Monday, September 10, 2012

THE GOOD TEACHER a updating of the GOOD SAMARITAN

English: A special education teacher assists o...
English: A special education teacher assists one of her students. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Some time in the present there was a wealthy man called Bill, he was one of the richest men in the World, he had made his wealthy making and selling electronic devices. Bill was not a selfish man (entirely) He donated large amounts of his money to special causes, and his favorite one was education. However he was not happy he wanted to now how he would be remembered in history.
He happened to be attending a conference on education.

At this conference there was a special education teacher who was addressing the conference she was well known for her compassionate teacher and teaching each child individually Mrs C was very highly respected in her field.

During a coffee break Bill decided to speak to her and ask her advice.

“Rabbi (which in Hebrew means teacher) how may my place in history concerning education be fulfilled?

“By how much time you spend with your children and their education.

“Is that all” said Bill.

Then Mrs C explained to him with a story.

“There a child who was coming out of school after serving detention in a rough part of town, when he was beaten up by a band of kids, while he was lying on the side walk  a local businessman came driving by, he saw the kid but drove on. Then the local minister was riding his bike, he thought the gang might be still there but did call the police on his cell phone (they were too busy to come out). A short time after that a teacher was walking home (because his car had broken down) he recognized the child from the hall. He picked him up with help of a lady who was passing by, and took him home to his worried parents who had been concerned about the time. They brought him in cleaned him up, and sent out for pizza, meanwhile they talked. The teacher paid for the pizza and paid for extra supplies for the child, also he got him help with extra tuition which helped him catch up with the others. This motivated the parents to get involved in their child’s education.”

Then Mrs C turned to Bill asked him who was most helpful to the child.? “The one who helped him.” Replied Bill glibly

“Bill  sell your business and invest in education by building new schools paying teachers what they deserve and work in the class room with a kid that needs help, that is worth more than all the foundations funding charter schools around”

I dedicate this poor piece to my wife Catherine Cooper Cridland a great teacher and to the millions of dedicated teachers around the World.
 
I also dedicate this to inlaws Dr Richard T Cooper and Mary Cooper. Dick was a hard worker administator in the LAUSD and the Californian schools  Mary was a hard working teacher who inspired my wife.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Vivre la Quebec Libre (The two Charles De Gaulle's Frenchman and Breton)

De Gaulle in 1961 at the Köln/Bonn airport.De Gaulle in 1961 at the Köln/Bonn airport. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)







Charles De Gaulle  Vive la Quebec Libre


Brittany has known two Charles De Gaulle’s. The famous General De Gaulle, Liberator and the symbolism of France and the French language. Then there’s the lesser known Charles De Gaulle uncle of the famous General De Gaulle born in 1834, and founder of the pan Celtic movement ironically he was known by his Breton name Charlez Vro-C'hall, He was a poet a devout Cathjolic  and monarchist. He was a great believer in the Celtic languages as a vehicle of high culture, he learnt Breton, Welsh, and Gaelic. Paradoxically as opposed to his nephew he believed in the restoration of Breton autonomy as opposed to his highly centralizing nephew.

Unfortunately he suffered from a paralysis which meant he never visited those places that were the home of his imagination he composed this piece

E Paris va c'horf zo dalc'het
Med daved hoc'h nij va spered
Vel al labous, aden askel,
Nij de gaout he vreudeur a bell
(In Paris my body is held
But towards you my spirit flies,
Swftly like a bird,
To meet his far away brothers.)

Ironically his nephew General De Gaulle used him to advocate Quebecois independence. And now with the news from Quebec with the victory of the Bloc Quebecois an their leader who was almost shot. Will the next referendum be successful and will the dream of Charles De Gaulle be realized and will it encourage the Scots to vote for independence causing the dream of Charles De Gaulle the elder to be realized?


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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Cardiff Region Dead?


Talk of  creating a Cardiff  region (consisting of Cardiff and the local authorities such as the Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf etc) has been going on for some years. However nothing concrete has even appeared. Now it seems according to a report in the South Wales Echo it may not even materialize.

“he concept of creating a Cardiff City Region covering much of South East Wales appears to have been undermined in documents obtained by the Echo, it has been claimed.”

