Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

Tsunami off west coast of South America after 8.3 earthquake.

The more Wavy Dave shouts the more he reminds me of a beetroot.

The only problem I have is that I liked beetroot!

But he does look more like Dodgy Dave as the way he gives gifts to his pals in the city.

Cheating the tax payers.

What a party of creepers!

Red1 you ought to be looking closer to your homeland and Carwyn Jones in particular to see what a mess Labour are making in Wales.
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I was in Wales on Saturday.

Beautiful day and country!

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After Scotland is freed of the English yoke, will Wales be let free?

8-)

PS>

Wales unemployment falls by 12,000 to 6.7%



The unemployment rate in Wales has fallen to 6.7% compared with 7.2% for the UK over the last quarter.

Wales has seen the largest fall in unemployment in all UK nations and regions over the last year, said UK Employment Minister Esther McVey.

The Office for National Statistics figures show the jobless total in Wales fell by 12,000 over the last quarter.

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Nice quote from Cameron at PMQs today

“You know what Mr Speaker, I will take a lecture from almost anyone in the country about the sale of Royal Mail, but not from the two muppets who advised the last Chancellor on selling the gold.”

This maybe the reason for unemployment rate fall in Wales, the CMO for England wrote to his Welsh equivalent to suggest an investigation into the country's high mortality rates.
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Relate mortality rate back to heavy industrial past and levels of previous deprivation over previous 50 years!

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Hazy one.

Poll tax. Bedroom Tax.

Flogging North Sea oil and Gas.

Flogging of RM and other parts of the silver to their mates in the city in order to get them to fill the torrid party's coffers..
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(Now wonder Cameron is depicted with a Condom over his head, perhaps to prevent him smelling his own stench.)

Beetroot Dave and Henchman Osborne's actions are stacking up against them and will be listed at the time of the GE. in 12 months time.

Fred1 not so, over 15,000 cancer patients in Wales crossed the border for treatment in England. Welsh Labour MP Ann Clwyd regards the Assembly's health record as ''calamitous''.
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Available facilities.

Welsh NHS budget cut by £800m, not by the Tories, but by Labour. Indeed had the cuts been effected by the Tories you would be shouting it from your soapbox.
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Labour blocks Ann Clwyd NHS evidence
Wednesday, 26 March, 2014

Labour Assembly Members today voted to prevent Labour MP Ann Clwyd giving evidence to the National Assembly’s Health Committee about the Welsh NHS.

A vote was taken in the Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee on whether to invite the NHS campaigner and Labour MP to give evidence regarding her concerns about the Welsh NHS. All Labour AMs voted against and defeated the motion by one vote.

Ann Clwyd has previously backed Welsh Conservative calls for a Keogh-style inquiry into the Welsh health service.

Last week, 2013 Risk Adjusted Mortality Index (RAMI) figures show that all but three Welsh hospitals have above average death rates, with some so dangerously high, that in other parts of the UK they would demand an inquiry.

Darren Millar AM, Shadow Minister for Health, said, “This is the same old Labour Party putting its narrow party political interests before the interests of getting to the bottom of the problems in the Welsh NHS.

“Inviting Ann Clwyd to give evidence to the Assembly would provide AMs with an opportunity to hear her valuable insight into hospital death rates, along with the experiences of patients whose evidence she has received.

“The Labour Party is closing ranks and trying to shut down scrutiny of its disastrous handling of the Welsh NHS, which has seen dangerously high death rates, emergency and waiting time targets missed regularly and cancer medicines denied to patients.

“This is a cynical attempt by Labour politicians to brush evidence about underperformance and failure in the Welsh NHS under the carpet.

“The only way we can prevent a Mid-Staffs scandal in the Welsh NHS is to expose problems in our health service and take action to put them right, Ann Clwyd would have been able to assist in doing this.”

whoops-a-daisy!

Ed Milipede likens the Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones ''to a mentor''. Heaven help us if Labour get to form our government.
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On the flower theme

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

By the way post 132, nice find H.
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Jeremy Hunt told Parliament that there’s been a 10 per cent rise in Welsh patients using services in England since 2010.
50 %
Almost 50% of Welsh patients are forced to wait six weeks or more for vital scans and tests compared to 1% in England.
15,450
The number of Welsh cancer patients crossing the border has quadrupled from just 3,471 in 2003 ago to 15,450 last year.
0.7%
Department of Health figures revealed that only 216 Welsh cancer patients received treatments through the Cancer Drugs fund, compared to 15,456 England. That’s an equivalent of seven patients in every 100,000 people in the population in Wales, compared with 29 per 100,000 in England.

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Give Wales another £800m for the NHS in Wales and I am sure they will spend it wisely, not trying to pack it with Private companies owing loyalty to their share holders but to the patients.

Anne Clwyd should be allowed to give "her" evidence if relevant to any enquiry involved in the NHS in Wales or England.

He evidence and research should be examined for validity and considered if such. A lot of it was based on personable experience of the treatment of members of her own family.

I wonder if objections were based on interference from a Westminster MP into a said "Welsh Administration's" remit.

If so probably B. Stupid.

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I think from memory some of the figures and reports relating to "Health and Welfare Care" in Wales, is questionable and open to challenge and should be based on the demography of those using it.

But do your own analysis and compare with parts of previous areas of "neglect" after industrial decline in parts of North of England.

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Haze,

You don't have to worry, if the torrid party of con men and the Beetroot get back into power at the next GE, they will flog the NHS off to their mates who will strip it down to a burial service.