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Power To The People! (Our People, Of Course)

On By JacIn Corruption Bay, Devolution, Globalism, Labour Party, Plaid Cymru, Senedd, Welsh Government, Welsh Labour70 Comments

In my previous post I wrote: “. . . one thing Labour was good at over 27 years of devolution was cronyism. That is, using public money to create pointless jobs for party loyalists, and to fund their organisations. To the point where there are now hundreds of these organisations and thousands of jobs“.

Done to extend Labour influence or control into almost every corner of Welsh life.

But not in my wildest, Malbec-fuelled dreams, did I think Labour would prove me right so quickly. (I need a drink!)

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DEVOLVING POWER TO KEEP POWER

Yet over the weekend, at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, we heard calls from the party in Wales and Scotland to devolve power to local authorities and communities. Now, if I wanted to be generous, I could say that this chimes with what we’ve heard from the unelected Globalist puppet in No 10.

But I don’t feel like being generous. And neither will you after reading this.

Going back to the 1990s, one of the great selling points of devolution – certainly for sceptics within Labour – was that Scotland and Wales would always vote Labour, and so devolved parliaments in Edinburgh and Cardiff could be useful for making life difficult for Conservative governments in Westminster.

And of course, they’d stymie the SNP and Plaid Cymru. (Though the latter was not thought to be a real threat.) Older readers may even remember George Robertson.

In 1995 George Robertson – then the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland – argued that the creation of a Scottish Parliament would quench the Scottish thirst for the decentralisation of power. Devolution, according to Robertson, would kill the idea of an independent Scotland “stone dead”

The SNP may be less popular following the Sturgeon (and hubby) years, but it’s hardly stane deid, eh, George.

We must also remember that the Tories were in power from 1979 until 1997, which encouraged the thinking I just outlined. And so devolution became Labour policy before Blair was installed as PM in 1997.

Even so, there were those who went along reluctantly with this constitutional change, maybe even Blair himself. And many within Labour – certainly in Wales – who were vehemently opposed.

Perhaps what these diehards realised, or what Labour strategists failed to factor into their calculations, was that many who voted Labour in Scotland and Wales did so in the hope of avoiding a Conservative government in London, rather than from any great love for Labour.

And while devolution offered a kind of ‘filter’ to direct London rule it also meant no threat of Tory administrations in Edinburgh or Cardiff, which allowed voters to relax, even ‘shop around’.

Here we are in the autumn of 2026: Labour hasn’t been in power at Holyrood since 2007, and has just lost control of the Senedd. To compound Labour’s problems, we have an unpopular Labour government in London, polling consistently under 30%, led by a phoney whose gloss is wearing off fast.

You can therefore understand why Labour now wants to devolve power away from Edinburgh and Cardiff. But to where? And to whom?

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The situations of Scotland and Wales are different, but as this blog is about Wales we’ll consider who power might be devolved to here.

The obvious place to start is the level of government below the Senedd, which is our local authorities. All twenty-two of them, and all 1,234 councillors – in a country of just over three million people!

Maybe it’s also worth mentioning the 730 community and town councils, which are served by over 8,000 community and town councillors.

The three major cities, Cardiff (pop 382,000), Swansea (249,000) and Newport (169,000), all have Labour-majority councils. The third largest local authority, by population, is Rhondda Cynon Taf (241,000), which is also run by Labour.

Four other councils in the south are Labour controlled; with a combined population of 485,000. Adding them together gives us some 50% of the country’s population.

In Monmouthshire, Labour’s the largest party, but with no overall control. There are Labour minority administrations in Flintshire and the Vale of Glamorgan. In Merthyr, Labour and Independents are tied. No overall control in Neath Port Talbot, Conwy, Denbighshire. With Plaid running things in Gwynedd, Ceredigion, Ynys Môn, and Carmarthenshire.

Elsewhere, Pembrokeshire is fought over by competing gangs of Independents. The Lib Dems are the largest party in Powys. While in Wrexham it’s a coalition between Independents and Conservatives.

It’s easy to see how devolving power away from Corruption Bay to local authorities could benefit Labour. For with Plaid Cymru ruling it’ll be they who’ll get blamed by sub-Senedd level Labour for everything that’s wrong in Wales.

But it doesn’t begin, and certainly doesn’t end, with local authorities.

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CRONYISM RULES!

Now I’ll turn to the cronyism referred to at the start. This is power and influence that’s less obvious than local authorities because there are no elections, and party labels are not obvious.

As I said, Labour spent 27 years of devolution building networks that would support the party. Or else corrupting organisations, often through funding, and bending them to do Labour’s bidding. For example, if you want to understand the chaos at the Welsh Rugby Union, it can be traced back to the WRU saying that biological males would not be allowed to play against women.

That outraged certain Labour Senedd Members, and so the wheels were set in motion.

Let’s also remember the housing associations, many of which are controlled by Labour loyalists. One example would be Wales & West, our biggest provider of social housing.

But it’s no longer just housing associations, and social housing, for many of them now have subsidiaries, which seem to focus on building open-market private housing. Even leasehold properties. Wales & West has Cambria Maintenance Services Limited, Enfys Developments Limited, and Enfys Homes Limited.

Google AI says of the last named:

Enfys Homes Limited: Focuses on mixed-tenure developments to deliver extra affordable housing without requiring grant subsidies.

The bit about grant subsidies may be right. But funding goes to the parent body from the so-called ‘Welsh Government’ and is then diverted to the subsidiary.

There are thirty housing associations registered with Community Housing Cymru. Most, if not all, have subsidiaries. And those subsidiaries, which we hear less about, rely on funding from their parent body. Something we are never told.

As we see with the latest accounts for Enfys Developments Limited.

What a strange set-up this is. I’m waiting for the response to a FoI request I submitted, and I might do a piece on these providers of social housing.

Next, we must consider our health boards. Labour spent many years emplacing trusted people. Whether these were capable of running a health board may never have entered the comrades’ collective thinking.

Then there are the countless third sector outfits and charities. And the duplication involved. Which means funding dozens of organisations to do basically the same job.

One example is homelessness. In a reply to a FoI request I was told that Wales had 48 organisations ‘tackling homelessness’ – in a country of just over three million people and less than 200 miles from one corner to the opposite corner.

In addition to the homelessness racket there’s the race racket, which is catching up fast in these days of enforced diversity. Though you have to wonder if there might not be a symbiotic relationship between the two.

One established outfit in the race racket is BAWSO. Here’s how it bills itself:

Bawso provides practical and emotional prevention, protection and support services to Black Minority Ethnic (BME) and migrant victims of Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence, Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage, Honour Based Violence, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.

BAWSO gets over £3.5m a year from the ‘WG’ alone in grants and contracts. For many, many years it was the fiefdom of Mutale Rose Merrill. Under her leadership BAWSO built up quite a property portfolio. (It’s alleged her personal portfolio is also quite impressive.)

Even hubby got in on the third sector racket. For Labour put Travers Merrill in charge of the doomed Rhondda Life. But why worry – it’s only public money!

The thing to remember about third sector bodies, charities, and others in the various rackets is that they must never solve the problem they were set up to tackle. Because to do that would mean an end to funding and the loss of many cushy jobs.

So it serves their purpose to invent or exaggerate problems. ‘Homelessness is rising’, or ‘racism is rampant and increasing’, means more funding and more jobs. Almost an economy in itself. And all funded from the public purse.

I swear to God someone could launch a third sector body that claimed to offer counselling to the non-binary yak herders of Ceredigion – and there’d be funding available with few questions asked! (For let’s not forget the gender racket.)

And then of course we have the Future Generations legislation. For all the bodies we’ve looked at must dutifully obey the commandments inscribed into the tablets received from the Future Generations Commissioner.

The first to fill that post was Labour stalwart Sophie Howe, daughter of a Cardiff councillor. She has since moved on to launch her own business, and she’s also joined a host of ishoo-mongers including Coleg Soros.

She was replaced by another Labour apparatchik in Derek Walker. Who’d led another What-the-fuck-is-that-about group in Cwmpas. Which seems to be people with no experience in business giving advice to businesses.

But when you look at who they ‘help’, these are not genuine businesses as you or I might understand that term. In the main, they’re just more third sector gangs.

Though in recent years it’s ceased to be exclusively Labour. Here’s an image from the Our Services section of the Cwmpas website.

I know what you’re thinking – who da honky? You don’t recognise him! It’s one of our new Plaid Cymru Senedd Members, Mark Hooper. The Deputy Minister for Transport who believes in “actively discouraging car use“.

And if you think that’s worrying, Hooper’s boss, Dr Dafydd Trystan Davies, promised to ditch his car when he was elected. If he’s just dumped it somewhere then I expect to see him arrested and charged with being a sanctimonious and insufferable little git.

Yes, indeed, as George Carlin so memorably put it: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” – unless you belong to a Globalist-left party.

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CONCLUSION

As I just suggested, on most issues you can’t get a fag paper between Labour and Plaid Cymru. Whether it’s climate, open borders, re-joining the EU, DEI, ‘trans rights’, or any of the other issues designed to weaken the West and increase the power and wealth of supranational elites.

But voters realising there’s little difference between the two is no good for either party, so minor differences must be exaggerated and new ones invented. And there are of course areas – like independence – where Labour and Plaid do disagree.

So devolving power out of Cardiff might just be something dreamed up to remind punters that Labour in Wales is different to Plaid – and here’s a policy to prove it.

But if Ken Skates, Kinnock, Burnham and others, are serious about devolving power within Wales then a good place to start would be moving the Senedd out of Cardiff. For all devolution has really achieved is allowing Cardiff to enjoy some of the capital benefits London has always enjoyed.

Moving the Senedd could be funded by cutting the number of local authorities from twenty-two to the eight we knew in the days of two-tier local government.

More money could be found by reducing the number of housing associations. Having thirty, plus subsidiaries, is insane. Or why not do away with them altogether and hand the responsibility for social housing back to eight local authorities?

Finally, there’s the morass of the third sector. Hundreds of publicly-funded bodies, most doing work of no discernible public benefit, with dozens of almost indistinguishable gangs fighting turf wars in each and every sector.

But for Labour to agree to anything I’ve suggested would mean weakening the party’s crony network. And that would defeat the object of calling for ‘greater devolution’.

There’s a big test here for Plaid Cymru. They could devolve out of Cardiff, and fund it as I’ve outlined. But if Plaid was to suggest that then Labour would oppose it.

Reminding us yet again that Labour will always act in its own selfish interests.

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© Royston Jones 2026

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Net Zero Creating Jobs In ‘Farming’

On By JacIn Climate, Colonialism, Environmentalism, Farming, Globalism, Greens, Net Zero42 Comments

Bit of a departure, this one. Or maybe not. It’s more ‘planet saving’ bullshit; with one example dressed up as feeding the masses, the other somehow helping a housing association.

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BACKGROUND

In twenty-seven years of mismanaging Wales Labour had a twin-track approach to agriculture. On the one hand, real farming was attacked and undermined; while anything that could be presented as an alternative, an improvement, was promoted.

This was justified as ‘saving the planet’, either by mitigating the damage done to the environment by traditional Welsh livestock farming (farting cows and all that), or else by bringing new life to rural areas. Often combined.

Pure, naked Globalism. For the elites that control our politicians want the land for themselves, and they also want to control what we eat. Not so long ago we were being told to eat insects. What happened to that campaign? Short answer, it was bollocks; nutritionally and in other ways, and the truth caught up with it.

But let’s not forget that control of the food supply is part of the ultimate power grab.

To sell this power grab to slimeball politicians always looking to appear virtuous the Globalists dreamed up anthropogenic climate change, net zero, and the UN’s Agenda 2030. For everything is predicated on, and flows from, climate change.

More importantly, what we are being forced to do to combat this wholly contrived threat.

The driving force in Wales was someone who’s appeared here regularly, Jane Davidson. She attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. But why was she there?

A privately-educated woman who’d drifted to Wales and was so well-in with the Labour establishment that after serving on Cardiff city council for a while she was gifted the safe Labour seat of Pontypridd in the first Welsh Assembly elections of 1999.

In the Labour-Plaid coalition of 2007-2011 Davidson was Minister for the Environment and Sustainability.

She is the self-confessed author of the Well-being of Future Generations Act 2015. This is no exercise in wishful thinking; for it influences almost every aspect of Welsh life. Everything must conform to its dictates.

Which brings me to the first recognisable example of what we’ll be looking at in a minute. And it pre-dates the Future Generations legislation. This was One Planet Developments (OPD). Covered under Technical Advice Note (TAN) 6. Which encouraged individuals, families, small groups, to buy or acquire a small plot of land, live off-grid, and be self-sufficient.

Often retrospectively legitimising existing rural slums.

Like so many of the previous ‘Welsh Government’s worst ideas this one originated with, or was helped along by, outfits based in Bristol.

Land Use Consultants is still in business and doing quite well. In fact, the most recent accounts report a turnover of more than £24 million with some £12.7 million spent on 324 employees.

But the Positive Development Trust CIC is long gone. It was launched September 23, 2011 and Dissolved on Christmas Eve 2013. Almost as if it came into existence solely to promote OPD in Wales. Does anyone recognise a name among the directors?

One Planet Developments may have been pushed (insincerely) as some alternative kind of farming, but in reality it attracted superannuated hippies, good-lifers, and others with barely a clue about rural living.

There are still some new OPDs cropping up, but the idea never really took off. Though it might have morphed . . .

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FEEDING THE BRUMMIE MASSES

Now we’re heading to Wern farm, near Sarn, which is east of Newtown, Powys. In fact, very close to the border. Which is convenient for all involved. Here’s a recent report from the Lanyard-wearers Bugle.

This land is owned by Powys county council, currently led by Lib Dem Jake Berriman, mentioned in the article just linked to. Berriman may not long have been in Wales, for someone of the same name was CEO at Shropshire Housing Group.

Though the project was opposed by Kerry, the community council involved. Which just last year held a packed public meeting . . .

 . . . in response to growing concerns about Powys County Council selling off parts of its tenanted farm estate.

Selling or renting them to well-funded pressure groups, hippies, and good-lifers.

Wern launched as the ‘Welsh Government’s Future Farms Pilot, which was . . .

 . . . established to test a practical and scalable model for enabling new entrant horticultural businesses to access land, secure affordable on-site homes and supply local markets in Powys and wider Wales.

So where in Wales is Birmingham?

Also mentioned in the Guardian article is Our Food Trust, a new one on me. So who are they? Here’s their website, where they tell us they’re:

Building 100 affordable farms growing food agroecologically for local and regional markets.

Advocating that Welsh Government addresses the food security threat decisively, through the new Food Strategy currently being developed.

It’s found in Crickhowell, Abergavennyshire, and is a registered charity. The first trustee named is George James Stewart Wallis. He can also be found as a trustee of the London-based Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

But who’s that there with him? Why! it’s Sophie Howe, former Future Generations Commissar for Wales. As for the other trustees, your guess is as good as mine. But I don’t think they’re from round by ‘ere.

