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Welsh MP reduction – will we see any difference?

The UK Government’s decision to get rid of a quarter of Welsh MPs is bad. Its anti-democratic and will result in Wales being under-represented in Westminster, that distant place where, in their wisdom,...

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Labour austerity would create more demand for Food Banks

Sir I was amazed to read your article quoting Labour AM Ken Skates saying that introducing a new food bank to Wrexham was ‘excellent news’. The reason that our communities find themselves in the...

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Call for Council transparency on budget underspend

Congratulations to Cllr. Dave Bithell on his calls for clarity on Wrexham Council’s £1.5m underspend (see pic). Here’s a letter I sent to the Leader today in response to this news: SirCllr David...

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Different brands, same content

Labour don’t like it when people point out their hypocrisy! In case you don’t know, I wrote a letter to the Leader pointing out the contrast between Labour’s warm words supporting the poor and...

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Can’t stand the heat?

Another letter in the Leader today taking offence at our campaigning. My response below. If you’d also like to reply, send them to news@leaderlive.co.uk Dear Editor I’d like to take this opportunity to...

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Funding by-passes north Wales

Dear Editor Readers may be aware that the Welsh Government has recently acquired limited borrowing powers. Like a business borrowing money in order to expand, every Government has the ability to borrow...

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“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...

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Minister 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...

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Wales: “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...

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Voters 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...

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Why 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...

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Demeaning 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...

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Be 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...

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Has 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?...

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100 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...

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Ruabon 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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