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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 21:51 11 Apr 2025
Absolutely needs ramping up, but the question is why didn’t the previous government do anything about it? In terms of this and deporting/ returning people, they’re being completely shown up. |
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Reply | Liar Liar bums on fire
at 22:01 2 Apr 2025
I was wondering that when I posted the information, the only thing I could come up with was that a number of AM’s from each side were “paired” so they didn’t have to come in to vote. |
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Reply | Does anyone watch the Premier League ?
at 22:35 1 Apr 2025
No, I’ve no interest in it at all. I don’t watch live matches or Match of the Day, nor do I have any interest in the Champions League. [Post edited 1 Apr 22:39]
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Reply | Liar Liar bums on fire
at 22:30 1 Apr 2025
Further to my last post on this, here is the of AM’s who voted and how they voted. People so minded, can and should sent them an e mail to ask why they voted in a particular way.
I’d also like to know who was the Labour AM who initially sided with the Conservatives Plaid when the path was initially discussed who then changed their mind.
Item 9. Welsh Conservatives debate - Wales Covid-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee oaths and affirmations
O blaid / For: 23 Yn erbyn / Against: 24 Ymatal / Abstain: 0
Sam Rowlands Sarah Murphy
Adam Price John Griffiths
Samuel Kurtz Ken Skates
Janet Finch-Saunders Huw Irranca-Davies
Gareth Davies Buffy Williams
Sioned Williams Lee Waters
James Evans Joyce Watson
Rhys ab Owen Hannah Blythyn
Natasha Asghar Julie Morgan
Joel James Alun Davies
Darren Millar Carolyn Thomas
Paul Davies Mark Drakeford
Delyth Jewell Vikki Howells
Mark Isherwood Lesley Griffiths
Tom Giffard Jeremy Miles
Luke Fletcher Jack Sargeant
Andrew R.T. Davies Julie James
Cefin Campbell Vaughan Gething
Heledd Fychan Jayne Bryant
Peter Fox Mick Antoniw
Peredur Owen Griffiths Mike Hedges
Altaf Hussain Jane Hutt
Mabon ap Gwynfor Jenny Rathbone
Eluned Morgan
Edit - alogies it’s all gone Pete Tong. The names on the right voted against the oath, the names on the left for. Eluned Morgan should be in the right column. [Post edited 1 Apr 23:52]
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Reply | Liar Liar bums on fire
at 13:06 1 Apr 2025
He didn’t resign because of a lack of cooperation, he resigned because Labour refused to require witnesses to take an oath before giving evidence. There was a subsequent vote and AM’s supported the Labour position by a narrow majority.
The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice Jane Hutt said that the calls for the witnesses to take an oath were "concerning" and witnesses may feel compelled to seek legal advice - that in my opinion is outrageous, but so what if they do feel inclined to take legal advice. I think the decision not to require people to take an oath is shocking, there needs to be a full and frank enquiry and people should be compelled to answer the questions asked of them.
Thousands of people lost loved ones and they and we deserve answers.
Some of the politicians are playing party political games in relation to this, but it’s an issue that is so serious it should transcend party political boundaries.
Hurt and anyone else who supported the decision not to require the oath should be named and shamed and booted out: |
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Reply | Liar Liar bums on fire
at 16:38 30 Mar 2025
You could see the anger in her face when he’s putting her on the spot.
I’d also like to have seen her response to the next question. If she’d have said I’ve supported it because we can’t afford it etc etc etc that, in my opinion would have been a better answer. |
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Reply | Why can't the UK
at 22:10 26 Mar 2025
I agree with your comments about the tax system and some paying a lot less than they ought to, I also agree with you that the tax system and benefit system need an overhaul, it can’t be right that generations of families can freeload off the state without putting anything back in, or hobble without recourse.
In terms of benefits for the rich, would you classify the state pension as a benefit? Child benefit is targeted and “high earners” lose it. The targeting is very crude though and unfair. I know a guy who was a senior grade manager in a big organisation, he was married (wife didn’t work) and they had 2 kids. He earned slightly over the Child benefit cap and lost the benefit. Two of his under managers were married, they had 2 children between them and as they both individually earned slightly under the threshold they retained the child benefit entitlement even though collectively they earned about £40k more than the senior manager. The system defo needs looking at. |
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Reply | Why can't the UK
at 13:53 26 Mar 2025
Based on what you’ve said that’s a shocking set of circumstances and should never be allowed to happen, if they are fit enough to drive they shouldn’t be eligible for additional funding for dementia. |
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Reply | Why can't the UK
at 12:38 26 Mar 2025
That’s a fair point.
