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I saw the ENGLISH sports minister was with her at the Racecourse and we also had Drakeford outside the Fat Boar this week.
It’s all very well these politicians apparently tasked with running the countries from Westminster and Cardiff coming to town for photo opportunities, but what are they actually going to do for the town in terms of tangible substance?
If it’s an issue for everyone, what are we all supposed to do? Get everyone to go at it like rabbits? Invite a friend from overseas or another town? It’s a complicated situation.
Ultimately there were a lot of opportunities and prospects in Wrexham when we saw a surge in migratory population going years back. Nowadays the town centre itself and surrounding industrial areas giving service and industry jobs has completely flatlined, with Covid signalling more business failures – this is the bleak picture we are left with. My guess is there will be towns in England, Scotland and NI in a similar situation.
Additionally as well as the lack of pull factors from jobs, a complete inability to want to build enough houses and sufficient public services also leaves Wrexham an unattractive prospect. Poor public transport both bus and rail, shortage of GPs, poor quality schooling vs other areas.
You’re right though the Council will do sweet FA about the situation not when all they can do is come up with hairbrained so called “Golden Bullet” ideas like Ty Pawb etc… that they thought would totally transform town. More like fools gold.
Of course we can’t expect Cardiff’s WAG to bail us out, I. guess ultimately we’ll just have to ride this one and see if there’s an overall upturn in the economy in the next 5 years and organic growth happens off the tails of prosperity. But for now we’ll just have to sit it out in stagnantstville.
Councillor, what happens if you and the lads took the Wethers Wagon there?
All part of the same bubble, so reduced risk vs public transport if you can find a designated driver.
There’s a place where you aren’t allowed to criticise political leadership of any kind – it’s called North Korea.
We all had to hear endless hammering of Ian Lucas for years so it’s swings and roundabouts.
And you can make up a drinking game every time someone mentions Atherton is new to the job. At what point does she remove her training wheels? The salary paid to MPs dictates that they become highly competent very quickly or step aside and let the electorate vote someone else in.
A high level council officer on a similar amount of remuneration wouldn’t get away with the “oh they’re still new on the job” after almost 9 months.
Like you said Captain we’re all entitled to our opinions and this is a public forum of discussion where debate is encouraged – if we all agreed it would be incredibly boring.
I will give her one thing – at least Wrexham isn’t stuck with someone like Rob Roberts, so it could be worse.
Unless I’m mistaken though Captain I was still correctly referring to the affluent North Wrexham Rural Tory heartland bubble which is her domain, as opposed to the most deprived areas of the middle of Wrexham town where all the “oiks” live.
Don’t her 4 points of objection she made Re: Rossett also hold equal and if not more validity in Hightown and Caia? Why isn’t she going to bat for those constituents in those areas in equal measure?
Are the children of Caia not alarmed by seeing people wearing Hazmat suits?
Would people travelling some distance for a Covid test (according to her logic) not want to visit the shops in Hightown in a densely populated area after a test thus increasing the spread of the virus to the local area?
She goes on in her letter how the obvious sites for the testing centres was in a rural area with good road access.
Seems bizarre to me.
What a wonderful photo opportunity for her.
Of course when she was being paid to do her actual proper work in June in Westminster and truly protect Wrexham’s interests – local NHS staff at the Maelor facing the current Covid spike crisis can sleep well at night knowing she voted AGAINST weekly testing of NHS and care staff.
Thanks for the link Zinger, someone was talking to me about these stats earlier and I wasn’t able to find where they were from. It’s interesting that there are far more deaths if you look up Chester way than most areas around Wrexham county.
Atherton’s shame has no bounds – she Nimby objected to Wrexham’s Covid testing centres being established back in March in affluent Rossett near where she lives, but is more than happy for the test centres to be dumped in the poorest parts of town instead as we have now seen in Caia and Hightown, which she’s telling everyone to go to. Can’t help but think one in rural North Wrexham would have been helpful.
