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Reply | Cardiff Rugby go into adminstration.
at 22:54 7 May 2025
I agree, but I think that will be the death of professional rugby in Wales.
If they go down the route of East and West, I can’t see the Scarlets or Ospreys supporters getting behind 1 team nor could I see Newport and Cardiff supporters getting behind 1 team.
Cardiff would probably have a “region” but not sure where the West team would be based. Swansea is the big metropolis with business backing, money, etc, but PYS is a much, much better facility than St Helens and they also have a bit of cash and support from down West. 🤷 |
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Reply | Merthyr Town. Pity the other thread turned political
at 22:25 7 May 2025
I was listening to Owen Money a few weeks ago, he believed where Merthyr ended up would hinge on the Gloucester City play off results. If Gloucester won they’d go North and Merthyr would go South, if Gloucester lost (which they did against Totton (Southampton based team)) Merthyr could well end up in the North. Apparently there’s talk that it’s a toss up between Merthyr and Hemel Hempstead for the Northern league place, they should find out pretty soon. |
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Reply | Cardiff Rugby go into adminstration.
at 21:42 7 May 2025
I can’t say I blame the Ospreys, Scarlets and Dragons tbh. It appears the WRU want the 3 regions to sign up to something that was previously agreed prior to Cardiff going bust and being taken over by the WRU. Concerns stem from the potential that the WRU will provide Cardiff with additional funding over and above what the others get thereby creating an uneven playfield. |
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Reply | REFORM IN GOVERNMENT (n/t)
at 21:38 7 May 2025
The Southport case wasn’t deemed to be a terrorist case. If you look at the legal definition of what constitutes a terrorist act under that U.K. legislation, it was deemed the offence wasn’t “made out.”
Lots of people have different views, but that is the legal position. |
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Reply | Starmer reversing
at 21:31 7 May 2025
In my opinion, the line should be drawn at nurses, doctors, dentists, radiologists etc in the NHS and staff for care homes (the latter having a minimum income requirement) etc because they are jobs that have proved consistently hard to fill.
We should be taking steps to make sure anyone working for Deliveroo or similar is qualified to work in the U.K. - if they aren’t then it’s no work whatsoever, if they are working for cash in the “black economy” then the companies whose wears they deliver get fined. If there’s no demand they’ll look elsewhere. |
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Reply | Starmer reversing
at 22:15 6 May 2025
There’s one article in the Telegraph criticising the deal and then a second talking in positive terms.
Mental |
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Reply | Reform Wales
at 21:35 2 May 2025
Look what’s happened to Thames Water, that’s hardly a glowing endorsement of privatisation. |
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Reply | My mates lad
at 23:05 30 Apr 2025
And put a few sheckles away for that rainy day. |
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Reply | Lewis O'Brien
at 23:02 30 Apr 2025
That would be good news, fingers crossed the lessons of previous windows have been learned. |
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Reply | Nearly one third (29%) of children in Wales live in poverty
at 17:50 29 Apr 2025
And when the WG tried to do something about it and passed legislation intended to tackle promotions on junk foods BOGOF etc to reduce the problem they were roundly criticised by many of the posters on here !!!!
Child poverty is an issue across the UK, but according to the figures for 21/22 it’s lower in Wales than England 28% v 31% across the border, that said both figures are completely unacceptable because lots of the families in poverty are working families.
The comments about the extra 36 AM’s are door on, we don’t need them.
Eluned Morgan needs to wake up, read the room and smell the coffee.
Ideally, she’d go away and take Getjing and Drakers plus a quite a fee more with her. |
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Reply | 3rd Team to be Relegated - Which one?
at 22:23 26 Apr 2025
Their form over the last 6 matches is the second worst in the league, only Norwich are worse. They’ve got to be worried. |
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Reply | Cardiff Debt
at 17:20 26 Apr 2025
Cardiff are down - bottom of the Division as it stands.
They’ve hovered around the trap door for a while and it’s sprung open and caught them.
I don’t want to see them go out of business but a few years in League 1 is deserved.
Plymouth look gone too, they’ve averaged 1.2 points per game since Rooney got sacked which over the course of the season is mid table form. |
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Reply | Miliband
at 22:56 25 Apr 2025
I’m no Miliband fan and would like to see the back of him, but quite a few of the points he made are very valid. He doesn’t come across brilliantly in this interview, but elements of it including the Express reporting are politically driven.
The gas under the North Sea is extracted by major PLC companies including BP, Shell, Ineos, Harbour Energy and Equinor ( Norwegian State owned) - they are commercial organisations who operate to make as much profit as they can. There is no state owned British oil/gas company. We have embraced capitalism and market forces.
Britain produces 0.8% of the world’s gas. Britain produces 54% of the gas it uses and imports the other 46% sourcing all its gas on the commercial market and paying the going rate. Some of the gas is sourced from companies paying the 78% tax rate, but some of it isn’t.
