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Reply | Assisted dying bill
at 13:12 18 May 2025
The changes will be big in every way you say but then the resources, it may actually use fewer resources because people would not be forced to live and need intensive care and weeks or months of medicines to deal with the suffering.
The religious aspect is a part of it however big or small.
All legislation has unintended consequences, always has, always will. The clever part is in dealing with them quickly and effectively which has hardly been a Westminster strength because of political ideology. |
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Reply | Are the rich fleeing the UK?
at 13:01 18 May 2025
Besides which, when you do try to tap into their wealth they just move the money offshore, they use tax havens and that's besides all the sneaky loopholes that were put into tax law when the big accounting firms were "consulted" about the changes and wrote in the loopholes themselves, in my opinion that's what happened anyway.
I'm not sure what the sweet spot for taxation is because the hyper rich will always try to lower their payments. When you earn hundreds of millions per year I'm not sure they accept the percentage as being the same as us plebs, they just see a large number being taken. Remember a lot of very rich people, through the various schemes and loopholes, actually pay a smaller percentage than many of us plebs.The big American companies have paid hardly any tax and even had rebates some years despote billions in profits.. |
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Reply | Welsh region to be cut in bombshell development ...
at 12:46 18 May 2025
Tha's a good point because we know the WoL produces shoddy journalism and misleading headlines.
It wouldn't surprise me though and the 3 teams besides Cardiff shoukd probably be worried because they'll never cut Cardiff. |
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Reply | Wrexham
at 21:16 17 May 2025
I'm hardly a big fan of international football and not a fan of countries and borders, generally speaking. But that's a political debate. |
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Reply | Brave Israeli Eurovision contestant
at 21:08 17 May 2025
In a fair vote we would have won it more times but it's not fair and hasn't been for a long time. The voting is as much about politics as it is talent, possobly more so.
Some of the winninh songs make Joe Dolce's "shaddup your face" look like an all time classic |
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 18:11 17 May 2025
Yes 881k and that number is nearly 50% fewer people than used the airport in 2019. 6 years later and still not much more than half as many using the airport .
2019: 1,654,920 passengers.
2020: 219,984 passengers.
2021: 123,825 passengers.
2022: 859,805 passengers.
2023: Around 837,000 passengers.
2024: Over 881,000 passengers.
2020 and 2021 were obviously the Covid years. |
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Reply | Prison shake-up announced ...
at 18:01 17 May 2025
There must be measures put in place to stop persistent offenders breaking laws. I was just thinking about banned drivers, a lot of them just keep on driving with no tax, insurance or MOT.
How about a database with all banned drivers on it, facial recognition and you cannot sell a car to anyone without going to the website and finding out if they are allowed to drive or not?
Anybody selling a car to a banned driver forfeits every penny.
Too draconian?
Then every banned driver caught driving gets 6 months in prison. |
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Reply | Immigration Costs an example
at 17:52 17 May 2025
I agree with you, people who have put 16k away are probably hiding cash elsewhere so they can continue to recieve benefits. 16k is far too high, we have 3 incomes in this house, total income over 62k per year and we haven't got 16 in savings nor anywhere near.
I'm sure nobody us surprised that the OBR makes predictions that aren't included in the official forecasts, governments obfuscate on purpose, leave some things out to make their figures look much better or to swing an ideological argument.
Politicians routinely lie about the numbers except they've convinced themselves its not lying. Just another day in Westminster....and all the other parliaments/senates etc. |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 17:29 17 May 2025
Young people complain that old people make the decisions but when they get old themselves they may see the wisdom in not giving kids too much power.
Young people can be illogical, temperamental, impatient and foolish because they lack experience.
The tipping point there is, many of our older politicians are every bit as bad. It's like they had a common sense bypass. We all make mistakes but most of us try to learn from them. |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 17:21 17 May 2025
I didn'tsay majority, just the thought of them winning will be enough for Labour voters. |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 12:50 17 May 2025
And the thought of reform winninhg is why it will happen. Either that or they move en masse to Plaid and they get the majority by themselves.
If Welsh people cannot give the tories a majority then surely reform has no chance. |
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Reply | Wrexham
at 12:41 17 May 2025
I only want them to do well where it has a positive effect on our season. Otherwise I don't get the love either.
If people are going to support Wrexham because they're Welsh them what of Cardiff and Newport? See, it's silly. Wrexham are nothing to us except rivals in our division. |
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Reply | Assisted dying bill
at 12:26 17 May 2025
It's hardly an insult, it does seem ridiculous to suggest Soylent Greem!
