As for ‘Cllr’ Cosmo,

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I shouldn’t deign you with a response but I will on this occasion. If you have not seen the article then you don’t know what it says and that it is untrue. I have and continue to comport myself respectfully in public. If you are saying that women who play rugby do not know how to behave then you need to reconsider the inference you are making. Please be factually correct and sensitive to spreading untruths.

If you look at the Plaid Cymru website and the Labour party press release on the budget, both are claiming that they abolished the tolls on the Cleddau bridge.

The fact is that the bridge was effectively built twice, at double the cost, after the collapse in 1970. It was only opened in 1975 and the £12m cost was made up of £7m overspend which was financed (at 1975 value) from a special treasury loan to the county council with a 40 year payback period. That matured in 2016, and Pembrokeshire County Council decided that the tolls would remain up until the asset is ‘trunked’ in other words handed over to Highways Agency Wales, the Welsh Government. The hand over took place at the end of last year.

There was no outstanding loan upon it. It’s already paid off. This means that the tolls would have been abolished this year, anyway. The debt already having being expunged. Yet we see Plaid Cymru claiming this proposal to be a ‘positive influence’ to propping up Labour. Do they really believe that? I’m sure the good people of Pembrokeshire will know the REAL chain of events. It is as I have described.

Spot on there, Brychan. I openly admit to have backed a Brexit, not out of loyalty to any of the Farage-Gove-Johnson axis but on the basic principle that all these big state structures are absolutely useless and at worse hostile to the interests of most of us the little people.

I was in Sir Gar 2 days ago and over a cup of tea and welshcake with a retired farmer we chewed the cud across a wide spectrum. Many Farmers bought the Brexit promise that their “deal” would be as good after Brexit as before with added benefit of the £/euro instability removed.

Now they can see a double threat looming. The Mayhem regime will fiddle around with the finances to safeguard their assorted rich pals and the sacred cow NHS (despite its endemic wastes, which often feed cash to other Tory party pals). And down the Bay we have a Labour regime that will compound any hardship, conveniently blaming it on those Tories in London who “..’ave cut our budgets in real terms, see”.

In this situation Plaid should be lashing out with a barrage of well aimed, justifiable critiques of the Mayhem and Welsh Labour regimes. Both of them have got themselves stuck into grooves which do not bode well for a whole range of sectors here in Wales. The absolute dishonesty and obvious vested interests of May sucking up to the City institutions, major global corporates and other artful tax dodgers makes for grim viewing, while Carwyn and his mob make a dog’s mess of Wales’ finances with far too cosy a relationship with the opaque bloated 3rd sector and selected corporates. And Plaid stays quiet in its corner, with only “loose cannon” McEvoy having the balls and energy to jump up and attack on a regular basis.

If the Tories in London contrive to engineer a safeguarded “EU standard” package for farmers I would not be surprised to see a major shift in voting patterns next time around. And they have the means. If they insert a ceiling into some of those EU handouts that would serve to limit the serious money that large scale landlords are currently pocketing in parts of the UK the balance could be defended and spread across real agricultural activity. That is a big “if” but might be a necessary part of a package of actions to save their scrawny necks before next elections.

That’s him! Didn’t realise that he was still in the area – I wonder how many people realised that he was in Watchet, let alone a Councillor?

Anyone like to ask Cosmo why he didn’t end up in prison? What was the deal with the magistrates then Cosmo? And was it your dad who set it up? And why did your dad IMMEDIATELY that he arrived in Over Stowey wield so much power over local councils, planning committees etc?

Anon – is the disgusting Paul, Cosmo’s dad, still alive and kicking? I haven’t heard anything about him for ages…

Apart from location, is there anything Welsh about North Wales Housing?

Dafis – I spent some time this afternoon with a Carmarthenshire farmer, a chap who has contiguous landholdings bordering the A40 which usually displays Plaid Cymru hoardings at election time. He’s incensed that Plaid Cymru have agreed to abstain on the budget vote in the Senedd in order to help the Labour Party. Labour propose a massive cut in the agriculture budget, and this particular farmer will be hard hit as be breeds and nurtures bloodstock cattle, bug bulls that are the best in breed. His animals sell for £8 to £13k and is well renowned in the industry for quality. However, the WG plan to cut the ‘cap’ on bTB compensation at about £5k blowing a big hole in the family business. He’s never had bTB on his farm but he still has to insure against losses if there is. We watched the cynilliad broadcast over a mug of tea and he’s been spitting feathers at Adam Price today, who sat there like a naughty child during the agriculture debate. I suspect that the reason why Neil McEvoy has been suspended from the Plaid group is nothing to do with misdemeanour mutterings, or Catalan window flags. It’s more to do with the fact he’s the only AM who will have nothing to do with these back room deals with Labour. Elin Jones (farming background) has no say as she’s presiding officer. This means the Plaid Group as just a bunch of trendy middle class latte supping urbanites sniffing up on studenty ishoos who are more interested in reading the Guardian than being the Guardian of Wales. Surely Leanne must understand that the thousands who switched to Plaid in Rhondda to elect her did so because she was AGAINST Labour. Meanwhile, in the more rural areas of Wales often referred to as ‘heartlands’ the support for Plaid is about to collapse. Why can’t they see this? Strange that the voice of the poorest part of inner-city Cardiff, McEvoy, has a resonance in the cow sheds of Carmarthenshire. Adam should understand who he’s supposed to represent. Carwyn is taking you for a clown.

Cosmo Johnson, Cllr for Watchet