tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16316794813107289182024-03-08T02:24:09.107-08:00Welsh Policitianswomensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631679481310728918.post-36442464482492509842008-11-26T08:59:00.000-08:002008-12-13T04:22:54.403-08:00Welsh Politican of the Year Special Awards<span style="font-size:100%;">Which politicans have the <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">X</span></span> factor? </span>.....emmmmm.....Which politicans have you heard of???<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />Cllr of the Year award goes to Councillor</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > Nic Hodges</span><br />for speaking out and having some wisdom that John Smith MP and Alun Cairns lack<br /><span class="title"><br /><a href="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/003165.html">George Bernard Shaw</a>: </span>We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Coun</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Nic</span> Hodges, the leader of Plaid on the Vale council, visited the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">DTA</span> exhibition and complained of a “lack of detailed information.” and suggested that the academy would be an “isolated “gated village“. He also said that nearby towns would see an increase in “squaddie rowdiness and drop outs from the academy“....<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Coun</span> Hodges said “to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">mr</span> smith mp, I would say billions of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">PFI</span> “never-never money’ does not make it a proper scheme. As far as Mr Cairns is concerned he should spend more time getting the details and information his constituents need.”<br />http://www.barry-today.co.uk/tindlepool/PDF/Barry%20Gem/web/GC310708001.pdf<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTAwlUAgI/AAAAAAAAG2A/6H21BHGg9Bg/s1600-h/head+in+sand.jpg"> <img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 64px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTAwlUAgI/AAAAAAAAG2A/6H21BHGg9Bg/s320/head+in+sand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279224829459038722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Prize head in the sand a</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >ward</span> goes to Rhodri Morgan for lack of ethics and being lackey to new labours plans to build a<a href="http://www.antimetrix.org/"> privatised Military Academy in Wales </a><br /></span><span>John Pilger calls it "a B</span><span>ritish "School of the Americas" is to be built in Wales, where British soldiers will train killers from all corners of the American empire in the name of "global security". Tony Benn “The thou</span><span>ght of </span><span>privatising the training for the Armed forces was morally abominable”</span> Theproject is crashing as the credit crunch hits <span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">....A k</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">ey partner has ba</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">cked out ...Land S</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">ec</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTQU29aYI/AAAAAAAAG2Q/t_XIDDwuUgs/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 117px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTQU29aYI/AAAAAAAAG2Q/t_XIDDwuUgs/s320/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279225096894769538" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">urities has spent about </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">£20m so </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">far and i</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">s reluctant to keep funding the</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN"> project</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN"> in the f</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">ace of signif</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">icantly in</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">crea</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">sed costs over the next 18 month</span>...but still support from R Morgan and his cronies continues.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />Deluded M</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOXsZrz45I/AAAAAAAAG2g/xn0XJLzAiiE/s1600-h/deluded.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 69px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOXsZrz45I/AAAAAAAAG2g/xn0XJLzAiiE/s320/deluded.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279229977273033618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >P of the year goes to</span><br /></span><span>John Smith </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vale of Glamorgan for <a href="http://www.antimetrix.org/2008/12/who-are-you-kidding.html">leaving the track</a> with his determination to</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> have a school to train killers for private companies like Black water in Wales<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >AMs of th</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOdjHf70PI/AAAAAAAAG2w/Uh18uE2H-J4/s1600-h/moneygas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 168px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOdjHf70PI/AAAAAAAAG2w/Uh18uE2H-J4/s320/moneygas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279236414842327282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >e year for burning your money</span> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Mr Bourne</span>, a mid and west Wales AM, paid £229 for the iPod, £306.95 for a digital camera-£436.48 for sat nav - £119.99 trouser press, - 3,573.46 for “essential work to bathroom”, a £210 shower room and sitting room ceiling repair, and £452.38 to renew a storm damaged fence, all at public expense.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Conservative Mr Cairn</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">s</span>, South Wales West, claimed for - Dyson vacuum cleaner for his office at £249.99 - TV for his Cardiff Bay office £299.99 - iPod “for news downloads and podcast” at £160, and a £199.99 digital camera.