This piece was prompted by someone asking me if I’d read an article recently published on the Nation.Cymru website. I smiled to myself, and responded in the negative.
But I went to the site anyway, and read ‘140 hectares of Welsh land purchased to restore woodland and nature habitat‘. Then one thing led to another, and here we are with yet another ‘quickie’.
Which means I must apologise again for the delay in the promised piece on the Rhug Estate. I have started, and it’s in the pipeline.
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CONNECTIONS
You may recall that earlier this month I wrote about 200m tall wind turbines being threatened for a hill to the east of Neath, in the Afan valley. That opus was called, Do They Know Where The Money’s Coming From? Do They Care?
(The answer to both questions is almost certainly No.)
The area under threat is Mynydd Fforch-dwm. The piece in Nation.Cymru a few days back concerned Brynau (pinned) and Cefn Morfudd. Fforch-dwm is to the east.
Back to the article, which was unattributed, suggesting it was a press release, and that N.T, funded by the so-called ‘Welsh Government’, has truly joined the Welsh media.
The article told us that Coed Cadw, the Welsh branch of the Woodland Trust, had “secured” 140 hectares at Cefn Morfudd to add to the 95 hectares previously acquired at Brynau farm.
Let’s look into it a little more. And as ever, the real question is, where’s the money coming from?
The purchase . . . supported by grants from Lloyds Bank and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, funding from People’s Postcode Lottery . . . donations . . . Moondance Foundation and the Banister Charitable Trust . . . grant from The Woodland Investment Grant (TWIG) scheme, a partnership between The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Welsh Government
Most look to be straightforward grants, but two piqued my interest.
The Moondance Foundation, is the charitable arm of the Admiral Insurance group. The company formed by American Henry Engelhardt, and Wales’ only FTSE 100 company.
But who now owns the group? Wikipedia says:
Admiral Group plc is owned by . . . shareholders, including the Moondance Foundation, Rothschild & Co, Fidelity Management & Research, and FIL Investment Advisors
In April 2021, Admiral finalised the sale of interests, that included its Cardiff-based price comparison firm Confused.com, to RVU for proceeds of £508m.
This is a reference to RVU, which in recent years seems to have bought up a number of well-known insurance companies. The RVU website gives us the timeline, and we see Confused.com under 2021.
The first entry mentions Silver Lake as a ‘US equity firm’. Silver Lake (Offshore) AIV GP V Ltd is the ultimate owner of RVU, and it’s registered in the Cayman Islands.
How often do we end up in the Caymans – or other sun-blest locales – when looking into planet savers?
The money for Coed Cadw at Bryn Morfudd may be coming from the Moondance Foundation, or the Moondance Foundation might simply be acting as a conduit. For having just mentioned so many hard-nosed investors, and tax haven companies, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we were looking at another bit of greenwashing.
The other name that caught my attention was the Banister Charitable Trust. But I couldn’t find a website, only references like this. It’s based in Bristol, the source of so much ‘green-ism’.
There is of course an entry on the Charity Commission website, which set me off down a few more rabbit-holes. Especially when I checked out the trustees.
Where we see two surnamed Banister, but above them, Ludlow Trust Company, which seems to manage other trusts. So what is the Ludlow Trust?
Let’s start with the website. Where we read:
Established in 2020 to acquire and manage the UK trust business of Coutts and the NatWest Group . . .
In 2024, Ludlow Trust also acquired the UK trust business of C. Hoare & Co.
So it’s a very recent creation, and it would appear to be in the business of saving people money, by way of avoiding taxes wherever possible, or investing in those areas offering reductions in tax, and other benefits.
The Companies House entry is also interesting. Looking through the recent grants I found a number of recipients based in Wales. (I include the Woodland Trust because there’s unlikely to be a separate payment to Coed Cadw.)
Tracking the ultimate ownership and control of the Banister Charitable Trust led me to Luxembourg, the EU’s internal tax haven. To be exact, 2 Rue des Gaulois and the Charter Trust Group.
It then comes back to London, and there’s an Isle of Man connection. But the point, I think, with both Moondance and Banister, is that the money offered may be rather more than no-strings-attached grants.
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THE BIT IN THE MIDDLE
To recap: In a recent post we looked at the 200m turbines planned for Mynydd Fforch-dwm, and now we’ve looked at Woodland Trust expanding its little empire at Brynau and Cefn Morfudd.
But if we look again at the map, we see there’s a bit in between, Mynydd Blaenafon, so who owns this?
