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Reply | Wrexham Stadium plans
at 09:08 30 Sep 2025
By comparison, if you considered the Wrexham population and looked to extend the Liberty to make it a comparable size allowing for Swansea's population, our place would need to be about 200,000 capacity.
No need to say any more. |
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Reply | Ex Reform Wales and UKIP MEP pleads guilty to Russian bribery Charge.
at 22:31 28 Sep 2025
I'll reply then. I always thought Nathan Gill was a slimeball and this proves it. A traitor. Even just seeing him talking on TV you could see that the light bulb behind his eyes was no more than 40 watts.
It will be very interesting to see if any of the mud sticks to you know who. |
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Reply | Ryder Cup
at 14:12 28 Sep 2025
Fantastic team effort. |
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Reply | 12.30pm Kick Off Tomorrow
at 12:43 28 Sep 2025
Fair point. The fact that some people didn't know the KO was 12.30 is criminal. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 10:09 28 Sep 2025
One of my buddies at the game said that Millwall have been close to the play offs the last couple of seasons so not mugs at all. Yesterday they looked like a group of players used to playing together as a team which is huge even if you don't have the best players.
We had a big turnover in the Summer and the team is not gelling at the moment yet. Does anyone know if they've had a big turnover in the summer like us ? |
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Reply | 12.30pm Kick Off Tomorrow
at 09:40 28 Sep 2025
I wonder how many, after seeing that we'd drawn Man City, decided to hold on to their money and buy tickets for that game instead when they come out. I imagine quite a number of people have to pick and choose which games they'll go to because of cost.
Having said that the attendances so far are pretty awful when you consider the difference between the new owners and the old ones. |
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Reply | Trump and football authorities on collision course
at 10:22 27 Sep 2025
Firstly, no one should start a post about this situation with the words quite simple. It's actually the complete opposite. It's probably the most intractable problem in the world.
And when you say Hamas started it I presume you mean the current situation (October 7th). But as regards the whole Israel/Palestine problem and what started it it certainly was not Hamas because it didn't exist until forty years after the state of Israel was created. |
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Reply | Are Plaid going to win the Senedd vote next year ?
at 17:43 26 Sep 2025
The reference to the IFS was just part of the discussion with Victoria Derbyshire. They did indeed refer to a billion less funding. But he didn't say he knows more than the IFS which someone else in the thread said.
The initial way he questioned her statement about the IFS's findings did indeed make Vicky laugh but he went on to talk about Plaid's needs based funding argument and questioned whether the IFS study included the 'need' for the £4 billion from HS2 funding. Or Plaid's argument that the income from the Crown Estates should be devolved to Wales.
There was no more time to discuss any other 'needs' as Newsnight had only allocated four minutes.
He wasn't phased at all and certainly was not destroyed. |
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Reply | Are Plaid going to win the Senedd vote next year ?
at 09:42 26 Sep 2025
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Are Plaid going to win the Senedd vote next year ? on 17:24 - Sep 25 by felixstowe_jack
Huge increase in the cost of running the senedd next year. Their proposed budget will be over £100m. That works out ar £1 million per Senned member with three extra 36 Senedd members cost £1 million each. Which equates to £10 for every person in Wales.
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Wr's response
A small price to pay if its efficient and benefits Wales. It's not and doesn't. The next lot have one term to turn it around or there should be a referendum on whether it should stay. At the end of the next Senedd it will be over 30 years since the devolution referendum, long enough to produce the results or go.
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Allow me to rephrase that last para.
A small price to pay if it's (Westminster) efficient and benefits the UK. It's not and doesn't. The next lot have one term to turn it around or there should be a referendum on whether it should stay. At the end of the next Parliament it will be over 300 years since the Houses of Parliament were set up, long enough to produce the results or go.
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The argument that felix appears to be making is that running the Senedd is too expensive at approx £1 million per Senedd member per year. Running the House Of Commons costs roughly the same per MP. Then add the cost of running the House Of Lords and we're approaching £1 billion. And on top of that, if you add the cost of simply keeping Westminster from falling or burning down (£2 million a day at last count or £750 million a year) then the cost of keeping that whole shooting match going is about twice the cost of the Senedd.
Is Welsh democracy not worth as much as UK democracy ? |
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Reply | Are Plaid going to win the Senedd vote next year ?
at 09:23 26 Sep 2025
Destroyed on Newsnight last night ?
For those who don't watch it Rhun Ap Iorwerth was on the programme. He was incredibly lucid in his answers to questions. I'd suggest that anyone who is interested in what he was like should catch up with it on iplayer and not simply accept what Luther says at face value.. |
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Reply | Trump's Speech to the United Nations regarding Europe's Immigration Problem
at 11:19 25 Sep 2025
If he is so bad why have Londoners elected him for three consecutive terms, the last one with an increased share of the vote ?
As far as Trump is concerned he'd be better off looking to fix his own country. When bad things happen (Charlie Kirk) a real leader would make the effort to heal division. Instead Trump stokes it.
Shameful. |
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Reply | The Reform Party Conference
at 18:36 24 Sep 2025
I've brought this up a number of times cat.
Everyone says that the benefits bill should be cut. How many billions are paid out as in work benefits because the jobs people do don't pay enough for those people to live on. So us, the tax payers, are subsidising the profits of those companies.
And where does the profit go ? Some in investment you'd hope. And the rest ? |
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Reply | Budget Speculation - Part Deux 2025
at 12:41 21 Sep 2025
You are correct Dr. I went automatically into the protect the permanently lambasted Civil Servant mode (i'm not and wasn't a Civil Servant) instead of thinking logically about your point  |
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Reply | Budget Speculation - Part Deux 2025
at 22:26 20 Sep 2025
If someone is a civil servant and earns a certain amount of money he pays the same tax as someone who doesn't work for the government and is paid the same amount. So why would the second person be a net tax contributor while the civil servant isn't. |
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Reply | Budget Speculation - Part Deux 2025
at 11:36 20 Sep 2025
So much has been said about millionaires leaving the UK. Almost everyone blames this on Rachel Reeves' last budget. The biggest number i've seen is 16,500. That is around 0.5% of all millionaires in the country. So that leaves just 3,283,500 (approx).
What i'd like to know is how many of them were already planning on leaving anyway, nothing to do with the budget. Some of them certainly would have been. Then i'd also like to know how many millionaires came into the country in the same period. Some certainly would have.
Just a few thoughts. |
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