Mrs Crewe
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We got 2 council tax demands too. I’m not paying it twice! I wonder how much money was wasted printing and sending duplicate invoices?
I think the Council MOT centre is one of the things going in the budget cuts, bit short sighted really, with better advertising and a modest price rise it could be a money spinner.
When we took our car to be serviced at the main dealer, they always added a charge for windscreen washer. We always filled it up before it went! After questioning this charge they removed it, but it made me wonder what else they were charging for that they hadn’t done.
I always found main dealers to be worse at this overcharging than independent garages.Umm, I did say I was not suggesting that Mr Wynn was an extremist, simply that ‘independent’ has been used by extremists. You actually quoted me saying it. And why are you bringing in Godwin’s law? There are far more types of extremists than the national socialists.
Nice to see some grass roots standing rather than just the big parties and the loony parties. Having said that, it is very important to really understand what ‘independent’ means in this context. Some extremists have stood under the banner independent to hide what they really stood for. I am not suggesting that Mr Wynn is an extremist, I just hope that rather than voting in anger against the normal parties people really investigate what they are voting for.
As the use and usability of technology rises, public sector roles in many areas will diminish. If you can complete forms make payments and access information online the need for staffed offices is less. As Alun stated we have to move away from a dependence on the public sector for employment. 75% of those who work in Wales work for the public sector, we are all working and paying taxes to fund our own positions. This leaves nothing for health, education and infrastructure. We are still at the cusp of the technological revolution with more traditional roles being taken by online services. As with those who survived the Industrial Revolution if we are to prosper we have to move with the innovation. I feel that the political class in Wales is due the lion share of the blame for the stagnation of innovation, they have stuck with the old fashioned ways of over stuffing the public sector as it is an easy (and lazy) way to win votes. There needs to be more done to encourage private business and enterprise in Wales, to change a culture of reliance on one area for economic security. But I fear that in the run up to the election the old ways will remain, keeping their political positions is far more important to them than what Wales actually needs.
There are other links to India in Wrexham, the Madras School is named after the Madras region of India. It’s old Elihu Yale again, he was the Govenor of Madras and gave money to Wrexham for various education establishments. Yale was part of the East India Company.
Having worked in Council offices in town I can confirm that they couldn’t get the wifi to work on both sides of the building let alone outside.
