One is a bit short of cash right now

The queen is running out of money and may soon be asking for more cash from the civil list. She had to take £6million out of her own reserves last year to keep her household running. At this rate, she will run out by 2012. The cost of running the royal family rose by £1.5million to £41.5million. How many pensioners or children could be taken out of poverty? How much extra health care for the most vulnerable or an education system could that buy.

The House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms. The royal house was created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by George V by a royal proclamation in 1917. The House of Windsor is the only dynasty to have ruled over lands on all continents of the world simultaneously.
Charles Prince of Wales (Welsh: Tywysog Cymru) is a title traditionally granted to the Heir Apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom (and formerly the Kingdom of Great Britain and before that the Kingdom of England). The current Prince of Wales is Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.
Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester by Letters Patent on 26 July 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969.
Conclusion a German blooded Royal family gets their eldest son to become Prince of Wales, seems very medieval.

Labour's short of money

5 Plaid Cymru constituencies raised and spent £25,000 in 2008 and they are Arfon, Carmarthen East, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd and Ynys Mon. Compare the spending and abillity to raise money, with Labour’s with only 3 constituencies were Gower, Swansea West and Rhondda. Labour’s priority is spending large amounts of money in English constituencies and not in Wales.

Labour whips are out to vote for Beckett as Speaker

Labour whips like Wayne David will be bulling Labour MP’s to vote for Margaret Beckett, how can someone who have been a part of the problem suddenly become the solution. The same Beckett was found to have claimed £600 for hanging baskets and pot plants by The Telegraph in the 2009 scandal. She appeared on Question Time in Grimsby where she was heckled for calling this claim "an error" and also for her refusal to repay £72,000 of controversial second home allowance.[22] As she had no mortgage or rent outstanding it was queried how she managed to claim £72,537 between 2004 and 2008 on a house in her constituency when she was renting out her london flat and living in a grace and favour flat.

More strikes ahead at power plants as oil refinery row rumbles on

Sacked workers plan a public burning of dismissal letters from the Total oil company, whose £200m project has been dogged by disputes over foreign labour and alleged breaches of national agreements.
None of the 647 steel erectors, platers and welders plan to meet the company's demand that they formally reapply for their jobs as a condition of talks starting. Total was due to meet the GMB and Unite unions and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service on Friday but withdrew after four hours of preliminary discussions.
Both unions pressed for talks to start tomorrow and warned that sympathy action was likely to spread through the sector. Last week there were walkouts by builders at 17 power stations, refineries and other energy building sites from Yorkshire to south Wales.
The French owned Total oil company could not do to French workers as they are doing to British workers. Britain as the worse Labour laws in Europe thanks to th Tories and Labour failure to improve workers rights. So why do the GMB and Unite unions still donate to the Labour party.

Lib Dems row over £2.4m donation

Police are considering whether to launch a full investigation into a complaint about the Liberal Democrats receving £2.4m from a donor later convicted of fraud.
The donation - the largest in the party's history - was given by businessman Michael Brown through his company 5th Avenue Partners before the 2005 General Election campaign. Should the Lib Dems pay that money back to the people Michael Brown frauded? This money was used to fight election here in Wales where they defended sitting Lib Dems MP's and won Ceredigion.

Residents Against Ffos-y-Fran (R.A.F.F.)

I fuly support the
Residents Against Ffos-y-Fran (R.A.F.F.) campaign.

Rhondda Labour Chris Bryant MP

Expenses Claims Scandal
Chris Bryant claimed over £92,000 in expenses over the five years leading up to the 2009 scandal over MPs' expenses. During that time he flipped his second-home expenses twice, claimed mortgage interest expenses that started at £7,800 per year before rising (after flipping) to £12,000 per year. He also claimed £6,400 in stamp duty and other fees on his most recent purchase, and £6,000 per year in service charges. A claim that he made for £58,493.26, almost three times the annual maximum, in 2004, was disallowed

Whiskey Galore

The Ogmore MP Huw Irranca-Davies, a junior Environment Minister, billed us taxpayers £150 for a case of House of Commons whisky.The whisky was intended as raffle prizes in his constituency. He'll now be paying back the cash after what he calls the indefensible error came to light with the publication of MPs' expenses.