It seems that the Welsh Government was not interested in pursuing a cross authority plan on housing it wanted Cardiff to go head and plan for 44K new houses to be built by 2026 which is incredible.

“The Welsh Government’s head of plans Mark Newey said, according to the notes, other councils were so advanced in preparing their own LDPs that there was “no immediate prospect” of securing a cross-boundary agreement.
Mr Newey reportedly said the idea of Cardiff sharing its projected growth within the region “was not a realistic short-term option” and “referred to the need for Cardiff to prepare its plan now”.
The council warned the LDP would see thousands of homes built on greenfield sites, raise “serious political issues” and “was unlikely to receive support”. But the Welsh Government’s chief planner Rosemary Thomas reminded the council of its “responsibility as a capital city in delivering (an LDP)”.

It seems that the surrounding authorities want Cardiff to build build build, and they have a puppet in the new Labour administration who will defy the wishes of the the people of Cardiff as Professor Kevin Morgan put it

“Professor Kevin Morgan, a planning expert at Cardiff University, said planning future housing provision from a regional perspective was integral to a successful city region.
Prof Morgan, who was a member of the Welsh Government’s City Region Group, said: “If Cardiff is forced to accommodate its housing growth within the boundaries of the city it will be forced to build on green space.
“Some planners would say that is the right and proper thing to do, but that is not my view – I think if local politicians start to build on green space they will be toast.
“That is why I am a city regionalist. Part of this growth has got to be shared with neighbouring local authorities – you have got to engage them and come to a mutually beneficial position.”

I s he right, will they be toast?


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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Who is this "Jac O' the North"?

English: Welsh Language Skills, 2001 Census. C...
English: Welsh Language Skills, 2001 Census. Created & uploaded by Keith Edkins from :Image:WalesNumbered.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Who is this Jac o' the North? who writes constantly about the impending extinction of the Welsh nation?

Who sometimes appears to "demonise" English incomers either  as English second home geriatrics or problem families being dumped on Welsh speaking areas by English authorities.

Is he talking about people like me a anglophone Welshman with English great grandparents.

Even if I disagree with much of what he says I understand his concerns and they should be discussed.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Poor old Rowan

WADI KHARRAR, JORDAN - FEBRUARY 20: Archbishop...
WADI KHARRAR, JORDAN - FEBRUARY 20: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams prays whilst presiding over a service at the Baptism site at the River Jordan, on February 20, 2010, in Wadi Kharrar, Jordan. Williams, who expressed his fears over the 'eroding Christian presence in the Holy Land', layed the foundation stone for the Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist at the site which is to be built on land donated by Jordan's King Abdullah. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Poor old Rowan Williams whenever he makes one of his old Testament prophet type condemnations nobody takes him seriously. He looks the part with his peppered beard, and with his socialist type background of a raging Welsh revolutionary. Unfortunately it’s the role with its establishment trappings, he gets flak from both sides the dawkins type atheist who thinks that religion does not belong in the public square, then the Christian fundamentalist who think that he has conspired with the secular left to destroy traditional Christianity. They are both wrong the Civil Rights movement not only in the US but the anti  apartheid movement of in South Africa (Desmond Tutu, Trevor Huddleston CR) and Bob Morgan in Ely, and Bill Morgan in Merthyr Tudfil) all these were inspired by the Social Gospel and the old Testament Prophets who condemned those who oppressed the poor. Dawkins read just part of the Bible about the miracles and the rantings of Leviticus, and ignore the ethics that is all through the Bible which thunders Justice. The Fundies are wrong because they are fixated on sin and revenge. I am afraid that Rowan’s heart is in the right place, but his body was not, he was a lame and weak leader who was no pastor and could not lead, and this was true of both Monmouth and Wales, he tried to be everyone’s friend. I wish him all the best, I was sorry when he lost his best friend Chris Morgan it was a grievous loss.

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

rain rain go away come again another day! Not












Forest fire this week in Manitou Springs picture taken by friends living there.