Going back to Our Food Trust, the second trustee named is Holly Tomlinson. Next is 94-year-old James Steuart Skinner. (Any relation to James Scott Skinner?) Finally, there’s Christopher Albrecht Bielenberg; born in 1942 to an anti-Nazi German father and an Anglo-Irish mother. He seems to have dabbled offshore, because he gets a mention in Offshore Leaks.

But running the show, as joint-CEOs, are Duncan Fisher and Sue Holbrook. Both have generously moved to Wales so that we might benefit from their wisdom.

Also giving support is another gang of grifters at Cynnal Cymru. Funded of course by the ‘Welsh Government’.

But let’s not overlook support from the Landworkers’ Alliance. I’ve never been able to take this lot seriously. Middle-class English envirogrifters – playing at being peasants!

I read some of their output a few years back and I couldn’t help laughing. It conjured up images of moustachioed hombres wielding machetes, marching off to have it out with the local representative of United Fruit. Laughable.

I don’t want to spend any more time on this nonsense, because that’s what it is. It’s being funded and justified as a move towards making Wales more self-sufficient in food – but most of it gets shipped to Birmingham.

In fact, Lydia Dibben, one of the ‘farmers’, is quoted in the article saying:

Because of the cost of living crisis, there’s a limited amount of people who can afford to buy the veg we produce, and we are growing a hell of lot more than we can sell locally.

Locals can’t afford the organic produce of Wern farm – so it’s shipped off to Brum where it’s bought – with public money – by the council, for local schools, etc.

Finally, a big attraction of these allotments is that each can have its own accommodation. These count as temporary rural dwellings, and are allowed under Technical Advice Note (TAN) 6, of October 2012.

This, you might recall, was what legitimised One Planet Developments. Which is why I suggested earlier that the faltering OPD idea might have morphed.

Late News: The ‘Welsh Government’ wants more Wern farms according to this put out last week. Mentioned is Ystadau Cymru (Wales’ Estates), another outfit I’d never heard of. Here it is, talking about ‘Community Asset Transfer’.

In practice, this will mean transferring an asset away from the local community to an organisation or individuals favoured by the Corruption Bay in-crowd.

Note the info came just five days after the Guardian piece. Pure coincidence!

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DOWN TO ZERO

Let’s start this section with an article from Nation.Cymru before delving into the truth about this lot. It’s another about growing food, and distributing it to the needy. And it’s received funding as part of a £4.8m package from the ‘Welsh Government’.

There may also be funding from the National Lottery.

So who or what is Down to Zero? Let’s start with the website. You’ll see it’s linked with Cynon Taf Community Housing Group. Based in Abercynon and serving mainly the central valleys.

The founding members were Labour councillor Barry Stephens and John Beresford Chown of leftist think tank the Bevan Foundation.

The image above shows baskets of locally-grown food of the type presumably being delivered. A kind of socialist Deliveroo. (And seeing SM Sioned Williams there means every delivery will come with a lecture on ‘trans rights’.) For those of you wondering about the bananas, they’re a staple crop on the slopes of the Cynon valley.

On the website, we’re met with:

More carbon dioxide (CO2) is now being released than the earth’s land-based plant life and oceans can naturally reabsorb. The excess carbon dioxide has formed a blanket in our atmosphere – trapping the sun’s heat and changing our climate . . .

Truth is, without carbon dioxide all life on Earth would die. More of it means deserts greening and plants growing faster. But this ‘carbon capture’ nonsense is part of the bigger climate scam.

“Trapping the sun’s heat“? Is CO2 being blamed for the ‘heatwaves’ this summer?

Down to Zero is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as a Community Benefit Society. Registered in August 2022. So let’s check the latest accounts, up to March 31, 2025.

One of the first things to catch my eye was (page 4): “The deficit for the year increased from £16,976 in 2024 to £46,924 in 2025“. Mmm. Looks like the new funding is badly needed.

Despite the increasing deficit, administrative costs jumped – nay, leapt! – from £148,835 in 2024 to £246,167 in 2025. The rest of the financial picture is an equally dismal read.

For example, the amount owed to creditors almost doubled in the same period, from £161,638 to £321,897.

Maybe it’s accounted for by this, also from the Down to Zero accounts (page 6, 7B2):

This year, we were pleased to complete on the purchase of 27 acres of wetland and broadleaf native woodlands in Aberdare, known locally as Cwmbach Wetlands. This is an area of significant carbon stores, biodiversity and natural beauty which is loved by the community. Our work in this area is a leading example of asset-based community development and we are committed to working with Cwmbach Community Wetlands Ltd

Google AI gives more details (below). What a wonderful arrangement, it could be described as circular scammery. Pen y Cymoedd windfarm community fund donated £40,000. So those raking it from wind turbines dish out a little dosh to others lower down the food chain, justified – cos they is all saving the planet!

And one way or another – you are paying for it all!

Purchased in July 2024 for £80,000 by Cynon Taf Community Housing Group via its subsidiary Down to Zero, with a £40,000 contribution from the Pen y Cymoedd windfarm community fund.

This land is now leased to Cwmbach Community Wetlands

Something that causes me to wonder is that Cwmbach Community Wetlands began life before Down to Zero. The former 15.12.2021, the latter 22.08.2022.

Presumably the newt botherers were already active at the site. So why would a housing association, through a subsidiary supposedly supplying food to the widows and orphans of the parish, buy and then lease, 27 acres of wetland?

Shouldn’t a housing association focus on, well, I don’t know . . . housing?

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CONCLUSION

You’ll note that in the above discussions about food there was no mention of meat. There’s a reason for that.

To pursue and promote their agenda of destabilising, dividing, and impoverishing the West the twin-strategy of net zero and open borders guarantees the support of leftists, ‘environmentalists’, religio-imperialists, and others.

Globalists have also recruited an eclectic band of camp followers and useful idiots.

Ranging from assorted sexual perverts and deviants, to anti-car cycling fanatics, and of course – vegans. Vegans were once harmless eccentrics who didn’t bother anyone. Nowadays they’re encouraged to be more assertive, to the point where eating meat is damned as a sign of toxic masculinity! (Eating meat in a caff with veggies nearby probably qualifies as a microaggression.)

Something else that’s changed is that veganism and vegetarianism used to be about the animals. Now we’re told we should give up meat to save the planet. Another example of Globalism recruiting, and ‘re-focusing’, groups and causes to serve the agenda.

AFTERTHOUGHT 23.09.2026: Vegetarianism and veganism had to be ‘re-focused’ because if it was about the animals then they’d have to oppose halal slaughter. But defending and promoting Islam is a vital element of the Globalist agenda. So the cruelty involved in halal gets a free pass.

On a more venal level, and as I mentioned earlier, livestock farming holds vast acreages of land – that Globalists could own, and profit from. Pretending that ‘farming’ can be shrunk to allotments, and we can survive on their produce will, it’s hoped, serve that agenda.

The other factor to consider, certainly with the second example, is that one thing Labour was good at over 27 years of devolution was cronyism. That is, using public money to create pointless jobs for party loyalists, and to fund their organisations. To the point where there are now hundreds of these organisations and thousands of jobs – and we wouldn’t miss them if they all disappeared tomorrow.

Let’s be honest. These allotment-‘farms’ are a virtue-signalling joke. But the ‘Welsh Government’ wants more of them. So they’ll buy land, or councils will use the farms they own – that should be the first rung on the ladder for young, Welsh, farmers.

As we already see at Bremenda Isaf, in Plaid Cymru-run Carmarthenshire. A 100-acre, council-owned farm. Said to be next-door to the local Plaid MP, Ann Davies. Fancy!

It makes no sense. Until you realise it’s all being done to serve a darker agenda.

An agenda that’s becoming clearer by the day.

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© Royston Jones 2026

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Wind Power: New Players, Same Old Scam

On By JacIn Climate, Colonialism, Renewables, Wind Turbines30 Comments

Yes, I know, I talk a lot of wind. But it’s difficult to escape it. We’re expected to believe the world is going to burn to a frazzle, El Niño is going to turn us all to ashes (or drown us? Both?) – if we don’t cover every square yard of Wales in wind turbines and solar panels.

That’s what politicians tell us. And the people who ‘advise’ them. And those wanting to give us these planet-saving necessities. They wouldn’t all be lying to us, would they?

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MAFIA IN THE MOUNTAINS?

The first part of this posting concerns a communication that dropped into my inbox. I’m unsure of the source. It reads:

We have been made aware that Mynydd Tryfan wind farm proposal will now be pushed back some time, possibly 1 to 2 years and that it will not met the criteria of a SIP but instead go to parish and then Conwy Council. 

What has come to light, is that the head of Alerion, Josef Gostner, was allegedly involved in a few misdemeanors. The news articles were online up to at least the 30th of August – but I emailed the journalist for an up date and the articles have been taken down.. 

Mr Gostner has in denied all wrongdoings but it is related to planning issues in Italy. I have asked Grasshopper to clarify all this.

I should explain that the ‘Grasshopper’ referred to is not a cute insect out of a children’s book but bright young things collectively known as “a strategic communications agency“. And if that don’t impress you, then how about:

Climate change is the biggest challenge we face, so it’s really important that we do our bit and help the push towards net zero.

Yes, brainwashed kids wanting to destroy the economies of the West. But of course, there’ll be beneficiaries. And you’ll find them among Grasshopper’s clients.

In addition to the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ we see: Taylor Wimpey. Pennant Walters. Island Green Power. Statkraft. Landsec.

But I don’t want to get bogged down with Grasshopper. Let’s focus on the company mentioned in the first quoted passage above, Alerion. Here’s the Companies House entry, and here’s the website.

This Italian outfit seems to have two projects in Wales. Obviously, there’s Mynydd Tryfan, mentioned above, which is between Denbigh and Llansannan, and is being vigorously opposed. Then there’s Foel Trawsnant, west of Maesteg.

A director of the company, and of the UK arm, is Josef Gostner, who you just read about. A German-looking name but an Italian citizen. Explained by the fact that he’s from the Alto Adige/Südtirol, a largely German-speaking area of Italy up on the Austrian border.

In recent years, Gostner has been making waves back in northern Italy with a few deals he’s been involved with.

He appears in this piece from Kronen Zeitung in which the public prosecutor uses the phrase, ” . . . a mafia-like criminal organization“. He’s also mentioned in this article from the same publication, which mentions “billion dollar bankruptcy“. Wow!

There are other pieces available in German and Italian. Also, articles I can’t access in Aviation.Direct. (These may be the ones referred to as having been “taken down” in the original quoted section.)

In fairness, it’s “mafia-like“, rather than the real thing; so we’re probably not dealing with men of honour from Sicily and other areas down south.

The main man seems to have been René Benko, an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of the Signa group. With allegations of donations made to the South Tyrolean People’s Party, the ruling party in the autonomous region, and representing the interests of German speakers.

According to the investigators, the entrepreneurs involved allegedly obtained public contracts by granting favors, gifts and cash payments to civil servants and administrative staff.

Thankfully, such things don’t happen in Wales!

Back to Gostner’s company, Alerion. Which is a part of the bigger FRI-EL Group, formed by Josef Gostner and his brothers, Ernst and Thomas.

As mentioned, Foel Trawsnant is west of Maesteg. Which explains why we find Gostner in Pennant Walters (FoelT) Ltd. Where he’s listed with another Italian, and a Spaniard, as the three current directors. They’re also the three directors of Alerion UK Ltd.

You’ll recall that Pennant Walters is a client of Grasshopper.

Now I want to turn to the charge shown against Pennant Walters (FoelT) Ltd. It refers to 145 Commercial Street, Maesteg. The corner building shown below.

I’m told it’s been bought to be demolished (if it doesn’t collapse or catch a-fire), so that turbine parts can make that corner, and go up Neath Road (B4282), to the windfarm site. To finally reach the site they’ll have to use forestry roads.

As you may have noticed, the loan to buy this obstacle to making lots of loot saving the planet was made by EGMP Ltd. A real estate company based in Mold.

At which point we move onto the next part of this article.

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CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS

There’s no website for EGMP, but here’s the Companies House entry. When we look at the directors we find Geraint Keith Jewson and his wife Paula. Search Geraint’s name on the CH website and you’ll come up with no less than 150 companies.

Though he’s no longer an active director with all of them. And some have folded. I should also add there’s no connection with the Jewson builder’s supplies company.

Many of Jewson’s companies give their address as ‘Linden House, Wrexham Road, Mold Business Park’. Unfortunately, the most recent image available with Google Earth is from 2018, but I don’t think the occupants of the building have changed.

The main Jewsons’ companies based there are Wind 2 Ltd, and Tesni Properties Ltd, with a number of ‘Tesni’ companies listed Dissolved. But there are many, many more companies using that address.

Before moving to Linden House I believe Geraint Jewson could have been found not far away at Mynydd Awel, on the same estate. Where we find Engie, a company controlled by the French government, that “identifies and develops renewable energy projects“.

In fact, Jewson was a director of Engie Renewables Ltd for 18 years (1996 – 2014). Another name associated with Engie – along with the obligatory French director – is Suresh Pullat Bhaskar, an Indian living in the UAE. So is there Gulf oil money involved?

Many, maybe most, of the companies of which Jewson is or has been a director seem to link to Scotland (for wind projects), quite a few in England (often solar), but there are also a few in Wales.

Here are the Welsh projects Jewson’s been involved with.

Parc Ynni Calon y Gwynt Cyf. Launched 12.11.2021, “Parc Ynni Calon y Gwynt is part of a joint venture between Wind2 and companies managed by Octopus Energy Generation“. Here’s the website. There are quite a few Wind2 companies.

Parc Ynni Banc y Celyn Cyf. Launched 22.10.2021. Controlled from the outset by ORI JV Holdings 2 Ltd. An Octopus Energy company.

Bwlch Gwyn Wind Farm Ltd. Launched 24.06.2021. Controlled from the outset by ORI JV Holdings 2 Ltd. Again, Octopus Energy.

Tyn yr Ynn Farm Ltd. Launched 02.04.2015. “Support services to forestry“. Controlled by Geraint and Paula Jewson. Latest accounts show deficit of over one million pounds.

Man Coed Ltd. Launched 05.07.2002. Jewsons as directors. Dissolved (by creditors) 17.05.2020. Amounts owed to unsecured creditors alone totalled almost two million pounds.

Awel Newydd Cyf. Launched 11.05.2005 by Jewsons. Taken over in April 2016 by Petersham Holdco (since dissolved). Then taken over in March 2024 by Elm Wind Holdings Ltd, part of the ELM forestry and renewables group. Ultimately owned by AlphaReal.

Radnorshire Wind Energy Ltd. Launched 13.06.2011 by Jewsons. All shares once held by West Coast Energy Ltd, believed to be the original Jewson company.

WCE launched 23.08.95. Became Engie Renewables 27.01.2016. (The French company mentioned above.) Engie London address is Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London. The building where Bute Energy was based before moving to Hodge House, Cardiff. Coincidence, no doubt.

