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Reply | Increase in defence spending
at 22:34 27 Feb 2025
I welcome the increase in defence spending which is long overdue. Our armed forces have been dev8mated over the last 20 odd years and that needs to be reversed, the commitment to increase spending to 2.5% is most welcome and we will hopefully see a lot of the cash being spent here in the U.K.
Over and above the increase in spending, what we also need to see is some grip and oversight on our procurement and spending, the number of projects which have over run by tens and hundreds of millions and in some cases (2 x aircraft carriers) billions over spent.
Someone I know working in London told me that some of the government contracts are managed and run by consultants who are in no rush to see contracts completed because finishing the job derails the gravy train - we need some one to sort it. |
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Reply | Mike Amesbury jail sentence
at 22:25 27 Feb 2025
Yes, I’ve reflected and thought about it a bit more since my original post, especially with the other aspects of the sentence being introduced.
He should do the decent thing and tender his resignation, but I’m not convinced that will happen. I sincerely hope his constituents boot him out. |
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Reply | Mike Amesbury jail sentence
at 19:07 27 Feb 2025
The judge who initially sentenced Amesbury was a deputy district judge and junior to the judge who reviewed the sentence today. There’s no doubt Amesbury deserved a stretch, but I was surprised given the fact we’re releasing people early he didn’t get a suspended sentence.
There’s judge hearing the case today was sitting with two magistrates at Crown Court and he also ordered Amesbury to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. Amesbury must also undertake an alcohol monitoring programme, go on an anger management course, and carry out 20 days of rehabilitation work.
Was Amesbury out of order, absolutely. Is he a danger to the wider society, if he’s never been in trouble before and this is a 1 off I’d argue he isn’t, especially given the rehabilitative measures in the sentence.
Does Amesbury deserve to lose his job - absolutely. Is he fit to be an MP, in my opinion the answer is noand he’s not the only one.
I hope the citizens in his constituency boot him out at the first available opportunity. |
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Reply | Liar Johnson
at 23:32 25 Feb 2025
It’s very easy to be impressive when everything is scripted, no one is allowed to ask the hard questions and anyone that does dare ask some serious questions ends up in a Gulag. It’s a procession of lies. |
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Reply | Liar Johnson
at 23:29 25 Feb 2025
He admitted the offence in Court by pleading guilty, how is that lying? |
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Reply | Mike Amesbury jail sentence
at 23:21 25 Feb 2025
That would be the case in most places, and if it weren’t immediate it would follow as a result of some disciplinary investigation or process.
He’ll get his comeuppance, but we have to go through the existing process first. |
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Reply | Wind power is important
at 23:02 24 Feb 2025
Once you’re outside the main towns, there are a lot of people who don’t have gas.
Heat pumps aren’t rubbish, on a new house they are excellent, but they aren’t suited to older properties.
One of my brother in laws and a couple of his mates have built a few high end houses to sell. The properties are timber frame with a brick outer skin and the amount of insulation in them is unreal. They’ve got quilted insulation on the inside of external walls plus another around 6 inches of Rockwool insulation on top of that, they are very warm and energy efficient. [Post edited 25 Feb 17:46]
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Reply | Mike Amesbury jail sentence
at 18:39 24 Feb 2025
His sentence is an automatic trigger for a recall petition to be opened - he’s toast and he’s only got himself to blame for it. Sticks and stones ……
Sends a good message out, no one is above the law. Tarra Chuck… |
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Reply | Israel attack on Iran imminent
at 16:56 22 Feb 2025
Your comments were called out by posters on here, nothing to do with the State or government. |
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Reply | Wales' 2025 Six Nations squad ...
at 22:19 21 Feb 2025
It’s been like that a while, if you go on Facebook there’s a lot of people selling tickets including many at less than face value. |
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Reply | Ban
at 18:56 21 Feb 2025
I don’t know enough about the welfare issues impacting on greyhounds, but I do see quite a few people walking them these days and from what I’ve been told they are neglected ex racing dogs.
