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Please send M my best wishes and hope she's in fine fettle...
Yes the state of everything can get you down and the waiting times for healthcare even private appts seem to get longer and longer.
I hear you on political athieism - it is interesting to hear his views on things being an independent and anti-woke MP operating and observing in the sewer of Westminster.
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Vipotnik is the reason we are not in the relegation places.
We are not out of danger yet and selling him would be madness at this point.
What price a few million quid set against the financial disaster that relegation would bring and swapping places with the Kipping Midgets from Sloper Road...?
Excellent points John. They always defend the indefensible in pursuit of their warped cloud cuckooland agendas, both here and in the wider Anglosphere they are the enemy within.
"Last month, the government said some 63 council areas could postpone elections until 2027 after some told ministers they lacked the capacity to reorganise in time. On Thursday, Mr Reed confirmed his decision to bring forward legislation to postpone 29 of the elections."
Article is somewhat misleading as it doesn't explain from the Labour source if that's all council elections, all Reorgs etc and just the May elections or includes the 132-136 (depending on which source you use) that are due to take place before 2027. I'm still not sure that 29 is a final figure or there are more to come.?
Gwyn is right though it is 29 for now in May but still too high in many people's view.
My own fairly recent personal experience is having a terrible Tory led council that nearly bankrupted the council and were cooking the books to cover their tracks - which we are now still paying for trying to meet Gvmt targets. I was discussing this issue with some ex-Lib Dem councillors a few weeks back and imagining the scenario had we not been able to vote the buggers out at the end of their term.
63 Councils though? I mean a handful you could say okay we'll cut you some slack... People shouldn't have to just shrug their shoulders and say : "Oh well 5 years of feet dragging by the Commons and the Boundaries and Electoral Commissions, but never mind let's just cancel local elections and put up with the same useless cretins who can't organise a piss up in a brewery for another few years" The process is there to prevent gerrymandering, though the previous changes would have favoured the Tories, especially in true blue heartland of counties like Sussex which you've mentioned before I think is one merger pushing for a cancellation. The national picture is different - Conservative and Labour approval ratings have now BOTH plummeted and both parties know they'd get a hammering at most of these elections which the Tories did of course in 2023. So I was a bit suprised at Cleverly's comments the other day but a stick to beat Labour with is still a stick at the end of the day... I'm also suspicious of the impartiality aspect of these and other quangos in the times we live in but that's a whole other can of worms...
Like many on here I remember a time, when most politicians were like this, asking questions and holding poor decisions to account with tenacity and conviction. Most these days just want a four year jolly and are happy to brush everything under the carpet hoping the public will forget.
It's a real shame he's not got a party to head up as he's PM material in my book, although that could change especially now Reform is a dumping ground for failed Tories.
Long way to 2029, that's providing the Labour ghouls don't invoke some emegency powers to cancel the GE as I wouldn't put it past them.
If this is necessary - and I remain to be convinced that it is - then wouldn't it make more sense to have two elite regions - South Wales West and South Wales East with the games rotating around the existing stadia ?
Nobody and no set of fans wants this only a handful of clowns at the WRU, it's a microcosm for the Senedd and Westminster - a handful of clueless pricks inflicting misery on the rest of us...
Even the Cardiff rugby fans don't want it and the legacy of being the crisis club that killed the Ospreys...
Since 2018-19 especially, it seems to me that countless billions have been squandered by both the Tories and now Labour....
I'd love to see an exact figure and how and to what extent it has affected increasing the national debt.
I don't agree with the conspiracy theorists that it's deliberate design to bankrupt Britain, I think it's simply we have a political elite who are grossly incompetent, fiscally irresponsible and have no idea how a balance sheet works. They are selfish criminal narcissists masquerading as MPs and Ministers.
We really should be storming the Bastille incandescent with rage but it all gets brushed under the carpet after every scandal and everyone goes back to sitting on their 'aris avidly watching The Traitors where art imitates life...
I feel a word in the ear of my mate Rupert might get things moving. Watch this space.
Plaid and their supporters really are thicker than a Whale Omelette....
TENS OF MILLIONS!?
Let's see what that might look like eh Llinos Medi-cation?
Imagine your native language nearly becoming extinct in the mid C20th, so you spend decades vandalising and spraying roadsigns, firebombing estate agents and holiday cottages and being outwardly and unashamedly hostile to your English neighbours whether they're holiday makers or retirees, driving them away from your ethnic homeland with open hostility back over the border or Severn bridge...imagine that...?
Finally, after 30-40 years, like the petulant spoilt children you are your tantrums are caved into and indulged beyond your widlest dreams by a devolved pro-Iaith government and the language starts to flourish again, the arts have a Cymric renaissance, Welsh is compulsory in schools again, bilingualism is a must for public sector jobs, Cool Cymru is everywhere and Mr Urdd is strutting about everywhere with a massive red white and green boner with pure Welsh dragon fire bursting from his funicular fundament...!