The question needs to be answered what organization benefited from the raffle prizes (was it the local Labour party)?

Tony shreds expenses claims

Tony Blair had his MP expenses shredded paid by the tax payer.

Tower Colliery Chief says Kinnock was rewarded for not backing miners

Former Tower Colliery boss Tyrone O'Sullivan expressed his disgust over the findings, saying it was Lord Kinnock's reward for failing to support the miners during the 1984 strike. Former deputy Labour leader of Liverpool City Council Derek Hatton said,"nobody should be surprised by the findings, as Lord Kinnock had set the party on the road to embracing Thatcherism.

Mr Hatton went on the say,"He paved the way for Tony Blair, who simply carried on in the way that Thatcher had carried on. He created the launch pad for the greedy and selfish society and nobody should be surprised that he has done the same".

Labour MP for Anglesey Albert Owen said,"the political shift under Lord Kinnock from old to new Labour was necessary otherwise we would never have got back into office.

Same Old

After the Welsh Assembly election Peter Hain told the press Labour must change and listen. After the local council election Peter Hain came out and said the same. Now after the worse European election result Peter Hain again Labour must change. The truth is Labour can't change like a leopard can't change its spots and will crash and burn.

Apolitical Blues

Well my telephone was ringing,
And they told me it was Gordon Brown,
Well my telephone was ringing,
And they told me it was Gordon Brown,
You can tell him anything
'Cause I just don't wanna talk to him now.
I've got the apolitical blues.
And that's the meanest blues of all,
Apolitical blues.
And that's the meanest blues of all,
I don't care if it's Tony Blair,
I just don't wanna talk to him now

Iraq Inguiry to go ahead - but "In Secret"

Gordon Brown will announce an inquiry - reportedly a secret one - into the Iraq war this week as he continues his political fightback.
I though New Labour was running a transparent government. The Tories held a inquiry into the 1980s Falklands War behind close doors. This labour government is getting to resemble the old Tory government by the day. The Iraq war is the biggest mistake sine Suez.

Revealed: How the Kinnocks have enjoyed an astonishing £10m ride on the EU gravy train

Neil and Glenys Kinnock received more than £10million in pay, allowances and pension entitlements during their time working at the European Union in Brussels. Lady Kinnock, who was appointed Europe Minister by Gordon Brown this month, was a MEP for 15 years. Her husband, who failed to win a General Election as Labour leader, was an EU Commissioner for ten years until 2004.
A total of £775,000 in wages for Lady Kinnock and £1.85 million for her husband, adding up to £2,625,000. Allowances for Lady Kinnock’s staff and office costs of £2.9million. A £64,564 ‘entertainment allowance’ for Lord Kinnock. A total of five publicly-funded pensions, worth £4.4million, allowing them to retire on £183,000 a year. A housing allowance that allowed them both to claim accommodation costs although, as a married couple, they lived in the same house in the Belgian capital between 1995 and 2004.
We now can see why Lord and Lady Kinnock remain loyal servants to the Labour party; loyalty will always be rewarded to the few. With Lord Kinnock in the House of Lords and Lady Kinnock in Gordon’s cabinet you could say they are both un-elected quangos over seeing what go's on in Wales. This is the New Labour ethos with a new meaning to "Champagne Socialists".

New Twist to the Euro Elections

Looking at the recent European Election, I looked at them from another perspective, that is who finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the various constituencies. Basically a party that finish top would get 4 points then 2nd placed would have 3 points and so on.
Points won
Labour had 118 points.
Tories had 115 points.
Plaid Cymru had 97 points.
Number of constituency won.
Labour won 15.
Tories won 17.
Plaid won 7.
What also were interesting were how many second place each party won.
Plaid Cymru had 12 x 2nd’s.
Labour had 12 x 2nd’s.
Tories had 8 x 2nd’s.
So even though Plaid Cymru would have won 7 seat, there are also 12 seat that Plaid Cymru can seriously challenge Labour and the Tories. In the next Welsh Assembly elections what should be encouraging is Plaid Cymru could easily win 19 constituency seats. So all those red Labour constituencies in south Wales could so easy be Plaid Cymru green that is if voters became a bit more tactical in their voting.