Most recent accounts show Engie UK’s equity increasing from £3,108,684 (31.12.2023) to £24,084,030 (31.12.2024).

Ystalyfera Wind Energy Ltd. Launched 19.01.2007 by the Jewsons. The other director at the start was Robert Paul Tate, who might work for Engie Renewables, which owned this company. Another Tate-Engie company was Rhos-Gwawr Wind Energy Ltd. The Ystalyfera project was wound up 26.02.2019, Rhos-Gwawr 26.03.2019.

Ynys Mon Wind Energy Ltd. Another company launched by the Jewsons and Tate, 13.06.2011. The 100 shares originally held by West Coast Energy. Engie Renewables Ltd took over 06.04.2016. Ynys Mon (sic) Wind Energy never seemed to be active and was Dissolved 26.03.2019.

I think the pattern has been established, so I won’t go through the other Welsh companies; but here they are if you’re interested: Ynni Gwynt Maldwyn Cyf. Nant y Ffrith Wind Energy Ltd. Flintshire Wind Energy Ltd. Wrexham Wind Energy Ltd.

Though perhaps Cambrian Wind Energy Ltd is worth a mention, if only because it’s still in business. It was launched 02.04.1997 by Geraint Jewson and Eugene Buuck of Nevada, USA. The current ownership is explained here.

Buuck and compatriot Michael Haas were also involved in RDC Developments Ltd with the Jewsons. This folded a year ago with the Americans in control at the death.

And now, through his company Wind2, we see that Geraint Jewson has new partners.

“We have collaborative partnerships with EDP Renewables and Octopus Energy Generation“. That’s EDP Renewables, of Oviedo, Spain. With the wherewithal (or security) coming from Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale of Hanover.

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The other company on the sign out front of Jewson’s Linden House base in Mold is Atmos Consulting Ltd, a company that appears to have its head office in Edinburgh. (How often has this city been mentioned on this blog!) But it’s not that simple.

The ownership trail is long and tortuous. Eventually it takes us to Cheshire Holdco Ltd, of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Incorporated as recently as April 2024. And when we flick down through this company’s accounts we read:

Yes, it’s that old family firm in Ystradgynlais – Goldman Sachs!

The address in Harrogate, which is linked to many of the companies in this report, is where we find Adler & Allan. Run by Dane Henrik Vorgod Pedersen, who has an impressive portfolio of directorships himself.

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CONCLUSION

“Mafia-like criminal organisation” (alleged) . . . Cayman Islands . . . Arizona . . . Milan . . . Oviedo . . . Hanover . . . Goldman Sachs . . . my old head is spinning with all these Welsh success stories in ‘renewables’.

I won’t say too much about the alleged Mafia-like behaviour – don’t wanna get whacked! – but you’ll recall the mention of Grasshopper, a PR/lobbying group, in connection with that story.

Working for Grasshopper at the relevant time was Iwan Irranca-Davies. Who lived in Maesteg before taking himself off for a year of travel.

He’s a son of Huw Irranca-Davies who, in the previous Labour administration, was Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs. There was a bit of a kerfuffle over this.

As for Geraint Jewson, to me, he seems to be a facilitator, a man who can open doors for foreign investors. But of course, to fulfil that role he’d need political contacts. So does a man based in Mold, who owns an island in the Menai Straits, have these contacts down Corruption Bay? Well, it seems he has.

Google AI says he has, “historically provided written and oral evidence regarding public attitudes toward wind farms and the operational dynamics of the planning system in Wales to bodies like the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee“.

And he’s also sat on the ‘Welsh Government’s Energy and Environmental Sector Panel. The same source says:

Jewson has served as an external policy commentator and stakeholder assisting the implementation of the Welsh Government’s publicly owned renewable energy developer (known as DevCo or Ynni Cymru). He has specifically advised and written on how the Welsh Government can structure this entity to ensure the economic and social value of expanded onshore wind remains within local Welsh communities.

A man with his record, his foreign business associates, now wants to “ensure the economic and social value of expanded onshore wind remains within local Welsh communities“.

With his record! Has he had a conversion? Or is it all bullshit?

I can’t help thinking this attempt to keep the benefits in Wales is all a bit late. Partly because the climate scam is running out of legs. Even the Germans are waking up to the fact that net-zero equals deindustrialisation and economic decline.

And they aren’t the only ones.

‘Renewables’, carbon capture, and the rest, is a road Wales should never have started down because our contribution to the ‘climate crisis’ is negligible; and so it follows that any contribution we could make would also be negligible.

But politicians devoid of practical ideas to improve our lives, and with an inferiority complex that makes them desperate to impress others, must resort to ‘Oi, look at us!‘ gestures.

Which might be laughable if the gestures weren’t a form of self-harm.

The truth is net zero is damaging our economy and our communities; while ‘renewables’ require the felling of thousands of trees, the destruction of peat deposits, and the covering and poisoning of vast areas of good farmland.

Can’t they do joined-up thinking? I mean, can’t they even join up the different elements and consequences of their own thinking?

And what hope is there when these same politicians are preyed on daily by pressure groups – to back (and fund) their pet projects; and lobbyists – to favour their clients?

The net zero madness will pass, but Wales might be the last country to admit the mistake. Because climate hysteria’s been used by mediocrities and clowns to explain and justify almost every decision someone else has forced on them.

Without this fig leaf to cover their incompetence they’d be naked and exposed.

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© Royston Jones 2026

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An Open Letter To President Donald J Trump

On By JacIn Globalism, Russia, Ukraine73 Comments

Mr President,

As you are aware, there’s a lot of sabre-rattling in Europe at the moment. Certain countries, having encouraged Ukraine to wage war on Russian civilians in the Donbass and elsewhere following the 2014 coup – and provoking the desired response – are now determined to draw Russia into a wider conflict.

I’m referring to countries whose politicians are, in the main, stooges of a transnational elite bent on controlling every aspect of our lives; using allies and useful idiots motivated either by religion or ideology. In fact, the very evils that you and your administration are combatting on your own soil.

Countries whose social security expenditure rockets while their economies collapse, whose borders are open to extremists and criminals from around the world, whose militaries have been run down for decades, are now trying to provoke the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal into a continent-wide, or even global, conflict.

With politicians in one particular country, one in terminal decline, and farthest down the dark road to a full surveillance society, openly demanding we go to war on behalf of the most corrupt country in Europe – to defend democracy!

This hypocrisy on steroids exposes the puppets’ realisation the tide is turning. As people wake up to the catastrophic effects of net zero deindustrialisation and open borders; and opinion polls tell them France and Germany might soon elect leaders and governments that will act in the interests of the French and German nations.

Which will be the end of their European Union pet project.

They must therefore have a distraction, an excuse to impose (even greater) censorship, cancel elections, and maybe take unfettered control. Unable to arrange an asteroid strike, and hesitant to release a plague, war is their only option.

And so they’re stepping up the supply of drones and other military hardware to Ukraine designed to strike deep into Russian territory, at civilian targets. Secure in their recklessness because they believe that if or when Russia responds, the USA will ride to their rescue, as before.

It is this belief, and this belief alone, that encourages their insane behaviour.

And so I appeal to you to pull these lunatics back from the brink. For all our sakes.

Either withdraw the USA from NATO (if only temporarily), or else make it clear to all that the USA will not be drawn into another European conflict. Nor will the USA aid either side with financial support and/or materiel.

As for me, I’m just an awkward old Welshman who doesn’t want his teenage grandsons dragged off to fight for those offering us the victory prize of “benign containment” . . . while they plunder Russia’s resources.

 

Respectfully yours

Royston Jones

 

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Crack Open A Bottle For The Environment

On By JacIn Climate, Colonialism, Environmentalism, Greens13 Comments

Whaddya know – another ‘environmentalist’ has moved to Wales. But this one has a novel angle. He sells booze and donates all the profits to planet savers. Or so he says.

Strange how people who oppose colonialism have no issue with colonising Wales.

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MAN OF MYSTERY

I’m indebted to a regular source (as is so often the case) for drawing my attention to a philanthropist whose efforts deserve wider recognition. For this man is not only donating to Greenpeace, but here in Wales to Tir Natur (of whom I have writ), Coetir Anian Cambrian Wildwood (ditto), and North Wales Wildlife Trust (ditto).

His name is James Law. Apart from my source I know about Law because he’s not shy when it comes to promoting himself. Or his company, which seems to be named Evrythng. An odd name, and the first cause of confusion.

But anyway, here’s The Grocer, in September 2024, telling about the company launch.

To believe Law, he’s making various spirits – and then he gives all the profits to worthy Green causes. A veritable mensch.

The company name is confusing because there’s a registered company of that name, but it seems to have nothing to do with Law. Here’s the Companies House entry, and here’s what it says towards the end of the submitted accounts.

Digging deeper you find the corporate investors in Digimarc over in the USA are the usual suspects.

But why would Law use the name of an established company, knowing that he cannot register his company with that name? Or is there a connection? Whatever, we must assume Law’s company (or whatever) is unconnected.

But he has another company; it’s the cutely named Chocolate Milk Industries Ltd, launched 30 November, 2023. With Law as the sole director. The CH entry tells us it’s in the business of “Distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits“. So why the silly name?

The filed accounts are quite depressing, with the most recent entry showing total net assets of minus £10,615. The next accounts are due by the end of the month.

Staying with Companies House filings, a December 2023 change to the Single Alternative Inspection Location address (SAIL) for the inspection of company registers, gives the post code SY23. Which covers Trefeglwys, where Law seems to live.

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BUT WHERE’S THE HOOCH COMING FROM?

Going back to Law’s extensive output on social media, we read of a distillery in ‘Pontyclun’. I wasn’t aware of one, so I checked.

I don’t think there’s a distillery in Pontyclun itself, but there is one just over the M4 at Hensol Castle. It changed hands in May 2021, and is now owned by the Leeke family, famous for their furniture and home fittings stores.

Part of the The Vale of Glamorgan Hotel, also used for functions and weddings. Belonging to the wider Leeke group. Nice to see a family-owned Welsh firm.

The distillery seems to be in the cellar. There’s even a video about it on YouTube, put online in April last year. Narrated by Dai Wakely. More information here.

OK, so that’s where Law gets his booze from. But what’s the arrangement with the distillery? We’ll explore a few possibilities in a mo.

But I’m still wondering why Evrythng isn’t registered as a company. What is its status? Especially as it too has a YouTube video. (Though someone should tell them how to spell Colombian.)

But why the American voice-over? Is it AI, or is there really a connection with the other Evrythng we looked at earlier?

Either way, it’s a mistake for an outfit pushing itself as a Welsh company. Why not get Dai from Hensol Distillery to do the vocals?

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THE MAN BEHIND THE MISSION

At the risk of boring you with YouTube videos here’s James Law himself speaking, from a symposium in Bordeaux maybe three years ago. (The videos are all short anyway, so stop moaning!)

He’s speaking here as ‘Director of brand and development at East London Liquor Company‘. Though seeing as he ceased to be a director in May 2023 we must assume this video was made before then.

James Law has launched many products in the spirits category with a particular focus on the climate emergency. He finds solutions to disrupt current production and distribution methods to effect real change.

Seeing as that company was on the skids when he made the video it might explain why his Linkedin page shows a “career break” between June 2023 and March 2024, before he started Evrythng.

Here’s a clip from the most recent administrator’s report for the East London Liquor Company Ltd. From last month, in fact. You’ll see the company owes creditors at least one million pounds.

The ‘unsecured creditors’ will be lucky to ever see their money.

It was around this point I learnt that our man’s full name is James Douglas Law, a guid Scottish name. But I fear that nation’s reputation for business savvy is absent; for looking at the companies he’s been involved with exposes a sad litany of failures.

But you’ve got to give a man marks for dusting himself down and starting again.

And now he’s in Wales, flogging craft spirits and giving all the profits to the fairies. Sorry! ‘environmentalists’. And he’s already found the Corruption Bay in-crowd. For Evrythng was the official sustainable spirits supplier at the Green Man Festival.

Supplied in “low-waste 10-litre jerry cans instead of single-use bottles“.

Oi, barman – give me a jerry can of not-for-profit gin. Another jerry can of tonic, a crate of lemons, and a fridge-full of ice. Then phone the wife and tell her I won’t be home for a few days.

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BUT WHAT’S THE BUSINESS MODEL?

Google AI told me what you see below, but it could have been gleaned from something put out by Evrythng. Yer pays yer money . . .

Law claims to give all the profits from the sale of his spirits to Globalist-left-green causes. But would that be after he’s taken his cut? Cos a man’s gotta live.

If so, then he’s obviously not giving all the profits. But if he is giving all the profits, then what’s he living on?

Though at the risk of sounding unkind . . . given Law’s record in business he’s obviously familiar with his companies not turning a profit.

The answer might lie with Law’s relationship with Hensol Castle Distillery. There seem to be a few possibilities. Options set out below by Wharf Distillery. Though I must say the first option looks almost dishonest. Can you really buy someone else’s product and market it as your own?

Whatever, Hensol Castle Distilling seems to offer similar options.

UPDATE 03.10.2026: The page I linked to has disappeared. Fancy that!

Let’s turn to the Evrythng pricing. Starting with gin, which retails for £28.50, with the claim that:

At least £7.50 from this sale goes to organisations fighting the climate crisis.

Vodka is the same price. White rum also £28.50. With barrel-aged rum £32.50.

By way of comparison, a 70 cl bottle of Smirnoff vodka from Tesco is £19.50, or £16.00 with a Clubcard. From the same store, a one litre (not 70 cl) bottle of JJ Whiteley Artisanal “handcrafted” vodka is just £23.25, £18.50 with Clubcard.

Digging on the internet suggests that a 70cl bottle 0f 40 ABV gin can be produced for well under £10 a bottle, even for relatively small runs.

I conclude that, given the likely production costs, and Evrythng’s almost non-existent overheads, there’s a much bigger profit per bottle than the stated £7.50.

But is there another possibility? Read on . . .

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CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Earlier I mentioned a company Law had been involved with, East London Liquor Company, that recently went bust owing at least a million quid. There are others worth looking at.

One is Longflint Drinks Ltd, finally Dissolved in April last year. In his Linkedin profile Law claims to have founded this company, but left in April 2020.

I launched Longflint after working for a craft beer brewery in East London. We watched the explosion of great beer and craft spirits and realised there was a gap for a new range of drinks that used natural ingredients and top quality spirits.

I’m responsible for the recipe development, the design of the packaging and the strategic direction of the business.

Companies House disagrees. For it still has Law as a director at the death. Which means he was still a director of Longflint when he started up Evrythng.

But look down the list of Longflint directors and you’ll find this.

For those unfamiliar with the name, Diageo is a multinational drinks conglomerate. And at one time it was the major shareholder in Longflint Drinks. Maybe Diageo put up the money, then the company folded soon after Diageo pulled out.

So was Longflint simply re-labelling and upping the prices for Diageo products?

(Incidentally, Diageo owns the Smirnoff vodka, Captain Morgan rum, and Gordon’s gin brands.)

