Thursday 16th April 2026
Re: Thursday 16th April 2026
Cardiff to day and does anyone know more than this --
So is this an extension of those Early Warning systems basically to protect the Cold War US ?
How many jobs apart from those cutting the grass or shepherding sheep, and what about Air Defence ? Bahrain Kuwait and Saudi have shown how vulnerable those billion US dollar domes are to cheapo drone attack !
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... nald-trump" Darc, which is located in Morgan’s Senedd constituency, is part of a planned network of radars around the globe tracking deep space activity to help protect the UK from “space warfare”.
The 27 radar dishes near the national park boundary at the Cawdor Barracks on St David’s peninsula will be 20 metres high. Local campaigners Parc Against Darc have called the project “one of the most health-hazardous, tourism-ruining, skyline-blighting military installations ever proposed anywhere in the UK”. "
So is this an extension of those Early Warning systems basically to protect the Cold War US ?
How many jobs apart from those cutting the grass or shepherding sheep, and what about Air Defence ? Bahrain Kuwait and Saudi have shown how vulnerable those billion US dollar domes are to cheapo drone attack !
Re: Thursday 16th April 2026
Second one --
https://bsky.app/profile/paultempleman. ... lunhk6zc2b
Post not found just now, then reposted as it only linked to this --
CEO of bitcoin firm championed by Nigel Farage leaves company
Resignation announced of Jai Patel, whose liquidated crypto firm was relaunched as Stack BTC this year https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -stack-btc
https://bsky.app/profile/paultempleman. ... lunhk6zc2b
Post not found just now, then reposted as it only linked to this --
CEO of bitcoin firm championed by Nigel Farage leaves company
Resignation announced of Jai Patel, whose liquidated crypto firm was relaunched as Stack BTC this year https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -stack-btc
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Re: Thursday 16th April 2026
Very good piece in my mail this morning --
Growth Alone Won't Make Life More Affordable
That's why we're acting to do it directly
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP
Conclusion
36 this year, but has been around !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeevun_Sandher
Growth Alone Won't Make Life More Affordable
That's why we're acting to do it directly
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP
Conclusion
https://jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/gr ... -life-moreThe affordability crisis did not begin a few years ago – it began five decades ago. The decline of manufacturing and the increasing advancement of the computer meant good, high-paying jobs for some and lower-paying jobs for everyone else. At the same time, we did not build enough houses for those who needed them. Add in the recent cost-of-living crisis and you end up with the toxic combination. The end result is that people cannot afford a decent life and see no way of being able to do so in the future.
Growth alone cannot fix these problems. Without state intervention, it will not create the good jobs we need where we need them; it will not get costs down; and it will not top up the wages of low-pay workers. The government must step in. If it does not, the result could be disastrous.
36 this year, but has been around !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeevun_Sandher
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Re: Thursday 16th April 2026
Question Time came tonight from Cardiff.
Uuurgh. I understand the reason for these 'election specials' and the need for a 6 person panel to cover all the major parties in our politically fragmented times but it's just too many. An hour isn't long enough for any meaningful debate with a panel that size so they just briefly chunter out their preprepared shtick then we move on to the next one. It's a complete waste of everyone's time.
That being said...
For Plaid Cymru we had Rhun Ap Iorwerth. Maybe it's the pressure of Plaid finding themselves being the frontrunner for the upcoming election but Rhun didn't seem entirely comfortable this evening. A bit sweaty and flustered on occasion. To be fair to him he was the only member of the panel to get any real applause after pointing out that despite what Reform and the Tories were saying immigration wasn't a problem in Wales, it was the outward migration of Welsh young people and he wanted to do something about it.
For Labour we had Huw Irranca-Davies. If appearing suave was all that mattered this evening (honestly look him up) Huw would have been laughing. Unfortunately for him it wasn't. He did his best, listing recent achievements in the NHS and explaining their plans for the future, but it fell on deaf ears. Given Labour's current dire situation in Wales he's probably happy he didn't face any outright hostility, possibly as a result of his suaveness.
For the Conservatives we had Darren Millar. Darren is an imbecile. A young man in the audience pointed out that since he moved to Cardiff his rent had doubled over the last 8 years leaving him perpetually unable to save for a place of his own. Darren's response was to decry the idea of rent controls of any kind saying instead we should be encouraging young people to buy their first property, 'because most people don't rent, they own their own homes.' What the fuck? It was genuinely odd, as if Darren's Tory neurons had simply refused to process what the lad had just said moments before. Most peculiar.
For the Lib Dems we had Jane Dodds. Jane did all right. Of all the parties the Lib Dems are the ones pushing for Social Care reform the hardest and she made that the focus of her responses. Who knows, maybe if the Lib Dems become kingmakers something might actually get done about it in Wales and it'll have a knock on effect in the rest of the UK. We can but hope.