GMB cuts Labour funding

The GMB union has voted to cut funding to a third of the 108 Labour MPs it sponsors, saying they have failed to back its policies.
It also said it would ask its 600,000 members if they wanted to reduce the £1.2m funding for the Labour Party.
The union discussed its links with Labour at its conference in Plymouth.
General secretary Paul Kenny said he had been “weighing” up the performance of MPs, who could lose up to £20,000 a year if funding is cut.
The union was no longer prepared to finance MPs who treated workers with “contempt”, he added.
‘Performance-related pay’
The vote came as fire-fighters, prison officers, teachers, civil servants and other public sector workers joined a TUC rally in Westminster to press the government to make sure their pay keeps up with the rising cost of living.
Outlining his members’ grievances, Mr Kenny said those targeted would be MPs who had failed to support union policies, had not responded to requests for help or had not engaged with local branches.
“The intention is not to cut funding overall; it’s to divert it to areas where frankly people are doing a job of work,” he told the BBC.
“The government is very keen on testing for everybody, performance-related pay, and we’ve applied in the GMB over the last 12 months exactly the same principle.
“We’ve examined the records of MPs both at local level and national level and many are doing a fantastic job, but there are a number who seem at times to be embarrassed by their relationship with the union.
“We don’t want to embarrass them by giving them union money.”

My Land, My Home

No man, no madness, Though their sad power may prevail, Can possess, conquer, my country's heart They rise to fail She is eternal Long before nations' lines were drawn When no flags flew, and no armies stood My land was born And you ask me why I love her Through wars, death and despair And you ask me would I leave her -- but how? I cross over borders but I'm still there now How can I leave her? Where would I start? Let men's petty nations tear themselves apart My land's only borders lie around my heart

This is what being part of Great Britain

One in four children continues to live in poor families and there are significant levels of poverty throughout the country, according to a major new assessment of social exclusion in Wales.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Wales 2005 shows that roughly a third of the 170,000 children in homes below the poverty threshold live in the Valleys. More than half live with lone parents who are mostly not working.
Low pay, especially among women, is an increasingly significant cause of poverty in Wales. More than a third of poor households include an adult who is working. Despite the minimum wage and tax credits, the numbers experiencing 'in-work poverty' are no lower than in the mid-1990s.
One in four women in full-time jobs and 60 per cent of those in part-time work are paid less than £6.50 an hour. Former mining areas in the South have the highest proportions anywhere in Wales or England of adults who are out of work because of limiting long-term illness.

Employment Law

The UK is one of the most unregulated labour markets in the world. As a result Welsh workers are amongst the most exposed in the European Union. Spain, France and Germany have far stronger employment laws. New Labour promote the so called ‘flexible workforce’ which in fact means that workers in Wales and across the UK are vulnerable to decisions by multi national companies to cut jobs or relocate to even lower wage economies. Collective dismissal procedures in countries such as France are far stricter meaning it is more difficult for companies to just up and go.

New Labour tell us that a flexible labour market is key to enticing manufacturing companies to the UK. However, under this Government over a million manufacturing jobs have been lost, and Wales has been losing jobs at a faster rate than any other part of the UK. New Labour will also claim that the UK has historically low unemployment compared to over 10% in France. Our rebuttal is clear – highly paid manufacturing jobs are being replaced with low pay low skill work such as call centres; economic inactivity of people of working age in most of the South Wales Valleys is running at 30%. Furthermore if it was more difficult for companies to relocate from here, local management would have a better case when competing for investment; and all the evidence suggests that increased employment protection leads to an increase in productivity. In reality New Labour’s flexible economy is just making Welsh workers more dispensable.

Manufacturing is key to a stable economy – at the end of the day if we are not producing anything, we will be dependant upon imports resulting in a growing trade deficit. The UK currently has a trade deficit of over £4bn. There is a trade deficit in goods of over £6bn and a trade surplus in services of over £2bn – which just goes to show that New Labour’s priority is towards the service sector dominated economy of the South East of England.

