“Are we the baddies?”
I’ve written before about the Labour Party’s sheer hypocrisy and crocodile tears, how they say one thing in public but do something completely different. I was reminded of this again reading the...
View ArticleMinister challenged to explain apprenticeship funding cuts
800 16-24 year olds in Clwyd South out of work Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology and Clwyd South AM Ken Skates has been accused of jeopardising the future of 800 young people in his own...
View ArticleWales: “highest rate of child poverty”
A Save The Children Child poverty report states that “Wales has the highest rate of child poverty of any nation in the UK”. It is estimated that there are 600,000 children living in Wales, with 1 in 3...
View ArticleVoters 0 – MP’s 1
Susan Elan Jones MP “afraid of her constituents” Clwyd South MP Susan Elan Jones has been accused of being afraid of her constituents after voting against a motion in Parliament to give voters the...
View ArticleWhy MPs bombing decision was wrong
This is a copy of a letter that I’ve sent to papers in north Wales: Dear Sir I was bitterly disappointed to see that my MP, Susan Elan Jones, supported the motion to bomb Syria this week. I have much...
View ArticleDemeaning our politics and taking advantage of our trust
Politics. Sometimes I hate it. Well, more than sometimes, quite often actually. The oneupmanship; the spinning; the misleading; the downright lying at times – all to keep face and win support, or at...
View ArticleBe wary of the rightwards march of Anglo-British Politics
Old Welsh Mythology has a story about how Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed saw Rhiannon, the most beautiful of women, leisurely riding her pure white horse, but every time Pwyll tried to get closer to her she...
View ArticleHas Wales been or is there more to come?
I’m worried about Wales’ future. I’ve touched on it before, in this Welsh post – what is Wales’ future post triggering article 50, Scottish Independence, and the new rump UK state of Englandandwales?...
View Article100 Labour MPs abstain from Yemen vote
Tens of thousands of people have suffered or been killed in Yemen because of the on-going vicious war there, with Saudi Arabia trying to force its will on the country. It is undoubted that Saudi Arabia...
View ArticleRuabon eyesore – the highs and lows of politics.
Politics. I both love it and hate it. Love it because on a good day you feel like you’ve achieved something; improved someone or a society’s lot; you can make a real difference to people’s lives; it’s...
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