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Reply | Live music?
at 21:06 13 Feb 2025
OCS / Kula Shaker in April then the Manics in May. Both in the arena.
I'm tempted by Supergrass on Swansea beach too.
Then it's Springsteen in Anfield.
I have to say I'm listening to the Manics new album, they're still as good now as they were 15 albums ago. Very few bands can say that. |
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Reply | Small Boat Crossings
at 19:43 13 Feb 2025
Rwanda wouldn't have filled that gap because it would take relatively few asylum seekers, home office modelling suggested about 2% a year, that's no deterrent.
They'd still be here and would keep on coming.
The entire scheme was a smoke screen. |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 23:25 12 Feb 2025
And Labour are battling against the majority of the media. Both mainstream and online.
They're doing a good job on immigration. Far better than the Tories did for the last 14 years and infinitely better than Reform pledge to do. The Guardian and the Mirror won't celebrate it and the rest will use anything to criticise everything the government do.
Labour are doing nothing that couldn't have been done years ago. Whilst demonstrating why Reform's policies won't work. There is a long way to go but we probably can't afford to get there for a long time.
How much did Rwanda cost again? |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 14:19 12 Feb 2025
It means they can never be a British citizen at the moment they can after a certain number of years. It's removing another incentive.
Most of those who arrive on boats or other dangerous means aren't getting anything for free. Those that get something get very little. |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 09:26 11 Feb 2025
That's why we need to remove the incentive for them to come here in the first place which is jobs in the grey economy.
Once they've got in a boat (if that's how they come here) and are away from France it's too late to return them. They're our problem.
The Border Force need to be raiding the places they work regularly and regularising easily exploitable roles such as delivery riders and Uber drivers. The Tories cut funding to the Border Force and if Reform have any power in the future the country will be bankrupt.
Things seem to be heading in the right direction. |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 06:26 11 Feb 2025
The bottom line is that a lack of employment will stop illegal immigrants wanting to come here in the numbers we see at the moment in the first place. Cracking down on those working illegally and deporting failed asylum seekers will reduce immigration.
They're coming here to work because they've been unlikely to be caught and not to claim benefits or to access the NHS.
This is exactly what should have been done instead of wasting money on the Rwanda scheme. |
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Reply | Thank you Nigel Farage
at 14:11 9 Feb 2025
Absolutely.
The Reform manifesto/contract at the last election was totally unaffordable and unworkable. If anyone was elected on that basis the country would be in a terrible state.
The performance of some of their MP's in Westminster has been laughable.
The political reform we desperately need is for people to actually vote and for those votes mean something. |
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Reply | Governed by madmen/women
at 16:48 2 Feb 2025
I think the reason it isn't is cost v benefit in most cases. On some houses they would only work for a small time.
Some great houses have been built by a housing association just outside gorseinon. Solar panels, ground source, batteries, insulation the lot.
This is the development.
https://stridetreglown.com/projects/gwynfaen/ [Post edited 2 Feb 16:51]
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Reply | Governed by madmen/women
at 09:10 2 Feb 2025
Not by legislation. But usually to meet building regs or planning policies set by local authorities. |
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Reply | Governed by madmen/women
at 23:17 1 Feb 2025
All new homes in Wales have to have solar panels.
Solar farms make use of low quality, south facing agricultural land. Usually sheep farms that carry on producing lamb as they graze amongst the panels.
Nothing really to see here, usual Telegraph BS. |
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Reply | This third runway
at 10:39 30 Jan 2025
Sort of, I think a lot of that is politicial BS from Johnson too.
The original route was chosen by Carwyn Jones because it was cheaper as it was mainly on land owned by WG. Unfotunately it was very environmentally sensitive and there were far better and more viable potential routes.
After that environmental legislation brought in by Drakeford bascially made the proposed route illegal to develop. |
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Reply | This third runway
at 07:00 30 Jan 2025
I guess this will take a long time to get permission unless environment legislation, largely from the EU, is changed. At the moment it's illegal to build it
Similar legislation to that which stopped the Brynglas tunnel upgrade being affordable.
I noticed the M4 relief road wasn't included by Reeves yesterday. To my mind that's as important as any other infrastructure upgrade announced yesterday. |
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Reply | Will the university funding crisis mean a fall in nursing training numbers?
at 06:53 30 Jan 2025
Like it or not Universities are businesses now, the biggest private employers in many towns, including Swansea. Universities won't cut courses that make money and nursing isn't one of them
They're dependent on attracting foreign students who contribute vastly more funds than British students. Nurses can become nurses in their own country, they don't need to spend a fortune to study in the UK.
The last government made that considerably more difficult and this is the result. It will continue. |
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Reply | The inner chimp
at 09:34 26 Jan 2025
I've read the book and think about the "inner chimp" a lot. But I can't control it. I don't know if anyone really can.
I try to practice stoicism but that's bloody hard too. |
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Reply | The Southport attack and Starmer
at 16:40 24 Jan 2025
The author is also using the murder of three innocent girls to further their anti immigration agenda.
This wasn't terrorism any more so than jack the ripper or Harald Shipman. Rudakabana was a unhinged nutcase who should have been stopped, why he wasn't is the question that needs to be asked, conflating this situation with immigration and rape gangs isn't going to stop this happening again.
There are more similarities between Rudakabana and Jonny Bravery than Salman Abedi. That's what needs to be looked at. |
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