People are sleeping rough for a range of reasons because of successive UK Government policies.
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People are sleeping rough for a range of reasons because of successive UK Government policies.
I agree with this, though a friend of mine does some work with homeless people in Cardiff. He reckons there's enough space to give them shelter, just that many feel safer on the streets than in shelters. He reckons most of them avoid the Huggard Centre (as one example) because of fears for their own safety.Originally Posted by trampie09
Solving the causes of homelessness should be a bigger priority than trying to provide for people who are homeless. As rs3100 rightly points out in his list, there are a number of causes. Reducing wealth inequality would certainly help as well.
Congress in the USA has 535 members, 100 in the Senate and 435 Representatives. There's over 1,000 more lawmakers here, 650 MPs and over 900 in the Lords. Why Britain requires so many to govern a population one-fifth that of the USA is anyone's guess.
Concerning intelligence agencies, I often wonder why they never theorise over just why it is that ISIS, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, etc, never launch attacks against our Israeli friends. According to a former Israel defence minister, ISIS did mistakenly attack their forces once in the Golan Heights... and then apologised for doing so.
Isis fighters ‘attacked Israel Defense Forces unit, then apologised' claims former commander: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a7700616.html
Its just not Israel its America and the English led UK Government that seem to be on ISIS, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda side.
No surprises there then.
When they had a vote in Parliament about going to war in Syria, the Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish mps literally on mass voted against boots on the ground, the English mps voted for war, for once the Celtic mps just managed to win the day, usually that is not the case due to weight of numbers, the English press did not report it in that light.
Wasn't it the case that almost a third of Welsh MPs voted with the government? Something like 15 out of 37? Hardly a landslide.
Thinking about the subject in hand, I calculated that, in the EU referendum, of those that voted, once England reached 60% in favour one way or another, the rest of the UK could have voted 100% the opposite way, yet England would have won.
I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed in future referenda. Because of its size, what England wants, it gets. That means the rest of the UK has, in reality, little say. England is never going to agree to diminish its say within the UK, yet that marginalises the rest of the UK.
So who wants to remain in the EU then?
The outburst was pathetic , and child like , this type of soundbite has littered this deal ,it simply feeds the leave campaign , its very belittling ,if a second vote was allowed or ever happened it woudl fuel those leave vote upwards
The reporting of the quote was childlike and pathetic. Tusk's (full) quote spoke of many people's frustration with this shambolic process that has no real end in sight. The Tory press continue to report the EU as the enemy and you (and the OP) seem to buy it. It's dispiriting to see.
Well said.
He's right though isn't he? Politicians campaigning for something should have some idea how they would go about implementing it. Do you disagree with that?
Over the last few years we’ve had from the likes of Johnson, Farage, Hunt, Rees Mogg references in regards to EU things like Hitler, Nazis, EUSSR and other xenophobic type language.
Tusk said quite rightly that the people who started this process without a plan to ensure safety of UK citizens quite rightly deserve a special place in Hell. I couldn’t. Agree with him more. There was a woman on twitter talking about the fear she has of a no deal die to her medical supplies she’s recliner on.
Imagine the stress she’s under at the moment?
As per usual their was faux outrage and misquotes from the usual sort who are responsible for this mess.
So **** these plastic patriots who I see as committing treason and once they’re ****ed **** them again.
I'm much more a Remainer now, but I could easily have voted Leave back in 2016. The main reason I didn't was that I didn't want to vote on the same side as Nigel Farage or people who say England when they are talking about the UK - I can remember listening to a radio debate a few weeks before the vote from Margate I think it was, where it seemed that all of the leavers who spoke did so solely in terms of England (there were plenty of other times I wondered if we were allowed to vote in Wales when I heard English leavers being interviewed but that one was the worst).
That said, I don't go along with the theory that Wales voted Leave because there are so many English born people here. I've been living in the Rhondda for ten months now and in some ways it's been an eye opener, because although I like it here, there is a lot of deprivation and it's easy to see how, given the chance of a vote between the status quo (which, essentially, remain was) and a new start, people living in less affluent areas after nearly a decade of austerity would opt for the latter.