We should call for stronger employment protection laws such as:
A longer minimum consultation period before redundancies (France 6 months/UK 90 days)
Reducing the qualifying level for redundancy payments
Forcing employers who decide upon redundancies to enact a ‘social plan’ which involves substantial investment in retraining
Increase minimum redundancy pay (the average cost in France is X5)
Call on Government to introduce legally binding international treaty on Corporate Social Responsibility
A Minister for Manufacturing in the DTI
JE

Amicus urge stronger employment laws now to save UK jobs

Amicus say the UK’s commitment to weaker employment protection is costing the country thousands of vital and well paid jobs and endangering our economy.

Amicus is calling on the government to act now to introduce stronger job protection after thousands of closures and job losses have been announced all over the country in recent weeks including Burberry in Rhondda, Peugoet in Coventry, Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port, HP in Birmingham and the Prudential in Belfast.

The union says that the fact that other European countries such as France, Spain and Germany have stronger employment laws means UK workers are most vulnerable to redundancy when multinational companies seek to make cuts or move jobs to low wage economies to pursue bigger profits.

Speaking at the union’s conference starting in Scarborough today, Amicus’ General Secretary, Derek Simpson, will say: “Successive UK governments have insisted on setting minimum standards for redundancy in the hope that a ‘flexible’ economy will attract greater and employment and investment here but the reality is that our workers are just made more dispensable.

“I haven’t noticed any multinationals creating jobs here lately but we’re being inundated by news of closures and job losses at rates that exceed every other European country.

“We need the government to act, and now. If they don’t, there won’t be anything left to save and it’s not only UK workers that will pay the price - they will too at the next election.”

Amicus has launched a million pound advertising campaign encouraging the UK public to boycott Peugeot following the company’s decision to close its UK productive UK site to produce cars in low wage Slovakia, with the loss of 2,300 jobs.

Amicus say that minimum redundancy pay in some EU countries is almost five times that of the UK and so, for example a redundancy in France would cost Peugeot £100,000 compared to a likely average of £25K that UK Peugeot workers can expect.

Evidence also suggests that flexible labour laws have a negative impact on the wider economy, In France, for example, which enjoys much stronger employment protection, and a maximum working week, productivity is 25% higher than the UK and manufacturing jobs have increased by 150,000 since 1997.

In Germany, where workplace legislation is also much tougher than the UK, productivity is 18% higher than the UK and manufacturing has increased by 120,000 jobs since 1997. Over a million manufacturing jobs have been lost in the UK over the same period. Between June 1997 and the end of 2004, the UK has lost 22 per cent of its manufacturing jobs. In France and Germany, the loss has been between 5% and 6%.

Amicus say though that it’s not just highly skilled and well paid jobs that are being lost here in the UK, technology and banking and insurance jobs are being lost abroad just as quickly.