Before the end, control of Longflint passed to the East London Liquor Company which, as you’ve read, has also gone to the great distillery in the sky.

Diageo’s involvement is perhaps explained by its arm called Distill Ventures. Which funds “drinks founders from under-represented communities“. Does Wales qualify as ‘under-represented’?

Is Law still working with Diageo? So many questions.

Remember Chocolate Milk Industries Ltd, Law’s secret little company? Where does it fit into the picture? Why is it not mentioned on his Linkedin page? Why is he ‘James Law’ with Companies House for Chocolate Milk Industries, but ‘James Douglas Law’ for all the other companies?

And another thing, Chocolate Milk Industries was launched November 2023, when his Linkedin profile says he was taking a “career break“. It’s almost as if nobody’s supposed to know about this company.

Which wouldn’t surprise me, for in the alternative universe of ‘environmentalism’ nothing is as it seems. And there’s always someone coining it from activities we’re told are driven by the noblest and most altruistic of motives.

That’s because ‘environmentalism’ of the kind we know in Wales is a colonialist scam.

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© Royston Jones 2026

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‘Environmentalism’ In Wales, A New Colonialism

On By JacIn Climate, Colonialism, Environmentalism, Globalism, Renewables, World Economic Forum, WWF31 Comments

This starts with a very local story that’s been bubbling away for some time. But sometimes a local story can serve to illustrate a much wider issue. And that, I believe, is the case here.

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BACKGROUND

In essence, a local family wants a hydroelectric scheme on their land. The plan submitted to Eryri planners July 17, 2024, and approved (with conditions) July 15, 2026.

Warning: there may have been some modifications since the original plan shown here

It’s fairly close to the B4391. The road that runs off the (Bala – Trawsfynydd) A4212 to Llan Ffestiniog. The OS map below will give a better idea of the area, and shows clearly ‘Rhaeadr y Cwm’, where Afon Cynfal runs down the gorge.

The picture below, from Google Maps – but 8 years old, I’m afraid – shows the gorge and the waterfall from the B4391.

The reason I’m writing about it now is because it’s still in the news, and protesters are still protesting. As I was reminded by an article in last week’s issue of the Cambrian News. Reproduced for you below.

The article reports that those who’ve been given planning permission are three brothers from a local farming family: Dafydd Elis, Elis Dafydd and Moi Dafydd. With roots in the area. The objectors? Well . . .

The first objector mentioned is ‘Pat Thynne’, who I assume is Patricia Thynne. And I’m guessing she hasn’t lived long at Cwm farm, which was on the market 13 years ago for £650,000.

I believe that until about 10 years ago she was living in Cumbria, in a property sold for £475,000. As might be expected, Ms Thynne is involved with Cymdeithas Eryri (the Snowdonia Society); a well intentioned outfit that unfortunately attracts too many who’ve moved to the area and want to dictate to those who’ve always lived there.

I’ll return to Cymdeithas Eryri later.

Another protester mentioned is “Joe Hope, farmer and ecologist from Machynlleth“. Which means that Joe is certainly not local. And when I think, ‘Welsh farmers’, I’m more likely to think of the three brothers than I am to think of Joe Hope.

But Joe’s objection takes it all to a new level, invoking the Mabinogion, no less.

I came to understand how it was part of a mythic landscape; the Cynfal and Llyn Morwynion are settings for the Mabinogion, where magical hero Llew Llaw Gyffes is married to and betrayed by Blodeuwedd, a bride conjured up from flowers.

Go for it, Joe!

Truth is, most objections were from outside the area through an e-action webpage set up by the Snowdonia Society, Save Our Rivers, the North Wales Wildlife Trust and Buglife.

Ffestiniog Town Council also objected – after previously supporting the project. The council chair is Rory Francis who, until March this year, was Director of Cymdeithas Eryri. It’s all here on his Linkedin profile.

Curiously, perhaps, on a council that should have 16 members, there are 7 vacancies.

What locals everywhere do object to is 800ft-tall wind turbines, and mile after mile of big, ugly pylons. And yet, this is where so many ‘environmentalists’ seem to fall silent. Or are openly supportive.

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GLOBALISM AND ‘ENVIRONMENTALISM’

We’ve been living with the climate scam for a long time now. It’s used to influence our behaviour; to deindustrialise the West through net zero, carbon capture and other nonsense; increase our bills; and make lots of money for big corporations.

Those driving this agenda need plausible allies, people and organisations that might get away with pretending they have altruistic motives. And this is where ‘environmentalists’ enter the picture.

Calls to make sacrifices to ‘save the planet’ will be more persuasive when they come from a sincere but brainwashed youngster like the Swedish doom goblin than if they came direct from Larry Fink of BlackRock and the World Economic Forum.

Though I’m not sure how many are still listening to Greta Thunberg since she finally went off the rails. Here’s a recent photo taken, it’s claimed, at a performance by rappers Kneecap in West Belfast. There she is with balaclava and keffiyeh.

She’s beginning to look as unwell as many have always thought she was. But not so long ago she was addressing the United Nations, and dictating to heads of state. Everybody wanted to be photographed with her.

Now she’s  a raging anti-Semite, supporting a corrupted form of Irish Republicanism that still wants the Brits out – but the rest of the world allowed in.

A carnival of grotesques. Just look at those eyes!

I don’t want you to think I’m picking on Greta, but no one better exemplifies the deception I’m describing. Converted or compromised politicians can pretend they’ve been moved by a sweet little Swedish girl rather than admit to having been browbeaten by the aforementioned Mr Fink and his cadre.

Here in Wales, ‘environmental concerns’ too often work against the interests of the native Welsh. For example, to listen to many environmentalists, all the pollution in our waterways is the fault of farmers, and cow farts will be the end of us all.

These lies of course tie in with the Globalists’ war on farming. Not because they want to improve our diet, or have better water quality, but because they want to control the food supply, and through that, control us.

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LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS AND INITIATIVES

Having realised that Welsh people aren’t happy with wind farms and solar arrays proliferating, and knowing where the profits go, the Welsh political class is finally talking about ‘local benefits’.

In October 2023 the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ launched Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru (Green Electricity Wales).

Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru’s remit from Welsh Government, is to develop and deliver renewable energy projects, starting on the Welsh public estate, with the best possible long-term economic and social benefits for the people of Wales.

In addition, we have Ynni Cymunedol Cymru (Community Energy Wales), where we find that doyenne of all things loony and left, former leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood, acting as secretary. Possibly commissar.

Wolfie Smith would be so proud –“Power to the people!”

There seem to be plenty of similarly-minded individuals among the directors, but I’m not sure what they actually do. I think they just offer advice. (There’s a lot of that goes on in Wales.)

But the real benefit from employing this lot is their political influence in Corruption Bay. Which in turn means funding . . . for the favoured ones. And all too often these seem to be new to Wales. When we turn to ‘local partnerships’, and ‘community involvement’ we find them.

Imagine calling a badly-publicised public meeting, at an awkward time for most people, but making sure your people are there and dominate the meeting. Then you go away and pretend that your people represent the views and wishes of the whole community.

(Just like Communist Party takeovers of union branches I recall from my youth.)

Or maybe you don’t even bother with the charade of a meeting. Groups just emerge.

An example might be Awel Aman Tawe. Which was quick off the mark in 2000, just a year after the first sitting of our then Assembly. Started by people with tenuous links to the valleys north and west of Swansea, but who’d seen an opening.

After 26 years is Awel Aman Tawe commercially viable? Perhaps not. The company has seven outstanding charges shown on its Companies House entry, going back to 2006.

These loans, etc came from: Neath Port Talbot council (3). The Wales Council for Voluntary Action, a conduit for ‘Welsh Government’ funding (2). The National Lottery, which only seems to fund projects approved of by the lanyard-wearing classes (1). With one from the Co-operative Bank.

But Awel Aman Tawe certainly has political connections.

For example, a Member of the linked Awel Coop is Jenny Rathbone, Labour MS for Cardiff Central until May. But more importantly, she sat on the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.

And I shouldn’t have to remind you that her husband John Uden sits on Bute Energy’s Welsh Advisory Board.

Most ‘community projects’ rely on public funding. Justified by high energy costs. The consequence of the climate scam demanding highly subsidised but unreliable ‘renewables’. Supported by the politicians doling out the public funding.

What a system! With an obvious solution.

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WATER

Earlier I promised a return to the Snowdonia Society, and here it is.

Last week I was sent a curious document – an invitation, I suppose – to an event planned for Cardiff in October: ‘How Designated Landscapes Can Help Solve the Water Crisis’. Here it is.

There are a few things I’m struggling to make sense of.

First, the invite was sent out by Graeme Cotterill, Vice Chair, Alliance for Welsh Designated Landscapes. (Heard of it?) Second, it was relayed by the Snowdonia Society. Third, it specifically mentions the “Cambrian Mountains“, or Yr Elenydd.

I can answer the first two questions by telling you Cotterill’s day job is Director of the Snowdonia Society – he took over from Rory Francis! Before that, for over 13 years, he was at North Wales Wildlife Trust – which also objected to the hydro project!

Such coincidences!

As for why Yr Elenydd got a mention, that remains a mystery. For Designated Landscapes are National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. As you can see from the map below, Yr Elenydd, marked with a cross, is neither.

But as I’ve explained many times, this beautiful wilderness is now under attack; coveted by wind farm bandits and ‘environmentalists’ of the rewilder genus.

But how do we explain the alleged “water crisis” which seems to be the justification for this gathering? Certainly, Yr Elenydd is the source of the Teifi, which runs to the sea at Cardigan. And the Tywi, which meets the sea south of Carmarthen. Also, Llyn Brianne reservoir supplying Swansea; and the Elan reservoirs serving Birmingham.

But why would these interest the Alliance for Welsh Designated Landscapes and the Snowdonia Society? Maybe looking at the speakers might give a clue.

Gail Davies-Walsh is described by the ‘Welsh Government’ as “a transformative leader in Welsh environmental protection“. She’s CEO of Afonydd Cymru (Wales’ Rivers).

She worked for some years for Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water. Some believe that since leaving DCWW her role has been to deflect criticism from its woeful performance and pollution record.

Next up is Tom Johnstone founder of We Are Nature Based CIC. I’d never heard of this lot. But then, it’s almost impossible to keep up with ‘environmental’ groups. How many are there?

This outfit was formed just over two years ago and is based in Rhos-on-Sea. Which is a long way from Yr Elenydd, and from the Wye, which is mentioned on the website, and even in the accounts.

Another director of We Are Nature Based is Thomas Rickard, who lives in Devon. The third director is Bethany Ward. A director of Drosi Bikes CIC of Llangollen.

The third billed speaker is Adam Taylor. “Protected Areas Committee chair, Flood Risk Management Committee member, NRW / board member, Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority.” A busy boy!

He began his career with the Essex Wildlife Trust. Then it was the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. Before crossing the border in November 2019 to become CEO of the Gwent Wildlife Trust. All listed here.

None of them know anything about Yr Elenydd.

But they belong to an ever-expanding network of overlapping and interlinked ‘environmental’ groups. There might soon be 500 of these groups – but perhaps no more than 200 people actually involved.

But with more influence over the political system and economic priorities of Wales than its three million people. Democracy, innit!

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HERE’S HOW IT OPERATES

Here I’ll address the ‘circular’ relationship the ‘environmental’ lobby has with the ‘Welsh Government and various bodies. A lobby publicly funded to find that Wales is “nature depleted“, etc, which then allows Corruption Bay to claim it has been “advised“, or “after consultations“, to double down on the anti-farming and other agendas.

From the WWF website

Commissioning reports was an essential part of how Labour ran Wales for 27 years. But it was never confined to the environment, or to farming. And it caused chaos.

A report into a fire service found “toxic masculinity“, “misogyny“, “racism“, even “banter” – to the horror of the pearl-clutchers who made the finding. This was used to impose a diversity agenda.

The South Wales Fire and Rescue Service was even condemned for not taking the knee for George Floyd! The clip below is in the report produced by Judge Fenella Morris.

The current shambles at the Welsh Rugby Union can be traced back to the WRU deciding that ‘trans women’ (i.e. biological males) should not play in women’s rugby. This outraged certain Labour politicians.

And so, in January 2023, the ‘Welsh Government’ announced that Sport Wales – which it sponsors and funds – had stepped in to “advise” the WRU. Then political appointees – who know little about Wales or rugby – were put in charge of the WRU to push a ‘diversity’ agenda.

And that’s why Welsh rugby is going down the tubes. With Jiffy calling on them all to go. He’s not the only one.

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AND FINALLY

In Wales, there’s a colonialist aspect to renewables and ‘saving the planet’. Foreign investors and corporations own all the projects. Most of the activists, lobbyists, and spokespersons in the supporting ‘environmental’ movement come from outside of Wales. Some don’t even live in Wales.

They all want to dictate to us. Ride roughshod over us. And exploit our homeland.

And some of the attitudes are quite horrifying. After ‘moving to the country’ Tarquin and Helena are appalled that some hairy-arsed hill farmer, who might struggle with the English language – owns hundreds of acres!

Land that they could be ‘saving’. (With someone else’s money, of course.) Land that’ll give them a platform from which to gesture away to their heart’s content.

The hydro scheme we began with should be supported. And while we obviously don’t have the hydro resources of Norway or Switzerland, even Scotland, there’s nowhere in Wales that’s far from a fast-flowing stream. And we get the rain to keep them flowing.

As for the October event in Cardiff, I’m still not sure what it’s about. But given who’s involved, I predict with certainty that something is being hatched that will see our country exploited for the benefit and profit of others.

Because the bottom line is that ‘environmentalism’ is just a smaller scam serving the bigger climate scam. ‘Environmentalism’ exists to advance the interests of banks, asset managers, and corporations.

Which is why we find ‘environmentalists’ opposing a genuinely local renewable energy project like Nant Cynfal. That this initiative comes from farmers sitting on land that could be making money for somebody else is perhaps another factor.

‘Environmentalists’ are hypocrites. Damaging Wales and Welsh interests to serve some spiv on Wall Street, others in the City of London, or shy buggers hiding behind addresses on distant, sun-blest isles.

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A Property Empire II

On By JacIn Colonialism, Globalism, Housing, Housing Associations17 Comments

The title is explained by the fact that in December 2022 I put out a piece titled A Property Empire. (I bet you’d guessed that!) Which makes this is, unashamedly, a follow-up.

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BACKGROUND

That first piece was about a Rhyl property developer named Christopher Paul Walsh, and his company Walsh Investment Properties Ltd. I only took an interest after reading that someone had bought the hamlet of Aberllefenni, just up Afon Dulas from Corris Isaf.

When I first wrote about the company, it had taken out some 30 loans with various lenders, few of which you’d recognise. That figure is now up to a hundred. But there are other Walsh companies, and we’re starting with one of them.

It’s EMW Developments Ltd, and a project in Gronant, Flintshire, east of Prestatyn. To be specific, the Institute building and land in front of it, donated many years ago by Liverpool shipowner and local boy made good, Richard Hughes.

