http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends89%5C0001124289_AC_20130331_E_C.pdf

The Rhondda Trust has five trustees, Chris Bryant MP himself, an MP parachuted in from High Wycombe, a churchy chaplain who’s also chairman of the Army cadets, two former GMB shop stewards from the closed factory, and Leighton Andrews AM. The Welsh government meanwhile, sends trade delegations off to China to encourage trade as it stimulates the British economy which, it is claimed may have ‘spin offs’ for those thrown on the scrapheap begging a few quid for the local basket ball team to make the poverty bearable. This is how the Labour Party enrich the natives.

There is something altogether odd about this. Why move disabled English ex-servicemen to rural west Wales where facilities and services for them will be limited? It doesn’t make sense. Though I can imagine any future criticism of colonisation being met with, ‘Bastard! . . . disabled heroes . . . ‘.

Then, there’s the issue of cost. It wasn’t Ceredigion council or the Welsh NHS that sent these men to war, so let us hope that the UK government meets all of the inevitable costs, over and beyond housing.

Thanks, Jac.

This was posted yesterday to, ‘Housing Associations: More From the Dark Side’.

“Back in July of this year, David Cameron, the UK Prime Minister announced that over £6million was to be allocated to a ‘Pathway’ project for veterans discharged from the British Armed Forces.

In the bidding process, £4million was awarded to Haig Housing, based around the garrison town of Colchester in Essex and Riverside Housing based around the two garrison towns of Catterick (sic) and Aldershot. However, both these ‘pathways’ to housing were deficient in their ability to provide housing and support for veterans with “disability and additional complex needs”.

This requirement was awarded to First Choice Housing Association based in Penarth, South Wales. They will get over £2million from the UK government. First Choice currently provides 158 homes for over 480 tenants across Wales and Shropshire, and will provide support to former soldiers who are sick, injured or homeless to adjust to civilian life and get jobs. A total of £2.2m will be allocated to special needs housing schemes, specifically in Wrexham, Flintshire and Ceredigion through First Choice.

Stoll will run the housing referral scheme out of their West London headquarters, who will validate service record and housing needs to obtain access to the housing pathway projects,and provide benefit advice and assistance with administration, form-filling etc.

Is this a case of keeping the fit skilled de-mobs in England and dumping the injured ones in Wales? Will the MoD be handing over the ‘funding follows the patient’ to NHS Wales? Why is it ‘easier’ to find a job in Wrexham and Cerdigion rather than Essex or Hampshire if you are disabled or injured? Just asking.”

A week’s TA camp gets you a house in Ceredigion folks! From 1st Choice HA’s own site: “A veteran is defined as anyone who has served in the armed forces and has received seven days’ pay . This service can be the Regular Armed Forces or the Reserve.” (http://www.fcha.org.uk/VeteransPage.html)

I have already updated ny latest post. The Tizer will have to wait, got to be up in the morning; but tomorrow night it will be my favourite Argentine ‘Tizer’.

This is obviously funded colonisation. And the council knows it, that’s why Saywell and Jones figure so prominently, speaking Welsh. A case of the Welsh language being used to disguise that which will destroy it. And there’s something very odd about the couple from London. Why move to a small Welsh town you can’t even pronounce the name of if you don’t have a job to go to? And Mattocks looks very uncomfortable. What would a behaviourist make of his body language and facial expressions?

The projects development officer for Llandovery YMCA is Lee Mattocks who arrived in the town in 2011 from the north of England after being discharged from the British Army. Mattocks is now responsible for the large part of the spend at the Market Square premises, having taken over the ‘job club’ from David Saywell.

Here’s the video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0cOQFAfLU

You may notice in the video that they boast a key success of a couple on job seekers allowance who moved up from London and I quote ‘to escape from the rat race’. It is introduced by Glyn Jones, the Rural Community Inclusion Officer, employed by Carmarthenshire County Council.

Off topic here’s a video you and your readers will appreciate, it’s from a Yes for Scotland meeting in which former UK Ambassador Craig Murray talks incredibly frankly and honestly about Westminster’s true motives, Wales should take note https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQ8VVn8AJA&feature=share