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Listed below are comments made by Snoutsintrough between Sunday, 28th June 2009 and Monday, 6th July 2009.

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We did it. Now over to you. 7:44pm on 06 Jul 2009 If the salary link with MP's is gone then what will the "benchmark" be in future?. The "old" axiom is true in that if you pay "peanuts" you get "monkeys".Surely we need less machine politicians of the old labour type as weve got in all parties,but rather some creative thinking of how to provide services to people at the excellent but practical level andat lowest costs to make best use of public money. Its interesting that many of blairites now out of power are thinking quite radically about provision of services as "ordinary" people like myself dont give a stuff who the provider is at the end of the day. If we are going to stay,or god forbid have worse quality of AM's because of ridiculous salary/benefits then we are surely on the way to a third world standard of public provision of services.
Who pays? 08:00am on 06 Jul 2009 55 Fi.. You must get out more and not worry so much about Mr. Cameron who is fine and upstanding member of society. Much rather have him in charge than the "country solicitor",or BBC Wales's favourite politician i.e. HMJ.You might be aware that the City of London is the ONLY reason for last 10 years for the fantastic growth in public expenditure here in wales because of the tax receipts generated there by the private sector. Why do you think that the cuts will fall on "cleaners",who are vital front line service providers,rather than the overpopulated parts of public sector,such as BBC Wales/S4C/WLB/NHS Managers etc etc. Just look in Western Mail/Guardian for pure waste of money. Recent job advertised "Equal Opportunities Manager" Fire Brigade in wales. Some of the money saved could be diverted to clean up this country and also pass down powers to community/town councils to employ local contractors on basic services,rather than hughely expensive LA' providers.This should be opportunity to re-arrange provision of services to more "bread and butter" rather than the expensive charade we have now.!!
Who pays? 08:56am on 05 Jul 2009 43.Typical of Plaidos in wanting cuts in defence (not killing machine) and in the current world situation of a)failing states b)militant islam c)threats to shipping lanes etc etc. The USA has been defending the europeans for too long and if we wish to keep our freedoms we need to spend more not less and the same goes for Police to catch criminals and deal with the out of control "underclass". 46. I dont think anybody wants to see whats coming,however some of us have been saying for quite a time that the "mad hatters"tea party down Bay of Pointlessness is going to end. If the private sector (where wealth is created) is going through severe contraction and making processes more efficient,why should the vastly overblown public sector in wales not have to face reality. Lets look at current position in that the WAG makes more and more "policy decisions" and then directs them down to LA's (who are too small in wales) who then consider them/refer them back up,further revisions,back down for implementation. Why not get rid of Local Government as now,and replace with effective management organizations to further devolve powers down to beefed up community/town councils. Why do CE's in LA's earn £220K. per year when Prime Minister is earning less than £200K?. What about S4C getting 50% cut as its a joke!!!. Welsh Language Board 80% cut and virtually no body would notice,except fanatics who want jobs on welsh language "gravy train". What Benedek stated is spot on as if there aint a proper re-arranging of public expenditure by HMG the "markets" will sort it out and IMF will impose real cuts as in 70's. I accept that I will be worse off in next 10 years in relative terms and as long as the "pain" is shared down the whole spine of society then OK. That wont happen in wales as King Rhodri who what ever his "failings",aint dull and he knows the future and has already talked about "re-engineering" the public sector to protect the vulnerable!!!.
Who pays? 6:19pm on 04 Jul 2009 37 Lyn. We agree!!!If the English get more money so will we as part of Barnett formular which is based on us getting given % over and above english allocation. My point was that King Rhodri had "asked" for more without any evidence that our friends were also getting more. Been away and clicked on First Minister's "question time" today and what a dreary/boring/pathetic performance by all involved. The Ministers/AM's sitting there also looked as though they were otherwise engaged in this charade. Followed for 5 minutes (all I could stand) by Dr. Gibbon who is undoubtedly a "good man" with honourable intentions,however he could "bore" for the UK if the Self Determining Party allowed him under One Wales Agreement!!!.Just looking for Uzbekistan's debating chamber on internet as it must be more interesting even without translation facilities.
Who pays? 09:10am on 04 Jul 2009 27/28. The pro unionist people on this blog have no problems with our english friends at all,it is the NATS who wish to seperate this "blessed" union of some 500+years.The Assembly gets its money and spends on own priorities and our Junta should set "aside" adequate reserves to cover such things as swine flu,and go cap in hand to HMG at the first sign of "grapeshot". There can be no doubt that trying to run WALES as a stand alone entity is pointless/extremely expensive except to the NATS who have this aim to create a self determining state attached to the powerful english state. The average person does'nt give a fig about political structures/nation building etc,but rather want first class services for their hard earned taxes (the one's who work anyway)and hence support for Tesco et al. Tesco run the services to wales from two distribution centres,one in Chester (obviously for north wales) and two in Gwent (obviously for south wales). Not sure about mid-wales but possibly from both above or Birmingham?. The point is that if one of the most succesful companies in the world provides its level of excellence by practical management and very importantly without NA/WAG why do we need such bodies on an all wales basis? We could then do away with BBC Wales huge political department and spend savings on programmes rather than endless and pointless debate about goings on in Bay of Pointlessness.
