a security perspective putting Gething in Business Class is a much more sensible option.
Sunak, Cameron and the King all travelled to COP 28 on separate private jets. I can see no reason why they couldn’t share, or at least Cameron and Sunak could have travelled together. Truss used a private jet to travel to Australia at a cost of £500k.
I’m no Gething fan, but expecting him to travel economy is mental. |
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Reply | England
at 22:30 25 Jun 2024
Wouldn’t be surprised if they go most, if not all the way. I hope they don’t, but I just reckon they will build slowly and they’re a really lucky team. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage (n/t)
at 22:06 25 Jun 2024
Freedom of movement is a fundamental right across the EU, I don’t envisage anyway that borders will be restored and barriers erected to prevent the migrants congregating in Calais - over and above that there’s too much money at stake and the gangsters behind the smuggling won’t be easily dissuaded.
People are very naive if they think Reform will be able to push the migrants back to France, [Post edited 25 Jun 22:08]
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Reply | Tory MP for Montgomeryshire
at 13:03 25 Jun 2024
Date for nominations has passed, deposit has been paid and his name is on the printed voting slips. Postal votes have already been sent out.
It’ll be interesting to see how many people actually vote for him given everything that’s going on. [Post edited 25 Jun 17:05]
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Reply | Robert Page
at 14:03 21 Jun 2024
100% agree with this.
I’m a passionate and proud Welshman as I suspect most of us on here and I also happen to speak the language. I just don’t get this obsession some have with having a Welsh manager, of course it would be it nice if the manager was Welsh, but let’s be honest it’s far more important that the next manager is the right manager and takes us forward.
We could easily have been in Germany had we had another manager in charge, or if Page had stayed but had an experienced mentor to develop him.
Can you imagine where Swansea would be if they insisted that the manager had to come from Swansea!! Mental. |
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Reply | Donald Sutherland
at 22:42 20 Jun 2024
RIP.
Great actor, 2 parts that really stand out for me were Oddball in Kelly’s Hero’s and as the lead in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. |
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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 22:17 20 Jun 2024
This is one that’s floating around on the internet. It doesn’t capture everything, but it’s quite detailed. Notable omissions include free entry to museums, free bus travel for pensioners, the Freedom of Information Act, some substantial new powers to the Criminal Justice System and there’s more including sustained growth rates higher than most developed nations, a significant real term increase in disposal income plus more. Not everything has worked out better or maybe as well as it could or should have, but the positives generally outweigh the negatives.
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school. |
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Reply | Question time leaders special
at 21:56 20 Jun 2024
Was Farage not invited or did he decline?
All the Party leaders should be there, if they don’t want to be there then they should put a dark chair there and make a point of stating they declined or refused to attend.
Boris hid away from scrutiny last time around and look what happened. |
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Reply | Rishi Sunak's protection officer being investigated for bet on election date
at 18:13 20 Jun 2024
They should be arrested like the police officer. It stinks. The only thing that may be saving their skin is purdah, but it’s outrageous a cop has been busted while 3 politicians haven’t.
There’s a serious rot at the very core of this government, it started under Boris and has just got worse. It’s unreal. [Post edited 20 Jun 18:15]
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Reply | Votes for Prisoners and 16 yr olds
at 18:05 20 Jun 2024
The number of people being sent to prison after committing an offence is very low, generally it’s the baddest of the bad. Anyone in prison doesn’t deserve the right to vote. |
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Reply | These idiots JUST STOP OIL
at 00:03 20 Jun 2024
This has made my blood boil. It’s just wanton vandalism of a world heritage site. Disgusting. Keith’s opening post is on the money. |
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Reply | Sunak
at 23:52 19 Jun 2024
If you’re a basic rate tax payer you can earn up to £1k in interest before they start taxing you, if you're a higher rate tax payer it’s £500. With the personal allowances frozen for the next 4 years, more and more people are being dragged in to the higher rate tax band. They call it fiscal drag. |
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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 23:45 19 Jun 2024
Your second paragraph is nonsense.
Starmer has reformed the Labour Party in turned it into something people are prepared to vote for, that takes some doing. Starmer may lack the personality of a Johnson, but look where that got us. I’m hoping Starmer will be pragmatic and sensible and is someone who understands the minutia, we need doers who know what’s going on not blue sky thinkers who get bored easily and then @@@@ it up. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 23:39 19 Jun 2024
Farage’s economic policies have been discredited by numerous economists and he’s proposing an insurance system for the NHS which many people aren’t aware of, what people are listening to is the immigration because whether it’s legal or illegal, many people have had enough. If the loops allowing people to work in the black economy were closed and those breaking the law were prosecuted, then people may pivot away from Reform. |
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