Author Topic: CYMRU AM BYTH (Read 9365 times)

pigamus · « **Reply #30 on:** October 25, 2020, 10:03:37 AM »

Sorry BritishHobo already said that I didn’t read it properly

ASFTSN · « **Reply #31 on:** October 25, 2020, 10:40:40 AM »

Quote from: Zetetic on October 24, 2020, 03:24:45 PM

- The video of that bloke tearing some plastic down (possibly in a Tesco), being shared around various networks by the usual (seemingly English) types.

Can't just be me that found the way that bloke moves and acts in that video funny as fuck right? He's made himself look a right wally.

idunnosomename · « **Reply #32 on:** October 25, 2020, 10:54:03 AM »

Julia Fartly Pooer called him a "hero"

lol

Glyn · « **Reply #33 on:** October 25, 2020, 12:41:33 PM »

Its a clusterfuck for them sadly as its given a lot of bored people something to moan about, allowed the idiots a chance to protest against something else, given the UK press a chance to give the Welsh lockdown a smug kicking and allowed those who had a general dislike of the Sennedd anyway something to vent about, after months of having to live with a surprisingly competent response to the first wave.

Not sure how genuine the anger is but I've heard a few conversations this week with some incredible 'whataboutism' going on . The amount of pensioners with no internet or local family whose kettles are going to break this week is off the chart.

The logic behind it makes sense and it's clearly come directly from local\small business lobbying. As with a lot of things that come out of the Sennedd though it's a sensible idea implemented badly.

On balance I'm still glad to be in a country that tries (and fails) to get these things right though.

paruses · « **Reply #34 on:** October 25, 2020, 01:05:13 PM »

Me too. That Nation op-ed piece was good, I thought. Won't stop people demanding their right to buy scatter cushions though.

Daily Mail have an article on how Drakeford is a socialist and an aetheist and ran it under a picture of him sharing a drink with Corbyn. I didn't click on it so can't tell you any more. This might be better posted in the England Has Lost Its Mind thread.

BritishHobo · « **Reply #35 on:** October 26, 2020, 05:44:21 PM »

Oh, they really have fucked this, haven't they? The thing today with a woman being told she can't buy sanitary items is gonna stick in people's minds, along with the easily-outrageous image of a nation of people being banned from buying clothes and kettles - even if that's a heavily sensationalised analysis of some well-meaning but overzealous errors. People in my work are furious at the Welsh government. As much as I think people online are being really theatrical, and it's being stoked up by those with a vested interest in undermining devolution, it's pretty undeniable that it's worked, and the damage has been done.
Unless this circuit breaker lockdown has the magic effect of curing COVID, it's going to stick in the public consciousness as a clear example of the Welsh government being out-of-touch authoritarians. The Abolish the Assembly cunts have been handed a massive early Christmas present.

bgmnts · « **Reply #36 on:** October 26, 2020, 05:54:39 PM »

Apparently if you do go in and say you do need some new baby clothes etc they will sell it to you. B and M aren't even bothering, they're relying on customer discretion LOL.

Full on Tory Cymru here we go.

Captain Z · « **Reply #37 on:** October 26, 2020, 08:33:45 PM »

Wales was already probably going Tory at the next election, this may well have sealed it.

BritishHobo · « **Reply #38 on:** October 26, 2020, 10:43:27 PM »

Absolute hellfuck.

Wonder what the voter turnout will be next year.

Zetetic · « **Reply #39 on:** October 26, 2020, 11:05:16 PM »

I think the situation is probably rescuable at this point.

I'm not convinced it's rescuable by someone like Gething, however.

jamiefairlie · « **Reply #40 on:** October 27, 2020, 05:20:13 AM »

Quote from: bgmnts on October 26, 2020, 05:54:39 PM

Apparently if you do go in and say you do need some new baby clothes etc they will sell it to you. B and M aren't even bothering, they're relying on customer discretion LOL.

Full on Tory Cymru here we go.

Only if Labour were so cunty they'd prefer to let the Tories take control rather than form a coalition with Plaid....oh...of course they are, what am I thinking.