To find out I obviously went to the Land Registry website. Here’s the title document I downloaded. You’ll see the land was bought in September 2020, for £525,000, by Peter Jeffrey Solly, of Exeter in Devon, who has a chequered record.
Solly’s also in the business of saving the planet . . . or of making money from pretending to do so. For the ‘Natural capital’ he mentions is the scam of scams. Described by the European Investment Bank thus:
Natural capital is the value of everything that comes from nature — soil, air, water and all living creatures
This is the Greensters dream – get politicians to introduce subsidies, grants and tax breaks for just about anything. Buy a field and claim it’s capturing carbon, breeding worms, or providing a habitat for moles – then wait for the lucre to roll in.
And when things start growing in your field . . . well, you’ll be able to order your private jet to get to the January knees-ups in Davos.
And you can even demand payment for the air above your field.
This explains why assorted corporations, asset managers, hedge funds, tax avoidance specialists, investors, etc., are buying up just about every parcel of land they can.
Though in the case of Solly his ambitions tread an already well-worn path. Because if we look more closely at the title document we see, at the very end:
He has a lease agreement with a company called Mynydd Fforch Dwm Wind Energy 2021 Ltd. This is a front for Naturalis, which we read about in the earlier piece. So I won’t go over the links again.
What I find intriguing though is the timing. Solly bought the land at Mynydd Blaenafon in September 2020. The Naturalis website for Mynydd Fforch Dwm Wind Farm is also dated 2020.
Is Solly working with, or for, the company behind the plan for Mynydd Fforch-dwm? Was he tipped off? Then again, is Mynydd Fforch-dwm a red herring, and are the turbines really planned for Mynydd Blaenafon?
Or are turbines planned on both mountains? God knows there are enough in the area already. Maybe somebody’s hoping a couple of dozen more won’t be noticed.
I’m not sure what exactly’s happening, but it begins to look a little complicated, maybe even devious. So here’s a thought . . .
According to the Land Registry, Mynydd Fforch-dwm is still in Welsh ownership. The owner has entered into an agreement with Mynydd Fforch Dwm Wind Energy 2021 Ltd.
While next door, the land at Mynydd Blaenafon was sold outright to Peter Jeffrey Solly. So was the previous owner, the Welsh owner, unaware of the turbine plans?
Worth asking, because everywhere we look in modern Wales we see Welsh people losing out, being displaced. We own less of Wales now than at any time in our history. Certainly less than we did before devolution.
That’s what 26 years of socialist rule under Labour and Plaid Cymru has achieved.
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CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
In our former mining valleys today it seems as if all land outside towns and villages is to be given over to wind farms. All of them foreign owned, with vast profits flooding out of Wales every day.
But why be surprised – this is Globalism. The land is bought up, cleared, exploited, and people are confined to 15-minute settlements, with travelling discouraged.
Superficially, and from a Welsh perspective, it may look bleak. But with President Trump declaring the ‘climate emergency’ to be a scam, and J D Vance humiliating the Globalist puppets running Europe, our enemy’s agenda is under real threat.
Starmer has a massive majority in MPs, but little popular support (less credibility). The EU is tottering. Germany goes to the polls on the 23rd. The war in Ukraine will soon end, and there’ll be huge revelations that not even the BBC will be able to ignore.
Thinking more locally – Labour will lose the 2026 Senedd elections. And many or most of the council by-elections between now and then.
So hang on in there. Better times are a-coming!
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© Royston Jones 2025
The total amount of funding that has been paid to organisations based in Uganda
since 2018-19 to June 2023 is £177,981. An annual breakdown of the payments is
provided at Annex A. For clarity, payments of the same type have been combined,
as outlined in the question.
A2. The total cost of travel to Uganda since 2018-19 is £12,976.77. This covers nine
separate visits made by Welsh Government staff who work on the Wales and Africa
programme and staff who have taken part in our International Learning
Opportunities programme. No Welsh Government Ministers have travelled to
Uganda in this period.
For clarity, the Welsh Government does not hold information about the cost of travel
for Members of the Senedd who do not hold a Ministerial position. This would be
provided by the Senedd Commission.
A3. Since the programme began in 2009, the Welsh Government has provided
£3,345,882 to the Size of Wales programme for the Mbale tree planting project.
Other organisations also contribute towards the project.
Jane Hutt announced she’s diving out of a ground floor window at next election. Any of the present crop of Labour A.S’s declared an intention to fight at that election ? or is a white towel part of a free issue kit they recently received ? They invented the corrupt voting system for 2026 and they can now see how it’s turned into a poisoned pill. Good riddance to the lot of them.
