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  • #124418

    Ponciau
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    Talk about pot.kettle black .Plaid cllrs were spotted with their shiny new i pads at bodlondeb (Conwy)

    #124425

    Dragon
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    plaid are hypocrites, 2 plaid Councillor on Wrexham council have ipads for many years, I checked this out today and it true.oops

    #124426

    Dragon
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    [quote quote=124418]Talk about pot.kettle black .Plaid cllrs were spotted with their shiny new i pads at bodlondeb (Conwy)

    Plaid are hypocrites,2 plaid councillors on Wrexham council have had ipads for many years,I checked this out today and it true. oops

    #124434

    IMHO
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    [quote quote=124426]

    Talk about pot.kettle black .Plaid cllrs were spotted with their shiny new i pads at bodlondeb (Conwy)

    Plaid are hypocrites,2 plaid councillors on Wrexham council have had ipads for many years,I checked this out today and it true. oops

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    The fact they have them is not the issue. The issue is that the WCBC is going to replace them with new ones at a cost of over £32k to the tax payer when the ones they have are still functioning well as has been admitted by a Councillor on here. The Ipads are a useful tool but, to replace them all at this time when essential services are suffering heavy cuts wreaks of insensitivity and a cynicism that is breathtaking and shows the contempt we are held in by some of the council members.

    #124437

    Owain Glyndwr
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    Hope they get S4C on them!

    #124512

    Cymrodor
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    Dragon is right in that the Plaid Cymru councillors currently have ipads. I think all the councillors do.

    My understanding is the Plaid councillors are perfectly happy with the ipads they’ve got as they work well and they’d rather Wrexham Council kept the £32,000 for services that the people of Wrexham need and deserve. Seems like a simple common sense case of “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”

    It wouldn’t surprise me if the failing Labour mob comes out against the new ipads between now and May. They party has a track record of adopting common sense Plaid policies. Mind you, Labour is caving in on itself these days as they quarell amongst themselves, so it’ll be a miracle if they manage to string together any policies by May.

    #124560

    IMHO
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    More BS. false arguments and made up figures from Wrexham council ref. Ipads.

    Plaid Cymru is showing them up on this issue;

    “Mr Jones went on to ask three questions of Cllr Pritchard;
    “- Does he not understand that councillors can access e-mails and papers via Webmail on their PCs or their own tablets?
    -Does he not realise that the council already installs the Good App on personal tablets that allows councillors to access the council intranet securely?
    – Does he not realise that any Plaid councillors elected in May could opt to buy a council iPad out of their own pockets, to save the taxpayer £32,000?”

    As i have said before here, i have the same Ipad as the councillors ie. Ipad 3 and yes it isn’t now going to get all the operating system updates the other Ipads will but, it still does everything it has always done for me and very well. They do not cease to operate just because they are not supported. All the security issues BS is just that, BS.
    When a family is short of money they have to tighten their belts and make do with what they have and make the best of it, something some of our councillors are incapable of doing when it comes to spending OUR money!!

    Use your vote to send a message that we are sick and tired of this kind of behaviour from our elected representatives.

    #124563

    Marvinuk
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    Surely if the Ipads can be shown to generate a true cost saving then they should be seen as an investment and the replacements should be viewed as maintenance of the investment. It would be interesting to see the value of the old Ipad’s and then a decision made as to use them as trade in or donate to local community groups.
    I also have an Ipad 3 and certainly I am no longer able to use certain sites as it does not have the latest updates so it is no longer considered secure enough.
    A point like this will always be contentious.

    #124566

    IMHO
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    [quote quote=124563]Surely if the Ipads can be shown to generate a true cost saving then they should be seen as an investment and the replacements should be viewed as maintenance of the investment. It would be interesting to see the value of the old Ipad’s and then a decision made as to use them as trade in or donate to local community groups.
    I also have an Ipad 3 and certainly I am no longer able to use certain sites as it does not have the latest updates so it is no longer considered secure enough.
    A point like this will always be contentious.

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    That’s interesting. Any chance you can post links to those sites as i would like to see for myself, if that is possible of course. Thankyou.

    #124567

    Marvinuk
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    Not sure if I can post a link but my pension is with Standard Life and when I try to log in it will not let me as it says need to update to new IOS and security certificate not valid, if i try from my sons Ipad it works fine but he has a newer model than me

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