Valleys fail as English coal towns thrive

THE Welsh Valleys are standing still, while equivalent areas in England and Scotland flourish, according to a damning report.
Large areas of South Wales are still struggling to cope with the legacy of the country’s industrial past, resulting in large scale unemployment and a shortage of skills.
But parts of England and Scotland with similar backgrounds have showed strong signs of recovery since the decline of the British coal industry in the 1980s, says social welfare group the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The findings last night led to calls for new economic strategies to ensure that Cardiff’s prosperity finds its way into the Valleys.
Research by the JRF shows that people have fared better in other former colliery regions in Britain than in the central Valleys – either by commuting to the nearest cities or finding new jobs locally.
Critics said yesterday the Valleys had seen too much emphasis on temporary inward investment by foreign companies, and too little on indigenous businesses.
Childcare and transport were criticised for stopping Valleys residents taking jobs in the M4 corridor.
The issues will be debated at a conference next month on the challenges facing the Heads of the Valleys.
The JRF compared three areas: central Valleys and Cardiff; South Yorkshire coalfield and Sheffield; and Lothian coalfield and Edinburgh.
It found that from 1998 to 2003 there was zero growth in employment for men in the Valleys, and just 4% growth for women.
Overall growth of 2% compares with 9.5% in the South Yorkshire coalfield and 7.8% in the Lothian coalfield.
Cardiff had seen bigger employment growth than Sheffield or Edinburgh, but the report questions the benefits for Valleys residents.
In 2001 just 8.5% of working- age residents in the central Valleys commuted to Cardiff – compared with 39.5% from Lothian working in Edinburgh.
Increased traffic on the A470 and passengers on the Valley Lines imply that many more people now commute to Cardiff from the Valleys, but Rhondda AM Leanne Wood said many of her constituents were reluctant or unable to work more than a few miles from their home or children’s school.
“We’ve got low skills in the Valleys. It means that people can only apply for low-paid jobs,” she said. “That could mean they can’t afford the transport and childcare.
“One of the things that will encourage more women into work is having employment on their doorstep and the flexibility to get around informal childcare arrangements.
“A lot of people I know rely on grandparents, friends or neighbours. You can’t do that if you spend an hour each side of your working day travelling to Cardiff. A job in Cardiff isn’t practical.”
She said the JRF report showed how grants for inward investment in the 1980s and ’90s had ultimately failed the Valleys.
“As soon as the benefits ran out, a lot of the companies packed up and left. I don’t know if that was worse than them not coming at all – it raised people’s standards of living and expectations and took them away again.
“In some valleys the call centres have come in and then upped sticks to set up in India. We’ve got to play long-term. The short-term fix isn’t going to work.”
David Rosser, director of CBI Wales, said new technology could enable the service-sector economy to be less city-based, but many Valleys residents could lack the skills to capitalise on home-based working.
He added, “It takes quite a lot of convincing to persuade employers to put large numbers of service- sector jobs in the Valleys, which don’t have a tradition of service- sector employment.”
The JRF research, by academics from three universities, including Professor Kevin Morgan from Cardiff University, included surveys of jobseekers.
Most respondents in Lothian sought jobs in Edinburgh, because they regarded the city as part of their local area.
“Far fewer respondents in the central Valleys include Cardiff in their job search than recent commuting data might suggest.”
The report also adds that people’s social networks influenced their attitudes to types and locations of work.
In Lothian and South Yorkshire, jobseekers had friends or relatives in employment who provided knowledge and experience.
“Respondents in the Valleys area [were] more likely to have unemployed or inactive people in their social network,” it says.
On February 7, Ieuan Wyn Jones, Minister for Economic Development, will address a Heads of the Valleys conference in Tredegar. Organised by the Institute of Welsh Affairs, the event will explore new ideas for the area and be followed by a research report.
IWA director John Osmond said, “The Heads of the Valleys aren’t so integrated as other parts of the UK with more prosperous areas. We’ve got to get to grips with more sophisticated transport. In other parts of the world, light- rail systems operate fairly well.
“Also, the Heads of the Valleys are close to the Brecon Beacons national park. We need to do more in terms of the tourism potential and the attractiveness of the area to develop new settlements.”
He claimed that Wales tended to spread regeneration funding, such as the Communities First programme for the most deprived wards, too thinly.
“Every community in Wales has to have a slice of the action so nobody feels left out. We ought to be more mature and focus our limited resources more effectively.”
Rhondda MP Chris Bryant said, “I think we need to move towards much more full-time, free childcare. There’s just not enough childcare available.”
He called for stronger efforts to promote small businesses, instead of the grandiose schemes of the past. “My experience of the Welsh Development Agency was that they didn’t understand how the Valleys worked.”

The political levy debate:Should the unions dump Labour?

