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Starmer’s mate Vaughan Gething has finally bowed to the inevitable and resigned as head boy at the sub fifth form debating chamber in Cardiff Bay. His resignation speech surly in tone and full of indignance.
His likely successor Jeremy Miles was out and about yesterday exclaiming we’re all going to have to get heat pumps without a word about how he expects it to be paid for.
Watched a piece by the ft which explored how hard it will be for the tories to win back power due to the number of graduates staying in rural areas. Along with another five years of the older tory voters not being with us anymore looking bleak for them. Oh dear,how sad never mind. Also if they try to ape reform they will fail too. Marvellous double whammy.
Starmer had this to say about Gething’s ministry:
“In Wales a Welsh Labour government is the living proof of what Labour looks like in power, how things can be done differently and better. Every day you demonstrate the difference that Labour makes a blueprint for what Labour can do across the United Kingdom.”
Ed Davey is giving evidence at the PO Inquiry later today, hope he gets a thorough grilling
Pat McFadden, who was Post Office Minister during the latter Blair years, is currently being questioned
Perhaps he will offer to do a bungee jump or fall into a lake. He seems to think that sort of thing impresses people.
Just a few points that have caught my attention and found highly amusing ……
The new business secretary is a Unite Union member.
Patrick Vallance now in the house of lords,promoted to this elevated status I believe in order to take up the position of science minister for Starrmer,is a absolute joke like the OBR (more later on them) he consistently got it wrong.His covid modelling got it wrong every time with numbers never thankfully even reaching the lowest quoted in the models,but his doom laden predictions were taken as iron clad and couldn’t be disputed despite the fact that others advanced alternative views but were brushed aside as inconsequential and just ignored.With such a dogmatic approach to his own self righteous importance he should fit in well with Starmer and his cronies.
In yesterdays speech charlie laid out our future and wasn’t surprised to hear that Reeves plans to expand and give more power to the OBR.A organisation that has consistently got things wrong not just once or twice but EVERYTHING it’s touched,so mistakes will only be compounded one on top of another.
good luck to allOBR is the Office for Budget Responsibility
thank you AdminWhat is the OBR?
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I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysIt seems Eluned Morgan will be anointed First Minister at the Senedd with Huw Irranca Davies (probably best pronounced in the style of Frank Muir or Jonathan Ross) as her deputy. This has the support of Jeremy Miles who has now withdrawn after being thought too toxic to those close to Vaughan Gething.
She may be seen as one of the more able and experienced ministers in a desperately poor team but has had an unsuccessful spell as health minister as well as receiving a driving ban for multiple speeding offences.
A unification leader for Labour Senedd members but those failings will not play well to a Welsh public angered by the default speed limit lowering decision and all too aware of NHS waiting times far worse than England is experiencing.
The actual cost of the Rowanda debarcle is £770million and we didn’t send one immigrant over …… I know the jails are full but I’m sorry people should be doing time for this ….remember the Tories didn’t have money for the junior doctors
Only 3 weeks into the administration and 7 Labour MPs have had the whip suspended. Although given they include such intellectual titans as Richard Burgon, Zarah Sultana and Rebecca Long-Bailey, Starmer is probably breathing a sigh of relief.
I don’t think it has anything to do with what the 7 actually voted for.
Starmer may well be hoping the suspended Labour MPs will join Corbyn in a new Far Left Party. Making it so much harder for the Left to take over Labour like they did under Corbyn, McDonald and Burgen.
Value Is EverythingThere’s a huge black hole in the public finances bleats Reeves but sanctions inflation busting pay rises and what we have seen will only be the start as other unions queue up with hands outstretched demanding similar deals.
In my opinion the hoped for interest rate reduction when the MPC meet this week is now in doubt.
good luck to allInflation is back in line , the country needs the doctors back to work , plus it’s the only way to get waiting times down , HS2 is going to be cut back further and they’ll be canx of new roads and hospitals , the Tories really have left the country in a horrific mess ..
The junior doctors’ are threatning more strikes in 2025.
The pay deal announced, which is backdated to April 2023, covers the two years to April 2025.
The Labour chaos is starting already – they, have learnt well from the Tories.
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