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		By: Nigel Bull		</title>
		<link>https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47912</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nigel Bull]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47728&quot;&gt;Jac&lt;/a&gt;.

The relationship was clear during the last referendum when more power was sought by Roger Lewis as one of the people (and chosen by Labour) just as Labour approved finance for the building of a rugby centre of excellence in North Wales.  More than a little mutual back scratching going on there! True to form in the years since it has achieved very little other than your point!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47728">Jac</a>.</p>
<p>The relationship was clear during the last referendum when more power was sought by Roger Lewis as one of the people (and chosen by Labour) just as Labour approved finance for the building of a rugby centre of excellence in North Wales.  More than a little mutual back scratching going on there! True to form in the years since it has achieved very little other than your point!</p>
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		By: Jonathan Dean		</title>
		<link>https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47844</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47842&quot;&gt;Dafis&lt;/a&gt;.

Ok, it’s how you define unreliable, but that’s not how the reliability of machinery is defined.  Is your car unreliable if it fails to start when it has no fuel in?

But in any case, we don’t need them to, as we will not have only wind turbines]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47842">Dafis</a>.</p>
<p>Ok, it’s how you define unreliable, but that’s not how the reliability of machinery is defined.  Is your car unreliable if it fails to start when it has no fuel in?</p>
<p>But in any case, we don’t need them to, as we will not have only wind turbines</p>
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		By: Dafis		</title>
		<link>https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47842</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dafis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47834&quot;&gt;Jonathan Dean&lt;/a&gt;.

Can&#039;t be counted on to deliver juice when needed. That in my book is &quot;unreliable&quot;. No point telling me to hold off doing anything until the sun shines or the wind blows!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47834">Jonathan Dean</a>.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t be counted on to deliver juice when needed. That in my book is &#8220;unreliable&#8221;. No point telling me to hold off doing anything until the sun shines or the wind blows!</p>
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		By: Jonathan Dean		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47748&quot;&gt;Liz&lt;/a&gt;.

“the anti English hatred is growing like a poison”???

Not in the north Wales I live in]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47748">Liz</a>.</p>
<p>“the anti English hatred is growing like a poison”???</p>
<p>Not in the north Wales I live in</p>
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		By: Jac		</title>
		<link>https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47838</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47837&quot;&gt;Jonathan Dean&lt;/a&gt;.

Now you&#039;re being silly. Trump wants peace, and he may have concluded that the best way to bring that about is to force Ukraine to accept their situation is hopeless. Which it is. 

He&#039;s also sending a message to the Deep State / NATO / EU / that the days of endless wars just to benefit the military-industrial complex and the Globalist corporations is over. And thank God for that!

As for Gill, that non-story blown up out of all proportion didn&#039;t merit any attention. If I had done anything it would have been to point out the hypocrisy of his detractors.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47837">Jonathan Dean</a>.</p>
<p>Now you&#8217;re being silly. Trump wants peace, and he may have concluded that the best way to bring that about is to force Ukraine to accept their situation is hopeless. Which it is. </p>
<p>He&#8217;s also sending a message to the Deep State / NATO / EU / that the days of endless wars just to benefit the military-industrial complex and the Globalist corporations is over. And thank God for that!</p>
<p>As for Gill, that non-story blown up out of all proportion didn&#8217;t merit any attention. If I had done anything it would have been to point out the hypocrisy of his detractors.</p>
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		By: Jonathan Dean		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47836&quot;&gt;Jac&lt;/a&gt;.

er … no.  Quite shameful the way Trump backs Putin against Ukraine, but then Putin has all the photos, and probably more!  We’ll just have to wait until his presidency finishes, or he is assassinated, before things can return to any type of normality

Have you done an update on Nathan Gill!  I was reading your old stuff on him not so long ago]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47836">Jac</a>.</p>
<p>er … no.  Quite shameful the way Trump backs Putin against Ukraine, but then Putin has all the photos, and probably more!  We’ll just have to wait until his presidency finishes, or he is assassinated, before things can return to any type of normality</p>
<p>Have you done an update on Nathan Gill!  I was reading your old stuff on him not so long ago</p>
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		By: Jac		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47833&quot;&gt;Jonathan Dean&lt;/a&gt;.

What&#039;s wrong with the USA? You don&#039;t like Trump? Russia&#039;s relatively stable; just a little border problem.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47833">Jonathan Dean</a>.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s wrong with the USA? You don&#8217;t like Trump? Russia&#8217;s relatively stable; just a little border problem.</p>
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		By: Jonathan Dean		</title>
		<link>https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47834</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47831&quot;&gt;Dafis&lt;/a&gt;.

Except they aren’t unreliable.  They do exactly what you would expect them to do.  No wind, no sun, no generation

Unreliable would be doing what you didn’t expect them to do.  Renewables are very reliable]]></description>
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<p>Except they aren’t unreliable.  They do exactly what you would expect them to do.  No wind, no sun, no generation</p>
<p>Unreliable would be doing what you didn’t expect them to do.  Renewables are very reliable</p>
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		By: Jonathan Dean		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47832&quot;&gt;Jac&lt;/a&gt;.

USA and Russia, certainly.  Just look at both of them now!

Norway are the exception, but they’re not in the position of the others]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47832">Jac</a>.</p>
<p>USA and Russia, certainly.  Just look at both of them now!</p>
<p>Norway are the exception, but they’re not in the position of the others</p>
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		By: Jac		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/#comment-47830&quot;&gt;Jonathan Dean&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;&lt;em&gt;Any oil state can become problematic&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Norway? USA? UK? Renewables have grown through generous subsidies - that drive up domestic bills. Explain to us why UK domestic bills are so much higher than other countries. Like France, with its nuclear power stations.]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;<em>Any oil state can become problematic</em>&#8220;. Norway? USA? UK? Renewables have grown through generous subsidies &#8211; that drive up domestic bills. Explain to us why UK domestic bills are so much higher than other countries. Like France, with its nuclear power stations.</p>
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