On the one hand we’ve complaints about poor services, complaints about cuts to services, complaints about cuts to benefits and on the other hand complaints about paying too much tax! There had to be a balance which I think most people agree on, but the question of where the balance lays is where it gets tricky and not everyone is going to be happy.
Do we need to cut benefits? Absolutely because less people paying tax can’t be expected to bail out more of those who don’t work, but the question is how do we do it? As unpopular as cutting benefits is, at least we’re seeing some positive action taking place and it’s well overdue because there’s plenty of people out there milking the system. The key to getting it tight is to take a pragmatic sensible approach and to sort the workshy out.
I don’t believe benefits like the WFA should be distributed to every pensioner, instead it needs to hr targeted to those who need it, but the threshold that’s been applied i.e. pension credit is much too low. I’d like to see the tax threshold which was frozen by Sunak and subsequently extended by Hunt unfrozen and increased to provide relief to pensioners and those who work thereby encouraging more people to get off their backsides: |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 22:12 25 Mar 2025
I don’t condone Reeves taking the freebies (in fact I don’t condone any MP from whatever party taking freebies) and she shouldn’t have taken the tickets, however the reference to security is a fair shout. Reeves, like other prominent politicians/ royals will have their own protection teams and some of these will be armed.
Looking after a politician in a large crowd is going to be fraught with danger, factor in the darkness, strobe lighting etc, presence of firearms and it becomes a nightmare. |
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Reply | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia v Wales 🏴 : WCQ Group J Game
at 21:53 25 Mar 2025
Missed most of the game as had stuff on, but saw the latter part. Their goal was a real sickner and I thought we’d blown it, but fair do’s they didn’t give up and got the point which was the least they deserved.
Well done Wales and well done Bellamy. |
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Reply | Wales least affordable part of Britain for first-time buyers
at 11:32 25 Mar 2025
To be honest I’m not convinced it was a genuine offer from Boris, but we should have accepted it. Then we’d have either had the cash and the new road, or called his bluff and been able to call him out for being a liar. As things stand now we’ll never know.
Drakers and the WG need their backsides kicked on this. |
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Reply | Wales least affordable part of Britain for first-time buyers
at 11:13 25 Mar 2025
I see that the Westminster government has today has approved the construction of an £8bn tunnel underneath the Thames which will link Essex and Kent and will cost £8bn. Although it’s another investment in the South East, it’s something they desperately need - whilst here in south east Wales we’ve got a bottle neck at peak hours which nobody is doing anything about - it makes my blood boil.
I think it’s worth pointing out the consultation for the new tunnel cost around £800m. |
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Reply | Wales least affordable part of Britain for first-time buyers
at 23:19 24 Mar 2025
Lots of good points from all sides here, I’m no Labour voter but it seems they are damned whatever they do and on occasions when they don’t do something.
There’s most certainly an affordability issue in most of Wales, but Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire are amongst the worst areas. When the WG introduced legislation to enable councils to charge second home owners more council tax to try and alleviate the affordability issue they were criticised, but they’re also getting criticised for the current situation we’re in.
Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire are very popular with people east of the dyke (particularly retirees) and that’s pushed up property prices while a lack of quality jobs means locals can’t compete with the prices incomers are prepared to pay.
In the past we’ve seen governments targeting funding in to the areas their where their supporter bases are strong, after the 2019 GE Boris created a levelling up fund to build on his success in the “red wall constituencies” but a fair proportion ended up being spent in Conservative seats (particularly marginals) and levelling up didn’t really improve the lot of people in the red wall. Labour are no different.
Someone made reference to Bristol / Avonmouth earlier in the thread, the development taking place there ( albeit some of it is likely taking place in the free port) is impressive, failure by Labour to sort out the Brynglas tunnels is shameful as is the increase in AM numbers.
Someone made mention of the inward investment and Scotland securing double of that of wales - well that’s not surprising given their economy is over twice the size of ours and they have a bigger population.
Wales has deteriorated after suffering from 14 years of Conservative government who would have been focussing their resources and investment in blue areas because that’s where they draw their support from and they weren’t about to “waste” money on non conservative areas. During the Brexit negotiations we saw the concessions and resources the Unionists were able to extract to benefit their citizens.
I’m in favour of devolution, but we need an influx of new blood in to Cardiff Bay and to be rid of the old guard just as we’ve had with Westminster. No Brynglas bypass, 20mph speed limits almost everywhere….. it’s nuts. |
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