“Rain, rain go away come again another day” so goes the rhyme of my rain filled childhood in Wales. However since living in Colorado and Kansas in the middle of America, in what used to be known as the “great American Desert” , and desert it is, despite being the bread basket of America, however with the lack of rain and moisture we could end up as the basket case of America.

Every time I hear complaints from  friends and family about all the rain they get I think to myself how lucky they are, because this gives Wales one of its most precious resources, its water. Something that does not pollute but gives life.



The Mighty Arkansas River in south Dodge City in 1965 it burst it banks and flooded most of the city.


I will show them alternative. A dry summer last year when it was a 100F plus for over 40 days and the possibility of another one, except we had more rain thgis spring and as I type it is certainly more humid than last year.

I have lived in Colorado and Kansas for the last 20 odd years (except for 2002-05 and 2007-08 when I was back in Wales), Colorado has moisture at least because of the mountains and snow. Kansas is a different matter, we have very little snow and rain.

Colorado has been a tinderbox in Fort Collins, Este Park (home of the infamous hotel in the “Shining”)
Description: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Stanley_Hotel_Estes_Park_CO.jpg/250px-Stanley_Hotel_Estes_Park_CO.jpg

And fires just outside Manitou Springs.

So when my Welsh complain bout the rain just think what it must be like without it!?

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Charles Dreyfus for Commissioner of the South Wales Police Force



With the impending election for police commissioners in Wales coming up, I saw one of the potential candidates was one Commissioner Charles Dreyfus late retired of the Surete (France).








Vote For Dreyfus for South Wales Commissioner of Police with his experience and stability


"Every Day and in every way the South Wales police authority will get better and better"


"Clouseau I just want to kill him"   


Inspector Clouseau " I highly recommend him" 



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Sunday, June 10, 2012

This ol church

St Timothy's Church a church in the parish of Caerau with Ely was built in 1957 and consecrated by then Bishop of Llandaff, Dr Glyn Simon. This was the church that I grew up in, when it was built it was meant to be a temporary building, and there was a building fund for a permanent church. Unfortunately a bit of financial mismanagement by the clergy, and a lack of growth in people made sure that would never happen. When we joined there was an average attendance of 30-40 which is what it is today. Though I understand that there is a healthy youth group.http://www.caerauwithely.org/
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Cymru Fydd and Plaid Cymru a tale of 2 failures

The problem you have with Wales is not do with the size (even though that is what people say all the time) it's whether it's financially sustainable, can we attract enough business or even create it to generate enough revenue to be able to survive. can we, I think we can but with another govt at the helm. because this one is quite happy for our nation to be a welfare basket case to England. I was reading a book by Cymru Fydd. Cymru Fydd was the  Welsh Liberal Party that promoted home rule and Welsh culture, as opposed to the South Wales Liberal Federation, (led by Alderman Robert Bird Mayor of Cardiff) was led by David Lloyd George, T E Ellis and O M Edwards. I used to think that it was the equivalent of Welsh labour. I was wrong it was the forerunner of Plaid Cymru. I think it's enmd came because it saw the English immigrants as a destructive influence instead of making them welcome in Wales. It devalued their religion, their drinking habits, and their language.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Watergate 40 years on, with Dick Nixon and Booby Woodward

Richard Nixon (1963)
Richard Nixon (1963) (Photo credit: Iberia Airlines)

I almost forgot how time flies by! ITS 40 years since the infamous Watergate break ins. I am sure we shall be seeing Bob Woodward wall to wall talking about “Deepthroat” and what an evil fiend Richard Nixon was.

Yep he was highly flawed and he did some bad things ( I guess overthrowing the highly incompetent Salvador Allende would count against him as he was cruelly killed), Watergate being the worst.

However this same odious little toady Woodward wrote a gushing book about George W Bush's invasion of Iraq, without addressing the infamous “patriot Act” which legalized some of the “doings” of Watergate like wiretapping and bugging etc. I read Peter Black AM reharshing of this on his blog, and I wondered what peter would have thought about some of the happenings of the last 20 years which would make Nixon look like a saint.

What about Nixon's achievements. Peace with China, the end of the Vietnam war, the EPA extension of Medicare, and his own attempt at solving the healthcare problem, tatht was even more radical than Obamacare.