Tony Blair was accused of being "more Thatcherite than Thatcher". This was the verdict of the Transport Workers' Union after Blair's decision to privatize the defence yards at Faslane, Rosyth and Devonport. With thousands of jobs in jeopardy, this was a privatization too far.
Blair has stolen the Tories' clothes and has taken the New Labour Party far to the right. "The New Labour Party is more pro-business, pro-wealth creation, pro-competition than ever before," Gordon Brown stated recently.
In 1997, millions voted New Labour after 18 years of rotten Toryism. It was an overwhelming rejection of the Tories and all they stood for. Now, after ten years of New Labour government, patience is wearing thin. Blair/Brown continues with pro-business policies, public services are crumbing while the gap between rich and poor has grown into a canyon.
Blair/Brown has also linked up with the extreme right in Europe - Berlusconi and Aznar - to undermine workers' rights. Workers in Britain already have less workplace protection, work the longest hours and have the shortest holidays in Europe. Last year, the official figures for the number of deaths at work rose by 32%. There is even talk of increasing the retirement age to 70!
Anyone who dares oppose these pro-business policies, especially the trade unions, is denounced as a "wrecker" and a "small c conservative". This is an insult to the millions of public sector workers who are opposed to handing over hospitals to private profiteers. It is the Blairites who are presiding over declining services after years of neglect. They are Conservatives with a big C.
The mood in the unions is beginning to boil over. Last year's Fire Brigades Union conference passed a resolution that called for its political fund to be used only to support organizations and candidates that support union policy. UNISON also passed a motion calling for a review of its political fund. The GMB has decided to cut £2 million to the New Labour Party over the next four years, and the CWU and RMT have threatened similar action. Similar discussions will take place at a number of this year's trade union conferences.

Brown sets out his plan to "clean up" parliament

Gordon Brown thinks the people fools by promoting reforms in a bid to avoid losing power. In 12 years, not a squeak about electoral reforms, by now he and his mates have been caught with hands in the cookie jar, there are crys to clean up the system. The system might be wrong but it was the MP's who abused their position.

How they spend our Money

Every local council authority in Wales whoever controls it, have realised that they might have to cut council service and jobs or raise council tax. This is because of the reduced financial settlement the Welsh Assembly has had from Westminster. Now we have the Tories and Labour accusing each other who will reduce public funding by 10%. Well whoever gets elected will have to cut public spending on public services, if you are to believe an independent think tank. Who also said that it would take two terms of government to bring this country up to standard before the recession hit?

My local MP Wayne David voted for the UK's ID card scheme that will cost £5.4bn, he voted for replacing and operating the Trident nuclear missile system at a cost £76bn and the London's 2012 Olympics which is likely to cost £8bn. You can see where the priorities of this Labour government and my MP lie.

Disillusion or Dissolution?

Today Parliament will discuss Plaid and the SNP’s motion in favour of the dissolution of Parliament which would trigger a General Election. This is the first time ever that Parliament has discussed a motion on its own dissolution. Traditionally, Opposition parties would put down votes of confidence and if the Government lost, they would then head over to Buckingham palace and seek a dissolution.
This happened in 1979 – on a Tory No Confidence motion, not an SNP motion as Labour often wrongly asserts. The Plaid MPs back then – Dafydd Elis Thomas, Dafydd Wigley and Gwynfor Evans – all backed the Government: the Government in return agreed to push through the legislation on Welsh slate quarrymen’s compensation as part of the ‘wash-up’ – the last-minute legislation that precedes a dissolution.
You have to go back to 1924 and Ramsay MacDonald’s (also a Welsh MP, like Jim Callaghan in 1979) Labour Government that lost a censure vote and opted for dissolution – deliberately in order to decimate the Liberals and help create the two-party system that lasted for the best part of fifty years.
Today, it’s Labour’s future that hangs in the balance. It seems likely that most Labour MPs will opt for the long drawn-out pain of a slow death rather than the sudden catharsis of an immediate election. Brown will announce the Iraq war inquiry that fittingly was the subject of our last parliamentary debate back in October 2006. Then the Government’s position was there was no need: now Brown will hail it as evidence of yet another fresh start.
Even if we lose tonight, the chances are that the governing party will eventually come around to our way of thinking a second time. Despite the show of unity, the chances of an early dissolution of Parliament are still evens – with a new leader installed in the Autumn and an election in early Spring. But the prospect of the Labour Party being submerged under a deluge of public opprobrium with Brown like Captain Ahab determined to go down with the ship (or was it the whale) is also equally possible.
We deliberately chose not to personalise the issue, though the precedent is there: on July 4th 1977, (independence day) Plaid and the SNP put down a motion halving the Prime Minister’s salary – a traditional means of censuring a minister. It lost by just 29 votes. I wonder how close it’ll be tonight, and if the Prime Minister will scurry away after his statement to the House.
Whatever the programme for constitutional or parliamentary reform the Government unveils today the truth is that they lack the moral authority to implement it. It would be luck building a house on the sands: whatever he does or says, the tide of public opinion will soon wash this Prime Minister and his much-vaunted legacy away.

