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Reply | Equality under the law
at 22:56 5 Mar 2025
The blackbeltbarrister aka Daniel Shensmith. Often has Starmer in his YouTube videos as a thumbnail.
It's totally political, especially in this case. |
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Reply | Equality under the law
at 20:43 5 Mar 2025
Rule of thumb.
If anyone says "you won't see this on mainstream media" is usually talking bollox. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 20:06 5 Mar 2025
I understand where you're coming from. I try to ignore some posters but the nonsense posted occasionally gets the better of me.
And I don't mean people I don't agree with. I mean propaganda, ignorance, arrogance and stupidity. |
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Reply | Drakeford to Increase Income Tax in Wales?
at 19:10 5 Mar 2025
They'd also need electable candidates living in Wales. I doubt they have many. The English ones are bad enough.
There's a core vote for the other parties who will turn out. I'm not sure Reform will get enough actual votes. We'd need the biggest turnout in Senedd election history to see that I think. |
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Reply | Drakeford to Increase Income Tax in Wales?
at 16:07 5 Mar 2025
This is where it gets tricky. If Reform are the largest party it still doesn't mean they will form a coalition to govern. Unless a party gets 49 seats they won't be able to govern outright. I can't see Reform getting that, even though they will get most votes from the right. The new system lends itself to coalition governments in the future.
The Left will vote Labour, Plaid, Green and for minor parties. That'll split the vote from the political left, but almost certain to give them more than a combined 49 seats. The Lib Dems will get a couple too.
Labour, Plaid and the Lib Dems have been involved in a coalition in Cardiff before to some degree. The Greens fit in well with them politically too.
I can't see anyone really forming a coalition with Reform, nobody from the left for any reason and I don't think the Tories would because it would set a precedent between them and Reform. I really don't think they want that as it could spell the end of the Tory party across the UK.
We could potentially end up with a coalition of minority parties if this happens, but I honestly don't know if the Reform protest vote will actually make it to the ballot paper. We'd need to see a big increase in voter turnout and I can't see it happening.
I'm not certain of the system in Wales now, but in Westminster in this scenario the PM before the election stays on to try and form a coalition government. If this is the case another Labour government is most likely in coalition with others. |
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Reply | Drakeford to Increase Income Tax in Wales?
at 14:59 5 Mar 2025
I don't think they will, thanks in part due to the new voting system and more seats. I can see a Labour / Plaid coalition with a large voting swing away from Labour to reform, it wouldn't surprise me if Reform form the second largest party in the senedd. |
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Reply | Drakeford to Increase Income Tax in Wales?
at 14:56 5 Mar 2025
It's the same most years. In some ways it's better to be held to ransom by one member than an entire party.
Plaid have not supported them this year because they want to distance themselves from Labour with an election looming. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 10:08 5 Mar 2025
It's not a substance. It's a group of substances, some more deadly than others. You're referring to the neat form of the most deadly type, that is basically unmanageable and therefore useless as a weapon.
For it to be used as a weapon it has to prepared and diluted. |
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Reply | Oakwood Theme Park Closed ...
at 19:28 4 Mar 2025
I bet the owner of Bluestone is weighing up a bid as we speak.
People I know in Pembrokeshire have been expecting them to join forces for a long time. Apparently he regrets ever selling it to get the cash to build Bluestone. |
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Reply | Are We Climate Misled?
at 15:22 4 Mar 2025
It's not really my job but I do know what it involves and the problems that exist with it. Recent governments / funding doesn't really help.
Water Companies are supposed to "self monitor" basically report themselves for causing pollution - the enforcement bodies that used to inspect and carry out enforcement work have seen reductions in resource allocated to this becasue they don't do it any more. You can imagine how well this works. It doesn't. When they do get prosecuted the fines are less than they'd have to pay to upgrade their infrastructre. It's the same with massive one off pollutions that they cause - it's cheaper to pay the fine than do the engineering.
All that being said, they are allowed to pollute in certain circumstances becasue the infrastructre can't cope with storm flows, that's not right but upgrades will cost trillions. And we'll have to pay for it through bills.
Most agriculture pollution is diffuse, it is deposited in millions of tiny areas over a massive area that then runs off in to a river sometimes miles away. The source of this is massive amounts of intense agriculture. Similar to a "free range" egg farm with 60,000 birds in the Wye catchment, bad enough on it's own but there about 500. They get planning permission by saying they sell the chicken manure off site to be used as fertilizer. Technically perfectly legal but hugely open to abuse becasue there is nobody to check what's happening. It's the same with intense dairy farming.
Welsh Government have been trying to sort things though.
https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/24671864.12-powys-chicken-farms-stuck-welsh-g
Intense agriculture is needed to keep produce at levels we're prepared to pay. If we want milk at less than £1 a pint and 6 eggs for £1.60 they have to be produced at an industrial scale. Industry is dirty. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 14:47 4 Mar 2025
Post it again then. It's that simple. It was antisemitic, nothing "potential" about it. You've posted similar previously. It was more akin to 1930's Germany than Starmer's UK in 2025.
The potential issue that was pointed out was that you could have been arrested.
I don't throw baseless accusations around. I'm not even left wing, let alone antifa. Politically I'm a centrist, I just won't tolerate discrimination especially when it's based on conspiracy and ignorance. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 13:55 4 Mar 2025
There hasn't been any in this thread - the last lot was deleted. He has posted plenty of rubbish though. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 13:50 4 Mar 2025
What have I fabricated?
You deleted the last antisemitic post as you well know.
You won't continue to engage becasue you can't. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 12:07 4 Mar 2025
What have I fabricated?
You copy and pasted something written by a party DJ from Texas. You didn't know it at the time because you only post what other people tell you. You don't seem to have your own opinions - someone gives them to you and you don't have the critical mind to evaluate them. They may not coem from the so called mainstream media but some nutcase on the web.
You introduced DJ Michael but you didn't know you had. It sums you up.
That article just paraphrased the obvious to a naive audience. It was the opinion of a nobody. It included nothing new apart from making up a load nonsense about Zelensky going to the White House to try and influence Trump and Vance to allow them to join NATO and them not allowing it. They've been unsuccesful in attempts to join NATo for decades for obvious reasons - they'll never be able to join with the current Russian leadership in place.
Let's be honest, you've got no choice but to ignore me. You post rubbish, racism or antisemitism. I call it out. You can't respond sensibly so you ignore or the thread gets pulled. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 09:20 4 Mar 2025
Which post?
The one that begins with this sentence "Are you serious?! I had never even heard of DJ Michael until you brought him up!"?
I've never seen any evidence of any reserach in anything you type, the only evidence I have noticed is that your are incapable of independent thought. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 06:16 4 Mar 2025
So what research did you do before copy and pasting DJ Michael's blog? |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 13:39 3 Mar 2025
No I wasn't, you did. You just didn't realise it. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 11:56 3 Mar 2025
So how does a Texan DJ / Karate instructor know what happened betwwen Zelensky, Trump and Vance? |
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