I believe he brought more good than evil, and Woodward just stopped and stagnated with his investigative journalism.

Nixon also advocated the end of the embargo with Cuba something none of our current entities have dared to do, he was a man of vision but highly flawed.

Today he wopuld have been condemned as a liberal. 

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Wither Cardiff City (Football Club)

Club badge used for the 2007–08 season
Club badge used for the 2007–08 season (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So Cardiff City has sold its heritage for bags of money from its Malaysian owners. My parents and their respective siblings supported City for years. (though my parents switched off years ago, my dad kept following Glamorgan, snooker and Rugby, my mum Rugby internationals), in fact I even remember my dad saying as long ago as the 1980s that money was ruining football, even more than the violence. This has now become very apparent now with Cardiff City. I still have a old CCFC shirt that my dad gave me with “South Wales Echo” on front, and that was bad enough but at least it was local.

I work with a guy who sells football kits up at our local mall, English premier league kits are very popular with the large Mexican population here and you see a lot of Manchester United shirts around here and the local football clubs take premier sides names. I had told my friend I would get CCFC kits for him to sell at the mall, but you think that anyone will wear red shirts with Malaysia on it, no way, Red is the iconic color of Manchester United. I wont bother.

In fact how strong is the support for Cardiff City in Cardiff itself? When I was working at Tesco at Culverhouse Cross any supported Manchester, or Chelsea etc.

I read that Cllr Heather Joyce the new leader of Cardiff Council said that it “made good business sense” Sounding just like some Thatcherite clone, its not a business venture its a club, and it represents Cardiff. There are US teams that are fan owned such is the backlash at the idea of sport as a business where ordinary supporters are squeezed and cannot afford season tickets.

Is there really no Cardiff millionaires who could invest in there home team? Michael Moritz, Howard Stringer? No?

Cardiff City Football Club is dead and its Requiem Mass will be offered
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Are we wasting money on saving The Welsh language?


Back home it seems that the issue of how much support the Welsh language gets in tax payers money has become quite controversial after an article in the Western Mail revealed that 400K is spent on translations in the Senedd (Welsh National Assembly), waste of money to be spent when most (all?) Welsh speakers can speak and understand English. Why should this obsolescent language be fobbed on us. I live in Kansas which has English as its official language (The US has no “official language and other States it has been struck down as unconstitutional). Yet here in Dodge City we have a large Spanish speaking minority, my wife is a special ed teacher in a school where the majority is Hispanic and where the many of the kids do not know English. Do they wear “Spanish not” for speaking Spanish. No there are translators in the schools. Even in the grocery store that I work at the self checkout machines are bilingual. Is this right.

The Irony of much of this there are within the Welsh American community those who are strongly opposed to this type of bilingualism, they are vehement in their believe that “English only” should be the way. the paradox is that many of these bigots are strong supporters of the Welsh language, Plaid Cymru, and yet in the US. I cannot reconcile how these people can be strong supporters of a Marxist Leanne Wood, and at the same time in the US card carrying conservative Republicans, its almost a Schizoid type attitude.

I have always been a supporter of the Welsh language and a believer in S4C and Welsh medium education. Yet when I was living in Llandaff, I would walk past the WM High school, and kids in the playground would be using English, and a cousin of mine sent his kids to this school, and yet they do not use Welsh at all, yes it would be hard in a predominately English speaking area like Cardiff.

What is the answer.

I believe that the language should survive, and should so because in the words of one of my customers “Because it is just.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Adios Jacqui Gasson (For now)

Logo of the Social and Liberal Democrats
Logo of the Social and Liberal Democrats (Photo credit: Wikipedia)




I don't think that anyone would think in the recent local elections, that veteran Caerau councillor Jacqui Gasson would be chucked out of office they the way she was, except apparently for herself (as she herself said at count) , she mentioned that the”unpopularity of the coalition had done her in”.

I have known her on and off since 1985 when I had joined the Welsh Liberal party and she was active in the Cardiff West SDP which consisted of a lot of Radyr labour people including Marian Drake and her husband Geoff. she lived in Caerau and was known in the community as a hard working social activist. There were a group of us in Caerau who formed the nuleus of the SDP/Liberal alliance.