This report from February 2024 says the site is to be converted into “apartments and townhouses“, though it doesn’t make clear whether this involves using, or perhaps demolishing, the Institute itself.

The land in front of the building had been used by locals for parking. As shown in this Google Earth shot from April 2025. It may originally have been a bowling green.

Here’s the plan I found on the Flintshire planning website. You’ll see that the Institute building (green) is to be apartments, with much of the locals’ car park turned into town houses and parking spaces.

Before getting deeper into the Walsh saga, I’d like to tarry awhile in Gronant because, not far away, is another derelict building, the old youth club, on Pentre Lane. Which was also sold recently.

The article I’ve linked to can’t tell us the buyers, so I consulted the Land Registry. Where I learnt that it’s now owned by Golden Acre Developments Ltd, of Leeds. A company formed just a year ago, probably to buy Gronant Youth Club.

So let’s see who’s involved.

One is a Latvian living in Cambuslang, Glasgow, named Arturs Aleksejevs; the other a UK citizen named Robert(s) Opincans, who seems to have been educated in the UK, but whose surname is Latvian.

Last October Opincans started a company called Opincans Retrofit Ltd, using as its address the same Leeds flat as Golden Acre Developments. Opincans Linkedin file suggests he knows something about buildings and building work, but it’s not clear what Aleksejevs brings to the table.

For example, his Linkedin profile (probably lapsed) says he’s managing director at a company called Capsule Systems Ltd – but this outfit was put out of its misery in January 2022. And yet, despite never showing any money passing through the books this company still issued over 1.7 million shares.

How do we explain this? Misplaced optimism might be a generous interpretation. Anyway, I did a quick check on the listed shareholders.

The only Vitalii Druzhinin I found outside the Baltic states lives in New Zealand. Though I did find a few Russians with that surname mentioned on the Offshore Leaks Database. Also, an Alexander Druzhinin with a London address.

Vjaceslavs Knazevs might be in the no-questions-asked mortgage business.

Kevin Parker is too common a name to trace.

And with Vitalijs Kuznerovs I drew a blank.

Now back to Gronant Institute.

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WHO’S PUTTING UP THE MOOLAH?

Turning first to the Land Registry title document. Where we see that the owner of Gronant Institute is Walsh Investment Properties Ltd, with EMW Developments Ltd probably doing the work.

Scrolling to the bottom tells us the money to buy the Institute was put up by Livestock (UK) Ltd in December 2022. Companies House says the accounts for this outfit are long overdue, and there’s an active proposal to strike off this company. A fate it’s escaped a few times in recent years.

Yet the most recent (unaudited) accounts filed by Livestock (UK) Ltd report assets of over nine million pounds . . . but this is wiped out by (unnamed) creditors owed slightly more.

Livestock (UK) Ltd is run by the Duffell family of Cheshire. Walsh has been dealing with this family for a number of years.

We can safely assume that Livestock (UK) Ltd put up the money to buy the Stiwt. And the amount loaned was £1.2m over 24 months at the rate of 14% per annum. I know that from this document filed with Companies House.

Further loans have been taken out for the project – now named Richard Hughes Close – by Walsh Investment Properties Ltd. (Scroll down.) These loans are for the individual plots. And they’re all Buy-to-Let mortgages, from Quantum Mortgages Ltd.

So, as things stand . . . Walsh owes £2.4m, plus interest, to Livestock (UK) Ltd, and a few million more to Quantum Mortgages. He will then, presumably, own the rental properties at Richard Hughes Close.

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THE QUANTUM CONNECTION

As you might have guessed, I looked into Quantum Mortgages, tracing back the ownership to source. Quantum itself was founded as recently as September 2021 by Jason Christopher Neale.

AI tells us Quantum manages funds from AB CarVal, “an established global alternative investment manager and part of AllianceBernstein’s Private Alternatives business“.

“AllianceBernstein is primarily owned by Equitable Holdings, which holds a majority ownership stake of roughly 68% in the firm“.

Equitable Holdings entered a merger earlier this year with Corebridge Financial, with Corebridge holding 51%. The major shareholders in Corebridge are given as Nippon Life Insurance Company, Blackstone (Argon Holdco LLC), and American International Group (AIG). Other big shareholders are Vanguard and BlackRock.

(Worth remembering that BlackRock split from Blackstone in 1994 under the leadership of a man with his own key to No 10 – Larry Fink!)

So we’re dealing with foreign investment houses and asset managers funding Welsh developers with Buy-to-Let mortgages.

The first I can find was in November 2020, when Walsh took out a loan with Cynwyd Enterprises Ltd, another Duffell company, to buy the Grosvenor Social Club in Shotton. (£300,000 over 24 months.)

It was demolished for housing. Reported here in August 2022. The Cynwyd loan was cleared in December 2023, then Walsh took out a series of Buy-to-Let loans with Quantum for the individual properties.

The Shotton project circled

Cynwyd Enterprises is another company with substantial assets . . . outweighed by unidentified ‘creditors’.

Another early involvement was for Bron Gwalia 7 Mountain Road, Conwy. This Google Maps capture from October 2022 suggests a substantial property containing individual flats. And EMW clearly at work.

The money to buy the building, late in 2021, came from one of the Duffells. With a loan of £205,000 over 24 months. Next, in February 2023, a Buy-to-Let mortgage was taken out with Quantum. Then, the loan was repaid in November 2024. Finally, the flats were, presumably, rented.

Just before the Gronant loans Quantum made over a dozen loans for Aberllefenni.

So we have three instances where the initial funding, to buy the property, came from the Duffell family – Shotton, Conwy, and Gronant – with Christopher Walsh then taking out Buy-to-Let mortgages with Quantum. And plenty of other recent loans from Quantum, such as the dozen or more at Aberllefenni.

But let’s focus on Gronant again, for things have taken a disturbing turn.

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LATEST NEWS

Latest news is that a deal has been done for the Gronant properties with Clearsprings, which provides accommodation for migrants; often unvetted, illegal migrants.

The Clearsprings Ready Homes website tells us:

As a provider of accommodation services to the Home Office since 2000, our contracts cover London, the South of England and Wales.

But housing ‘migrants’ is not devolved, so does Clearsprings have an  arrangement, or an understanding, with the so-called ‘Welsh Government’?

And where does Flintshire County Council fit into the picture? For this press release(?) mentions February 2024, the month the Council approved planning permission for Gronant Institute.

This information was released that month, or very soon after, according to Wayback. Does it suggest the Council has known about the plan to house ‘refugees’ at the Institute for over two years?

Whatever the answer, this is a depressing story on a number of levels.

First, it reminds us the housing market is screwed. Young people, who should be setting up home and starting families, find it difficult to buy a place of their own. And renting becomes more difficult as leftist politicians legislate private landlords out of the equation, with social housing providers giving priority to just about everyone ahead of locals.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street are moving into the UK private housing market. Here’s a company called Apollo Global Management. Who do you think is a major investor in Apollo? Go on, have a guess . . . Clue – it rhymes with CockSock!)

One reason for US investors switching their attention to the UK is President Trump’s desire to stop them buying up single-family homes in the USA. (But of course leftists suffering from TDS will fight this.) We need this legislation in the UK.

And it’s no better in the ‘social housing’ sector. Yes, housing associations have stocks of rented accommodation – virtually all of it inherited from local authorities. But they’re not building many for rent anymore.

Instead they’re concentrating on ‘affordable’ housing for sale, or leasing to people who’d prefer to buy. But it’s sadly beyond the vocabulary of anyone working for a housing association, or indeed a civil servant or politician, to explain what ‘affordable’ means.

And who’s funding housing associations now? (Apart from the ‘Welsh Government’.)

Flicking through the documentation on the FCA website one name that turns up regularly linked to Welsh housing associations is M&G Investments. Here are the major shareholders:

Daiichi is of course Japanese. Kingdom Holding is owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. And there again we see BlackRock and Vanguard. (Don’t be fooled by the Union flag alongside BlackRock.)

UPDATE 12.08.2026: It seems the ‘migrants’ have arrived!

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CONCLUSION

Remember the days when an established family firm built houses in your area, and you went along to the building society where you’d been saving, to discuss a mortgage to buy one of those houses?

Now you don’t have a clue who you’re dealing with. And you’re not supposed to ask.

Because it’s not about you. It’s not about providing decent homes for people like you. The housing market in the modern era is all about profits for big corporations you’ve never heard of. With their enablers also getting their cut.

That’s what’s happening in Gronant. And everywhere else.

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Is Plaid Cymru Deaf To The Drone Of War?

On By JacIn Colonialism, Plaid Cymru, Welsh Government30 Comments

This piece is about what can only be described as the militarisation of the west coast of Wales. It takes us from within sight of Harlech Castle to where you can hear the bells of St. David’s Cathedral.

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BACKGROUND, LLANBEDR

I’ve written a few times about Llanbedr over the years after receiving information from locals wondering what the hell is going on there. Naturally, I did some digging. So it’s worth looking at what’s happened over the past six years or so, what was promised, and how it all might impact on the wider area.

Let’s start by telling you the airfield is owned by the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’. That’s what I learnt when I downloaded the Land Registry title document in February 2022. I went back to the LR a few days ago and there’s been no change.

The transfer or purchase was done in August 2006. Here’s the LR title doc.

Next, it was leased to Llanbedr Airfield Estates LLP, with the help of two loans delivered in June 2012. One from The Secretary of State for Defence, the other from ‘The Welsh Ministers’.

This company was renamed Snowdonia Aerospace LLP in August 2015. Among the directors we find Lee John Paul and his wife Gillian.

Then a second lease was taken out on April 1 2020, with a different title number, and this time the lease was in the name of Snowdonia Aerospace Estates LLP. Here again we find Mr and Mrs Paul.

UPDATE: I should have remembered that this second lease is in fact a 30-year sub-lease. Granted by the leaseholder to himself. I explained it back in December 2023 in Come Fly With Me . . . But Not From Llanbedr.

This company was formed in October 2019, which suggests it was set up specifically for the new lease. But why two leases? Were there material changes?

The money for this second lease seems to have come from Compass Point Estates LLP (the Pauls again), and the two loans involved were cleared in June this year. So let’s look a little more closely at Compass Points Estates LLP.

The first thing I noticed was the name. Because Compass Accountants is the firm that works for most if not all of Lee Paul’s companies.

Something else worth noting is that in addition to Mr and Mrs Paul the only designated member of Compass Point Estates is Ocean Park Investments Ltd. The directors here are Lee John Paul and Inspired By Ltd. With the latter also acting as company secretary and controlling interest.

The only directors of Inspired By Ltd are Lee and Gillian Paul. Though in these times of economic uncertainty it’s nice to report a company on the up. For in the three years between 2022 and 2025 fixed assets increased by over six million pounds.

What can account for this? I might have an explanation later. But we can safely assume that, while others have come and gone in the Llanbedr saga, and no matter what company and LLP names pop up, the one constant is Lee John Paul.

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AT LLANBEDR AND ELSEWHERE

Let’s start in November last year with an announcement from European Security & Defence that reads: “Anduril UK launches new test site in northwest Wales“. The unnamed site is of course Llanbedr.

Anduril UK announced on 11 November 2025 the launch of a new test site in Wales.

The site is being used to test “a suite of AI-powered products for UK military use, including reconnaissance, command-and-control, and targeting capabilities”, the company stated, adding that “several of these sovereign capabilities are actively flying in the Welsh countryside while they are evaluated by Anduril engineers”.

So who or what is Anduril? Well, here’s the Anduril website. It’s an arms company closely associated with the US military establishment. Formed as recently as 2017, and specialising in drones.

And to judge by the quote above, these drones were already “flying in the Welsh countryside” in November 2025. Who knew? Because I don’t recall any media coverage, nor hearing anything from politicians.

A report from July 24 tells that Anduril is expanding fast.

Though I’m reliably informed that: “Anduril Industries is not directly ‘approved’ as an entity by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), but the company actively navigates UK airspace regulations through partnerships with certified specialists“.

So we have a site owned by the ‘Welsh Government’, leased to Lee John Paul, that would appear to be a base for a US company testing drones for the UK military.

And yet, the lease agreement expressly forbids Llanbedr airfield being used “to develop drones for military purposes“. But this is exactly what’s happening there now.

The lease agreement also stipulates the airfield must be open to commercial and general aviation. Which I take to mean private planes. Is this still the case? I doubt it.

And Llanbedr airfield must benefit the local economy. How many locals does it employ?

An AI response I was sent.

In fact, it’s all being done with little regard for the locals. Here’s a letter dated July 1 from Lee John Paul to Cyngor Cymuned Llanbedr (Community Council) addressing complaints about the activities currently being carried out. Presumably for Anduril.

In this open letter he promises that in future there’ll be no “engine start-ups and departures” before 7 am Monday to Friday. Which means locals must have been subjected to noise from the airfield very early in the morning. (Or at night?) And you don’t need to be a sluggabed to think 7 am is still a bit early.

Paul also promises the drones will fly over the sea a little more in future. Which must mean that heavy military drones have been flying across land. Are they armed? Even if they’re not armed, a crashing drone is very, very dangerous. And Llanbedr’s record is not inspiring.

There was a drone crash there about a year ago. The Windracers Ultra Mk II involved can – depending on payload – weigh up to 670 kg. That ploughing into the bar of the Queen Vic would have been the ultimate last orders for many members of the drinking classes!

And there was an earlier mishap in September 2024.

One final thought on Llanbedr. Those familiar with the area will know that the main coast road hits a bottleneck here, partly due to a narrow stone bridge. A bypass was promised, but then cancelled late in 2021 by the ‘Welsh Government to meet “net-zero carbon targets“.

A substitute arrangement has since been mooted, but it might be worth remembering that the original bypass planned would have gone to the west of the village – towards the airfield.

Just a thought.

Let me return now to the uptick in fortunes for Inspired By Ltd, which I alluded to earlier. If we go to the two charges held against this company by Lloyds Bank we see reference to Brawdy, the former Fleet Air Arm base in Pembrokeshire.

You won’t be surprised to learn there have also been developments at Brawdy. Some of you may already be aware of them. Maybe you’ve been protesting.

The latest news is that the plan to install 20 metre high ‘deep space’ radar dishes has now been called in by the ‘Welsh Government’.

Lee John Paul was originally involved with Brawdy through a company called Brawdy Business Park Ltd, which was Dissolved in April 2013. Leaving behind a number of unpaid loans, including one from the Welsh Development Agency.

More recently – as you’ve read above – a loan naming Brawdy has been taken out by Paul’s company Inspired By Ltd. There may be other companies involved, Paul has quite a number.

It could well be that the increase in assets filed by Inspired By Ltd can be explained by a deal Paul struck with those who clearly have big plans for Brawdy. Or maybe Llanbedr.

Moving up the coast we find, just north of Aberteifi, the airfield at Aberporth, which has for some time been used for drone testing, with quite a few mishaps there as well. Such as the one that crashed too near a school for comfort.

