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Entries Tagged as 'Blood Boilers'

The Green Green Grass of erm…Moscow?

November 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Blood Boilers, Opinion

NuLabour wants to sell off 14% of the entire landmass of our beautiful land in order to pay for the mismanagement of the UK economy.

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Wringing the Wind Windfall. The rich get richer.

September 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blood Boilers, Environment

And meanwhile, wind turbines proliferate across our landscapes to fuel this avaricious goal, but little else.

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Team GB for Welsh Football?

August 28th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Blood Boilers, News, News Scoops

New Labour plans to merge Wales’s national football and rugby teams into new “Great Britain” superteams

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The empty rip-off that is the Olympics

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Blood Boilers, Welsh Politics

A little table in the Independent on Sunday revealed the emptiness of claims that the Olympics in 2012 will be a festival that embraces the whole the UK - rather than just London and the southeast of England.

We were all told that the entire “country” would benefit from the event; that, in the words of [...]

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It’s curtains for Lynne Neagle says BBC

August 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Blood Boilers, Opinion, Welsh Assembly

Welsh Assembly members’ expenses claims included a £2,000 sofa, a £1,000 surround-sound TV, right down to a £2 glass bowl

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They get pissed - we pay

July 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blood Boilers, Gossip

Cambria has been sent a press release by the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) quantifying the amount of booze our alcoholic elected masters in Westminster get through at our expense. Apparently the consumption is about the annual turnover of 35 pubs (and London pubs at that) and nearly £9000 per MP.
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Big Don’s Westminster Windfall

July 17th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Blood Boilers, Welsh Labour, Welsh Politics

No wonder devo-sceptic and arch-nationalistophobe Don Touhig and his Labour MP chums aren’t keen to cut the knot with Westminster. They’ve so much to lose. Not only are they members of one of the UK’s smartest, richest and most exclusive clubs - hobnobbing with the ‘great and good’ the likes of [...]

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Has Leighton Andrews fawned enough?

July 11th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Blood Boilers, Opinion

Rhondda AM Leighton Andrews is reported as demanding that Cambria’s ‘editor’ apologise for claiming that Rhondda schoolchildren were forced to turn out “North Korean-style” during a visit to the area by Prince William in May. Henry Jones Davies (Cambria’s publisher, not its editor as Andrews stated) made the remarks on BBC Wales’s Dragon’s Eye programme [...]

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Inside the Assembly jail

July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blood Boilers, Press and Media, Welsh Politics

I have been asked whether I knew Christopher Glamorganshire, the civil servant who blogged from the inside on the Labour-Plaid coalition talks. But the truth is that for journalists the Assembly is a bit like a jail.

Once we enter it, we are tightly restricted as to where we can go, by passes which open (or [...]

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Political correctness going mad

June 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Blood Boilers, Welsh Politics

So massive is the hypocrisy and political correctness being displayed over the Alun Cairns light-hearted faux pas over “greasy Italians” that only one question remains to be asked.

And that is, when will the South West AM get his jobs back as Tory education spokesman and as chairman of the Assembly finance committee.

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