Jacqui had started a Focus style leaflet (Community politics a la Tony Greaves) which she called “Contact”, which dealt with local issues and neglect by the then Labour councillors Bill Carling (Bill was local a postman and at least was visible he had been councillor for 30 years had been a Lord Mayor and chairman of the housing committee) his partner was Llandaff lawyer David Seligman who was quite invisible and was hoping to be Cardiff West’s MP succeeding George Thomas (the former Speaker of the Commons), his political career came to a crash when a strong SDP challenge by Jeffrey Thomas let the Tory Stefan Telezki in. The Contact team consisted of myself, Roger Burley, Jane Williams (Labour again) Wyn James, Pat and Keith Gemson (sic)

Her first campaign was for Cardiff City council elections in 1987 which saw the Alliance grow from 3 to 12 seats turning Cardiff into a NOP authority for the first time in its history, the Tories did a deal with Labour and made sure that they held all the committee chairs. Unfortunately we just could not crack the Labour control until Bill died the following year and Jacqui won the  seat.I was a leaflet coordinator and delivered contact at least once a month, there was a lot of canvasser. I suspect that after I left in 1990 the organization was not their and there was not so much leafleting. She was still highly regarded (not really popular she had a rather obnoxious personality) however the people trusted her especially with her campaigns for Caerau Infants and Trelai Primary schools. She also  forced an inquiry into the state of Cardiff Social services and how badly they were run.
I saw her in 2004 when she asked me to stand in Ely which I did and garnered a decent number of votes, at the time I thought it was not a good idea, and if the Liberal Democrats had not stood then I think that Russell Goodway would not be office today.

She was soundly thrashed by Peter Bradbury and Elenor Simmons in Caerau, how  will they perform. I wish them well and hope they realize that you will not be able to take the people for granted, as For Jacqui, I wish her and Tony a happy retirement.
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Friday, May 25, 2012

THE REFORMED UNION: A British Federation

English: Portait of David Melding AM, Deputy P...
English: Portait of David Melding AM, Deputy Presiding officer of the National Assembly for Wales (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
 David Melding is an interesting kind of guy a different kind of Conservative, however I suspect that he is in a minority of one (or possibly 10).

The Conservatives are not interested because they no longer the old Tory party who believed in localism and practiced it. According to Andrew Marr's book on Modern Britain the Thatcher government of the 1980s their local government acts removed planning from local government to central government.

The the diehard nationalist want full independence with a huge wall to the east to prevent the total Anglicization of Welsh culture.

Labour does not really believe in devolution except as a handy administrative tool.

The Liberal party espoused federalism but I doubt that its membership actually believed it.










Click on Wales » Blog Archive » THE REFORMED UNION: A British Federation
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Bethan Jenkins and I

Bethan Jenkins AM, member of the National Asse...
Bethan Jenkins AM, member of the National Assembly for Wales. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Some time back I had a disagreement with Bethan Jenkins (AM for South Wales West), she had suggested on a Tweet that there should be spot check inspections of schools in Wales. I got riled up over this (I think in a mild way) and had an exchange with her over it.My wife is a teacher and had taught in south Wales and had the highest regard for teachers that she taught with. This I felt was another attempt to put the blame on the problem of Welsh schools on to the teachers, which I strongly believe is wrong.

Some time later I had gone to see her latest and noticed that I was no longer "Following her" and so I had tried to and she had blocked me!! Why block me a ordinary member of the public just because I had a disagreement with her. It seemed quite extreme.

I don't agreement with her stand on many things, but I do admire her standing up for workers, especially over pension rights.

So Bethan  don't freeze me out we all have differences, I have friends on Facebook and twitter that I have strong differences with, but in the end we can still go to the proverbial pub and have a drink.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Labour's secret agenda for Cardiff... An elected mayor?

This letter from former Lord Mayor John Smith caught my eye. He sees that the new Labour leadership led by Russell Goodway (sic) Heather Joyce may try and introduce a directly elected mayor for Cardiff. This is something that Cllr Smith has always been opposed to, in fact he would like to return to the old committee led council where a cross party consensus could be found in council decisions.