For Reform we had Dan Thomas. Dan began by telling us that he'd save hundreds of millions by abolishing quangos and I had to laugh. It's something we've kept hearing from the Tories (Dan was a Tory council leader in London) for the last couple of decades. Has it ever happened? Not really, for many good reasons, not least because central government and ministers then become responsible for things that they could have previously kept at arms length. Dan then brought up scrapping the 20mph speed* limit before members of the audience and panel got more applause than he got all night defending it. Nigel won't be pleased.
For the Greens we had Anthony Slaughter. I hate to be mean because Anthony appeared to be a nice guy I'd agree with on many subjects but he did seem like someone the Greens had just pulled in off the street with next to no knowledge of their own manifesto who was vaguely blagging it throughout. He was like the anti-Polanski.
*Scotland has 20mph zones throughout the country, you hit them as soon as you come to a town or village across the border, nobody makes the slightest fuss about it. I'm baffled why Wales is any different.
Uuurgh. I understand the reason for these 'election specials' and the need for a 6 person panel to cover all the major parties in our politically fragmented times but it's just too many. An hour isn't long enough for any meaningful debate with a panel that size so they just briefly chunter out their preprepared shtick then we move on to the next one. It's a complete waste of everyone's time.
That being said...
For Plaid Cymru we had Rhun Ap Iorwerth. Maybe it's the pressure of Plaid finding themselves being the frontrunner for the upcoming election but Rhun didn't seem entirely comfortable this evening. A bit sweaty and flustered on occasion. To be fair to him he was the only member of the panel to get any real applause after pointing out that despite what Reform and the Tories were saying immigration wasn't a problem in Wales, it was the outward migration of Welsh young people and he wanted to do something about it.
For Labour we had Huw Irranca-Davies. If appearing suave was all that mattered this evening (honestly look him up) Huw would have been laughing. Unfortunately for him it wasn't. He did his best, listing recent achievements in the NHS and explaining their plans for the future, but it fell on deaf ears. Given Labour's current dire situation in Wales he's probably happy he didn't face any outright hostility, possibly as a result of his suaveness.
For the Conservatives we had Darren Millar. Darren is an imbecile. A young man in the audience pointed out that since he moved to Cardiff his rent had doubled over the last 8 years leaving him perpetually unable to save for a place of his own. Darren's response was to decry the idea of rent controls of any kind saying instead we should be encouraging young people to buy their first property, 'because most people don't rent, they own their own homes.' What the fuck? It was genuinely odd, as if Darren's Tory neurons had simply refused to process what the lad had just said moments before. Most peculiar.
For the Lib Dems we had Jane Dodds. Jane did all right. Of all the parties the Lib Dems are the ones pushing for Social Care reform the hardest and she made that the focus of her responses. Who knows, maybe if the Lib Dems become kingmakers something might actually get done about it in Wales and it'll have a knock on effect in the rest of the UK. We can but hope.
For Reform we had Dan Thomas. Dan began by telling us that he'd save hundreds of millions by abolishing quangos and I had to laugh. It's something we've kept hearing from the Tories (Dan was a Tory council leader in London) for the last couple of decades. Has it ever happened? Not really, for many good reasons, not least because central government and ministers then become responsible for things that they could have previously kept at arms length. Dan then brought up scrapping the 20mph speed* limit before members of the audience and panel got more applause than he got all night defending it. Nigel won't be pleased.
For the Greens we had Anthony Slaughter. I hate to be mean because Anthony appeared to be a nice guy I'd agree with on many subjects but he did seem like someone the Greens had just pulled in off the street with next to no knowledge of their own manifesto who was vaguely blagging it throughout. He was like the anti-Polanski.
*Scotland has 20mph zones throughout the country, you hit them as soon as you come to a town or village across the border, nobody makes the slightest fuss about it. I'm baffled why Wales is any different.
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Re: Thursday 16th April 2026
Oh shit I forgot to mention the star of the show.
A young lad in a wheelchair had a righteous go at Reform and the Tories asking why they were targetting people like him to cut his benefits when he'd tried getting jobs and employers either don't want to know or refuse to cater for his needs.
He received much deserved applause for it but my only problem was that he didn't include Labour in his criticism.
Only today we've had Streeting and Reeves both saying cuts are going to be have to be made to 'welfare' to fund increased defence spending.
Why is it always we poorest who have to pay for this shit?
A young lad in a wheelchair had a righteous go at Reform and the Tories asking why they were targetting people like him to cut his benefits when he'd tried getting jobs and employers either don't want to know or refuse to cater for his needs.
He received much deserved applause for it but my only problem was that he didn't include Labour in his criticism.
Only today we've had Streeting and Reeves both saying cuts are going to be have to be made to 'welfare' to fund increased defence spending.
Why is it always we poorest who have to pay for this shit?