The
Assembly rejected a Legislative Consent Motion from the UK Parliament
to close the Agricultural Wages Board – which sets wages for
agricultural workers in EnglandandWales. Deputy Minister for Rural
Affairs, Alun Davies (Lab, Blaenau Gwent) will ask for Wales to be
excluded from the respective legislation.
The First Minister
warned NHS reorganisations were essential to prevent the Welsh NHS
from “collapsing”. He repeated that the Welsh Government...
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Thursday, 28 February 2013
Monday, 25 February 2013
How do you get more women into politics?
It's one of those age
old bugbears – the question of women's representation in
politics - also covered today by National Left. (Edit 26/02/13 : Another take on on this from Miserable Old Fart, much more detailed look at possible legislative and electoral reforms from Syniadau and an interesting post on gender balance at local government level from last year by Penarth a'r Byd.)A few weeks ago, Llywydd Rosemary Butler (Lab, Newport West) noted...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Census 2011 : National Identity & Ethnicity
Is Wales significantly less "British" than commonly believed?
It looks like it.
(Pic : Clive Morgan via theimagefile.co.uk)
Census 2011 : What's stunting Welsh?
Census 2011 : Losing our religion?
How "Welsh" is Wales?This
has been covered before by both Syniadau and Welsh not British. All the data I've used to compile...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Active Travel Bill introduced to the Assembly
After a wait of 5 years, an unpassed LCO, and a referendum
a "law governing cycle lanes" has finally made it in front of the National Assembly.
(Pic : Richard & Gill Long via Flickr)
One of the main
arguments against the Legislative Competence Order (LCO) system,
prior to the yes vote in the 2011 referendum,...
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Watching what we eat
By letting others decide the ingredients in our food via
modern food processing, have we lost touch with
precisely what we put into ourselves?
(Pic : bristolfoodie.co.uk)
I'm a little late
coming to this, but as you know there's a scandal
involving horse meat entering the food chain. It's currently being
investigated...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Monday, 11 February 2013
Digging deep into deals done dirt cheap
A brief recapBack in
March 2012, the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales (RIFW) – an
"arms-length" Welsh Government body - sold a bundle of 18 plots of publicly-owned land across Wales to a Guernsey-based company called South
Wales Land Developments (SWLD) for £20.6million. RIFW's aim is to raise money through land sales...