To me this looks like an admission of failure for 26 years (27 come the election), in the hope we won’t hold it against a fresh crop of Labour candidates. Because this is the only hope Labour has of winning.
But most of this new crop will have come through the ranks as SpAds, have worked in the third sector or for a pressure group, and will have been fully inculcated with the Woke bollocks. And I have no doubt there’ll be one or two ‘women’ with willies and a couple of madam’s apples.
Next year’s election is really going to be fun!
£3,345,882 to the Size of Wales programme for the Mbale tree planting project.
Other organisations also contribute towards the project.This is from a foi extract…funding for planting trees out of our money in Africa…
This an aside Jac – have you seen that Nathan Gill has been charged with fraud?
Fraud, or being a fraud ?
charged with fraud on 8 counts.
Following an investigation by counter terrorism police, Nathan Gill has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, under the Criminal Law Act 1977, and with eight counts of bribery, under the Bribery Act, 2010.
Expect HRH King Donald to demand that all charges are dropped.
If you’re referring to Trump, why would he do that?
Read about Trump’s attempts to intervene in Andrew Tate’s rape and human trafficking cases in Romania.
I’m not sure who Tate is. There was a Tate played for the Swans a few years back. But whoever he is, is this a matter of global significance?
Hm. Pollsters discovered 63 per cent of British adults have heard of Tate.
Massive following on X(crement).
“Trump administration presses Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate” – Financial Times, 17 Feb 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate
Outside my orbit. But would that be the same corrupt Romanian regime that cancelled the recent presidential election because an anti-Globalist candidate won?
Yeah, right. Putin’s corrupt Russian kleptocracy interferes with the Romanian elections and blames Romania. Trump parrots Putin, blaming Ukraine for the Russian invasion. Putin attacks western democracies with accusations of smothering free speeech whilst Putin’s opponents mysteriously fall out of hospital wimdows to their deaths.
Sad.
I suppose that it must be sad seeing even the right-of-sensible on TalkTV, Hately-Brouha and concrete farmer Mike Graham distancing themselves from Trump and Putin.
But Liz Truss is with you down the rabbit hole, believing the Krembot Krap and diktats from the Orange Gibbon.
Yeah, sad indeed.
Calm down, you’re losing it.
“Reading the charges to the court, Richard Link, a Crown Prosecution Service solicitor, said Gill stood accused of accepting payment to “make statements [which] had a particular narrative that would have been seen to benefit Russia in relation to events in Ukraine at the time”.”
“The senior district judge Paul Goldspring told Gill that he was sending the case to the Old Bailey and instructed him to appear there on 14 March.”
“Reform UK has said Gill was never a member of the party but confirmed that he had the official status of being a supporter.” – The Guardian, 24 Feb 2025.
There’s only one member of Reform UK and he’s Nigel Farage. Many think that they are Reform UK members, but they’re merely on the fan club list.
This was long before the war started. Which means he accepted money to speak on a particular issue? But all politicians do that. Far worse is taking money to work in the shadows.
And why is what happened in the EU parliament a matter for an English court?
“But all politicians do that?”
The cash for questions scandal
“Far worse is taking money to work in the shadows.”
At GBNews
“And why is what happened in the EU parliament a matter for an English court?”
British national elected to represent the people and interests of Wales when the UK was a member of the EU.
Further reading.
“Welsh politician linked to men accused of being Kremlin agents” – Nation Cymru, 20 Mar 2023. https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-politician-linked-to-men-accused-of-being-kremlin-agents/
I’m assuming he didn’t declare the payment? Otherwise, I can’t see what he’s done wrong. In 2018 the UK was not ar war with Russia. The UK is still not at war with Russia. So appart from non-declaration, I don’t see what crime he could have committed by speaking on behalf of Russia or, more mysteriously, ‘Russian interests’.
I really don’t think this is about Gill, it’s part of Starmer and Macron playing the hard men. And very unconvincingly. With an element of damaging Reform thrown in for good measure.
My considered opinion? Bollocks!
“I don’t see what crime he could have committed”
One count of conspiracy to commit bribery, under the Criminal Law Act 1977, and eight counts of bribery, under the Bribery Act, 2010.
The fact that Britain is not at war with Russia is irrelevant. If Burgess and Maclean had been detained here and tried they’d have been shot in the Tower of London.
Will Trump give a posthumous pardon to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
But ‘bribery’ to do what that was unlawful? There is no such thing as bribery of itself.