Zetetic · « **Reply #41 on:** October 27, 2020, 06:52:54 AM »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wales

poo · « **Reply #42 on:** October 27, 2020, 10:53:34 AM »

WG is doomed. Not bothered really.

Glyn · « **Reply #43 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:07:47 PM »

Wonder if Drakeford could still come out of this well if the English Lockdown does get enforced soon? Welsh public may soon forget the 2 weeks that the tat aisle in Lidl was cordoned off ,if a short October lockdown avoids something worse.
Plenty of time for that to go all wrong mind.

Zetetic · « **Reply #44 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:16:12 PM »

It's quite plausible that we'll follow England into their lockdown, despite the two weeks.

Not least because the Westminster government is still being absolute cunts when it comes to financial support (and that support depending on England being in lockdown).

Zetetic · « **Reply #45 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:13:40 PM »

Although:

"Any announcement by @10DowningStreet
will relate to England.

The Welsh firebreak will end on Monday, November 9.

Our cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss any potential border issues for Wales in light of any announcement by No 10."

https://twitter.com/fmwales/status/1322526551733403649

bgmnts · « **Reply #46 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:26:19 PM »

Is this "firebreak" really going to tide us over all the way til Christmas?

poo · « **Reply #47 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:36:35 PM »

Glyn · « **Reply #48 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:49:52 PM »

Will be very interesting to see how they approach it this week. In theory an English lockdown gives them more scope to be cautious and solves the border issue for a while.
Imagine someone is currently working out how many restrictions will people still accept in the knowledge that it's worse over the bridge.

poo · « **Reply #49 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:50:45 PM »

u Glyn from BB by any chance?

Glyn · « **Reply #50 on:** October 31, 2020, 02:31:31 PM »

Sadly not but I heard through the union that the poor guy is completely unrecognisable now , his own mother would walk past him.
https://www.heart.co.uk/entertainment/glyn-wise-big-brother-7-now/

bgmnts · « **Reply #51 on:** October 31, 2020, 03:09:24 PM »

Quote

Glyn pursued a career in politics after finishing in second place in Big Brother - running in an election for Plaid Cymru.

Fuck my hat!

daf · « **Reply #52 on:** October 31, 2020, 03:27:51 PM »

I think he's a bit of a Tory now, if his tweets are anything to go by.

Zetetic · « **Reply #53 on:** October 31, 2020, 05:05:41 PM »

Gething was apparently very clear this morning that they expect us to come out of lockdown on the 10th Nov, and not to return to lockdown before 2021 (but that they can't guarantee this, of course).

I'm not convinced this is the right course.

Zetetic · « **Reply #54 on:** November 01, 2020, 03:37:04 PM »

https://twitter.com/WelshGovernment/status/1322924738008752131

I can't bring myself to summarise, apologies.

bgmnts · « **Reply #55 on:** November 01, 2020, 03:40:02 PM »

Seriously is there a reason not to support some form of independence now? Not joking.

jamiefairlie · « **Reply #56 on:** November 01, 2020, 05:17:56 PM »

Quote from: bgmnts on November 01, 2020, 03:40:02 PM

Seriously is there a reason not to support some form of independence now? Not joking.

Stockholm syndrome?

Zetetic · « **Reply #57 on:** November 01, 2020, 05:21:43 PM »

The serious reason is that living the UK just leaves a country 10x your size as a neighbour that continues to depend on you for natural resources, that has considerably ethnic-national population overlap and is becoming ever more desperate to externalise its problems.

England has to go if you want the UK to go.

The Cloud of Unknowing · « **Reply #58 on:** November 09, 2020, 01:09:14 AM »

Wales out of the firebreak as of an hour ago - England you're not singing anymore.

Gething says the figures in Wales are "plateauing", but it takes more time than this to form a plateau, surely.

Jittlebags · « **Reply #59 on:** November 09, 2020, 01:49:19 AM »

Yes! I'm taking a half day off tomorrow, driving to Llandudno Junction for a Maccie D, then going walking on the hills above Llanrwst.

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