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Listed below are comments made by Fitzmark2 between Monday, 6th July 2009 and Monday, 20th July 2009.

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More please? 8:19pm on 20 Jul 2009 #104
And the point I am making is that the figures in the Barnett Formula nail the lie that Wales is being short changed. And when you add the funding that Wales has drawn from the EU it adds up to a tidy little sum.

So stop demanding more of the national wealth for goodness sake. Keep it up and you'll be able to audition for the role of Oliver at the New Theatre or the theatre in which ever town you live in.
More please? 8:09pm on 20 Jul 2009 #103

What on earth do you mean by looking down my nose at you? All I am doing, in between writing for myself, doing the garden in between drinking fine wines is commenting on a blog about the Barnett Formula. I am entitled to my truth no matter how much you deplore it on this blog as I, and everyone, am on other blogs.
More please? 5:01pm on 20 Jul 2009 #100
Good lord man what's the matter with you? You've just staged the first Ashes match in Cardiff. And over the years while Wembley was being refurbished we allowed you to stage the F.A Cup, League Cup, the promotional play off matches for the Premier league at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

All that on top of the £14 billion you get from the Barnett Formula. How much fairer can we be?
More please? 3:12pm on 20 Jul 2009 The figures of the Barnett Formula speak for themselves. The Welsh get a disproportionate slice of the national cake. Before devolution it went relatively unnoticed but the unfairness of it now to the English taxpayer is being noticed in town halls throughout England.

Every region of Britain can make a claim to be hard done by, and the Welsh have suffered no worse than any other region of Britain over the years. Yet the Welsh constantly, whinge, whinge, whinge.

The heading of this blog appropriately sums up your collective attitude: "More please." I want more sir.

Well you can get in the bloody queue behind Newcastle, Leeds, Redcar, Liverpool, Birmingham, to name but some areas of England that are crying out for investment.
More please? 2:06pm on 20 Jul 2009 Unfair to Wales Short changing us What unadulterated nonsense. If anyone is being short changed it is the English taxpayer. Wales has been doing very nicely thank you for years out of the Barnett Formula.

Under the formula Wales gets £5052 per head compared to a UK average of £4453. What extra do you want with your £14 billion yearly block grant - a gold statue of Rhodri Morgan on every payday?
More please? 8:21pm on 19 Jul 2009 The Barnett Formula when it was first set up was generally perceived in England as an altruistic attempt to divide the national wealth according to need in the regions of Britain.

Now and increasingly, since devolution (a democratic sham in Wales) and the ever widening cracks in the British constitution it is seen as an unfair burden on the English taxpayer.

By all means if you think you can go it alone and you do so democratically (based on the referendum results of 97, I doubt it) then bon voyage and hurry along there. Your departure would be a sad, but welcome benefit to the English taxpayer; sad in the sense that the English and the Anglo-Welsh (the majority of the Welsh) share a common language, culture and legal identity.

Thinking on it though separation is nothing more than a non attainable dream proceeding from an over heated and excitable nationalist brain.

Welsh nationalists, their supporters and fellow separatists have always seemed to me to be a particularly, ungrateful, undemocratic and selfish combination of individuals.

The economic, social and cohesive benefits of remaining within the British constitution far outweigh the silly dream of separation.
Brotherhood of man 7:53pm on 14 Jul 2009 Mapexx #121

There are quite few posters on this blog who are out of the same nationalist mould as FiDaffdd. They are self appointed arbiters of English usage yet they display in their posts similar grammatical solecisms, typos as the rest of us. Hypocritical is one word to describe them, childish another.

But I think their adolescent attempts to put someone down or to put them on the back foot based on 'poor' language usage is a sure indication that they are loosing the argument.

The high tide of nationalism, from what I can gather, in Wales, is on the turn. And hence their pathetic attempts to attack the messenger and not the argument will become more virulent.

However I'm quite sure you are quite capable of knocking seven bells out of their childish hides.
Brotherhood of man 12:06pm on 11 Jul 2009 Regarding the separatist intentions of the Plaid/Llafur coalition the heading of this blog is deeply ironic; but I'm sure you realise that Betsan.
Door opening 7:58pm on 09 Jul 2009 Cilmyn, that's the least offensive description of me that I've seen on a Welsh blog or on a Welsh message board.
I've been called semi-literate, a bigot, an almost racist, a member of the BNP, you name it. Just to thank you, if you ever find yourself on a loose end in Newcastle/Gateshead, pop along to the Sage; you'll usually find me there around lunch time, and I'll buy you a glass of wine. That's not a cheapskate offer, a small glass Sauvignon Blanc costs four pound bl**dy fifty.
Door opening 11:16am on 06 Jul 2009 What a good idea. French is my second language. Oh damn I forgot! In Welsh language circles no matter how many languages you speak you remain a monoglot unless you speak Welsh.

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