The trial is set for 14 March at The Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) so, we’ll soon find out.
Gill could tell Trump that he bought a Humvee.
Stop joking! This a serious matter. Democracy is under threat – from those hypocritical scumbags claiming to be defending it with censorship, bans, and arrests of political critics.
I’ve read through that BBC report and I can’t see who Gill is supposed to have bribed.
If I give you money, it’s a gift. If I give you money in return for goods or services it’s a business transaction. If you were a public official and I gave you money to influence a decision you make, that would be bribery.
But I see no suggestion of that third option. And, anyway, he was in no position to influence EU decision making.
Remind me. Who wanted to overthrow a democratically elected President of the United States of America and got a gang of armed thugs to storm Washington DC? Who invaded Ukraine with the aim of removing the democratically elected government? Who has threatened to invade the democracies of Canada, Mexico and Greenland?
Which political party in the UK wants to repeal the Human Rights Act?
What has this rant got to do with anything?
It’s a reply to your claim: “Democracy is under threat – from those hypocritical scumbags claiming to be defending it with censorship, bans, and arrests of political critics.”
Also, as examples of anti-democratic behaviour, Trump bans books in schools and public libraries and he has a hit list of political opponents he wants to jail and Blue States he wishes to crush.
The EU Commission is talking openly of banning X because it gives a platform to critics, and because – unlike the MSM – it’s beyond Globalist control. Politicians in Germany wanted to ban AfD – because it was getting too popular with its anti-Globalist message. In Romania the EU successfully invalidated the result of a democratic presidential election – because an anti-Globalist won.
Like a majority of people Trump wants to ban books sexualising young children. Books spouting biological bullshit about women with penises, and men having babies. Books telling white kids they’re evil and should be exterminated. If he has a hit list it’s made up of those not obeying the law.
We could go on, but there’d be no point. We’re never going to agree. So leave it there.
Those thinking that fascism is “anti-globalist” and needs to be promoted have X(crement), where facts are irrelevant.
Strange how there are billionaire globalists funding and supporting people and eorganisations that claim to be ‘of the people’, but they are anti human rights, anti workers and anti product safety.
Equally strange, here in Britain, the big money for Reform UK Ltd comes from filthy rich layabouts – Like the Rentiers of pre-Revolution France.
Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the election, not the EU.
If you think that Steven King’s books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain and “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank were banned in Florida public libraries for the reasons you have given, please give quotes.
Go away, you’re being silly and immature now.
A cartoon of Hitler – How can my facts, such as the EU can no more annul a Romanian presidential election than they can cancel a US presidential election, compete?
Talking to yourself now.
What we don’t want is the 22 15 story office blocks that goes with this especially on an sssi. Its unwanted and and eyesore. Cardiff Council stated that they would back it but also stated that they don’t want anyone office space as it competes with the dieing centre. Its the assembly that pushed for it or should I say the Labour Party, why. Why not just put the little concrete platforms along the community and join everything up and enhance the circular economy and boost the use of rail. We have a railway service from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff that was created in the 1990s and just put little stations along all the communities but missed out the Newport to Cardiff communities. The question is who is the real beneficiaries of the unwanted office blocks about to blight the sssi? This is why the other stations were missed out and the unwanted st Mellons station went ahead. It made a mockery of the so called future generations minister and the assembly environmental policies and mostly democracy. I attach a photo of the little station at risca on the Ebbw Vale to Cardiff Railway.
X710 F2LGHPCCRA Rural Payments Current Grants to private sector RHUG FARM 09.10.2024 6.3E+09 -145,693.03 This is off the Wgovs expenditure..always 6 months behind these days…but they have received £145K from the wgov in October…and maybe in the past havent checked…but thought u may be interested…
Thanks for the info. I’m sure I’ll work this into the piece I’m working on.
Herewith the companies involved with the dubious super station at St.mellons Cardiff which the assembly is supporting with £10m it was vigorously opposed by the people and was called in but objection overturned by Eluned Morgan. This stinks.
If you trace back the ownership of Hendre Lakes Developments Ltd you come to Investec, which is owned by the Rathbone Group. A member of the Rathbone family is Jenny Rathbone, the Labour MS for Cardiff Central. Small world, innit!
I’m afraid to say that a new railway station in Wales is invariably a good thing in my book, within reasonable bounds. Avail yourself of a map circa a hundred years ago and profoundly weep, like I always do, at the network we once had, and at the pitiful, extractive pastiche that remains.