I am in favour of the cap on the cost of kids using buses (if there are services to be had) as it will enable kids to travel and get jobs etc, a 16 year old on minimum wage (£6.40) can now afford to catch a bus to work. |
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Reply | Why bother
at 18:48 21 Feb 2025
But the freezing of the personal allowances wasn’t introduced by Labour, you can blame the previous Conservative government for that.
In 2021 the then Chancellor Rishi Sunak froze the allowance until 2026, the following year Jeremy Hunt extended the freeze on personal allowances, higher rate tax threshold and the NI threshold until 2028, nothing to do with Reeves or Starmer. Whilst the latter pair could have raised the threshold at the last budget, given there’s not a pot to @@@@ in it was never going to happen.
Things need to change, we’ve got a lot of people who haven’t worked in years (I don’t mean pensioners) and have no intention of working, some have contributed and others haven’t.
We need a conversation about limiting access to benefits so those who can work do make a contribution even if it’s 40 hours voluntary work per week. Maybe a sliding scale of reductions in benefits, for example after 3 years someone who’s not managed to find work loses a percentage of their benefits, Work needs to pay, maybe taxing benefits over what would be the minimum wage threshold - so anyone who gets more than £457 per week in benefits pays a tax. I’m not saying these would work, I’ve just thrown a few ideas out there because things have got to change.
Tax evasion is another issue to be addressed, if we can bring in more tax (from those who are evading it as opposed to bleeding the workers) that will make things easier for all. I also think we need to look at cutting business rates in smaller properties thereby encouraging people to open small businesses in our town centres, hopefully that would result in more shops, cafes, etc etc, more employment and more tax.
There must be other ideas that would work. [Post edited 21 Feb 22:14]
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Reply | Reform Wales
at 22:16 20 Feb 2025
As you say the new government honoured the recommendations of the independent pay panels.
In previous years, the government told the pay panels what was affordable and the pay review bodies reviewed the submissions from the staff associations and the management etc and made a decision based on all the facts.
If the outgoing government did not issue directions re affordability the independent pay review bodies wouldn’t have a baseline to work to and could in theory be “independent” and make a decision as they saw fit.
This poses the question why didn’t the government of the day issue guidance on affordability? Was it because they forgot? Was it because they didn’t want to alienate public sector workers and lose their votes in an election and were kicking the can down the road? Was it because they hoped to get over the line by winning the GE,then flatly rejecting the outcomes of the reviews and then imposing what the government saw fit? Be interesting to find out not that we ever will! |
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Thread | And some good news
at 20:00 20 Feb 2025
Good on the CPS for successfully appealing this monster’s conviction and securing a pretty significant increase in sentence. FGM and forced marriage is abhorrent and hopefully the increased sentence from 4.5 years to 7 will send out a strong message. If this guy is a foreign national he should be deported as soon as his sentence is done.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2d8e91l4o |
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Reply | Next Swansea manager odds 🤯
at 09:46 19 Feb 2025
The club needs a reboot, whoever the new manager is they need to be able to work with the DOF and also have the desire to work with the academy coaches to develop a style that will run through the club seamlessly so that there can be a strong emphasis on player development. I appreciate that other academies may have more resources and be more attractive, but if the club can show there’s a genuine high quality pathway in to professional football AND high quality career support for those who don’t make it the club can do well.
Changing managers, changing players etc can be an expensive waste of money so it needs to be more evolution than revolution. Who the new manager is idk, but they’ve got to get it right. |
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Reply | Reform Wales
at 09:37 19 Feb 2025
They aren’t a political party, they are a limited company. |
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Reply | Ban
at 09:35 19 Feb 2025
Lots of good points in this thread, which to be honest is an issue I’ve never really given a lot of thought to. Greyhound racing is something which appears to have been in decline for a long time and there are significant concerns about animal welfare.
That said, I’m not convinced that it is something the WG should be banning. |
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