I happen to think they picked the wrong "villain" though, because the unpopular policies they voted against were, mainly, domestic ones and when you think of it, it takes a special kind of political naivety and arrogance to hold such a vote at such a time if your preference was to remain, but that's what David Cameron did because he's a Conservative and, as has been the case for the last forty years, party comes before country for a Tory when it comes to Europe.
About fifteen years ago, I can remember reading that, after a few decades under the likes of Heath, Thatcher and Major, the Conservative party was becoming as "toff" dominated as it had been at any time since the days of MacMillan and Douglas-Home. Cameron was one sort of toff - lazy, a trimmer and a huge superiority complex, but the likes of those CardiffIrish2 lists are, basically, toffs as well and the idea of them being at the forefront of some working class revolt (as the Referendum result is often described as by Leavers) is hilarious - Nigel, Boris and Jacob taking up the cudgels for the downtrodden? Yeah, right.
If those three (with a few others) were who Donald Tusk had in mind, then I agree with him entirely.
No argument with that at all Bob, the result for Wales as regards change was devastating in my view, if Wales had voted to remain alongside N.I and Scotland then the union state would be in immediate danger but that didn't happen, Wales voted leave 52.5% to 47.5%, we know England voted leave more strongly than Wales, whereas Scotland & N.I both voted remain quite strongly [Scotland well over 60% and N.I nearer 60% than 50%], so incomers into Wales from England on the face of it were more likely to vote leave and if that was the case and those incomers did not vote and remain happened to have won in Wales as a result even if it was 50.1% plays 49.9% then there would have been hell to play, what we see now is tea party to what would have happened in that scenario.
But that is all by the by instead of the union breaking up now in the short term, its had a reprieve on the back of Wales until the medium term.
You are right about people living in less affluent areas voting against the status quo and I cant blame them and you are right that they have taken it out on the wrong 'villain', they should have voted for the Green party or Plaid in General or Assembly elections in protest against the big Westminster parties but there you go.
Apologies fir a few typos above
I can answer the last para ,not very well ,looking at the current part time ,management we have in place.
Unlike Scotland we have no big exports other than farming and financial services, 26% of those employedin Wales are in public sector jobs ,which need self financing, when faced with those public sector burdens, the political pressures become tough, as you need to generate wealth from the private sector though business taxes , or up the tax burden of everyone in Wales to finance it.
Then you have the moans because we pay too much tax , or businesses move away, to avoid things like cooperation taxes.
We need to be careful what we wish for.
We could become a Singapore ,lower business taxes and change politically as a nation and attract business away from England ,however we may then not get a favourable trade tariff from the new non European state of England ,who have their own farmers and financial institutions ,not so easy for Wales in my humble view ??
Wales has resources that countries will fight wars over like water and energy, we export water but get Porthcawl for it, energy we have coal, shale gas, some of the largest tides in the world and plenty of wind, we are very rich in natural resources, we have plenty of farm land, we have massive potential for tourism what with our beaches, castles, scenery etc, there are equally small [smaller in some cases] independent successful countries of similar size or population to Wales.
Nothing against our friends that we share a land border with but the way they are going - only looking after the rich of their population [and our] population we would be better off on our own, time to take steps in that direction.
Doesn't Wales take more out the UK pot than it puts in?
Wales is currently subsidising old English people that are a drain on our services and England does compensate Wales for it, also Wales has been raped over centuries of its resources with profits often going to England, Wales supposed to be part of the UK state and should therefore get adequate funding from central Government but it doesn't, that is why the EU designated that large parts of Wales should get funding off the EU.
If Wales ever got independence I think reparations would be in order, not that there would be much chance of that, lol.
One reason I often hear is that Wales can't afford to leave the UK. Most economists say Britain will be worse off when we leave the EU, yet that doesn't seem to matter. I find that confusing.
If Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the UK, and I'd be delighted for that to happen if their people voted for it, Wales would have a difficult decision to make. Feelings towards independence are growing here and Wales may have to decide whether it wants to stay as a shit stain on England's shoe or not.
Yes indeed Eric that will be the decision that might well have to be made at some point.
Meant to say doesn't compensate.
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