"Iesu Grist, Rydym wedi ein Hachub! Arglwydd Mawr Bois Bach !"
But then, that's not enough for the rampant leftist idealogues in the Plaid ranks is it ?... Trots first and a Cymro/Cymraes second, they wilfully ignore the utter car crash of mass immigration elsewhere in the UK, and so Wales is reborn in its new found confidence as a Nation of Sanctuary for all comers ("except for them Saes bustards like obviously innit ?- ych a fi mun ! ") despite not having a fiscal pot to piss in ourselves...
So in a suicidal 'Darwin Awards move' of biblical proportions the floodgates are opened to all and sundry....
Fast forward and the year is 2075 - Llinos the Twp is long dead...but Welsh is almost unheard of in Wales, in fact you hardly hear English spoken anywhere on the streets since the principality became a Caliphate after the Islamic Revolution of 2049... but Pashtun, Gujerati, Urdu and Bengali are widely spoken and observed everywhere alongside Sudanese, Somalian and Eritrean....including all multilingual roadsigns, street signs and at public transport hubs (each sign now 5 times the size it was in 2026 of course, but thankfully the manadtory 20mph speed limits introduced over 50 years ago ensures we now have plenty of time to read them properly..) Uber are now Wales's largest company with a turnover of £126billion a year and their busiest time of year is around the national festival in May - The Eid-Steddfod - when they ferry millions of citizens to the festival site to watch the many stonings and beheadings for apostasy and speeches by radical celebrity Imams. Nearly every church and chapel is now a Mosque. The Welsh Medium schools have long gone and are all Madrassahs now. On the plus side however there are an extra 600 million sheep in Wales grazing to feed the exploding population and it's thirst for a nice bit of grass-fed halal mutton. The former Areas of Oustanding Natural Beauty like Gower and the Beacons have been turned over to pasture alongside newly constructed Islamic themed towns and villages each with it's own 10,000 seater super-mosque to accomodate the masses. The biggest one in the Caliphate of Wales is at the foot of Pen-y-Fan on the site of the former Storey Arms and is popular with hikers, sheep-farmers and those using the rugged terrain for ISIS training purposes. When dogs were finally banned by the former Senedd (now called Majlis al-Nuwaab Cardiff) for being haram in 2053 everyone stopped using the great outdoors to walk them in so the land was made available for taxpayer-funded development....
It's all been a right roaring success for the people of Wales so it has, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise..
Yes they've done some fantastic re-issues and compilations...60s garage, psychedelia, mod revival, punk and new wave and 80s/90s Indie to name but a few
I agree on the family silver thing, I raged about it for years to anyone who was bored enough to listen. Like most of us on here I grew up in the shadow of the miners strike and loathed 'Thatch' ( @ Ben Elton remember him ? ;) - calling her policies towards the industrial heartlands of the UK "economic apartheid" There was no courting of the Red Wall in those days. Investment and wealth for Tory boroughs jack f-g shit for Labour ones.
In my naive youth worshipping at the church of liberal egalitarianism I always saw Mrs T, Tebbit and Lawson as unfairly punching down and Toilet trader Tony as gloriously punching upwards (yeah sorry about that unfortunate mental image )...I initially welcomed Blair into power in '97 until I saw him for the snake he was. Thankfully I only voted for him once and have never voted Labour again.
These days with the benefit of experience and hindsight it's gone the full 360 on those two...
Both as I see it, classic examples of methodological individualism and the Austrian school but very different in terms of the motivational drivers behind the personalities...
Mrs T would be horrified and incensed at the state of the UK in 2026, while Blair of course is rolling around in it like the rest of the grifting Nu-Labour mob, grabbing and swallowing all they can consume or destroy like a pig in sh/t...."look upon my works and weep"
I found Economics boring as hell at school and dropped it like a hot turd.
I know feck all really but I'm always eager to learn from those that work in the financial sector and I try to read a bit where I can. I've come to find it a fascinating subject in later life and appreciate it for the complex science it is that touches and influences everything we do whether we like it or not.
Anyway I've gone on off on one as usual but yes....we are reaping the whirlwind of 30-40 years of largely unregulated privatisation and chronic underinvestment...
Factor in Milliband's batshit pursuit of Net Zero and it's no wonder we all feel poorer when the utility bills come knocking...
A dull game for 40 mins that came to life via an own goal.
WBA played very well second half and just seemed to click...thought they were going to get the 3rd if any team was
That's the Championship for you though - so many of my EPL supporting mates love watching this League as it p/sses all over the top flight for entertainment value and is a much more level field and they also love the fact there's no VAR....
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