Matt
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When budgetary constraints are dealt with on a few years basis and elections are every 5 years. It is always in the interests of the current ruling executive to go for the cheapest option available and in this case the 10 year rather than 20 years. It’s incredibly short sighted and bad management, but when the roads start breaking down and need to be replaced in 10 years the ruling executive will point to the previous regime as being at fault for failing to spend sufficient money and causing greater costs down the line. To no accountability whatsoever – once you are out of office, nothing can be pinned on you. Likewise, blame will also be pointed to austerity and the WAG and the Westminster Government for going the cheap route.
When in Austerity and cuts mode – there is no political upside for them to future proof our roads or go above and beyond what is necessary.
They already aren’t doing enough as the roads haven’t been fully fixed since last winter – as the massive pothole in the Tesco roundabout continuously reminds me.
X I’ve no interest in being baited across multiple threads just because you have a personal issue with me. It’s incredibly childish and arguing ruins the flow of the discussion forum for everyone else. The fact is I’ve not even posted in this thread so I’m baffled as to why you even need to bring me into it.
Rob, as this post is completely off topic you can remove it if you wish, but I will not tolerate jumped up anonymous troll bullies online.
Funnily enough Councillor X I don’t ever have the urge to just walk into the Maelor to go and study the Doctors’ Appointment boards like you to make sure that a sufficient number of British sounding names are up there and to then assert some kind of so called moral outrage when there’s foreign names up there.
You are noticing all the foreign names up there and getting angry about it because you have a prejudicial problem. It doesn’t matter how many countless Joneses, Smiths and Roberts are getting seen every day – as each foreign name is taunting you like a proverbial red rag to a bull and triggering whatever negative feelings you just can’t help having.
The fact that you are pre-judging every single person receiving treatment on the basis of their name without even knowing who these people are shows just how deep your xenophobia is. You don’t know who these people are or if they were in fact born in this country or not – regardless of their names.
Also, an incredible invasion of personal privacy I think – some creepy ‘Anon Councillor’ type sitting there auditing people going for health checks. I wonder if Maelor security have clocked onto you yet?
My problem is with the unskilled workers who use of precious A&E resources BUT are only here because local people don’t want to do the jobs they came over to do and are happy as Larry on the dole.
This is actually incredible. You have a problem with people who come over here and work hard and actually earn money to pay their way doing the type of jobs that slack British wasters are too lazy to do? You mean the kings and queens of all resource waste. Why should those lazy scroungers have more of a right to access the health service just because they happened to be born in a geographic location similar to your own when they are putting nothing in vs actual workers. Cut off the bloody NHS to lazy people first.
Dole scroungers don’t pay council tax, so they are causing budget cuts across Wrexham, they are taking council homes rent free from working families who can’t afford to buy a house and get a mortgage and are instead forced to pay inflated private rental rates. They pay in zero tax and national insurance.
Even if there were zero migrants in the country, these lazy buggers still wouldn’t do the factory jobs, the fruit picking and all the other unpopular jobs because they are a waste of space. I applaud all these workers who want to come over and add to the economy.
The way you go on about Top Management and value hard work from councillors, public sector workers etc… – Councillor X, I thought it would be logical for you to value individuals on a work ethic basis first regardless of ethnic background or migrant status or skill level VERSUS people who want something for nothing and cost the rest of us money and take but don’t never back.
Bubble you’ve hit the nail right on head there – hence my original questioning about the actual intentions of a post regarding foreigners.
Well as someone who takes everyone as they come on a personality and action basis, regardless of where they are from – you can see how I am struggling to understand why blame has once again fallen at the lap of ‘foreigners’.
If it were not for the fantastic overseas doctors, nurses and auxiliary staff working tirelessly in the NHS to ensure everyone stays well and doesn’t die then the public healthcare service would absolutely be on its knees. So to question why fellow human beings don’t deserve to be treated when they are guests in our country is beyond me and does by dictionary definition come across as a bit xenophobic – having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
In this case the prejudicial nature being that they should be begrudged access to our healthcare system.
It’s all swings and roundabouts – Brits abroad are the first to complain if there’s a charge for any healthcare when they are on a holiday and if we want to continue enjoying treatment when mishaps happen abroad then we should at the very least extend the same courtesy to those who come here. If someone is spending the winter here then they are adding to the economy, spending money etc…
The world hasn’t gone nuts, it’s just about being open minded and fair. People are perfectly entitled to voice their opinion in the same manner that I am perfectly entitled to disagree or interpret things as xenophobic.
Councillor X – are they from the EU? – If so, that’s currently called Freedom of Movement. Likewise – Spain, Portugal etc… deal with tens of thousands of our frail elderly every winter where they get equally free care using an EHIC card.
So if we swapped things out and all our elderly who escape the UK in the cold winter months came back here for treatment (they may well have to do so post Brexit) and the others stayed where they were, it would probably balance things out and the strain on the NHS would be equal. What do we do then? Force the elderly to pay for the NHS because their needs are greater than the rest when they worked for 45+ years paying in.
Was it your intention to come across as xenophobic? Something a bit sneaky about being nice to our overseas visitors when you see them face to face and then bitching about them behind their back. Something a bit off about that. At least be honest with them when you are sharing a drink and merriment.
Some very good questions wrexview.
My guess is that quite a few people will opt out of green bins and just stick it in the black bin. Also, there is the option for those who don’t want to pay to have composting bins in the back garden instead. £30 isn’t a lot of money, but the principle of paying is there. Personally, I have a very low maintenance garden and only need to put the green bin out to empty about 4 times in total during Spring-Autumn and never during the winter.
In terms of cutting down the regular recycling collection – I think they would be reluctant to cut it from weekly in case they receive criticism from the Welsh Government who are putting pressure on councils for recycling targets – even though just as much recycling would get done in a fortnight collection – but would be less labour intensive. I’ve always had 2 plastic recycling boxes, so can get away with putting out recycling once a fortnight (there’s no upper limit to how much recycling you can put out in 1 go – you can have bin bags and bin bags full of cardboard and they collect it).
Now if only some kind of intelligent waste and recycling strategy could be applied that saved money, was efficient but also made sure rubbish wasn’t spilling out into the streets.
That is for additional green bins isn’t it? – It was my understanding that we would all be charged £30 annually for the privilege of having our first and only green bins emptied? Meaning £60 for those with 2 bins.
It’s quite easy to criticise the traders for being not being active all hours. However, some of them have actually seen their lives impacted on detrimentally – perhaps from a health point of view. Others have to seek additional work to support their families so they don’t starve and keep a roof on their heads and cannot afford to pay staff wages to cover that time when they are not present.
When the actual centre management are not properly supporting these traders and the centre’s facilities (no card payments) were not completed on time when the opening occurred – then why should they slog their guts out for a pittance?
As visitors and dissenters armchair or otherwise – most people are too busy trying to earn a living during the week to meet the ever increasing costs of living in Wrexham to go to somewhere like Ty Pawb. Quite frankly when you only have 2 days off on the weekend and kids to entertain I’d rather go pay a pound for parking at one of the country parks and go for a walk than be cooped up in an industrial looking building with very little on offer.
