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I am not at all surprised over the council exec board being so inept that there’s nobody competent enough to write a Business Plan or any of the council officers or perhaps Ian Bancroft who earns a ridiculous salary.
This Fourth Street who out of London will charge obscene rates have cleverly positioned themselves into tricking the public sector and large PLC into thinking any project slightly out of the ordinary is a big ask and too difficult for them to conduct themselves, which is absurd.
In these times of extreme financial pressure for the county when Council Tax payments will be down and funds needing to be diverted to Covid contingencies to pay to outsource this activity is a poor decision and cannot possibly be price justified.
I feel like the whole firework thing is becoming a very minor point versus the fact of the absurdity that you cannot buy a newborn baby grow if your baby is born unexpectedly in the next 2 weeks, but you may buy a litre of vodka to wet the baby’s head as it were.
That is everything that is wrong with this essentials argument AND since I posted this earlier tonight, it turns out a large number of people are downright angry about the entire situation judging by the comments on Facebook and Twitter. I just thought I was having the usual moan and was interested in gauging thoughts on here.
People have been sharing other examples and everyone must work from home if they can BUT printer paper is considered non essential and therefore not allowed to be sold in the supermarket.
Situation needs reviewing drastically. Welsh Government have really messed up on this one.
Nobody was warned what would be considered non essential until 6pm tonight so therefore nobody could possibly plan ahead and buy any items they needed from the ‘naughty’ list in advance.
Stay away from the explosion and observe lockdown please, but here is the exact date and time when it’s going to happen.
Zinger, doesn’t matter what papers people read, it’s which front pages now go viral and get shared across people’s social media on their phones and tablets these days. People don’t do ‘Long Reads’ anymore (much to my dismay!)
It is on principle down to all of us to make sure we help children who are in need, hence the vast number of charities and fund raising around children and poverty, people give what they can to those. Unfortunately charity has limits and each private individual only has limits to their financial means and resources to help hungry kids.
Lots of it is invisible, you don’t so much have children begging in the streets these days because they are hungry, more like being stuck at home not getting enough meals or the right type of food. Especially difficult during this year when we are in lockdown/social distancing – you couldn’t go round being offering Jam Butties to strangers children as if were. There’d be the whole issue of looking like the Pied Piper as well.
Ultimately we all go down to the polling station on Election Day and vote for what kind of person we want to represent us to run the current in the right way. There’s many who vote for a candidate who cares about stuff like child poverty or protecting the most vulnerable. Someone who has access to the public purse strings who can allocate money paid through tax and other means to those who need it as part and parcel of a democratic society.
Then there are others decide to vote for someone who cares about their own interests only and that’s when you get a Tory and a Tory Government and you see a managed decline of the poor. In my mind a Conservative government is one who wants to conserve their own wealth for themselves and the Upper Class and Middle Classes of the country – the I’m Alright Jack classes.
Tories come in from a position of privelige and they don’t understand poverty and suffering and can’t empathise with those that do. The fact is our current Prime Minister complains about his PM salary and considers £150,000 – one of the best paid jobs in the country – to be too low.
The only way these Tories can be pushed into doing the right thing is to create a public outrage and verbally express that any given situation is not okay and force them into making a U Turn.
You’re right child hunger shouldn’t be political, it should be a basic human right that their needs are met in a country that generates so much wealth, by those who operate the welfare state.
Also, in some countries they don’t allow the freedom of speech to speak up against injustice and inequality and allow criticism of Government, such as in Russia. I think that just goes to show how important it is to use your voice to complain about issues. Talk may seem cheap for some, but it might be the difference between life and death for others.
Just read through all the dross excuses that both the local MPs gave when speaking to Wrexham.com as to why they voted down the motion.
The thing is they rightly identified that it was just an opposition day motion and had no binding legislative impact. However, it was designed to make the Government and all the Tory MPs look bad if they voted against it and it did just that. Especially as some Conservative MPs are ministers responsible for education, child welfare and health etc…
There are others who are patrons of child welfare and food poverty charities. Thus in the above cases it looks like they are voting against their own political areas of interest.