Aberporth was taken over about a year ago by Portuguese outfit Tekever. (Here’s the company website.) And as with Llanbedr, “It’s not clear at the moment whether General Aviation access will continue“. Suggesting it’ll be restricted to military use.

UPDATE: 06.08.2026: Here’s what the latest Tekever accounts tell us:

So there’ll be jobs in England, while we have to put up with the noise and the danger. Nothing changes.

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CONCLUSIONS AND THOUGHTS

It would appear that these three facilities on our west coast are being turned over entirely to the testing of military drones and associated technology. This will almost certainly mean no access for other users, and no jobs for locals.

All on the west coast, eh – are we being threatened from Ireland? My wife and I had visitors from County Galway on Sunday and they showed no sign of hostile intent. But then, those Irish smiles can beguile.

The reasonable conclusion to draw is that this increase in drone testing is being done to drag out the war in Ukraine, and to keep the Kokehead Klown of Kiev afloat for a bit longer – with more deaths – before he makes the territorial concessions he and everyone else knows he’ll have to make.

From another angle, and a more domestic viewpoint, there’s an interesting timeline involved. For the developments at Llanbedr, Brawdy and Aberporth, while external in origin, seem to have been announced, or took place, when the Labour administration in Corruption Bay was in its final tailspin.

With everybody knowing Labour was going to lose this May’s Senedd elections.

Were these developments some kind of poisoned chalice for Plaid Cymru? They certainly pose a big, big problem for that party.

Not least because Plaid Cymru is, fundamentally and historically, a pacifist party. To explain what I mean, and seeing as we’re dealing with military installations on the west side of the country, let’s remember what happened at Penyberth, on Llŷn, in 1936.

When three Plaid Cymru luminaries, including party president (and World War One veteran) Saunders Lewis, made a symbolic attack on an RAF bombing school.

Plaid Cymru remains a pacifist party. So how it responds to the developments at Llanbedr, Brawdy and Aberporth, will be interesting. We see that the new Plaid government has called in the plans for Brawdy, but of course it doesn’t own that site.

But it does own Llanbedr.

My fear is that these three sites will become some kind of ‘sovereign territory’, beyond the control of any level of government within Wales. Employing no locals, closed to private aviation, contributing little or nothing to the economies of the areas around them, and even putting local lives at risk.

Which is why the Plaid Cymru ‘Welsh Government’ needs to make its position clear, as a matter of urgency. And I’m not sure it can wait until they they get back from their summer hols in mid September.

To not do so – especially if that inaction is on the orders of the UK government – will be another reminder that devolution is a sham.

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‘For Wales, See Will Hayward’

On By JacIn Corruption Bay, Welsh Media44 Comments

Let me begin by saying that I have nothing personal against Will Hayward, never met the boy. But I can’t help wondering why this graduate of Cardiff University – where else? – is accepted as an expert on a country he ‘knows’ only from brief forays out of Cardiff.

And of course he writes for the Guardian. A bit like someone from Turkmenistan who never leaves London or the circles of the metropolitan elite being accepted as an expert on England. In Turkmenistan.

But the spur for this piece is something Will put out on Sunday. In it he claimed the real immigration problem for Wales is not arrivals from overseas, but retirees from England. Though he’s keen to say:

Before we go any further we need to be very clear, this is not about blaming older people or in any way suggesting that people in other parts of the UK don’t have every right to retire wherever they like.

In a sense, he’s right, but the article falls short of giving the full picture. Partly due to ignoring certain factors operating in Wales, and also the knock-on effects in Wales of changes happening outside.

Will Hayward’s article was about people moving into Wales, and falling birthrates, so I’ll take the opportunity to fill out the picture.

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IMMIGRATION TO WALES

For the purposes of this piece I’ll break immigration down into a few categories.

RETIREES: Will is right in saying that Wales attracts retirees from England, with some areas getting more than others. Not for nothing was the north coast long ago dubbed the Costa Geriatrica.

But even in Conwy, the worst-affected area, only 15.8% of those moving in are retirees. (In Cardiff it’s just 2.8%.) Clearly there are other factors at play. So let’s look at them.

GOOD-LIFERS: Here I’m referring to those who’ve “moved to the country“, from English towns and cities, for a better quality of life or some such. Whether true or not, that’s often the reason given.

BUSINESS BUYERS: This category covers those who’ve bought existing businesses or moved here with capital to start their own. This trend has increased exponentially with the advent of the internet and businesses being sold online.

STUDENTS: This could be students who remain in Wales after graduating. Like Will. Or those who stay in the area around the institutions from which they did not graduate. For want of a better term, the drop-outs.

JOB TAKERS: What it says on the tin. And with the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ insisting that 20% of its future recruits must come from minorities – with Wales’s BAME percentage at just 5 or 6% – there’ll be thousands more in future.

This anti-white discrimination has been engineered by pressure groups that profess to believe the countryside is racist, dogs should be banned, and the Welsh cake needs to be decolonised. (I’ve been thrown out of a number of caffs for demanding decolonised Welsh cakes.)

SOCIAL HOUSING TRANSFERS: Social housing providers must give priority to certain categories of applicants. This results in people with no connection to any part of Wales being allocated social housing ahead of locals.

‘WHITE FLIGHT’: Those who’ve moved from England’s increasingly ‘diverse’ and unsafe towns and cities to live in safer areas. Will and his friends might call such people racists. But they’re not. I know many of them, almost all are decent people who wanted something better for themselves and their families.

But if that rationale of racism is accepted, then it must apply to those who form their own enclaves in England’s towns and cities, to live amongst people like themselves. And in some cases create no-go areas for those outside the group.

The point to be made here is that immigration to England – legal and illegal – has a knock-on effect in Wales. To link retirees with ‘asylum seekers’ and use that to argue the latter category has no effect on Wales is wrong.

But seeing as we’re talking about people moving from England . . .

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FALLING BIRTHRATES AND THE HOUSING ISSUE

A linked thread in Will Hayward’s piece about retirees was the ageing population and the falling birthrate. Valid points. But again, taking them in isolation, and linking the latter with the former to the exclusion of other factors, is simplistic.

Predictably, an ageing population and a falling birthrate is used to justify overseas immigration! Now where have we heard that before?

Unless people in Wales start procreating a lot quicker, we are going to need those overseas immigrants, especially given the difficulties we currently have in attracting people to the social care profession.

A major issue, for decades, has been the inability of many local people in rural areas, young Welsh people, to buy a home in their communities. And this phenomenon is influenced by all the factors I mentioned in the previous section.

Despite this, the easy target is holiday homes. Fair enough. But if holiday homes is not the sole cause of the problem then penalising them cannot solve the problem.

In fact, focusing solely on holiday homes has more than a whiff of ‘tax the rich’ to it.

Hayward’s article spotlighted the 65+ age group. These are his ‘retirees’. But people can retire as young as 50 nowadays, certainly 55. And these are not going to move into The Fading Memories Retirement Home. They’re going to buy a place of their own.

But they’re unlikely to have children helping keep the village school open. And well-heeled early retirees are also unlikely to be looking for jobs in the “social care profession“.

With all the various pressures on local housing stocks, private and social, many young people find it difficult if not impossible to find somewhere to live. So they move out of the area. Maybe out of Wales altogether.

This is one explanation for the falling birthrate. And another reason for the lack of recruits for the “social care profession”

Even those who stay, and marry, might not have children if they have to live with parents. Those who do marry, buy a house, and even with husband and wife working in order to pay the mortgage, are less likely to have children.

The housing problems in rural Wales, as they affect young locals, could be viewed as a form of birth control. If not in intent, then certainly in effect. This obviously helps explain the falling birthrate. And closing village schools.

Which means it’s wrong to pile in on retirees in the 65+ age bracket. Poor dabs!

But these facts throw up a solution that Will Haywood and his mates will reject. Ironically, it’s one where Will’s friends line up with Reform and others.

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THE FAILURE OF DEVOLUTION

If Wales is to solve the problems of too many elderly retirees and a falling birthrate, then we must accept that these are parts of a multi-faceted problem affecting, but not confined to, rural Wales.

With the losers every time being the indigenous Welsh. Which then suggests we need to consider differentiating between those posing the threat, and its victims, in order to protect and promote the interests of the latter.

Which can only mean some form of preferential treatment for locals.

But those on the Unionist right will object, saying that we’re all citizens of the UK and must be treated equally.

While Will and his confreres will be uncomfortable with the idea because the bigger agenda to which they’ve aligned frowns on nations and national identity, certainly for white people. They call it ‘ethno nationalism’.

They can call it what they like. I’m Welsh, this is my country, and that’s the way it is.

For those with whom Will associates, ‘Wales’ is just a platform from which to lecture us, and an administrative unit within which they can give free rein to their pet lunacies. Like decolonised Welsh cakes.

But nationhood? Go wash your mouth out with WEF-approved carbolic!

Getting back to falling birthrates and young people leaving means we can’t ignore economic factors. Because away from the rural areas we see falling birthrates in the Valleys and Swansea Bay, where there’s little retirement from England influencing the picture. (Apart perhaps from Gower.)

The only areas with more births than deaths are Cardiff and Newport. But these are growing cities, with healthy economies, reasonable wages, affordable housing, and few retirees moving in. Though migrants from outside of Europe will also contribute to their birthrates.

We must also factor in jobs being concentrated on the south east coast, which draws in young people from other areas of the country. This of course links with the problems discussed earlier, and exposes a major failing of devolution.

The picture below provides an insight into the workings of both devolution and Corruption Bay. (Will Hayward is on the far side in the dark blue shirt.)

It was taken at a soiree organised by PR/lobbying firm Cadno. Which acts as a link between clients wanting to do business in Wales and politicians and decision-makers who can help their dreams come true.

Made easier by the fact that ‘banana republic’ Wales has no register of lobbyists.

As George Carlin used to say: “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it“.

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CONCLUSION

Will Hayward may be a man born out of his time. I say that because I think Will should have been an old-style correspondent, sending amusing skits from far-flung corners of the empire back to London publications.

You think I’m being unfair? Just read this, from December 2024, when Will bravely ventured into the uncharted wastes of the Llynfi Valley. (Maesteg, to be exact.)

Here’s his profile of the local matrons:

They pounced with questions from all sides. “Where you from?”, “Who’s your mam?”, “Do you have a girlfriend?” Google, Facebook and Apple have nothing on the old women of the Llynfi valley for data harvesting.

“Who’s your mam?” FFS! (I was surprised not to read, ‘look you, indeed to goodness’.)

Rarely, in the history of journalism, has a single paragraph hosted such an epic tussle between cliche and stereotype.

Will Hayward moves in a certain ‘progressive’ milieu; he picks up tittle-tattle, or he’s fed information, which he then knocks into articles. He’s essentially a propagandist for the Corruption Bay establishment.

Which helps explain why people wonder whether he supports Labour or Plaid Cymru. The fact that so many have difficulty figuring that out reminds us the Uniparty is real, and all that matters is pushing the agenda.

This Uniparty is a political class in hock to pressure groups, many of which are extreme, and some of which are insane. Which means that this political class has for 27 years of devolution been steadily distancing itself from 95% of the Welsh population.

When he isn’t writing favourably about his friends Will Hayward’s attacking those on the other side.

The other string to his bow is reassuring the metropolitan elite, via the Guardian, that the political class in Wales is on-side. (That’s when he’s not wandering off into the bush.)

Maybe socialising with people I find repulsive gets Will Hayward ‘insights’. But he knows nothing about the real Wales.

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Net Zero, Pressure Groups, DEI, Cultural Marxism

On By JacIn Climate, DEI, Environmentalism, Far Left, Globalism, Greens, Public Funding, Renewables, Rugby, Sport, Wind Turbines20 Comments

I’m thinking of taking a summer break, but whether I do or not, I want to put this out; based on things I’ve understood for a while, but prompted by cases that have come to light over the past week.

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FUTURE GENERATIONS COMMISSIONER

This job was created by the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. All Welsh legislation now must adhere to the guidelines laid down by this Act. I covered it recently in the second part of Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse.

A wee digression to explain how we got here.

The driving force behind Well-being, and the woman who claims to have authored its bible, is former Labour Assembly Member (for Pontypridd) Jane Davidson. Before taking up the post she’d created for herself, in 2007, Davidson had already damaged Welsh education with climate scam brainwashing and other nonsense.

Davidson was at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, organised by the UN, where the guidelines for ‘sustainable development’ were laid down. They placed the blame for “Climate Change, Desertification and Biodiversity Loss” at the door of Western nations.

This global crisis had to be tackled. When it was pointed out that developing nations were increasingly contributing to the problem it was argued that they must be allowed to catch up. As Google AI puts it:

. . . climate frameworks, like the UN Paris Agreement, operate on the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities”. This acknowledges that wealthier nations historically produced the majority of greenhouse gases and must take the lead in cutting them, while giving developing economies more time and leeway to transition out of poverty.

Developed nations paying for this ‘differentiation’ exposes that ‘saving the planet’ is just another form of occidentophobia, or “anti-Western sentiment, prejudice, or hostility toward Western culture, values, and institutions“.

But I’ve never understood why Davidson was in Rio. The Times Higher Education supplement says: “She entered politics in 1994 as a researcher for Labour MP Rhodri Morgan, later the assembly’s second secretary.”

She’s described that Rio trip as her Road to Damascus moment, when she was converted to the Green gospel, thereupon becoming an apostle. But if she was not already a convert in 1992, and not involved in politics, why was she in Rio at all?

Was she on holiday, and just popped in out of curiosity?

I believe Davidson was already involved in the climate scam; and came back from Rio with the blueprint for turning Wales into the wind turbine, solar panel, anti-farming, DEI, brainwashing kids, 20mph hell it’s become.

The first Future Generations Commissioner (FGC) was Labour insider, and at the time, deputy PCC for South Wales, Sophie Howe. Before that she’d been a Cardiff councillor and a special advisor to cabinets led by Labour first ministers Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones.

She was succeeded in 2023 by Derek Walker, another Labour insider. He had a background in the TUC, trans lobbyists Stonewall, and in the 12 years before becoming FGC he’d been CEO of Cwmpas (formerly Wales Co-operative Development & Training Centre Limited), a “development agency for social enterprises and co-operatives”.

Latest accounts show income of almost £7 million, almost all of which came from the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’, and most of which went on salaries. Basically, another publicly-funded job creation scheme for Labour insiders and keffiyeh wearers.

Most people will never have heard of Cwmpas. Or the many similar outfits.

The reason I mention FGC Derek Walker is due to a report in BusinessNewsWales last week that began: “The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Derek Walker, is announcing a review into energy policy and decision-making in Wales.”

I read it, and a few questions came into my head. Let me list them.

“Project Ynni is a new initiative“. OK. And how many other ‘initiatives’ are out there? How many ‘initiatives’ have come and gone? How much public money have they swallowed? What have they achieved?

Where does this man’s legitimacy come from? Who voted for him?