There is no place in Wales for these people

I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the Earth was flat … I have reached the conclusion that the 'extermination' tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria
Nick Griffin 1998
Shame on the people who voted BNP, giving these people any sort of platform will only bring
Anarchy to Wales.

Ieuan Wyn Jones & Jill Evans MEP

Plaid Cymru had more votes than Labour in 7 out 7 target seats. Came a very good second to Labour in many of the South Wales valley seats. By the next election there will be no safe Labour seat in Wales. When Labour say "a vote for Plaid is a vote for the Tories", well Plaid don't stand in England and that is where the Tories will gain control of London. When Labour has retreated into their in fighting shell, Plaid Cymru will be out in the streets fighting for Wales.

Gordon Brown's Policy

To make the rich work harder you give them bonuses and pay them more, to make the poor work harder you pay them less and threaten them with job loses.

Gordon's I-Player

Go Now – Moody Blues
(Golden)Gordon Brown – The Stanglers
Gordon is a Moron - Jilted John
The Letter - The Box Tops
Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
Anymore to add?

European Election Results

Conservative: 145,193 (21.2%, up 1.8%)
Labour: 138,852 (20.3%, down 12.2%)
Plaid Cymru: 126,702 (18.5%, up 1.1%)
UKIP: 87,585 (12.8%, up 2.3%)
Lib Dems: 73,082 (10.7%, up 0.2%)
Greens: 38,160 (5.6%, up 2%)
If that result was extended to other elections Labour would have lost councillors in a council election, AM’s in a Welsh Assembly Election and MP’s in a general election. On the other hand Plaid Cymru would gained councillors, AM's and MP's.

One Welsh MP in Gordon's cabinet

First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Lord President of the Council - The Rt Hon Lord Mandelson.

Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - The Rt Hon Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.

Secretary of State for Transport - Lord Adonis.

Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office - The Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown.

Minister of State (Science and Innovation), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - The Rt Hon Lord Drayson.

Not forgetting Tea Lady Lady Glenys Kinnock. Maggie Thatcher didn't have so many lords and ladies in her cabinet.

All these members are unelectable hangers on and not answerable to the people.

With Secretary of State for Wales - The Rt Hon Peter Hain MP the only Welsh MP in Gordon’s cabinet. What a sad affair that Labour in Wales hasn’t the quality of MP to sit at Gordon’s cabinet table.

Was the Daily Telegraph exposure a help to UKIP or an hinder?

Was the serialising of MP’s expenses by the Daily Telegraph an act to expose those honourable servants of the House of Parliament or was it to undermine the European elections in an attempt to increase the votes of UKIP and UKIP MEP's? Some say this could have been issued after the European election, when all the expenses would have been sorted.

Leaders who lost the confidence of the People

2007 Gordon Brown
Labour (Former Chancellor of the Exchequer )

1997 Tony Blair
Labour (swept into power)

1990 John Major
Conservative

(Former(Chancellor of the Exchequer)

1979 Margaret Thatcher
Conservative (swept into Power)

Is Big Brother really more popular than election?

According to programme-makers Endemol, there were 6,363,325 votes cast during the 2004 live final of Big Brother 5.
The total number of votes cast in the most recent series of the BBC's Fame Academy was 8,250,000.
There were 27,128,130 votes cast in total the 2005 general election.
No contest there, then. The House of Commons beats the Big Brother house.

