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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 17:40 22 Oct 2025
I don't think i'm more intelligent than others who i've never met simply because they have different ideas regarding who to vote for. |
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 14:38 22 Oct 2025
Hopefully Labour voters who know they are going to lose will vote tactically for PC. |
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 10:05 22 Oct 2025
An interesting conversation on a Caerphilly doorstep recently.
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Writing on her Facebook page, Yuliia Bond, a prominent member of Caerphilly’s Ukrainian community who fled her homeland in the wake of Russia’s invasion, stated: “So, yesterday in Caerphilly, our amazing neighbour Olena, who’s originally from Ukraine, came in 2022, had a very special visitor at her door – a local canvasser from the Reform Party.
“He turns up all smiles, holding leaflets like he’s about to save democracy. ‘Good afternoon!’ he says proudly. “‘’m from the Reform Party – can we count on your support?’
“Olena, ever polite, smiles and replies: ‘Oh, really? You mean the party that wants to scrap the Nation of Sanctuary scheme that actually helped people like me when I came to Wales?’
“He looks confused. She calmly says: “’’m Ukrainian.’ ‘Oh, no – the Nation of Sanctuary programme is only for asylum seekers,’ he says confidently.
“Olena blinks. ‘Actually, no – it’s mainly for Ukrainians. 85% of the funding was used for Ukrainians. That’s literally my scheme.’
“He stammered: ‘Uh … I don’t really know about that. I think maybe we made a … petition against this scheme?’
“Olena raised an eyebrow – the kind of look only a Ukrainian mum can pull off. ‘So you’re knocking on doors,’ she says, ‘but don’t even know your own policies?’
“He laughed nervously, mumbling something about ‘just helping the campaign,’ clutching his leaflets like a life raft.
“Then Olena delivered the knockout line: ‘That’s OK. I do know – and we Ukrainians can vote in local elections now.’
“He blinked, nodded, and practically backed off the doorstep like a man retreating from battle. Pretty sure he’s still googling what his own party stands for.
“Now the neighbours are calling her Olena the Campaign Crusher of Caerphilly.
“Moral of the story? Never knock on a Ukrainian’s door unprepared – we do actually read manifestos and check the information on your leaflets.”
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Reply | How is Alan Sheehan doing ?
at 22:24 20 Oct 2025
I said in another thread that if they do decide to replace him they may ditch the idea of taking on an up and coming coach because look how that's worked out. So experience may be the way they'll go.
And no, I don't have a clue either. |
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Reply | Senedd election 2026
at 17:53 18 Oct 2025
What is wrong with the Nation of Sanctuary idea ? |
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Reply | Is Swansea really one of the UK's worst cities to live in?
at 17:51 18 Oct 2025
I thought i'd revisit this post after speaking to Rob Stewart in Lidls today.
He confirmed that about half the jobs in the Kingsway development are new. Dr W confirmed TUI are just relocating. But RS said they (TUI) were looking to expand and would probably have moved out of the centre if they hadn't been able to source suitable office accommodation.
He also said the BHS site (the HUB) is planned to open on Dec 1st so that's a real positive. Also the council are well underway with refurbing the old Debenhams store with three tenants all ready to move in there.
So all positive stuff. |
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 18:00 16 Oct 2025
There may well have been a stand out candidate if I could have watched the whole thing. It was like watching a bunch of schoolchildren shouting at each other with the audience unable to hear much at all. Pathetic.
To be fair the same applies to all these programmes. I don't understand why the TV companies are so useless at organizing them. Why don't they make the candidates stand a metre back from the microphone and only come forward to speak when the MC asks them to.
Either that or something equally simple. |
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 17:56 16 Oct 2025
Hope you don't mind uj.
I hope PC win but i'd prefer Labour than a Reform win. That would be horrific  |
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Reply | Plaid Cymru
at 18:50 13 Oct 2025
Out of curiosity I just looked at a youtube video of the Conservative Party Conference.
James Cleverly was making a speech and you'd expect the room to be full. It looked like about 500 there with more than that number of empty seats.
How far the mighty have fallen. I think i'll try Kemi's speech next. |
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Reply | Is Swansea really one of the UK's worst cities to live in?
at 09:33 13 Oct 2025
Well put.
I've said many times to my wife that the city centre, which is very run down, will get a massive boost when the Kingsway and Princess way developments are full. They will bring about 700 well paid jobs right into the City Centre and it's only when there are more people there with money to spend that business will thrive. Following on from that will be the St Davids centre redevelopment which will bring even more.
There's also the Hub on the old BHS site. That will also draw a large number of extra people into the centre. |
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Reply | Cardiff vs Newport
at 18:37 11 Oct 2025
Now that was a cold night. The terraces were mostly covered in ice from what I remember. |
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Reply | Plaid Cymru
at 10:32 11 Oct 2025
I looked specifically at the SKY news broadcast to check what you said raynor that it looks as if there were only about 50 there. At the end of Rhun's speech you could clearly see there were around 300 in the background behind the SKY reporter and that's without being able to see the whole of the room.
So that means there may well have been ten times the number there compared with the fifty that you mention.
I thought i'd put that out there for balance. |
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Reply | How is Alan Sheehan doing ?
at 10:02 11 Oct 2025
Agreed. They were better. That's what I saw.
Argue about team selection and tactics of course. And changes there may well have helped. But they were still better. |
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Reply | I'll Raise you 1 million
at 18:11 5 Oct 2025
Kemi has stated that the Tories, if they win the next election, will deport 150,000 illegal immigrants a year. So 750,000 in the five year term.
On the other hand Nige has promised to deport just 600,000. He's just got no ambition. |
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Thread | I'll Raise you 1 million
at 14:48 5 Oct 2025
The obvious next policy for the Labour Government because their number is bigger than the Conservatives and Reform's.
So they're bound to win the next election. Simples.
But try not to let Nigel Farage and Kemi know because they are bound to do something REALLY clever. Like ask their backbenchers if any of them know a number bigger than 1 million. 'Cos then they'd win the next election.
This politics lark really isn't that difficult is it. |
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Reply | Constitutional monarchy
at 12:14 5 Oct 2025
Pressed send too soon, sorry.
At the moment Westminster is costing us the best part of a billion a year just to keep it from falling or burning down (£2 million a day). They've been talking about a complete refurb of the place for a long time now and at some point they'll do it. Last time I saw the cost it was £23 billion. By the time they get around to it the cost, as we know, will have doubled. So that's another £50 billion of our money invested (because that's what it is) in London.
I suggested precisely what you said cat. Stick it somewhere in the Midlands and essentially make it a complete one off place of government with accommodation for all the MP's and staff all built on the same site. The £50 billion would pay for the whole thing and the savings over time on running the place would be absolutely enormous.
She (Tonia) was negative about it as you'd expect but that doesn't mean anyone who's interested in the idea shouldn't suggest the same thing to their MP.
And on an ever so slightly separate note, developing Westminster would add another £2.5 billion to the Welsh fiscal deficit. So that's another £2.5 billion that would not benefit Wales one bit going on to our 'debt', invested in the one place in the whole of the UK that doesn't need it, the already bloated London.
If or when it does happen i'd much prefer the huge boost it would bring to go to the Midlands rather than London. |
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