I’ve got mixed feelings about the CoW. When I first heard about it it sounded so implausible – a race circuit in the Heads of the Valleys! – that I was very sceptical, and did a post on it. However . . .

There may be a chance this can succeed, and if there is a chance, then it must be supported. Yes, I know a few million pound have already been poured in but the Labour Party has wasted far bigger sums that never offered anything like the returns of the CoW.

What really stood out for me in that programme was the faith that local people have invested, they deserve to see this project supported until it is clear beyond any doubt that it will not go ahead.

Perhaps what I found really distasteful about this programme was smart-arses from Cardiff undermining this project, perhaps because they feel investment of this size shouldn’t be taking place in Ebbw Vale!

save on the stamp, take ’em up the road and give ’em to any old Plaid/Lab/Tory/UKIP Canvasser you happen to bump into ! I’ve left out LibDems cos they are almost extinct and if you find one you can hand him/her/it in to a local South Wales Police station ( if there is one still open round your way )and claim some sort of prize.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133999834@N07/albums

http://thedanieljamesproject.blogspot.co.uk/

For info – please take a look at the Calon Lan website which is still ‘work in progress’ and our Flickr page. Have also given you a link to a blog from a history project

Yes, I noticed the academic exit. It might reward investigating if I get a chance.

I notice that Dr Linda Evans (Faculty of Life Sciences, USW) and Dr Paul Roche (Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy) resigned as directors of Dark Sky Wales Education Services Limited in 2013. This was the same year Ms Shannon Susan Robinson was appointed. Looks to me the academics bailed out just when the third sector parasite arrived. Or possibly the do-good for poor-people public relations wash was no longer needed once the research cash was banked. Looks like the patient is dying. Someone call a doctor.

Sorry, dafis, it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. I’ve put a bag of Boyo’s Enjoyos in the post.

Come off it ref, bags of scope for escalation on this one ! Some of these people still reckon that cash grows on trees and you only got to trot out a plausible yarn and you’ll get the grant/ handout/ freebie especially if you play the card carrying Liebor line down the Bay. Similarly in other parts of UK rolling out your Tory connection ( member / Fund raiser ? ) works wonders, or maybe spring the old Masonic ( we only do good ! ) line. You have turned up some beauties in the recent past and all these techniques seem to be active in Wales despite being very old hat.

It all adds up to a dependency culture combined with a “something for nothing” attitude that prevails among those who have cultivated an outlook of entitlement. This is not about the needy, poor or those on hard times, but about aspirational greed, c***s who see a handout as a short cut up a ladder where they are either too lazy or risk averse to work their way up.

Boys! Boys! This is getting far too personal and nasty – leave that kind of thing to me. Now shake hands and be friends.

you obviously buy any old bullshit that academics care to trot out. Truly valueable scientific innovation and invention are more likely to be identified and promoted in an environment where there is less clutter and interference from 2nd rate academics pushing pet projects without any serious critical appraisal. In case you haven’t noticed we live in a society where resources are scarce. Now you may wish to exclusively blame overpaid executives and certain politicians for that predicament, but others who have no scruples about shoving their noses into the trough should also be recognised for the damage they do, and many of your dear academics fall neatly into that category.

As for voting Tory – that’s probably more up your street as you seem wedded to the centralist Anglo Brit supremacist view of life in general.