Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

It may not seem so to the hysterical Media, but people actually still have confidence in Banks. We are all still depositing cash, cheques and are still using ATMs, debit, credit cards and online banking. What we don’t have, is confidence in the banking systems, the stock market and the systems of credit brokering/exchange that [...]

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This blog (and others) has been scathing about Visit Wales believing it to be a huge waste of money and ineffective in its job at promoting Wales.

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Visit Wales (formerly the Wales Tourist Board) has already scored a number of silly own goals with the fiasco surrounding its website (exposed on this site - see above) being but the latest.

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VisitWales.com, the ‘official’ online showpiece for Welsh Tourism, is officially a failure. The parrot is dead. That was the message and admission loud and clear from a consultative meeting of Visit Wales officials and the Tourism industry held in Brecon on Tuesday.
Visit Wales, the website, has been an expensive (£2million+) disaster from its inception. The [...]

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The issues surrounding new roads and their planning just never goes away as this latest message to their AMs from objectors to  the A494 widening in Deeside indicates.

The Parliamentary Planning Bill -Proposals for Infrastructure Planning Commission
This week in our Parliament, the government will propose a new “Planning Bill”. It seeks to “fast-track” the [...]

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What has happened to the so-called ‘convergence’ funding that is supposed to follow on from Objective One funding?
Where is it? Who has it? What are the funds being committed to? What does it converge with? Whose snouts are in the trough? Who is the third pig?

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Peter Hain-endorsed Picture Financial to is to shed half its workforce.
THE loans company Picture Financial has announced it will be halving its workforce with the loss of 85 jobs as a result of the credit crunch.Picture, based in Newport, confirmed it would be “restructuring” its business to focus on its loan servicing operation.
Source :Western [...]

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It seems insane that WAG is doing everything it can to piss off Welsh business at a time of economic and political meltdown . Nevertheless , as Dylan Jones-Evans is highlighting below, this appears to be happening.
At a time when the small firm sector in Wales needed support, the Assembly Government has come up [...]

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Good news for Anglesey, as well as for its AM, in one of today’s papers.

We all know that the economic future of the island revolves around its large aluminium works near Holyhead - and that this in turn revolves around the nuclear power which provides the enormous amount of electricity that is required.

Currently, [...]

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