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I hope so Liam. Moonlight has provided great service to Wrexham over the years and Brian is a good bloke. I haven’t heard either way but the more Music stores that are up and running the better. I’m opening a new shop in Bank Street in mid-May and we hope to provide a top class service to the people of Wrexham (and beyond)
The two things that I would like to see in a Manifesto for Wrexham are policies for Business growth and policies for Education. These are cross fertilising and there is a need within both points of emphasis to encourage Entrepreneurial behaviour and the establishing of Businesses to provide Employment.
In fairness, the Welsh Assembly Government have grasped the need for more Enterprise and there is a ‘Dynamo’ scheme within Welsh schools to foster the main ACRO skills which SMEs actually use. Unfortunately someone needs to remind Wrexham Council that life is hopelessly competitive and so too is business. The schools need to rid themselves of the mixed ability approach and get back to encouraging youngsters to prepare for the real world.
I thought it was excellent. There was a constant stream of different stuff coming out and it was very varied. The soup was tasty, there were plenty of meat and fish choices and there were loads of different vegetables and savoury stuff to whet the appetite. What surprised me was that the ice cream was really good quality. Of course, if you’re looking for paint a plate high brow stuff, this place won’t be for you, but if you’re looking at real value and variety it will be. I had a soup starter, two main meals and a sweet course for £5.99 (which is crazy really)
Often described as a divisive politician she was responsible (along with others) for:
Helping bring about the end of the Cold War. For this area of activity alone she deserves the respect and gratitude of the British people and is thought very highly of in Poland, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and across the former Warsaw Pact countries.
Ensuring that Britain hung loose from the federalising EU. She was as one politician called her yesterday, a Prophet without honour on this subject.
Eventually, moving the Irish process along with the Anglo-Irish accord.
Preventing the fascist Argentinian Junta taking over the Falklands.
Sorting out the chaotic mess that was British Industrial relations. Even though the NUM Constitution dictated that the Miners needed to ballot their members Arthur Scargill and his like were fully determined to ignore Industrial democracy. She had the temerity to end the appalling Closed shop, institute secret ballots within Unions and a range of other modernising reforms. Note that Labour DID NOT reverse these very modest reforms.
Modernise a whole range of areas including the City of London and the nationalised Industries. Maintaining loss making mines at well below the margins of profitability was a stupid approach in an ever more globalised world. Even a basic understanding of economics dictates trade and the sourcing of cheaper products abroad.
Re-introducing the Competitive/Aspirational ethos that actually brought this country into the top 10 world economies.
Allowing the reinvigorated wealth to allow the vital Welfare state not to be slashed (as the IMF had instructed Healey to do in the 1970’s).
Brilliant Prime Minister. The most difficult task for any Prime Minister is to manage change when the back cloth is difficult. In her case she straddled the era between the old industries declining and the new industries rising. It seems odd that people prefer to roll out this simple nonsense about Thatcher killing off the Coal industry, for example, than to deal with the facts. The facts, of course, relate to the rise of Gas and Electric fires, Central heating, the availability in the EEC of cheap coal, and so on.
Recent surveys have shown that per capita incomes have doubled since the 1970’s in Britain, much of this fact due to the transformation of the country
@wxm 5507 wrote:
This is a spend of £5k, £10k, or £25,000.
Wrexham Council spends £430,000,000?
The revenue of the town and/or county in industry generally is £5,000,000,000 to £10,000,000,000? While any initiative to make people happy and draw crowds is laudable; what will this initiative bring in?
Somewhere else in these forums, comments have recently been made about the role of a Council. Councils can either stay in or out of intervening in the affairs of industry, or any public service section. To get partially involved is to meddle and destructive. Will Wrexham Beach combine with everything else that is being done, to create a thriving economy?
Two comments. Firstly, the fact that this amount is minuscule compared to the overall spend is not relevant. There was a debate on here recently about the increase of the Chief Exec’s salary. That increase, as such, was such a small matter compared to the overall spend that it seemingly makes us all guilty of trivialising if we take that line.
Secondly, the real focus is not on the spend per se but the actual return to spend from the outlay. I remain on the fence but still feel that entertainment is best left to those who have more perception of this area of life
@wrexview 5494 wrote:
“When the Council actually considered a differentiated approach to the Superschools they were refused permission to even consider”
What was the ” differentiated approach” ? Do you mean setting of pupils ?
Good question, and I am in truth, sketchy on detail here. If my memory serves me correctly, and I will gladly stand corrected, I think that the Council floated the idea of copying schools like that in Ellesmere. What happens across Shropshire and Cheshire is that schools, especially those of the Academy ilk, adopt an individual identity so that they might be geared towards Languages, IT, Sport, Music and so on. Each school follows the core curriculum but differentiates part of its offer from another school nearby. This allows choice and specialisation.
Such an approach could easily work well in a town of the size of Wrexham because it would allow parents to try and place their youngster where their aptitudes seemed to direct. Essentially, its a re-run of the Butler approach.
It was knocked back by the Welsh Assembly because they don’t like anything that strikes them as providing even the modicum of a ‘different’ education. Hence we have what David Blunkett called ‘Bog Standard One-Size Fits All Comprehensives’ in our town.
The ‘Setting’ question is a different (though vital) issue