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Monmouth Tory AM Nick Ramsa</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">y</span> shelled out £814.98 on a TV, insurance and stand, plus £343.88 on a camera. An earlier batch of second-home expenses, released in August, showed he had spent £977.95 on a Sony LCD television and surround-sound system.</p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">Worst W</span><span style="font-size:130%;">elsh MP of the year</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Paul Murphy</span> for being pusillanimous, abject, and/or suicidally, self-servingly stupid lackey to new labour bosses in London!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">Worst Loca</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">l Politician of the year for BAD DECISION<br /><br /></span></span>Bad <a href="http://gardengrabbing.blogspot.com/2008/10/dinosaur-councillors-give-road-into.html"> dinasor decision</a>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Councillor Nigel Howells,</span> executive member for <a class="jigluLink" onclick="return(Jiglu.overlayOpen(this))" href="http://tridral-tagging.jiglu.com/overlay/4211443416e3c9b70116fcb2d3b32dfa/culture" title="See other pages Jiglu tagged with ‘culture’">Culture</a>, <a class="jigluLink" onclick="return(Jiglu.overlayOpen(this))" href="http://tridral-tagging.jiglu.com/overlay/4211443416e3c9b70116fcb2d3b32dfa/leisure" title="See other pages Jiglu tagged with ‘leisure’">Leisure</a> & Parks, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTQpxev0I/AAAAAAAAG2Y/JiN7SpOlJSc/s1600-h/bad-decision.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 148px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTQpxev0I/AAAAAAAAG2Y/JiN7SpOlJSc/s320/bad-decision.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279225102508932930" border="0" /></a>said: “All of us realise what an<a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/12/05/capital-park-best-in-wales-91466-22409117/"> asset</a> the green spaces are to Cardiff, of which Bute Park is such a fine example and we will as always ensure that they are protected for the enjoyment of all Cardiff residents and visitors alike and at the same time <a href="http://gardengrabbing.blogspot.com/2008/10/dinosaur-councillors-give-road-into.html">promoting </a>the building of a road through the park for <a href="http://no2lorriesinbutepark.blogspot.com/2008/11/big-wigs-in-cardiff-run-scared-of.html">ARTICULATED LORRIES!!! </a>and allowing the council to start the work before planning permission for the bridge destroying trees, habitats the park and all in its wake.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />Political Greenwash of the Year<br /><br />Cllr R Ber</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTQECouBI/AAAAAAAAG2I/rRAKHsNTBfI/s1600-h/green+wash.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 104px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOTQECouBI/AAAAAAAAG2I/rRAKHsNTBfI/s320/green+wash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279225092380342290" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >man <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">for the on going destruction of Bute Park </span></span>and building an incinerator in cardiff bay...couldn't make it up!<br />bridge and road for the nursery...? to promote events in the park...? and building a bridge to <a href="http://no2lorriesinbutepark.blogspot.com/">allow articulated lotrries</a> into grade 1 listed BUTE PARK the park at a cost of £1.4 million ..how can they justify that? Destroying Cardiff heritage further by dumping our<a href="https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408106.html?c=on"> rare books</a>...Then to top that the Councils <a href="http://cardiffincinerator.blogspot.com/">Scam Gwyrdd.</a>..cheek to call it project GREEN!!!! to promote the building of a massive dangerous incinerator in Cardiff and bringing in rubbish from all over south wales in hundreds of lorries every day! And using capital times to give the wrong info to the public<span style="font-weight: bold;">!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Special NO Ethics Award </span></span>...shame on the <a href="http://ouandarmsdealers.blogspot.com">OU</a><br />Does quality<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOnI6Eh0vI/AAAAAAAAG24/TDLPDmT77pw/s1600-h/ethics.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 108px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOnI6Eh0vI/AAAAAAAAG24/TDLPDmT77pw/s320/ethics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279246959677395698" border="0" /></a> matter? Does working with arms dealers matter? Does teaching mercenaries matter?<br />The <a href="http://ouandarmsdealers.blogspot.com/2008/03/no2-ou-raytheon-open-letter-to-ou-wales.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >no ethics award</span> </a>goes to the<a href="http://ouandarmsdealers.blogspot.com/"> </a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://ouandarmsdealers.blogspot.com/">Open University</a> </span>for joining the Metrix consortium ! ...even when costs were reduced by cutting the length of training courses by 25% and reducing them! Defence minister Bob Ainsworth announced that the MOD was ploughing ahead, he pointed out that "considerable progress had been made in driving down costs..This will involve cutting the length of training courses by 25% through "compression, rationalisation and harmonisation". Officially that means cutting waste but those involved in defence training say there is nothing like the scope for 25 percent cuts.<br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">Then Charles Barrington, th</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">e chairman of Metrix, said the consortiu</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOnI_zqt9I/AAAAAAAAG3A/DUGvmJDTavA/s1600-h/ethics+2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_56mi7w2JT1E/SUOnI_zqt9I/AAAAAAAAG3A/DUGvmJDTavA/s320/ethics+2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279246961217288146" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">m</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN"> and the Min</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">istry of Defence had been able to cut costs. That had been achieved in part by </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">reduci</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" lang="EN">ng the number of courses that will be offered. