tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post7773557882433180689..comments2023-09-29T09:07:24.854+01:00Comments on Ceredig: Does size matterCeredighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328928643766735216noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post-90603459578556449612008-03-19T14:32:00.000+00:002008-03-19T14:32:00.000+00:00Pourquoi? I think that the question of Welsh Inde...Pourquoi? I think that the question of Welsh Independence is one for the people of Wales to decide on rather than French presidential candidates, n'est-ce pas?Ceredighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328928643766735216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post-37037161833972215862008-03-18T23:59:00.000+00:002008-03-18T23:59:00.000+00:00Congrats for the awesome Blog!Could you please com...Congrats for the awesome Blog!<BR/><BR/>Could you please comment about the Segolene Royal affair at Harvard regarding her reported support for the independence of the US territory of Porto Rico?<BR/><BR/>http://5-yearslater.com/index.php/2008/03/14/2118-segolene-royal-favorable-a-l-independance-de-porto-rico<BR/> <BR/>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9gol%C3%A8ne_Royal#L.27affair:Caribbean Welsh Bridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07609091390885800256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post-13712539611340664462008-03-07T12:20:00.000+00:002008-03-07T12:20:00.000+00:00Marcus,"So people have the dually contradictory de...Marcus,<BR/><BR/><I>"So people have the dually contradictory demand of 'localised' public services, but no postcode lottery."</I><BR/><BR/>Absolutely. This goes to the very heart of the argument - local control versus consistency and standards. The two ideas pull in opposite directions, inevitably. I tend towards local control, accepting the inevitable differences which that produces; but I Ceredighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328928643766735216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post-24575126810390135922008-03-06T19:25:00.000+00:002008-03-06T19:25:00.000+00:00Ceredig,Excellent post comrade.My own view is that...Ceredig,<BR/><BR/>Excellent post comrade.<BR/><BR/>My own view is that many of the supporters of 'localism' (which doesn't include you) seem to want local decision to be made until one is made that they dont agree with. In my own constituency in Torfaen, Mike German called on the WAG to overrule a Torfaen Council decision to closer Blaenavon pool, but you will not find any statement from German Southpaw Grammarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02195993493927781388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post-3610172093513654782008-03-06T09:50:00.000+00:002008-03-06T09:50:00.000+00:00Draig,I'm not sure that it's the 'concepts' of Lef...Draig,<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure that it's the 'concepts' of Left and Right which are obsolete so much as the terminology and definition.<BR/><BR/>Part of the problem has always been the "Queen of Hearts" approach to language - words meaning whatever the people using them intend them to mean. Thus 'socialism' can mean anything from the 'national socialism' of Hitler, through the 'state socialism' ofCeredighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328928643766735216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6517537567072747632.post-71597447205098907092008-03-06T09:27:00.000+00:002008-03-06T09:27:00.000+00:00Comment from Draig moved by Ceredig to this thread...Comment from Draig moved by Ceredig to this thread:<BR/><BR/>Ceredig,<BR/><BR/>Really thought-provoking post here. My frustration I guess is that I'm not sure the blog format supports an equally thoughtful response from responders such as myself.<BR/><BR/>But I'll have a go anyway!<BR/><BR/>I think in the world we live in today, concepts such as centralism/decentralism are far more pertinent thanCeredighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328928643766735216noreply@blogger.com