bobo the clown
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Apparently advertised on line for a while. To be a 4 day protest. They got 5 people, for one day. Tossers.
I assume one & the same with the Fracking protesters. Though maybe these guys are all so self focused they don’t even cope with each other.
“A language which only continues because it’s forced on people is a dying language” … completely correct. In this area it is, was and always will be a fringe language. I certainly hear more Polish than Welsh. Yet the Welsh Language Act and Welsh Language Commissioner push it further and further. Many public jobs now require people are bi-lingual to apply …. thus barring 80% and more from being eligible. Then we’re surprised at the poor quality of public employee.
We’re constantly told that there are recruitment problems in the Welsh NHS … has anyone ever linked the two points.
We’re told that more schoolchildren are now leaving shcool with qualifications in Welsh. Maybe … but look at the curriculum. As much about History (how bad the English treated us) and Geography than the language. The statistics are deliberately used as a con.
We have a dedicated Welsh language TV channel which has many Welsh language shows with incalculable low numbers of people watching … literally marked as 0%. Yet any effort to try to liven it up is screamed down as anti-Welsh.
Town names and roads and street names must be dualism …. unless, that is, the original name is Welsh in which case no English version must be offered. So false Welsh words for Overton, Rossett, Northop and hundreds more are created .. but no such thing in English for Coedpoeth, Cefn Mawr, Llangollen.
One eyed, politically motivated bigotry which would not be acceptable the other way around.
The utter waste of money and energy, the bigotry and the bias in the end do more damage than good. Welsh has its place but it’s certainly not in the border counties.
Now, y’see, thngs like THIS don’t help … not the decision to have speed controls by schools (though are they required 2/7/52 ??) but the cost.
Putting up signs & markings to note 20mph zones outside 4 schools … cost = £150,000.
How on God’s little green Earth can that cost so much. I’d put a bid in for half that & expect to be rolling in profit.
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“Speed limits of 20mph could be introduced outside four schools could be introduced under proposals by Wrexham Council.
As part of its ongoing work to improve road safety Wrexham Council will be proposing to introduce 20 mph speed limits outside four schools in the county borough’s this year. Primary schools that will be proposed for 20mph this year are Llanarmon DC, Pentre CP, Holt CP and St Chad’s Hanmer. Cllr David A Bithell, Lead Member for the Environment and Transport, said: “We are investing £150,000 this year to roll out this initiative and next year should see the completion of our programme”.
So far so good. I’ve suffered for years from the “rush hour” queues here and then the ones over the past 8 months while this work was undertaken. I remain convinced that the project was utterly mismanaged.
However, though I was sceptical about whether this work would do the job it does seem to be working generally well … so some credit where it’s due. I’m still unconvinced that this was the best solution and the traffic light set up isn’t yet optimal. There’s a great deal of finishing work to do as well.
But … simple answer to a simple question … it’s working pretty well so far.
We could save about £3m pa by stopping the unnecessary use of Welsh.
There. It’s all down to choice.
Not before time. They ought never have undone Clwyd in the first place. All that’s happened since is overlapping of services often too small to then be efficient. Oh …. plus the incessant growth of vanity of the likes of Mark Pritchard.
I’m just relieved someone didn’t decide to have one authority across North Wales. I suppose we should be grateful for Betsi for something.
For what it’s worth the Council “civilians”, even at the very top levels, have been preparing for this for a good while, but the Councillors themselves have been instructing them they must not. I suppose they are concerned about their very lucrative lifestyles.
3 months late on a project intended to be 7 months. 43% overrun. Way to go.
That weather must have been bad.