I don’t argue with your general premise of ‘More railway stations (and lines) good’. The issue is yet more jobs and investment in Cardiff. Those new stations and lines are needed elsewhere. Reinstating the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line would be a good start.
Yes, well said. Any government serious about ‘levelling up’, in Cardiff or London wouldn’t be prioritising the likes of HS2 or the South Wales Metro over say reinstatement of a direct link between Preston and Southport, or Carmarthen to Aberystwyth.
well Beeching or however you spell it was a disaster for the whole of the UK as it was so short sighted but at the time it was the rise of the personal mode of transport lol and road transport M1 M6 etc…other countries kept their freight lines…ooops…but I dont think the brits are really that bright…
It’d be something if it was down to short-sightedness or folly, but it was a complete and utter stitch-up. Beeching, as much as I detest the man, was only commissioned to write a report. Ernest Marples was the real villain of the piece. The transport minister who’d offloaded his majority shareholdings in a road building company to his wife. I’d like to think Beelzebub is sodomising him with an array of prickly implements as we speak.
Interesting to see that Washington Post has twigged that the carbon credit racket is going flat out in Scotland. Perhaps their attention should be drawn to Wales where all those remote anonymous landowners are snapping up land and climbing on to the grift wagon.
Coutts is a huge Bank….and you are looking at old directors and old money including the Queen Mothers…Nigel Farage had an argument with them…you are 100pc in what you say but I dont know how you stop this…its the gravy train ..and Wales and their friends are well established in it. I do believe that about 30 years ago…could be so wrong that parts of Snowdon were sold off to the public..lol…and I am not going to refer to it by its new name as its incorrect…lol…
It’s all about diversifying investments, reducing the risk. Saving the planet is incidental if it’s a consideration at all.
Dev Bank of Wales most prob has its fingers in the pie by the back door.
Thank you for this and at least for those of us following and looking at the unfolding plans over the year, especially down to the “anything but Green Plots” We have now gone from No hope to a Good bit of hope that common sense will finally kick in and stop this deliberate destruction. The best is yet to come.
Common sense, facts, biological truths, the laws of physics, the will of the people, these can only be denied for so long.
I wish I shared your optimism…I think more and more these days the truth is being covered up…if you watch 5am news…whats there has gone by 9am…pulled…this week somewhere in S England they saw bright lights in the sky which looked like debris coming down…with video of it…nothing on the internet and not a word since..lol…aliens…haha…but u gotta laugh but makes you think…
Some way off topic I note that your old bete noir Lesley G is going to quit the Senedd at 2026 elections. That’s 9 or 10 so far I wonder what’s prompted this sudden rush for the door ? Maybe she’s got a nice little number lined up with Bute Energy or some similar extractive outfit . Despite the half tidy pension provisions these politicians don’t half like to top up with some juicy fees and part time salaries.
Or she might have to look elsewhere for sinecures especially if those ‘orrible people from Reform get their hands on the levers of power down the Bay. Bubble burst and net zero given the bum’s rush. No more Bute or other dodgy extractors to fund a cushy retirement. The future looks bleak for Lesley and others. For the rest of us maybe a ray of sunshine on the eastern horizon …..
There’ll be many more Labour MSs leaving. Rathbone and Hutt being just two of the certainties. But I wouldn’t rule out any of them abandoning the sinking ship. The sinking ship is not just the Labour party, but devolution itself. Wrecked by Labour, ably assisted by Plaid Cymru.
Least we forget Plaid who feed of hate, hate of the English and support the collapse of Wales for their own ends…onto the Welsh speaking band wagon of everything in 2 languages and on and on it goes…
The only people Plaid hate nowadays are the working class and the ‘far right’, which in their world is very much the same thing. Oh, and of course the new President of the USA and his team.
I remember as do you the cottages burning on Ynys Mon and I totally get it…ppl wanted better houses so they took up the offer of council houses to get out of the damp cottages they were in because even then their landlords didnt keep them up to decent standards and non local ppl saw them as deserted, unwanted and bought them up…and here we are…
Worst thing that ever happend to Wales was devolution…
It didn’t have to be like this, but that’s how it’s turned out.
“Power devolved is power retained” should have been a big red flag in retrospect.
May I ask, are you a supporter of independence? Your answer would provide the requisite sentiment and context to your comments here.
