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		<title>Budget Boost For Rewilders And Globalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is about a group I&#8217;ve mentioned before, Tir Natur. It&#8217;s not a big outfit, it was only launched in 2022. I&#8217;m writing about it again because my attention has been drawn to what might be a major development. Which coincides with the UK government&#8217;s decision to make most family farms liable for punitive &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/budget-boost-for-rewilders-and-globalists/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Budget Boost For Rewilders And Globalists</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Local Government Reorganisation, Again!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alun Davies AM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Government Reorganisation Wales]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION I&#8217;m old enough to remember the term &#8216;Wales and Monmouthshire&#8217; being used, which gave us the thirteen old counties, and then there were the four county boroughs (Swansea, Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr). This system was swept away by the Local Government Act 1972 which in 1974 gave us a two-tier system of local government, &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/local-government-reorganisation-again/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Local Government Reorganisation, Again!</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tesco Delivers an Uncomfortable Truth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of you reading this will by now be aware that Tesco is closing its call centre in Cardiff and concentrating its operations in Dundee. Inevitably, this has caused Labour politicos to weep and wail but equally predictably the buggers are also lying, because they will never admit to the political realities at work here. &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/tesco-delivers-an-uncomfortable-truth/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Tesco Delivers an Uncomfortable Truth</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>General Election 2017</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those of you who&#8217;ve read Cneifiwr&#8217;s latest post, about his canvassing experiences, will I&#8217;m sure have enjoyed him waxing lyrical about wrens and shimmering vistas, country lanes and tinkling rills . . . well you&#8217;ll get none of that fancy bucolic stuff here. This is the opinionated old git section of the Welsh blogosphere. Last Thursday &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/general-election-2017/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">General Election 2017</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Welsh&#8217; Labour and Social Enterprises &#8211; All Fall Down!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In February I posted &#8216;Welsh&#8217; Labour And A Milking System Unknown To Farmers, which recently received a very interesting comment from &#8216;Brychan&#8217;, a regular contributor to this blog. He drew our attention to Monwel, a social enterprise in Glyn Ebwy making road signs and similar products. He also provided this link to a story that &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/welsh-labour-and-social-enterprises-all-fall-down/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8216;Welsh&#8217; Labour and Social Enterprises &#8211; All Fall Down!</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welsh Labour: One Big, Happy, And Incestuous Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two important and encouraging pieces of news today, and both damaging to the Labour Party or, as its local manifestation prefers, &#8216;Welsh Labour&#8217;. I welcome this because all my life I have dreamed of seeing the Labour Party broken, its control over our country destroyed. It has become evident to me of late that &#8211; &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/welsh-labour-one-big-happy-and-incestuous-family/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Welsh Labour: One Big, Happy, And Incestuous Family</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Census 2011: Variations, Anomalies, Worries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; A great deal has already been written about the findings of the 2011 Census; some bloggers have dug deep into the data and burned the midnight oil analysing and collating said data. Among those deserving of special mention are Oggy Bloggy Ogwr, Syniadau and Welsh Not British. I&#8217;ve even had a go once or &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/census-2011-variations-anomalies-worries/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Census 2011: Variations, Anomalies, Worries</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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