tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post2279097047710065831..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: If You're Welsh, I Have A Job For YouDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-81036438688676329142015-06-22T02:11:46.780+01:002015-06-22T02:11:46.780+01:00Sorry, DP, but I really couldn't give a FF for...Sorry, DP, but I really couldn't give a FF for what happens to the Walians. They, more than any other 'nation' on the surface of this sorry globe (with the single possible exception of that benighted sh*thole, Orstrylia), deserve whatever cubic light-years of ordure come hurtling, vertically-down, upon their indescribably dense heads.Mike Loftusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-40968624439719012682015-06-19T14:56:35.320+01:002015-06-19T14:56:35.320+01:00Good point, but I don't know the answer. I kno...Good point, but I don't know the answer. I know that appalling (and wrong) allegations of health risks by an eminent doctor caused sales to dry up and 80% (IIRC) of shops to close.Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-56001642098203204532015-06-19T14:54:21.160+01:002015-06-19T14:54:21.160+01:00Apparently so. Only for the .co.uk suffix, replace...Apparently so. Only for the .co.uk suffix, replace with .com and it works fine. Many have tried to tell Twitter that it's not spam at <a href="https://support.twitter.com/forms/spam" rel="nofollow">this link</a>.Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-40437475369108957782015-06-18T22:55:57.091+01:002015-06-18T22:55:57.091+01:00I was not aware that there is a ban on e cigs in S...I was not aware that there is a ban on e cigs in Spain. Can someone enlighten me please. Thankstimbonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-61649305824687579142015-06-18T21:40:00.790+01:002015-06-18T21:40:00.790+01:00C'mon The Welsh Assembly is full of jumped up ...C'mon The Welsh Assembly is full of jumped up local councillors .... and conniving party hacks. <br /><br />They absolutely do not want any external input to their provincial gravy train - look what the council and Dai The Plod got up to a while back in Camarthen...<br /><br />Amazing that Kinnock family firm isn't rearing it's head... too busy spending it?<br /><br />"They" know that apathy, exclusion and furtiveness has worked well for them in the past so they'll sail on .... aided and abetted by senior managers and "the executive" who have no intention of getting their noses out of the trough - wasn't it a Welsh council boss who gave himself a Porsche from the grateful taxpayers eh?.....TomOhttp://avoncliffmills.blogspot.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-73672134113751212922015-06-18T19:22:40.429+01:002015-06-18T19:22:40.429+01:00By the way, Twitter has stopped me linking to this...By the way, Twitter has stopped me linking to this post in a tweet because it says it's "suspicious" :-(<br /><br />Are you still on some kind of blacklist?Curmudgeonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-3902485021586609082015-06-18T19:18:30.483+01:002015-06-18T19:18:30.483+01:00The only things he and the "First Minister&qu...The only things he and the "First Minister" ever cite - BMA & WHO - plus of course Spain where 600,000 have gone back to smoking which, according to their stats means 300,000 premature deaths, and countries who have a tobacco industry which a ban protects. If the Senedd swallow this one they will not only wreck the pub and tourist trades but will have blood on their hands. We need to normalise vaping and it can't be done behind closed doors. Kids in Wales are as addicted to fags today as they ever were - a walk through our city centre is all you need to show this.Dragonmumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-85445513772357381702015-06-18T18:16:42.006+01:002015-06-18T18:16:42.006+01:00Well, they failed to discuss PH Bill this week, an...Well, they failed to discuss PH Bill this week, and have a blackout when they do discuss it at HSCC next week http://www.senedd.assembly.wales/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=3024&EVT=101&DT=A<br /><br />So much for transparent government eh ?Simon Thurlownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-83658845253956899032015-06-18T17:50:17.433+01:002015-06-18T17:50:17.433+01:00“Because the Welsh assembly was designed to bring ...<em>“Because the Welsh assembly was designed to bring democracy closer to the people, apparently.”</em><br /><br /><br /><br />That was the big flaw in the devolution argument, of course. The idea that bringing “democracy” <em>physically</em> closer to people actually gives them any more meaningful say in running their own lives is a load of bunk. Instead of being one voice in 66,000,000, you become one in 3,000,000. Whoopee. Hear me... er, squeak slightly more loudly.<br /><br /><br />Moreover, the politically-minded get the impression that they <em>are</em> “closer to the people” and are emboldened to follow every madcap fad that comes along the pike, because they are “us”, not “them”. (Yeah, right.)<br /><br /><br />During the Scottish referendum, those of us who opposed separation were often accused of believing Scotland to be “too wee” to go it alone. On the contrary: my principal beef is that it's <em>still too big</em>.Sam Duncannoreply@blogger.com