People won’t remember or even bother to read these long winded and tedious rebuttals spun out by the likes of Atherton and Baynes.
However they will remember today’s Mirror front page where all 300 Tory MPs are named and shamed.
Tomorrow's front page: Some things never change…so cruel https://t.co/PP07xCNmd6 #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/rDxSDqnaIT
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) October 21, 2020
At the end of the day, whether or not it was an opposition motion – the mood of the country and it also seems the consensus on here feel that kids should not be allowed to go hungry and whilst not a perfect solution, the gesture would have gone some way to feeding some of the most vulnerable in society.
These politicians got voted in as unknowns but are they ever going to curry any favour with their constituents if they can’t even give such a basic human need in one of the most developed nations in 2020?
It’s not about whether or not they could manage on their own, it’s a question of perceived treatment and as a result of successive Governments (both Labour and Tories) to give the Scottish the respect they deserve it has led for the people, especially the young to believe that Scotland can go out on its own and manage.
Westminster doesn’t respect the Celtic nations or even the North of England, because as you say the vast majority of wealth is generated in London and the South East. But it does mean they have to throw a bone to more deprived areas of the country.
Perhaps that’s why the British Empire crumbled, because the Better offs in this country completely fail to look after the needs and respect those outside of their elitist bubble and now that’s ebbing all the way to domestic levels.
It’s even more questionable of their actions if the Welsh Government has covered children in their constituencies, so are immune to angry backlash here, can in all decent consequence want to rob children in other parts of the UK of the same safety net.
It’s quite a strange move, even for the Tories overall when their endgame before the next election will be to preserve Northern Red Wall seats that they won last election, when they are continuing a Thatcheresque assault and dereliction of the North in general.
No wonder Scotland wants to get out of this Union.
What, so on the logic that he ate some takeaway chips whilst on a walk with his family back in May and a tabloid incorrectly said this wasn’t allowed, everyone should flout rules and allow Covid to spread? Sound advice there.
South Wales might be currently alone on the line of latitude but in terms of the current picture, but now the South West of England is reported to have the highest R rate in the country, so things can soon change in a short period of time.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/coronavirus-growth-south-west-could-4613777
There’s a delusion of nearsightedness where people seem to think because Covid numbers are low now that they will remain low. Just look at how Wrexham was praised not long ago and look where we are now.
Ultimately it’s better for these businesses and self employed sole traders in non local lockdown areas to see a national lockdown take place as they will still see a downturn in trade as people won’t be able to travel to their area from other locked down areas and those local tend to stay at home more when the perceived overall UK wide Covid numbers are higher. There will also still have to be lay offs despite being able to operate – just look at cinemas. Yet they wouldn’t be financially bailed out, whereas those in severely affected lockdown areas most likely will.
In interests of economic parity across the country, heavily affected sectors need protecting on a national scale. I’m not accepting any I’m Alright Jack excuses that the taxpayer shouldn’t be constantly bailing out people who are getting in little to no income coming in since March despite trying considering the circumstances. As they won’t be able to pay to keep a roof over their heads or feed their families.
It will have a domino effect anyway once the banks get hit when mortgages can’t be paid both by unemployed homeowners and also landlords whose tenants can longer pay rent or they can’t any new paying tenants into their properties.
Things haven’t hit the fan in that respect yet.
Quite frankly the areas in local lockdown at present seem to be a lot more economically deprived areas and such their lack of trust in Government and authority and rules mean they aren’t giving 2 hoots about playing by the rules and not mixing so this is why the local lockdowns aren’t working and the numbers are still going up on locked down areas. The police openly admitting they can’t actually police any lockdown infringements anyway means people feel above the law and above being infected and go about their daily business like it’s 2019.
Leicester has been in the forgotten local lockdown for 109 days now and the numbers still haven’t sufficiently gone down for them to be released. Does that mean the rest of us like Wrexham can expect a similar ongoing sentence?
It very much looks like Wales is going to go into just over 2 weeks of national lockdown next Friday if the information emerging online and through the press is accurate. I can almost guarantee we won’t be released from national restrictions when that period is up. But even if we did, we’ll probably be still in a local lockdown. Doubly locked down.