What business qualifications does he have, or what expertise in energy or climate studies?

We all know the answers. He’s a Labour time-server, given a job created solely to promote climate hysteria and control our behaviour.

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THE EVILS OF PRIVATE TRANSPORT (OTHER THAN BIKES)

Another piece that caught my eye last week was a report about increased parking charges in Cardiff, a move that many believe will damage the city’s economy.

Quoted in the piece was Ruth Billingham of Living Streets, an anti-car pressure group that has a pass to all departments in Corruption Bay. I remembered Living Streets from its role in the imposition of 20mph speed limits.

Here she is again, in November 2024, with other pressure groups telling the ‘Welsh Government’ to push “active travel“. But the more people are forced to cycle, or walk, the fewer people there’ll be travelling anywhere.

Is there a lobby group for a nation-wide, cheap and reliable, public transport system?

Doing a little digging soon found that Ruth Billingham had for seven years, until May this year, been involved with Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales, which describes itself as “the leading sustainability charity for Wales“.

In reality, it’s just one of hundreds. And all costing us money.

Until March, Cynnal Cymru had been part of the group structure of Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), though its status now is unclear. The WCVA is a body used by the ‘Welsh Government’ to disburse public funding.

Cynnal Cymru is based at Sbarc/Spark, part of a big Cardiff University complex on Maindy Road. Where we also find Cwmpas, which we just looked at, formerly headed by Derek Walker, now Future Generations Commissioner.

Sbarc claims to be . . .

Bringing academics and entrepreneurs together in a spirit of innovation, enterprise, and collaboration

We can see that it’s home to publicly-funded organisations, so I wonder how many genuine entrepreneurs can be found there?

I’ve always said that Cardiff University is almost an extension of the ‘Welsh Government’ and the Bay establishment; so we shouldn’t be surprised to see it provide a home to lobbyists and leftist groups reliant on the the public purse.

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‘I JUST HEARD SOME BANTER – PASS THE SMELLING SALTS!’

Here’s how DEI is often implemented in Wales. The ‘Welsh Government’ will claim to have received reports or complaints about a certain organisation that warrant investigation. The ‘investigation’ will always conclude that changes are needed that can only be achieved by imposing a far-left Woke agenda.

One example would the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS). A ‘Culture Review’ was held into the Service, headed by “human rights” lawyer Fenella Morris KC.

The Report unearthed countless horrifying examples of cannibalism, human sacrifice, and officers wearing odd socks. I jest, of course. What was found was racism, misogyny, and “banter“. Yes, honestly, banter.

The pearl clutching continued by condemning legitimate opinions on immigration. Even “inappropriate behaviour outside of work”! But who gets to decide what’s legitimate and what’s inappropriate?

The report also criticised the Service for not ‘taking the knee’ for George Floyd. When I first saw that on social media I thought it was the kind of ‘misinformation’ against which I am ever alert.

So I found and downloaded the report, and there it is, on pages 121 and 122.

Think about that for a minute. Firemen in Merthyr Tudful were expected to take time off their duties to kneel for a career criminal who’d died from the drugs in his system, while being lawfully arrested, five thousand miles away.

Also, to show support for the fraud associated with Black Lives Matter (even in the UK!), sympathise with calls to Defund the Police (with whom the SWFRS work on a daily basis), and turn a blind eye to the murder, arson, and looting – always looting – that followed Floyd’s death.

Following publication of the Report Chief Fire Officer Huw Jakeway resigned and ‘Commissioners’ were installed by the ‘Welsh Government’. These included Kirsty Williams former Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for Brecon and Radnorshire.

Here’s Williams demanding “anti-racism” in schools. (She was Minister for Education 2016 – 2021.) It’s less than two minutes long. Go on, have a chortle! (But don’t let Fenella Morris catch you!)

It’s a word salad of highfalutin bollocks designed to undermine the self-worth of Welsh kids by making them feel guilty about evils dreamed up by their enemies.

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WELSH RUGBY UNION

Another example of ‘Welsh Government’ enforcing the Woke agenda is the Welsh Rugby Union. Most people realise the WRU is now a shambles, but few understand how it came about.

Let me see if I can explain it with a timeline.

October 2021: In a BBC report from April 2025 it’s stated that:

In October 2021, a BBC investigation found that the Welsh government had adopted Stonewall’s interpretation of equality law in some of its policies, offering protections not provided for in law.

Hardly surprising seeing as the ‘Welsh Government’ was a major Stonewall funder.

“Early 2022”: Labour MP, and former Wales women’s rugby international, Tonia Antoniazzi, raised concerns with Dawn Bowden, ‘Welsh Government’ Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, about misogyny and sexism within the WRU.

September 7, 2022: It’s reported the WRU bans biological men from playing rugby against women and girls. For obvious reasons of safety and “in line with World Rugby guidance“.

September 23, 2022: The Sun reports Tonia Antoniazzi criticising the Scottish Rugby Union for allowing biological men to play against women and girls.

October 2022: Dawn Bowden, and Hannah Blythyn, Deputy Minister for Social Partnership (what that?), wrote to the WRU expressing “concern” about its ban on transgender women competing in female-only games. (Reported here March 2023.)

January 23, 2023: BBC Wales Investigates put out a 30-minute programme supporting allegations of “sexism, bullying and sexual harassment at the Welsh Rugby Union“.

January 28, 2023: It’s announced that Sport Wales – sponsored and largely funded by the ‘Welsh Government’ – has stepped in to “advise” the WRU.

January 29, 2023: Steve Phillips resigns as WRU chief executive.

February 2023: The WRU – under new management – set up a panel, chaired by Dame Anne Rafferty, to look into the allegations. This panel’s report is dated November 13, 2023.

Before the report is delivered the ‘Welsh Government’ takes advantage of the chaos it has created to appoint a new chair and CEO to the WRU. Around the same time ‘Welsh Government’ appointees also took over the Football Association of Wales (FAW). Both cases covered in this blog post.

January 3, 2024: It’s reported that Bowden has been ‘liking’ posts on X hostile to Antoniazzi.

April 16, 2025: UK Supreme Court rules that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

April 24, 2025: Back to the report I touched on earlier when, in the House of Commons, “Tonia Antoniazzi claimed that the Welsh government and some other institutions had previously been “captured” by LGBT charities promoting the idea that sex can be changed.” (Still held prisoner, Tonia.)

September 12, 2025: Sport Wales signs up to the Brighton plus Helsinki Declaration, which we’re told “supports the development of more fair and equal systems of sport and physical activity for women and girls“.

In Principle 1 of the Declaration we read a reference to “sexual orientation or identity“. Orientation I take to mean heterosexual or homosexual, but identity is almost certainly a reference to self-identification and trans ‘women’.

July 20, 2026: Nation.Cymru runs a piece headed ‘WRU signs international declaration on gender equality in sport‘. The piece quotes the Brighton plus Helsinki Declaration.

So what really happened?

My interpretation is that Tonia Antoniazzi and others raised legitimate concerns with the ‘Welsh Government’ about sexism, homophobia, and misogyny in Welsh rugby.

The Wokists in the Corruption Bay bubble seized on the opportunity to extend these complaints about the treatment of women to include trans ‘women’. Because, as we all know – “Trans women are women!“.

Sport Wales, the WRU, and perhaps other sporting bodies signing up to the Brighton plus Helsinki Declaration is an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court decision of April last year.

All done in the name of promoting women’s sport. It’ll only take one woman to be injured by a 19-stone psycho calling himself Daisy to put women’s sport back decades.

The new Plaid Cymru administration needs to get a handle on this. Pronto!

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CONCLUSION

What we’ve looked at here; net zero, the power of shadowy pressure groups, and the imposition of the Woke agenda, are part and parcel of something bigger designed to weaken and undermine the West.

We could add open borders, calls to empty the prisons, and other lunacies. Not because Marxists care about immigrants and criminals but because they appreciate the potential of such groups to damage societies, countries, and Western civilisation.

And we must confront the reality that those promoting Cultural Marxism have reached positions of power in countless organisations. With anyone trying to curb the spread of this poison paying the price.

And yet, it’s almost funny. Here’s an exchange in a House Oversight subcommittee hearing this week, in which Republican Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas questions the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History director Anthea Hartig.

He asks why her organisation lists politeness as a “defining characteristic of white supremacy culture“. The question is almost absurd. But nowhere nearly as absurd as promoting the idea that politeness is a form of racism – to be condemned.

You can see where this leads. If people stop being polite to each other, then arguments result, leading to conflict and violence, fractured societies. Which obviously serves the bigger agenda.

Treat yourself to another chortle with the marks by which ye shall know the beast that is white culture: the nuclear family, objectivity, planning ahead, etc. Basically, everything that has progressed humanity to where it is today.

It doesn’t matter whether you trace it back to the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the Cultural Marxism threatening us believes that to bring down the evil capitalist West it must go for the foundations. To attack the beliefs, structures and realities that underpin the West.

These might be Christianity, the nuclear family, patriotism, freedom of speech, rejection of state over-reach, or believing that only women can have babies.

But what’s really funny is that those promoting Wokeness, those who indoctrinate our kids in school and university, may be stupid enough to genuinely believe they’re creating a better world in which they’ll have some leadership role.

When in reality they’ve become someone else’s useful idiots. For Cultural Marxism has for some time been funded and manipulated by individuals and corporate interests that want to own everything and control everybody.

If the Globalists succeed then those you’ve read about here might be dealt with in the same way Hitler dealt with the Brownshirts when they’d served their purpose.

Now that’ll definitely be worth a chortle or two!

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The Destruction Of The Elenydd

On By JacIn Bute Energy, Climate, Colonialism, Environmentalism, Globalism69 Comments

I suppose I’d better begin by explaining where we are when I talk of ‘the Elenydd’. It’s the wild, and largely unpopulated uplands shown on this Google Earth capture.

The last true wilderness in Wales. Now it’s being industrialised and destroyed by the ‘renewables’ industry, all foreign-owned companies.

With other parcels of land being bought by ‘environmental’ groups and other sheep in wolf’s clothing. (That is not an allusion to the Fabian Society.) One of these groups gives the appearance of being Welsh, the others are the usual suspects; National Trust (NT), Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) . . .

Here’s how Google AI describes the Elenydd:

The least populated and wildest area in southern Britain . . .

The largest continuous tract of blanket mire in the Welsh uplands, designated as a Special Area of Conservation supporting rare birds like red kites, merlins, and diverse upland flora.

Clearly, we are dealing with a very special area – one that should be left to those who have cared for it for generations. But that would mean farmers and others, now viewed as the enemy by those who have elected themselves our saviours from evils as diverse as the climate crisis and the threat from the far-right.

For the two are invariably linked. Those dictating how we behave, even what we eat, in response to the ‘climate crisis’, are often the same people telling us what’s acceptable thinking in the political sphere.

Because it’s all about control. Controlling us.

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FURTHER BACKGROUND

I’m going to start with a document produced by the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ back in 2019, called Future Wales The National Plan 2040. There, in amongst this melange of hopes, dreams, incoherent ramblings and utter bullshit, on page 94, we find a map showing the areas set aside for wind farms.

They’re numbered and bounded in black. Roughly speaking, the Elenydd is north east of the area 8 panhandle and east of area 6.

Whatever the original purpose of this map showing ‘pre-assessed’ areas, it soon proved worthless and misleading.

A fact illustrated by the map below, produced by Caru Teifi, a group protesting against the pylon runs needed to take the electricity intermittently generated by wind farms to the grid connection point south of Carmarthen.

In the south it appears that most of the turbines built (light blue), and planned (dark blue) are outside the ‘pre-assessed’ areas.

And as you’ll see in a minute. it’s the same – or worse – in the area we’re looking at.

So what was the point of the ‘pre-assessed’ areas in the 2019 National Plan if the ‘Welsh Government was simply going to allow a “near enough” approach that borders on a free-for-all?

Time now to look at the wind turbine projects on the Elenydd. The known knowns, the known unknowns, the unknown unknowns, and the unknown knowns.

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WHAT’S PLANNED

We can safely identify four projects. Three we’ve known about for a few years, with another announced this year.

The first involves Scottish company Bute Energy Ltd. Their project is Lan Fawr. There was another project nearby labelled Bryn Brawd, but it seems they’ve merged. Now it’s one sooper-dooper project with 55 turbines up to 800ft in height. Labelled 1 in the image below, and in two parts.

Next is Belltown Power’s Waun Maenllwyd project. Just 4 to 6 turbines. Labelled 2 in the map above. It’s suggested the Belltown project might be taken over by Bute. Alternatively – and I find this interesting – that the Foresight Group, which is behind Belltown, might take over Bute!

Number 3 is Galileo Empower UK’s Bryn Cadwgan project. Galileo has it’s UK office in Edinburgh (and an outpost in Cardiff), but is owned by investors and pension funds from just about everywhere, as far away as New Zealand.

Lastly, we take a brief look at the newest of them, EDF’s Nant y Maen. This straddles the Tregaron to Abergwesyn road. It’s definitely in the pipeline; confirmed by this ‘WG’ document. EDF is wholly owned the French Government.

Local sources insist there are other projects yet to be unveiled. Two, it’s believed.

Access to these projects is planned from the A482 at Pumsaint. Something I covered in The Road To Hell back in November 2023. Then it’s over the old Dolaucothi Estate, now owned, like far too much of Wales, by the National Trust.

After Pumsaint, it’s anyone’s guess, but I guarantee it will involve new roads, hundreds or thousands of trees felled, and massive disruption to the environment over an extended period of time.

But before reaching Pumsaint the turbine columns and blades will be transported on huge diesel smoke-belching trucks along country roads from Swansea docks.

Disruption and destruction all the way so that foreign investors can make money.

Unless, of course, you’re stupid enough to believe that this is all being done to save the planet, and Wales will somehow benefit. Are you that stupid?

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‘WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE NEWTS!’

In the intro I referred to a couple of recent purchases in the Elenydd by rewilders and others. So let’s look at them.

First, is one I covered in Land Of Our Fathers, But Not Our Children, in February. This concerned the purchase of 1195 acres by an outfit called Tir Natur.

The area bought is shown in this map by Caru Cymru I linked to earlier. It’s the dull green area below EDF’s Nant y Maen project. (I urge you to consult the Caru Teifi website maps and use the layers available to see what’s what in the area.)

Quite a purchase, and achieved with, according to Farmers Weekly and other sources, a “philanthropic bridging loan“. Wasn’t that nice!

Earlier this month, we learnt that the RSPB had bought 96 hectares at ‘Galltybere’ or ‘Gallt-y-Bere’, which is shown on OS maps (see above) as Craig Alltyberau. This adjoins the planned Galileo Empower Bryn Cadwgan wind farm.

And whaddya know – this purchase also received a “philanthropic loan“.

I wonder where these ‘loans’ come from? Can I have one?

Now for a detour, but not really a digression. We’re going to Scotland, sticking with the RSPB – and there’s more magic money!

Down the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh, not far from North Berwick, rising from the North Sea is the volcanic plug of Bass Rock. A home to many birds, and the largest colony of Northern Gannets.