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Quotes to re</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >member</span> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'benefits' to the MOD of transferring risk to the private sector? </span>Derek Twigg MP, Under Secretary of State for Defence, <a href="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=7606&topic=PFI%20and%20partnerships" title="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=7606&topic=PFI and partnerships">talks to PSCA International's Matthew D'Arcy<span style="text-decoration: none;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=7606&topic=PFI%20and%20partnerships" title=""http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=7606&topic=PFI and partnerships"" style="'width:.75pt;height:.75pt'" button="t"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\ANNE~1.XP-\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" href="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.56.1/t.gif"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><span style=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ANNE%7E1.XP-/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" shapes="snap_com_shot_link_icon" width="1" border="0" height="1" /></span><!--[endif]--></span><img id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" class="snap_preview_icon" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt ! important; padding: 1px 0pt 0pt; max-height: 2000px; max-width: 2000px; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: "trebuchet ms",arial,helvetica,sans-serif; float: none; position: static; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.60/theme/purple/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; visibility: visible; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -943px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline;" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.60/t.gif" /></a> about what lies ahead in bringing a new flexible approach to learning through the Defence Training Review. “Partnership with the private sector does give us flexibility, and this is the key point here, to decrease or increase student throughput. The partner will be able to generate third party income from spare capacity and also dispose of surplus capacity. It also allows for a very important part of the role for industry to bring private sector management expertise and the ability to include significant capital investment at this stage. It is really about delivering a modern and flexible learning environment that will be fit for our service personnel of the future.”<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Facilities key to defence training<a href="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pub_selectissue.asp?publication=The%20PPP%20Journal" title="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pub_selectissue.asp?publication=The PPP Journal">The PPP Journal Issue 56<span style="text-decoration: none;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pub_selectissue.asp?publication=The%20PPP%20Journal" title=""http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pub_selectissue.asp?publication=The PPP Journal"" style="'width:.75pt;height:.75pt'" button="t"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\ANNE~1.XP-\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" href="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.56.1/t.gif"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><span style=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ANNE%7E1.XP-/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" shapes="_x0000_i1026" width="1" border="0" height="1" /></span><!--[endif]--></span><img id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" class="snap_preview_icon" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt ! important; padding: 1px 0pt 0pt; max-height: 2000px; max-width: 2000px; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: "trebuchet ms",arial,helvetica,sans-serif; float: none; position: static; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.60/theme/purple/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; visibility: visible; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -943px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline;" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.60/t.gif" /></a> - Thursday, April 12, 2007<br /></span></p><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Never heard of him award </span><br />goes to Councillor John Davies, Leader of Pembrokeshire County Council and the Welsh Local Government Association.<br /><ul><li>You might well ask - who are the judges?<br /></li></ul><dl class="profile-datablock"><dd class="profile-data"><strong>Heres one ....Name:</strong> Glyn Davies </dd><dd class="profile-data"><strong>Location:</strong> Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, United Kingdom</dd></dl><a href="http://welshramblings.blogspot.com/2008/12/paul-murphy-politician-of-year-why.html">MP of the Year: Paul Murphy.</a><dl id="comments-block"><dt class="comment-author" id="comment-2291197177051431792">ex-labour boyo said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>It was the Windfall Don/Penarth Huw block vote. With their chums in the media taking care of Huw's campaign, it was an easy one for Papal Paul.<br />The anti-Welsh lobby win the Welsh politician of the year award. Terrific. Only in Wales.</p> </dd></dl><p>AM of the Year: Edwina Hart.</p> <p>MP to Watch: Jenny Willott.</p> <p>AM to Watch: Andrew RT Davies.</p> <p>Local Politician of the Year: Councillor John Davies, Leader of Pembrokeshire County Council and the Welsh Local Government Association.</p> <p>Campaigner of the Year: Nerys Evans.</p> <p>Dafydd Wigley, the Honorary President of Plaid Cymru, received a Lifetime Achievement award.</p> <p>Elis Owen, National Director of ITV Wales, said: “We are delighted to support these awards, which are one of the ways that we celebrate the hard work politicians do for us in Wales.”</p> <p>The awards will be shown on ITV Wales in a special programme on Thursday December 18 at 11.05pm, hosted by Wales Tonight’s Jonathan Hill and Sharp End’s Mai Davies.</p> All winners received a personalised cartoon by Mumph and a bottle of Penderyn Welsh whiskywomensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0