Who pays? 8:57pm on 03 Jul 2009 Look Dave the post was about King Rhodri applying on behalf of the Self Determination Party (In charge in Bay) for some dosh from the hated english who used to have plenty (pinched all our money see) but dont any more. The money is in wales for vaccination etc,so thats not the issue,except its been used for "party political" programmes tp keep current gang in power. What about the "little" air company that gets "dosh" to fly "little" people,but who so important from North Wales to Cardiff.Surely cheaper to manage North Wales from Mersyside/Manchester rather than Cardiff. Nows there savings already.
Who pays? 5:02pm on 03 Jul 2009 Surely if the english health authorities get "additional" funds for SF,then wales should get more money,if they dont then neither should we and surely King Rhodri knows the answer.It is another confirmation that we appear to be perennially ungrateful "whingers",particularly with the Self Determination Party now in charge and the "poodle"labour party in tow.
Door opening 6:39pm on 29 Jun 2009 8 Yotty. Thanks for your contribution and we need more english people to contribute and tell the Welsh NATS SOME HOME TRUTHS.I can assure you that the vast majority of welsh people (Particularly those whole live nearest to england) have no truck with NATS and fellow travellers in mejia and we fight our corner. Not only do you support us with taxes through Barnett formula,plus your taxes paid to Europe which comes back to wales (To build white elephants),you also give us greater representation in Parliament than we deserve on strict numbers and a fat lot of thanks you get. Quite frankly if I was english and the abuse you get from your celtic neighbours I'd tell em to "sling their hooks" and manage on their own.
What did I miss? 2:40pm on 28 Jun 2009 72 Bryn. I think I'm getting somewhere with PC in that "Independence" is out because no one can be independent any more,however "Self Determination" is OK for the NATS. Does this mean if we were "self determinate" in Wales we would remove ourselves from the UK and participation in combined rule in Westminster and from the sovereignty of Monarch as head of state?. If that is the position then we would be cutting of our selves from our nearest neighbours i.e. England,and all other parts of UK. For some reason we in that case did not wish to "pool" our sovreignty on UK basis,but clearly we would be happy to "pool" our sovreignty with fellow european states i.e. France/Germany etc. Before I can consider joining the Self Determination Party can you inform me why you think I can get a better deal out of German/French/Spanish rather than of out of the English?. At the present time the english taxpayers current subsidise the welsh people by approximately £9 Billion pound and hence current standard of living,and also provide world wide diplomatic cover etc. The English are also the only net contributors from UK to Europe who then subsidise us with Objective One etc. (more money to waste) on white elephants. The english also give us in parliament over representation of MP'S along with scotland to counterbalance the pure size of england compared to other countries in UK. On an emotional/historical basis I am sorry but I feel a lot more fond of the english than germans/french,particularly as my grandson was born there and hopefully will represent the country of his birth in some sporting context. Am I right in thinking that it is french farmers who were BURNING ALIVE sheep from wales as part of their normal diplomacy whereas english farmerss allow free trade. In conclusion can you PROVE that we'll get a better deal from the Germans/French (who we save from themselves 50 years ago) rather than my english friends who live 50 miles away.
What did I miss? 09:05am on 28 Jun 2009 63 Bryn. Thanks for advice but tried to make my comments in lighthearted manner but clearly failed. HMJ seems to be BBC Wales most favoured politician (PC of course) and is very earnest/serious and just about the last person on this earth that I want looking after my interests. With regard to the last meeting of AWC in Cardiff her response to Lord Trisant GJ about the "slippery slope" to independance just about sums up the position of PC,which is that their clear and stated aim of INDEPENDANCE is not to be discussed but silently worked at piece by piece.If they did away with that nonsense and said that their aim was to work with welsh people to fundamentally change the nature of welsh society to allow it to survive on its own feet then it might be worth supporting.There is one simple question that I would put to PC and its supporters and is " In the event of wales becoming independant and having control over economic policy what would the unit of currency be a)Pound Sterling, b)Euro, c)Cymro coins. There are many other economic issues such as a)Can you tell me any major company that provides its services on welsh only basis and the answer is NO,as our geography dictates that our markets are integrated in english markets because of economy of scale. The provision of NHS is Wales with out regard to England is a sheer nonsense (See Brain Surgery issue)and that why no more powers until current services are improved to level of input of public money (inclusing subsidies from english/german taxpayers.)

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