These are magnificent birds, with a wingspan of six feet or more. While searching for prey they soar or glide until folding back their wings to dive into the sea.

Not far away is the Isle of May. This is home to 50,000 puffins, plus guillemots, razorbills, and other birds.

Hanging over this avian idyll is the threat of 307 wind turbines, in a project approved last year. As might be expected, RSPB Scotland objected. Stating:

Berwick Bank is a gigantic windfarm. To put it in perspective, it would take up an area four times the size of Edinburgh with more than 300 turbines – each the height of six Scott Monuments. 

But then something strange happened. Operating through the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the UK government made a grant of £586,000 to RSPB Scotland – to buy Bass Rock!

I can’t help thinking that what was really being bought was the RSPB’s silence.

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CONCLUSION

You don’t need to be cynical to believe that when there’s billions of pounds, dollars, euros or whatever in profits to be made, certain measures will be taken to guarantee those profits. Among those ‘measures’ will be neutralising the opposition.

Unless they’re powerful and well organised, local groups can be largely disregarded, developers can even play one off against another. The same principle applies to landowners and farmers. But when it comes to groups that are well-established, with a national or even international structure, and have the ear of politicians, then a different approach is needed.

And this might explain the magic money that appears regularly in the accounts of wildlife and environmental groups. Sometimes it’s out in the open.

Aviva, the institutional investor owned by Vanguard and others, has given just shy of £40m to the Wildlife Trusts to restore Celtic Rainforests along the western edge of Britain. Much of this money will be coming to Wales. Some already has, and it’s gone to the Elenydd.

I dealt with this February, in The Latest Enviro-scam – ‘Celtic Rainforests’.

In fact, it seems most 0f Wales is a rainforest. Who knew?

Though the Elenydd seems to be in the ‘Oceanic Climate’ zone rather than that described as ‘Hyper Oceanic Climate’.

At the risk of coming across as a cynical old bastard I’ll spell out what I think might be happening in the Elenydd. Shyster ‘developers’ want to destroy an almost pristine wilderness for profit, and have, by one route or another, given money to environmental groups to buy adjoining land.

The developers will then argue that wind turbines, and the work associated with them, pose no threat to wildlife or the environment. If they did – then surely their neighbours like Tir Natur and RSPB would be complaining. “Stands to reason, squire“.

For their part, the recipients of this largesse will tell themselves that sacrifices must be made for the greater good and the bigger picture.

For you must remember that those I’m describing have bought into the climate scam, making their position ambivalent. And rarely have I seen it more evident than in the RSPB Scotland statement I linked earlier.

We can unlock a future where Scotland’s already struggling seabirds are helped to recover, while producing the renewable energy needed to help fight climate change.  

So, for the greater good, sacrifices must be made. But that’s OK, as long as it’s the dicky birds making the sacrifice.

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Bute Energy, Connections & Partners

On By JacIn Bute Energy, Climate, Colonialism, Ireland, Renewables, Wind Turbines59 Comments

This piece is in two parts. The first takes us to Ireland, the second . . . well, I’m not quite sure, maybe into a war zone.

For anyone new to the blog, or this topic, Bute Energy is a Scottish company with a Cardiff address planning a dozen or more windfarms in Wales, plus the pylon runs needed to connect them with the main grid. Also solar arrays and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

The head man is Oliver James Millican who, along with the other Bute principals, Stuart Allan George and Lawson Douglas Steele, left Millican’s father’s Parabola property company towards the end of 2017. They may still be working for Parabola.

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‘IF YOU EVER GO ACROSS THE SEA TO IRELAND, THEN MAYBE . . . ‘

To begin with, I recently learnt that Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), Bute’s main funder up to this point, is now operating in Ireland. Taking advantage of Ireland’s Strategic Investment Fund.

The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) has committed €200m to specialist greenfield renewable energy infrastructure investor, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (“CIP”) latest flagship strategy, Copenhagen Infrastructure V (the “CI V”)

When I saw ‘CI V’ it rang a bell, because this is (or was?) the CIP fund behind Bute Energy. Mentioned more than once on this blog. Specifically, CI V Dragon Lender Ltd (launched 23.12.2021). Other companies with the CI V Dragon name are; CI V Dragon Topco Ltd (16.03.2023), and CI C Dragon Holdco 2 Ltd (07.12.2023).

All three are still in business, with directors I believe to be working for CIP.

There was a fourth company, CI V Dragon Holdco Ltd, formed 23.12.2021, with CIP directors. Two of whom left in November 2023, but two hung on until June 2025, when they were replaced by Oliver Millican. A liquidator was appointed in January this year. This outfit was clearly replaced by Holdco 2.

A lot of money went into the now-departed company, over £60,000,000. Which seems to have been used in payouts to Bute directors. This has been widely covered in the media; including Nation.Cymru. There are suggestions of, dare I say it – can I even spell it! – jiggery-pokery.

Here’s what Google AI says. Nation.Cymru is quoted, but the info came from this site.

Though a reporter for a London newspaper, who’s been in contact recently over Bute’s activities, tells me his ‘paper’s bean counters are not convinced Bute’s done anything illegal. Devious, maybe, but not, strictly speaking, illegal.

Whatever the answer, it seems that the money was doled out thus: Millican £47.56m, with George and Steele each getting £4.64m, and a few million going to minor players, one said to be Millican’s brother-in-law.

Much of Millican’s money was used to buy real estate in Scotland, often warehouses, and dealt with in this blog in March. Here’s a quote I used then from a Bute insider:

The real estate arm of the Windward portfolio . . . is working with multiple overseas businesses and at least one national government to house interests and commodity items relating to renewables infrastructure. There are warehouses in Wales and Scotland filled to the rafters with BESS and pylon materials – rented and landed for resale exclusively to the UK market to artificially appear to restrict overseas procurement and brand it as available when supply chains pinch in the late 2027 to early 2029 drive.

Windward is another name used by Bute companies, Windward Enterprises Ltd being the ultimate holding company for the Bute empire. Sole director and shareholder Oliver Millican.

A new director of Windward Enterprises, since June 1, is given as ‘Thomas Anthony Watson’. (Companies House was notified June 25.) A name common enough to be ignored. He is in fact, Labour peer, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest.

Last month Windward Enterprises took out a loan with private bank Brown Shipley & Co Ltd, ultimately owned by the Al Thani family, which owns and runs Qatar. This family also owns some £40bn of real estate in London, including Selfridges, Harrods, The Savoy, Claridge’s, Heathrow Airport . . .

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BUT WHY THE INTEREST IN IRELAND?

With Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners investing in ‘renewables’ in Ireland I naturally got to wondering if Bute Energy is similarly involved.

In an idle moment I typed ‘Bute Energy Ireland’ into Google, and it suggested a “corporate address” down by Anna Liffey. Here to be exact: 2nd Floor, Riverview House, 21-23 City Quay, Dublin, D02 AY91.

Which turns out to be the Dublin address of SYSTRA Ireland, part of a big French company, with projects around the world.

Next, I searched for ‘Bute Energy Systra’, and turned this up:

Bute Energy is a Welsh developer spearheading over £3 billion of onshore wind projects. They collaborate with global infrastructure and consulting firm SYSTRA. SYSTRA provides lifecycle services, electrical grid/infrastructure planning, and engineering for Bute’s energy parks to speed up the transition to a low-carbon grid.

“Welsh developer“! So there is a link. But why had I never heard of SYSTRA before? Next, my trembling digits tapped in ‘Welsh Government Systra’, and this came up:

SYSTRA is a prominent transport and engineering consultancy that frequently partners with the Welsh Government and Transport for Wales (TfW) to modernize public transport, boost regional connectivity, and achieve net-zero climate targets.

Then I found this on the SYSTRA website. Nice to see another Welsh company getting contracts from the transition to the wonderful Green economy.

On the Systra website I also unearthed these specific projects. A franchised bus service for Wales and an energy from waste facility on Deeside. Are there others?

Despite these contracts in Wales SYSTRA doesn’t even bother with the Bute ploy of having an office here. It seems Wales is handled from Bristol or Birmingham. Though there is of course an office in Edinburgh, which will be handy for the Bute boys. (In fact, SYSTRA’s Edinburgh address looks somehow familiar.)

AI coming up with SYSTRA’s Dublin address for Bute Energy is no real surprise. It’s pretty obvious this French company has its feet under the table with the so-called ‘Welsh Government’.

So, Bute is already linked with SYSTRA and CIP, both are now operating in Ireland, with Systra also well in with the ‘Welsh Government’. It’s therefore reasonable to assume that Bute may also be active in Ireland.

Which brings me to another reason for looking at Irish connections. I’m referring to the pylon runs from windfarms planned in central Wales (many by Bute) to Llandyfaelog, south of Carmarthen, where they connect with the main grid running from RWE’s Pembroke power station to England.

This has been covered extensively, both my blog and on the CPRW website.

While England was always the presumed destination for the electricity generated, it could just as easily go west to Ireland, thanks to the new Greenlink Interconnector at Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire.

This short (2:12 mins) news clip from RTÉ explains it.

The demand for electricity in Ireland is soaring, with some 80 AI data centers already, and more in the pipeline. Understandably, the state electricity board, EirGrid, is getting nervous.

No surprise then, that in addition to the connection from Pembrokeshire there’s another from Bodelwyddan to somewhere near Dublin, with MaresConnect. This is owned jointly by Etchea Energy, with offices in London and Dublin, and our old friends in the Foresight Group.

UPDATE: Bodelwyddan is mentioned in this announcement of an offshore development “entirely in Welsh waters“, between BP and Japanese company Jera, with a “proposed connection to the Bodelwyddan National Grid substation“.

As for Foresight, you may remember this lot attracting bad publicity in recent years for buying up Welsh farms on which to make money from planting trees to offset ’emissions’, or some such corporate bollocks.

And then there are the governmental contacts. Here’s a joint statement issued a year ago after first minister Eluned Morgan visited Dublin to meet Tánaiste Simon Harris.

Forums have enabled us to hear directly from Irish companies including ESB, Simply Blue and DP Energy, who are investing in energy projects in Wales. During the 2023 forum, ministers also visited the Morlais tidal stream energy project on Anglesey in North Wales

Last month, the new Plaid first minister, Rhun ap Iorwerth, was in Dublin.

And the links don’t end with politicos doing photo-ops. Here’s one between French giant EDF and Irish state-owned ESB. This offshore wind project’s called Gwynt Glas. The only thing Welsh about it is the name. (But that’ll be enough to please some.)

So Irish companies, with others from Scotland, England, and further afield, invest in renewable energy projects in Wales. A country that already produces more electricity than it could consume if we all drove electric Humvees and left our lights on 24/7.

But it doesn’t end there, because there’s also electricity being shipped down from Scotland. This was supposed to be taken by a lengthy pylon run from Pentir near Bangor to Swansea North, on the line from Pembroke to England.

Then again, it might not run down to Swansea at all; perhaps it – or some of it – could be sent to Ireland via the Bodelwyddan link. However you look at it, Wales is being covered in windfarms and other installations we don’t need, and criss-crossed with transmission routes going elsewhere.

Something noted by CPRW, which last month put out a press release warning that ‘Wales Must Not Become England’s Energy Corridor‘. Agreed. But I repeat, the way things are shaping up Wales is just as likely to become an energy corridor serving Ireland as well.

All the while those treacherous clowns in Corruption Bay mince around looking smug, and preparing their spare rooms for ‘refugees’ (or maybe not) – cos we is saving the planet, innit.

And anybody who objects is a climate-denying fascist. Well, I guess that’s me.

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JUDGED BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

Another development concerning Bute worth reporting is the funding from Dutch outfit Rabobank. Here’s the Rabobank website.

There are maybe two points to make about Rabobank. First, it’s big in agriculture and food . . . and buying farmland. Second, it has a rather worrying record.

When it comes to buying farms and land Rabobank operates through the subsidiary Rabo Farm and local intermediaries. These are often corrupt local officials. Worth asking if these officials were always corrupt, or was it the prospect of Rabobank money that corrupted them?

Come to that, how did Rabobank make contact with local officials in remote parts of Poland and Roumania? Did they have intermediaries with good contacts? I mention that Latin outpost because of a scandal just over a decade ago that saw local farmers learning they no longer owned their land. Read about it by clicking on the image below.

Rabobank has strong links with top-tier Globalists the Rothschilds. Maybe the latter rely on Rabobank’s expertise in food supply and pricing to help them towards the Globalists’ wet-dream goal of controlling the food supply. And with it, us.

Rabobank is also believed to be active in that most corrupt of eastern European countries, Ukraine. But the law there states that only Ukrainian citizens and entities can own land. Up to 10,000 hectares.

What this means in practice is that those close to the Cokehead Clown of Kiev often act as intermediaries for foreign investors. This goes some way to explaining the Bugattis, Lamborghinis and Bentleys with Ukrainian plates in Monte Carlo.

Rather cruelly they’re known as the “Monaco Battalion“. Which must be a great consolation to Ukrainians dying at the front to defend their corruption.

But then, dying on the front line nowadays is reserved for little people.

But the question is, why is Bute Energy involved with Rabobank at all? The new funder may now be branching out into ‘renewables’, but the primary interest remains land, farming, and foodstuffs. Are the two connected?

By which I mean, is Rabobank’s link-up with Bute connected to Bute owning ‘Welsh’ Labour, also now buying influence in Plaid Cymru; and Rabobank realising that both these parties want to end livestock farming. Which will bring many farms onto the market.

A Powys farmer confided recently, regarding Rabobank:

From my perspective, the concern is that this extremely powerful financial institution with deep expertise in agricultural land are now also financing infrastructure that competes for that land.

Whatever the answer, Bute Energy linking up with a company with Rabobank’s record should set alarm bells ringing.

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CONCLUSION

As I’ve said a few times in recent posts on the subject, I (and others) may have focused too much on Bute’s activities in Wales at the expense of the bigger picture. Which now seems to be emerging.

A picture that, first, confirms the electricity generated in Wales is for consumption somewhere else. I’d assumed that ‘somewhere else’ to be England. But that’s only part of the picture.

Electricity generated in Wales, and off our coasts, is also likely to be going to Ireland. This accounts for the interconnectors from Bodelwyddan and Freshwater West, and it might also explain the Irish companies investing here.

Will electricity generated by Irish companies in Wales be reserved for Irish consumers? I ask because while I appreciate there are interconnectors everywhere, and electricity can flow both ways, consumption in Ireland seems to be outpacing generating capacity.

Then there’s the power coming down from Scotland. It’s not for Welsh consumption. So why can’t it go directly to England and / or Ireland?

Do you remember Alexander Cordell’s book, Rape of the Fair Country, about the 19th century exploitation of Wales by Victorian industrialists? What we see today is the Globalist-Green rape of Wales . . . but without the jobs or any other tangible benefits.

It’s clear beyond doubt that Mam Cymru is being used, and abused. How much longer do we just stand by and let it happen?

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