Local Elections | Thu 7 May 26

jacko74 said:
What do Plaid offer that Welsh Labour didnt?
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Plaid haven't taken the Welsh public for granted like the Labour party has.
Independance is obviously the big thing for younger Welsh people, much more so than my generation
 
oldius said:
No offence taken.
I embrace your post as an indicator of why parasites like Farage are able to easily tap into this anger and manipulate people into believing that he will solve your problems. I guarantee that he won't, and when he doesn't he will blame the lawyers and the lefties and the EU and you will feel let down and even more angry than now, only you won't know who to blame so you will blame those he tells you to.

I cannot tell you how to feel but if you feel inclined to investigate his truths and whether they are actually facts, it might help. Just one thing you said would be a starting point: 'The scum coming in now have no intention of that and are looking to sponge." Can you actually back that up with data or any kind of survey? Do you think that the Pakistani and Indians and West Indians were welcomed into the textile towns of Lancashire and the engineering towns of the midlands even though you now infer their positive impact? I assume that you know that those seeking asylum are not allowed to work.
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Good post mate . Tbh I don’t care who sorts it out as long as it gets done. I live in Doncaster but I do spend alot of time in Hungary but Doncaster has been decimated by Rona gypsies begging and not working and just thousands of new people just hanging around and as you say maybe they can’t work but they seen to do ok in car washes and food deliveries.
 
Blue Note said:
The issue is; we can’t afford to be handing out millions in benefits to economic migrants and we just as well shouldn’t be handing out benefits to our own work shy. I’m clearly focusing on both. Of course there is more emphasis on the new arrivals as we don’t have to let them in. Poland and Hungary do a great job and they don’t have the issues we have.
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Funny you should mention Hungary, ignored Paul which is what's now happening to you is from there/has links there. Bye.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
This is spot-on. In my area the roads are a disgrace, the street lights are broken, the two main hospitals are officially the worst in England, the GP service has essentially collapsed, there are no police for miles, virtually no public transport. It has been like this for years. No one was expecting a miracle from Starmer but he does not even have a plan. His first two major announcements were scrapping the northern leg of HS2, expanding Heathrow Airport, and building a new Thames crossing. I'm sure that will have gone down well with his trendy supporters in North London. He and his pals are more concerned about the rest of the world than the state of this country. He has turned out to be worse than that crooked fool Boris Johnson. People have been bertrayed by the two main parties for decades. Now they are about to be led up the garden path by Farage and his bunch of chancers. Our outdated decrepit political system has failed all of us.
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not "all of us", the smug inherited wealth backbone of the tories, the boards and shareholders of the privatised monopolies, landlords and the non-dom parasites have prospered to an historic extent.
 
Paul1970 said:
Good post mate . Tbh I don’t care who sorts it out as long as it gets done. I live in Doncaster but I do spend alot of time in Hungary but Doncaster has been decimated by Rona gypsies begging and not working and just thousands of new people just hanging around and as you say maybe they can’t work but they seen to do ok in car washes and food deliveries.
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There will always be some who bleed the system, but they are being exaggerated in number to influence the disillusioned. In what way has Doncaster been decimated by Roma? Having worked in the town before, it struggled long before any influx, IMO.
 
Two labour, 1 Green in my ward here. Slightly oddly, the two Labour are 200 ish clear, then 3 Green and 1 Labour within 100. So some voted for multiple parties.
Reform nowhere, looks as though the LibDem vote has gone Green (although that's a guess)

Looks as though it might be quite close with half the seats declared 15 Green, 10 Lab, 5 Con so far.
 
yerwot? said:
not "all of us", the smug inherited wealth backbone of the tories, the boards and shareholders of the privatised monopolies, landlords and the non-dom parasites have prospered to an historic extent.
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Agreed. Some people have very well out of this situation…..not just Tories though.
 
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Kompany Car said:
What people observe in their local community becomes the reality, regardless of facts and figures. 2yrs in and for many they have observed no positive change whether that be on a local or national level. Pot holes still there, run down high streets etc. Minimum wage increases are great but prices continue to rise, the net result might be that you have £10 more in your pocket at the end of the month, but that £10 buys nothing. Changes to workers rights but less jobs due to businesses cutting back.

The expectation for many was a step change with Labour in power, but in reality the changes have barely moved the needle.

It may not be realistic to see change in such a short time, but we live in a world where you can click a button to buy something and 2 hours later you get it delivered to your door. The audience that traditional parties used to serve has changed and they need to adapt accordingly.
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Rapid change may not be possible but you can signal your intent without blowing things up; but the current Labour leadership simply don't seem to be interested in really tackling the issues whether that's through timidity or not giving a toss I don't know but the effect is the same.

Here's a small but telling example: in 2025 Marcus Bokkerink was forced to resign by the Government as chair of the CMA, predominantly because in their eyes he wasn't 'pro-growth' enough, his vision for growth was through making markets properly competitive which seems not unreasonable for the head of the competition authority. But that wasn't 'business friendly' enough for the government so he was replaced, supposedly temporarily, by Douglas Gurr the ex head of Amazon UK (that well known champion of competition). Fast forward to the CMAs review of the veterinary industry and instead of actually dealing with the fact that half a dozen private equity firms are hoovering up the entire industry and price gouging (and thanks to lot of lobbying by those companies) there was a few slaps on the wrist and some very weak changes none of which will do anything to encourage meaningful competition let alone growth. Mind you the PE companies themselves were pretty chuffed with the outcome of the review - so you know business friendly eh?

Meanwhile what this translates into for ordinary people is that more and more of them are giving up their pets because they can no longer afford to keep them.

Laughably the CMA's cloud computing review has now determined that AWS and Microsoft can adopt voluntary codes (apparently there was no conflict of interest in an ex Amazon executive being the Chair of the investigating authority).

A step change was always going to be challenging for Labour but the national leadership seem completely disinterested in providing one, in some cases this is because they are way to close to vested interests who in turn are not acting in the interest of functioning markets let alone ordinary people. I feel sorry for many decent Labour councillors who have gone down the road today, the national leadership has singularly failed them and the country so far.
 
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