For those who might have forgotten Cllr Goodway usurped the position of Lord Mayor, he was Lord Mayor and Council Leader at the same time which violated the City's Royal Charter, something that did not bother Goodway then or now it seems. However a directly elected mayor may not be beneficial for Labour because it is a opportunity for Labour to lose Cardiff and even the opportunity for an independent to win because the people of Cardiff are well fed up with political parties, which is the real reason they don't vote.


"No support for losing the mayor


 WHAT a convoluted system the leadership of the new Labour administration has devised to run Cardiff council (“Labour slammed over mayor plan”, Echo, May 18). If there is an attempt to create an elected mayor, why not open a debate, for those concerned, to be able to present the reasons for and against, in the public arena. Even publicise the message that she, or they, are sending to the Privy Council, for the Cardiff councillors, to let them know what is being asked in their name, a question that we are told is the first step in the changing of the Lord Mayoralty. I have asked people their view and not found any support for losing the Lord Mayor, so put it to the people. Reference has been made to London, and this reminds me of the sudden internal change in leader at the Greater London Council, which resulted in years of political distrust in that area to this day. The issue around the difficulties of chairing the council meeting are a result of changing the debating rules in 2005/6. If there is a ploy to have an elected mayor then let honesty in purpose be the standard. F John Smith Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1990/91" Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/letters-to-the-editor/south-wales-echo-letters/2012/05/22/why-was-there-no-concern-about-the-financial-plan-back-in-february-91466-31016345/#ixzz1vbYBdYJG
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Welsh haters of Wales Unite!

£400,000-a-year meeting translation plan for National Assembly - Wales News - News - WalesOnline

Is this wrong? Or is it fair that in Wales where 20% are either unemployed or underemployed and the money should be spent elsewhere?

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Cardiff Council Results winner Pissed off Party

Its true the Labour Party in Cardiff won a gigantic landslide in the 2012 election from holding only 14 seats (13 in 2008) to winning 46 seats with lots of new councillors. The the largest share of the votes, but does winning 40% of the vote deserve 60% of the seats? Is that democracy? Under PR Plaid would have 10 seats instead of 2.

In 2004 there was a landslide then and Labour went from a council of 50 to 27, and then in 2008 from 27 to 13. Things can change, who knows perhaps another landslide in 2017.

I predicted that if the Liberals lost Cardiff Central, they would lose control of the council, was entirely due to the unpopularity of the ConDem government, or was it complacency on the Cardiff Liberals side. How hard they follow the principles of Bernard Greaves and his work on Community politics?  I think not.

And what of Russell Goodway, who was as popular in Cardiff as Venereal Disease in the early 2000s. Who ran quite an incompetent administration according the reports with one listing it as the most badly run council in Wales. Who know sits at the "Leader"'s (Heather Joyce's) left hand at the first council meeting, in charge of finance, who blamed Rhodri Morgan for losing Cardiff, taking no responsibility, "not me guv". According to Kevin Morgan's "Capital Cardiff" it was his "presidential style" that was the main reason for losing, and what no transparency.

Which is now shown in the latest row over the Lord Mayor with Labour tearing up the Constitution and removing the Lord Mayor's power to chair council (which most mayors in the UK and US do). Without consultative with the other group leaders.

Something has to change,  Labour does not have (as Ralph Cook pointed out about Liberals in 2004) have a mandate to change this.

They need to run Cardiff as a great city, not as a personal fiefdom, perhaps they can step up to the plate.


But the biggest winner the Antipathy party (believe me its not apathy its real anger with the political setup)
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Friday, May 18, 2012

The Caerau Kid in Da USA

I have decided to start blogging again to please my readership (all one of them).

I have a presidential election here in the good ol USA with Mr Obama running again, and Mr Romney his likely opponent.

Then back home in Cardiff we have just had an local election with labour taking control of cardiff Council with a rubber stamp majority what is in store for Cardiff? A Goodway type dictatorship?

We will see.

I have renamed this blog to show  where where I am from, and where I am.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012