My views are not coloured, they are informed by personal experience and my many (and yet too few) conversations with my sister and her colleagues.
If you've never seen anyone in Velindre in agony I would say you haven't been there ofyen enough or looked close enough. There will be more than a few who are doped to the eyeballs and possibly unconcious because of that. I went there to visit my sister (carer becoming the cared for) nd in my near 2 hours in there I saw people being wheeled past in obvious agony, my sister in her room was in agony and could barely move.
If no country has reversed it's legislation, that doesn't prove it cannot happen but maybe it suggests that it actually works.
Part of the changes to the bill has been that no medical professional can be forced to take part in assisting a death.
Maybe a good thing to do would be a close look at the Swiss law on this? Humanists UK states that "the total number of UK citizens who ended their life in Switzerland from 2015-18 was 233 - more than one a week. The total number of UK citizens who are members of an assisted dying organisation in Switzerland 1,464"
So there are hundreds of people in enough suffering that they fly abroad to end their pain, away from home, family and friends. More suffering for all involved.
Honest question, are you religious? |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 12:12 17 May 2025
My gut is telling me that Plaid will be the biggest party but Labour will get enough to join them in a majority coalition. Reform will do well but not as well as expected because a lot of left leaning voters will chicken out of voting for them on the day.
Or that could just be last nights curry. |
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 21:58 16 May 2025
After reading that then clearly you are the confused one. I talked about law and the rules, about CWL losing money and being referred to the CMA.
You just spouted whataboutery.
If you break rules and/or laws it doesn't matter if you are elected or appointed, a company or a nation.
You don't have to agree with rules and laws but if you get caught breaking them...
The problem is the Senedd. |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 21:09 16 May 2025
Well I think that a lot of Labour voters will run scared of giving Reform a place at the table and still vote Labour.
The biggest losers are the tories, they have lost a massive chunk of votes and they won't get them back..
Labour only needs enough seats to swing a majority for Plaid, that may only be 4 or 5. |
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 21:04 16 May 2025
Last report I saw said CWL loses £7 per passenger for every flight. That's what the 200 million is for, so they at least break even when you include other costs like maintenance. This is on top of the 250 million to buy it and run it so far.
Assuming that's still correct and last year they had 881,000 passengers then CWL lost...£6,671,000.
This is what Lees is complaining about. It's unfair competition. Kilkenny is all for joing the EU again, inside the EU a government owning the airport and subsidising it is illegal. In the UK we just have the competition rules but the Senedd is breaking those, allegedly. |
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Reply | Assisted dying bill
at 20:55 16 May 2025
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon he broke an ancient law and his action couldn't be reversed. This isn't akin to that, this is a decison that Westminster could change, could adjust.
the suffering is not just possible, it's very common. Go to Velindre hospital and see for yourself, the wards of people waiting to die and cancer is increasing. The GP's do they have more experience than the hospital staff, more experience than oncology staff? How many GP's are at your bedside for a month while you wait to die?
Staff in hospices have more experience.
You think it's rushed yet this has been argued for, pushed for for years. MP's are debating it over months with amendments being made.
Soylent green, a tad ridiculous don;t you think? That seems akin to scaremongering. |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT
at 16:17 16 May 2025
The polls do suggest what you are saying is right but polls can be wrong, sometimes wildly wrong.
I's rather have Labour as Plaids scapegoats than have reform. better still, Plaid get a majority and we don't have Labour or Reform near power.
I'd rather see what Plaid can achieve than have any coalition where their policies get watered (beside the indy one) down. If Plaid could actually do a good job....IF, then I guess it gives the indy debate more volume, more support. Time will tell.
It wouldn't surprise me though, if Labours vote held up more stringly than the polls suggest. At this stag, when people are unhappy, they ofteb mouth off about change but when it comes down to it I can't see many labour voters going to reform but to Plaid, yes. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A whole host of players to leave this week ?
at 16:11 16 May 2025
You can't understand what is incomprehensible.
I thought it was agreed that Coleman left because he wasn't up to the job. All the right things were said but he didn't leave so much as he was ousted. He wanted to do a good job, he was a nice bloke but he just wasn't up to it which, as the last few months has evidenced, looks to be 100% accurate.
Now we have people in charge who are more competent. Just how competent we will find out.
It turns out that your support for Kaplan and Levein was also misplaced and at some point they realised they were out of their depth too. It's ok to be wrong, I am often wrong, the trick is in realising when you are and stopping digging. |
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