Do people really think that if companies weren’t paying 78% tax the oil and gas companies would drop the price and sell it to Britain on the cheap? What would be the incentive to do that when they could benefit from paying the lower tax rate and selling the gas on the commercial market which would enable them to trouser even more cash! Given that maximising profit is generally the goal for a company they are hardly likely take a lower rate when they can get much much more commercially. It doesn’t make sense and goes completely against the concept of the free market economy.
Millband is right about international events such as the invasion of Ukraine impacting on prices. Why would Shell sell oil to the UK at £60 per unit when they can get £120 or more on the international market? It would never happen.
If we had a State owned company supplying our gas the government of the day could control the price and hold it down, or increase it as they saw fit, but we don’t and we’re at the whim of the markets - that has a much bigger impact than the 78% tax rate.
As has been pointed out earlier in the thread, the real question which needs to asked is why is our energy so expensive? We need lower energy because it’s crippling our business and driving a lot of consumers in to energy poverty.
It is my understanding the tariff paid for renewable energy is directly linked to the most expensive energy sourced that day, so if gas is used to generate electricity during a 24 hour period (which it invariably is) then we pay the gas rate for green energy. from wind turbines. Over and above that, if we had a very windy day and were producing 100% of our energy needs via renewable sources, there is nothing in being to stop the owners of the turbines shutting down a number of their turbines which would then reduce supply and necessitate a gas power plant being turned on to keep up with demand and make good the shortfall. Guess what happens then…… yup the turbine owners get the gas rate for energy they’ve produced!!! This could easily be abused to fleece the public and line the pockets of the turbine owners!!! Most countries operate the same model as the U.K.
The State owned Great British Energy company Starmer talked about could make a difference to prices if it was big enough to deliver a huge amount of renewable energy at cheap prices, but it’s going to take years to get off the ground and it would probably be privatised when the Conservatives got back in power!!!
We’re getting shafted every which way! [Post edited 25 Apr 23:05]
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Reply | The Oxford goal
at 18:44 21 Apr 2025
Excellent goal to be fair.
If Cardiff go down it’s their own fault. They were mid table last year, but escaped by the skin of their teeth the previous year when Reading went down. |
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Reply | Man dies waiting nine-and-a-half hours for ambulance ...
at 18:35 21 Apr 2025
I know someone who went to work as a caller handler at the Ambulance service, they quit after a less than a couple of months of answering call, the person told me it was awful. Lots of call from people who needed help but they had no resources to send.
The article highlights a serious failing in the ambulance service, but it’s bigger than that. No room at A&E to offload patients because A&E can’t shift patients to the wards who are full because they can’t discharge patients as there is very little care in the community.
A couple of years ago my mum became very unwell and my sister in law who’s a nurse was really concerned she was going die. I phoned for an ambulance, the operator was really helpful but didn’t have a resource available to send even though she’d graded at the highest priority. With the help of others, got my mother in to the car and drove like Lewis Hamilton to A&E. |
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Reply | Taken from facebook
at 21:44 20 Apr 2025
I think your assessment is very accurate, but I’d also add dissatisfaction with being priced off the housing market and access to key services such as the NHS.
It may be controversial, but my belief is that in many cases the migrants do work that British people simply don’t want to do. Cleaning, food industry, agriculture and caring are all examples of jobs /industries that British people don’t want to work in. The roles are mainly staffed by international workers who pay their taxes etc etc which are used to pay the state benefits of those who aren’t working. |
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Reply | US/UK/EU - the way forward
at 22:44 16 Apr 2025
In answer to the original question, we should try to retain good relationships with all the trading the blocs, however if push come to shove i think we should align ourselves closer with the EU. It’s far from a perfect institution, but I think it’s a better bet than the US which, under Trump is very unpredictable. Trump signed the Canada Mexico US free trade deal in 2019 and claimed it was the best deal ever etc etc, 5 years later he’s renegaded on it! He’s changing his mind every couple of days and some of the policies are incoherent. What I would say is that I don’t believe this starts and finishes with Trump, I think he’s got a massive amount of support from the ultra rich and far right of the US, there’s a lot of vested interests supporting Trump - it’s not just him.
Trump, quite naturally has an America first agenda and I commend that, all governments should have their own people at the forefront of their agenda, however there also has to be given and take and cooperation amongst countries and that’s is short supply at the moment. |
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Reply | Next seasons Derby/derbies
at 18:26 15 Apr 2025
Wrexham and Wycombe are neck and neck, on paper Wrexham have the easier run in but as we’ve seen in the Championship anything can happen in football.
If Wrexham come up I think they’ll struggle. I also think Cardiff are gone. They’ve been hovering around the bottom for too long and it’s their own fault tbh.
Newport are poor and that just leaves the Swans, Coleman et al need to learn the lessons from the past few years or next season could be another difficult one. Hopefully they have and the club is on an upward trajectory. |
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