Gordon "Boil" Brown

Gordon Brown is only the boil (which needs to be lanced) the main septic puss and infection is the Labour Party.
Very pleasing listening to Wayne David MP last night and this morning on defending (when he said the Labour MP's are behind Brown, but what about the needs of the people) Gordon Brown. It was the same defence he made of Tony Blair prior to the departure of Mr Blair. The loyalty towards the Labour party by Mr David is breath taking, but what about the loyalty to the people of Caerphilly. He continues to come across as the man who knows best and not the people who voted for him. Classic case of a Labour party still not listening to the electorate.

There seem to be Confusion over recent car sales

Report 1 -New car sales down in May as cash-for-scrap plan gets up and running
New car sales fall 24 per cent in May to 134,000
Drop in car sales for the 13th consecutive month
Scrappage scheme sale improvement unknown
New car sales fell again for the 13th consecutive in May as the scrappage incentive finally got going.
Official figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed that in May just 134,585 cars were sold. This number is down by 24 per cent or 44,687 on May 2008.
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Report 2 – The "Cash for bangers" pot is fast running out
The "cash for bangers" scheme that reward drivers for trading in their old cars could run out of money six months early because it is so popular. So many motorists are taking advantage of the £2,000 discount on buying a new car.
Which report is correct?

Low Turnout

Been down my local polling booth to vote, by 6.15pm only 97 people (out of over 500 voters) this could mean a turnout between 25% - 30% for this box. This ballot box have always been a strong Labour vote

Vote Plaid and show your true colours at the ballot box tomorrow

Only a vote for the Plaid Cymru will send a clear message to the political class that you want action Living in Wales, the choice isn't hard for me. Plaid Cymru, in its present incarnation, is a green, progressive, effective political force. I see little point in splitting the vote between parties with politics like mine.

Brown's Favourite Record

Supertramp

Crisis? What Crisis?

Vote Plaid

Hollywood and Marvel have the Fantastic Four.

Plaid Cymru also got a Fantastic Four in Jill, Eurig, Ioan and Natasha.

What They Claimed

The only way to clean up Parliament, is to have more MP's from Plaid Cymru.

Labour Lied. Vote Plaid

Labour Lied. Vote Plaid

Our schools ‘lag England and are starved of cash’

LOCAL authorities in Wales are allotted £496 less per pupil to spend on education per year than their counterparts in England.
The funding deficit has been criticised by Wales-based educationalist, Professor David Reynolds, in a Week in Week Out documentary due to be screened on BBC One Wales at 10.45pm tonight.
Prof Reynolds believes the lack of funding made available by the Assembly Government has resulted in falling standards, dilapidated buildings and school closures, in some cases motivated by money rather than improving educational provision. Is there a link between the funding deficit and the continuing saga of keeping small school open? Where a small amount of pupils are being taught in fair surroundins and the majority taught in less suitable schools. Should councils ring fence the educational funding they get from the Welsh Assembly?

MPs to get chance to call early general election next week

MPs will be given an unexpected opportunity next week to dissolve parliament and call an early general election.
The leaders of Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National party are to use their allotted time in parliament to force a dissolution debate on Wednesday.
It aims to put David Cameron, the Tory leader, and Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, on the spot on whether they want to go to the polls.
Elfyn Llwyd, the Plaid Cymru leader, said today: "We aim to see whether David Cameron and Nick Clegg really want to call an election now or just talk about it.
"We would also argue that the time has come for changes to our democracy and what better way to have a debate than hold a general election. There are a raft of issues from more devolution to Wales, to reforming the House of Lords, the MPs' expenses issue, that need to be debated by the public.
"I don't want this to be seen as a vote of confidence in the Labour government. It should be a vote of confidence in the whole political system in Westminster which has become tarnished by the expenses scandal."
The motion will be backed by Alex Salmond, the SNP leader.

Labour MEPs to publish expenses after election

LABOUR MEPs will publish full details of their expenses claims when the newly-elected European Parliament meets, Glenis Wilmott, the party’s leader in Brussels. Labour MEPs have had their accounts audited since 2000, but have not previously had to publish any expenses figures. Both Tory and Labour MEPs voted in March to keep documents relating to their accounts – including expenses – confidential. On the other hand Jill Evans Plaid MEP voted for a more transparent European Parliament and has publicly submitted her expenses. Clearly Jill is the one to vote for this Thursday.