tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post2974430991017039849..comments2023-08-19T16:44:23.150+01:00Comments on National Left: 122,000 unemployed in Wales. Time for a radical plan.glynbeddauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-78754830270036995122011-08-18T08:01:26.410+01:002011-08-18T08:01:26.410+01:00Glyn
Yes well 20 miles is easy to get to if you ...Glyn <br /><br />Yes well 20 miles is easy to get to if you have access to your own transport. But try this as an exercise select a town 20 miles from you and by use traveline Cymru see if you can get there by 8:00 AM. Maybe you can but plenty can't and shift working could prove impossible.<br /><br />... which of course is the reason I'm served by Polish workers in so many shops, restaurants, pubs etc etc across Wales, cos, as we know Poland is less than 20 miles from Wales. <br /><br />How about moving to find a job? Yes, mad isn't it! I did, I'm sure you have ... but no 'Valleys People' have a god-given right to have the very exact job they want down their street. The world nor the state owes any one a job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-91891743718656525022011-08-18T07:56:22.754+01:002011-08-18T07:56:22.754+01:00Annonymous:15:00.
Yes well 20 miles is easy to ge...Annonymous:15:00.<br /><br />Yes well 20 miles is easy to get to if you have access to your own transport. But try this as an exercise select a town 20 miles from you and by use traveline Cymru see if you can get there by 8:00 AM. Maybe you can but plenty can't and shift working could prove impossible.<br /><br />maen_tramgwydd .<br /><br />I accept your argument about coalitions but surely there must be an occasion where the needs of Wales and its people outweighs political advantage?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />At any rate Employers will look at how a applicant would travel to work and look at those who can guarantee puncuality.glynbeddauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-25620134123371105162011-08-17T16:41:54.883+01:002011-08-17T16:41:54.883+01:00The trouble with being the minority partner in a c...The trouble with being the minority partner in a coalition is failure to get the credit for any success, and all too often the blame for failure. <br /><br />Wales' slide into greater deprivation and stagnation might, I repeat might, be arrested by such an arrangement, but it wouldn't be reversed, given the Assembly and the Welsh Government's absence of fiscal and monetary levers. <br /><br />Plaid would also need to persuade Labour to adopt its policies in full - unlikely given Labour's near control of the Assembly in terms of votes.<br /><br />All this would be at the cost of sentencing Plaid, imho, to decimation at the next election. It would forever be seen as Labour's lapdog, giving voters no reason to vote for it.<br /><br />So, for the very slight possibility of ameliorating Wales' economic plight to a small degree, Wales would lose the only party which gives it any real hope for prosperity, through self-determination, after centuries of exploitation, and decay.<br /><br />Having said that, I am coming round to the idea that Leanne Wood could be the leader that Plaid needs in its present circumstances, given the absence of really heavyweight contenders. <br /><br />I hope she throws her hat into the ring. She would be a break with the past in terms of her background, and political/republican convictions - which in many ways would be an advantage - and linguistic abilities. That for me, a Welsh speaker, would pose no problem at all.<br /><br />The last thing Wales or Plaid needs is another coalition with Labour. I don't think that I could support the party in such a role.maen_tramgwyddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-11626071735289508092011-08-17T16:36:53.286+01:002011-08-17T16:36:53.286+01:00Good piece. The jobless rate is more than 8.4% by ...Good piece. The jobless rate is more than 8.4% by a long way. Disable people not counted, just like life itself .<br /><br />My solution is since wales gets £50 Billion or so a year from the chancellor<br /><br />i) Cut the councils to 4 in Wales . Nonsense in having 22.<br />ii) With the Billions saved , the Welsh govt could pay 50% of the wages to all new co's for first 3 years.<br />iii) this would make Wales as attractive as the far east for international investment, new start ups could survive and prosper, existing businesses could expand<br /><br />Wales would have near full employment and a high GDPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-56761896549234996702011-08-17T15:00:26.755+01:002011-08-17T15:00:26.755+01:00But even if jobs were created Plaid Cymru's le...But even if jobs were created Plaid Cymru's left wing would complain that 'Valleys People' were 'forced' to travel 20 mile a day to those jobs whilst people who've travelled 1,000 from Poland get on with it without complaint.<br /><br />The Left demand the right to work and than demand the right the work when a Tory MP suggest people should travel to those jobs.<br /><br />Can't win.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com