Bizarre comments by Drakeford

[LeningradCowboy]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/mark-drakeford-warns-welsh-farmers-24559024

Do Bangladeshi taxi drivers have a particular objection to farm subsidies?

[Citizen's Nephew]

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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/m...rmers-24559024

Do Bangladeshi taxi drivers have a particular objection to farm subsidies?

That's a really bad report with a quote that appears bizarre but seems to referring to his Riverside constituents. The whole piece is a mess and badly written. The quote from Drakeford does detract from the really positive environmental story behind this but I really don't think that's his fault.

[JamesWales]

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On principle I agree with Drakeford, every piece of expenditure should be justified to tax payers. To be honest, I wish he would say things like that more often. That said, it's a little tactless and that he chooses to say it now does lead him to accusations of his priorities lying away from farmers. Why not say it to Welsh language campaigners that their funding will need to be justifiable to tax payers in Flintshire, or why not say funding on free school meals will need to be justified to parentless families etc etc etc? It's a bit divisive.

He's an oddball that I can't take to, but the principle is right though, and I also think that it's good we can manage farming subsidies better now than under the CAP - remember when people said Brexit would remove powers from the senedd? And here we have our elected first minister determining how funding should be allocated - and rightly so.

[LeningradCowboy]

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That's a really bad report with a quote that appears bizarre but seems to referring to his Riverside constituents. The whole piece is a mess and badly written. The quote from Drakeford does detract from the really positive environmental story behind this but I really don't think that's his fault.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62258709

The report on the BBC News website has the full quote. It is a bizarre thing for him to have said, unless everyone who lives in Riverside is a Bangladeshi taxi driver.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62258709

The report on the BBC News website has the full quote. It is a bizarre thing for him to have said, unless everyone who lives in Riverside is a Bangladeshi taxi driver.

Fair enough. Agree.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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On principle I agree with Drakeford, every piece of expenditure should be justified to tax payers. To be honest, I wish he would say things like that more often. That said, it's a little tactless and that he chooses to say it now does lead him to accusations of his priorities lying away from farmers. Why not say it to Welsh language campaigners that their funding will need to be justifiable to tax payers in Flintshire, or why not say funding on free school meals will need to be justified to parentless families etc etc etc? It's a bit divisive.

He's an oddball that I can't take to, but the principle is right though, and I also think that it's good we can manage farming subsidies better now than under the CAP - remember when people said Brexit would remove powers from the senedd? And here we have our elected first minister determining how funding should be allocated - and rightly so.

Not that I want to but I can't argue with that. Good post. Have a fab day Mr J!

[lisvaneblue]

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On principle I agree with Drakeford, every piece of expenditure should be justified to tax payers. To be honest, I wish he would say things like that more often. That said, it's a little tactless and that he chooses to say it now does lead him to accusations of his priorities lying away from farmers. Why not say it to Welsh language campaigners that their funding will need to be justifiable to tax payers in Flintshire, or why not say funding on free school meals will need to be justified to parentless families etc etc etc? It's a bit divisive.

He's an oddball that I can't take to, but the principle is right though, and I also think that it's good we can manage farming subsidies better now than under the CAP - remember when people said Brexit would remove powers from the senedd? And here we have our elected first minister determining how funding should be allocated - and rightly so.

Has he justified the £33m that the Senedd are to spend on reducing the general speed limit to 20mph next year?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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He's clever how he makes out both he and Bangladeshi taxi drivers live in the same part of Cardiff. True, it's all 'Riverside', but I doubt many of those taxi drivers live in leafy Pontcanna with him and his Taffia chums..

[The Bloop]

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Thought it was odd when I heard it yesterday.
I eventually thought it was a thinly veiled reference to the effects of flooding in the taxi drivers' homeland, and how planting some trees will alleviate climate change and the devastating floods Bangladesh experiences every year. If he wants to justify to some taxi drivers they should be paying their taxes then that's not the way to do it. If Mr Drakeford knows that some of them don't pay then he only has to report them to HMRC.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Drakeford is a knackered old horse , he needs to be taken down the road

[life on mars]

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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/m...rmers-24559024

Do Bangladeshi taxi drivers have a particular objection to farm subsidies?

They don't know yet as they don't listen to him anyway.

However he hopes his Uber rating shoots up soon .

I think he realises he's pissed off taxi drivers with the 20mph and now wants to reach out to them by providing farm subsidies to enable small farms to be grow on the roofs of their cabs ...

The man needs to think out of his box

[J R Hartley]

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Senile old prick. Are all taxi drivers Bangladeshi then?

[J R Hartley]

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That's a really bad report with a quote that appears bizarre but seems to referring to his Riverside constituents. The whole piece is a mess and badly written. The quote from Drakeford does detract from the really positive environmental story behind this but I really don't think that's his fault.

Not his fault? I’m assuming he used the words Bangladeshi taxi drivers other wise why they would quote him?

No offence but holding up a taxi driver as the bastion of tax paying and what taxes are spent on is a ridiculous own goal in itself.

Nevermind about farming in wales, arguably one of the country’s biggest assets, what about the taxes of those Bangladeshi taxi drivers in a small part of the capital.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Senile old prick. Are all taxi drivers Bangladeshi then?

It's very offensive and I am surprised he hasn't been pulled up for it

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Not his fault? I’m assuming he used the words Bangladeshi taxi drivers other wise why they would quote him?

No offence but holding up a taxi driver as the bastion of tax paying and what taxes are spent on is a ridiculous own goal in itself.

Nevermind about farming in wales, arguably one of the country’s biggest assets, what about the taxes of those Bangladeshi taxi drivers in a small part of the capital.

Whoa! LeningradCowboy linked a BBC article with the whole quote and I replied

Fair enough. Agree.

as I'm not going to defend the indefensible. I even agreed with JamesWales so even I knew it was bad! I just couldn't follow the WOL article as all the adverts and bad grammar **** with my ageing, brain-damaged eyes so enough of your ableist, ageist discrimination you f*cking fly-fisher person!

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Senile old prick