Thank you for your kind words Dafis! My fear is that Father Time will have caught up with me by the time I can accept that post! He’s tight on my heels by now. But hey! Stranger things have happened on the way to the ‘fair’.

Judging by the way some new parties on the European continent and further afield have exploded on to the scene with breath taking speed, AND got into the heart of government, who knows? With careful diligence, straight & truthful words and actions from hard working members with REAL conviction – who knows? We have to get stuck in with workmanlike conviction and then we CAN make our dream a reality.

A further thought on ‘One Nation’: it is a bit ‘One Nation Conservative’ and we know where that leads. To ONE nation. The BRITISH nation. Fight divisive separatism and all that.

Lateral thinking is needed mainly because there are so many minefields for the unwary.

here’s a chance to launch a Party with purposes other than political activities , by offering the electorate added value services instead of boring posturing platitudes ! Gee you could be the first Technical Director appointed by any political party, and have the credentials to make a real fist of it unlike some of the financially illiterate tosspots who have occupied the infamous No 11.

Sorry to expose my technical ‘anorak’ tendencies here, but by way of an explanation:

Dixons (now of course mated up with PC World) launched Freeserve in 1998, and it was subsumed into France Télécom’s Wanadoo in 2000. Then France Télécom bought Orange UK, and changed its branding to Orange SA. In 2010, Orange UK merged with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile UK to become EE (Everything Everywhere – unless you live in hilly Cymru!). Finally, BT bought EE for £12.5bn, completing the deal in January 2016. THAT’S when the problems started, because BT have always had a policy of running what’s called ‘closed relay’ mail servers – the monopoly loving twats – I should know, I was a technical officer with BT’s predecessor (before it got nabbed by Thatcher the milk snatcher who privatised the service) the ‘good ol’ GPO – remember them? We were all Civil Servants in those days all PROPERLY qualified to a recognised standard, with all the Civil Service perks. Lucky me – I even had to sign the Official Secrets Act in those days of sense and stability, but I digress.

Consequently BT will allow you to receive mail from any address, but to send mail you have to use their BT e-mail address that you get when you sign up with them. If you have your own domain name, and wish to use their mail servers with your personal e-mail address, then you have to go through a purposely long winded procedure to register your domain with them. If you don’t use that domain to send enough e-mails, you’ll find you can’t send mails through their servers once again. Slimy, awkward swines. My advice? Find a proper ISP that uses open relay servers – like all the good guys do. Try TalkTalk – or someone similar. My advice? Don’t touch BT with a barge pole.

According to an announcement by EE (now BT), with Orange E-mail closure, it is killing off a long list of email addresses. These include Orange.net, Orangehome.co.uk, Wanadoo.co.uk, Freeserve.co.uk, Fsbusiness.co.uk, Fslife.co.uk, Fsmail.net, Fsworld.co.uk and Fsnet.co.uk. All of them used to use open relay servers, now that they are swallowed up by BT, they of course all fall foul of BT’s closed relay mail server policy. The public and industry increasingly has to suffer because of this. Ironic really, because Thatcher blew the GPO into chunks of private industry cash cows for her Tory shareholding friends to get their hands on lots of easy cash – her excuse for doing that? She said the GPO was A MONOPOLY!!! It’s only a puppet! As some comedian once famously used to say!

Now, wasn’t that a refreshing change from posting comments about politics? See – not just a ‘one trick pony’ are we?

Let’s hope so.

That’s interesting. Cathy Owens, Director of the public affairs consultancy Deryn, hasn’t tweeted since 6 November. That’s the day before Carl Sargeant died. Somewhat unusual considering she’s a 1,000 plus tweets a year woman. On average you’d have expected around 100 more tweets by now.

Her tweet on 6th:

“Journo: come to London to talk Westminster misconduct
Me: no, but can discuss misconduct in Wales
Journo: we are not interested in that”

Hmmm. Since the only “misconduct” (sexual) we’ve heard about in the Assembly relates to the Carl Sargeant affair, I wonder if that was what she was prepared to discuss?

When that volcano referred to by Big Gee does erupt, I think it’s going to bury a lot of big names in the lava flow.

Make enquiries.

P.S. Why do e-mails sent to your address get bounced? Been trying to reach you.

That was the point I was making about A.M’s …..”Few if any stick out as ideological rebels….” As for people “ar lawr gwlad” I just don’t know whether there is/will be a move to a more “traditional” Labour sentiment or is that dead and gone to all intents and purposes ? The chancers down the Bay may have a feel for this and if they think it smells good then you might get a Skates ( is there anyone else so vividly oily and Blairite ?) stepping out of the fog once a lot of posturing and belly button gazing has been undertaken. The mystery surrounding the absence of any written statements from alleged victims should provide some initial ammo for any attempt to unseat the resident buffoon.