The worst thing that ever happened to Wales was independence…
I’m guessing you meant devolution and you’re probably right. Our man Jac here has written a few times on how devolution is in no way independence-lite or in some way sitting somewhere along a continuum between London rule and independence. I suggest you have a search on here.
well, I stlightly exaggerated…but everything is more or less devolved to Wales which is why we are in such a mess. Even Marine Licencing is now devolved so all these friends have control over the planning apps for offshore turbines etc…before it was UK Govt and based in the N East…so…when you hear Starmer prattle on about the NHS its only applies to England and yes we have to basically follow planning law as the 1990 Town and Country Act covers us…its a difficult one…transport is devolved to Wales and we millions a year on it…its a scarey amount of money for a service that doesnt work..and the 20mph which is going to cost local govt 10K per road to reverse…so being as they are broke they wont..promise yet, do..no…have a look at this link…its always interesting…but its now running 6 months behind..https://www.gov.wales/welsh-government-expenditure-over-25000 it is in ods format but there are free progs that will open it apache for one..they used to provide it in pdf but they dont…so deliberately making it harder for ppl to access?…you can then save it as an xl file and change the column width perameters so you can see it better lol…its an education…all the best…
I was rushing yesterday and most prob should have said devolution or clarified my comment better…but as I have said…everything pretty much is devolved to Wales and MPs here have no power and therefore a waste of public money…it is up to the Wgov how to spend the money they get and I agree that the Barnet formula isnt really fair…but we are in very strange times, least thats what I think and see us here just fall into a 3rd world country.
I’ll reply to both your comments here. Firstly you contradict yourself pretty conclusively by claiming we have almost total autonomy but also that we’re subject to an Act passed by Westminster almost a decade prior to devolution being implemented, within the same paragraph! Furthermore, railway infrastructure is most definitely a reserved matter under the remit of the UK Parliament, who incidentally declared HS2 to be an England and Wales project, funding-wise, but not an all-GB or all-UK project. Scotland’s railways are obviously part of the same physical network, and NI is still part of the same sovereign state, so what gives?
20mph was a complete and utter folly but my argument is it makes the case for a fully sovereign parliament answerable only to the people of Wales. Contrast the public uproar and consequent ‘U-turn'(pun intended) with how the hell we’d have pressured the British Parliament to undertake such a reversal of a unanimously disliked policy. Tryweryn immediately springs to mind.
As regards ODT formatted documents being some attempt at obfuscation of data, that’s a bit of a reach, as anyone with such a fine-grained level of interest and attention to government expenditure, not to say the nous required to pursue such an interest, could surely Google search and avail themselves of LibreOffice and open the file. These are free and open source file formats and applications, so I’d surmise it to be a software licencing (i.e. cost) issue behind their use – not to be an apologist or defender for this mob, of course!
Contradiction?.. The Wg were offered taxation but refused it..u bet! The justice system and policing is still more or less under the UK govt..what else pray tell..if we had a sovereign govt I would leave to get a better life rather than sit and die in AE after 2 days following a RTA no water or food..u are entitled to your opinion..cofiwch Dryweryn..but the world is a tribal primitive place whats yours is mine and whats mine is my own..
Apologies I should have said NI that still remains uk govt but taxation 2017 or parts of it and the ability to borrow are in the wgovs remit however it goes to HMRC and the Eng govt can rule against the Wgov..everything else is devolved..but this is just being petty..I work in IT and I am dyslexic..and tbh jac knows it all in a way I havent the time to. Credit to him.
One could go back and forth on the minutiae of what’s devolved and what isn’t, and on who to blame for the state Wales is in forever, but there are a few key facts I know to be true. Wales is to all intents and purposes ruled by a neighbour 18 times larger in population, where even per capita far more wealth and opportunity find themselves. Trust me on that one as I’ve worked and travelled all over this island. Countless nations of comparable or smaller size all over Europe and beyond are independent and doing better than Wales is. Now it’s up to you to decide for yourself whether given these indisputable facts, you believe we should chart our own course for better days ahead. I myself do, and I say as much with a great love of England and her people I might add.
Then David, thats fine, if its what you want and I dont argue with ppl over what they want its up to the individual and a healthy debate usually educates everyone – well in theory lol..as to the pros and cons of life the universe etc. Its my personal experience over the decades dealing with issues such as planning law and the twisting of legislation to suit the “crime” lol…and so..my opinion is that the last 25 years of Welsh Govt proves to me that we are going down the rabit hole and that is my issue…but thank you for your time and debate..
Likewise, but I do have a request, if I may. Check out Jac’s blogs on how devolution is in no way indy-lite. It opened my eyes to a new way of thinking of the issue. Perhaps the man himself will offer a recommendation in reply here…
I will, no doubt catch up at the nxt blog.
Yep