tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post4027246723627889576..comments2023-11-05T09:37:36.840+01:00Comments on A View From Rural Wales: Spanish Report - No 3. A ray of 'sunshine'.Glyn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442114752573417252noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-79191468382717878962008-10-01T10:05:00.000+01:002008-10-01T10:05:00.000+01:00Christopher - Not equipped to answer that one - bu...Christopher - Not equipped to answer that one - but it looks as if it will be signed in some form. In passing, I've not seen a President so weakened since Carter at the end of his term.<BR/><BR/>anon - My local paper does give a huge amount of publicity to the local MP, but I've never had any complaint about that. Like you I'm not sure that it does him much good. And I've always felt that the County Times has been fair to me.<BR/> Because of the approach to politics taken by our MP, I'm reluctant to go down the same road, and try to keep a balance between publicity and being seen as too pushy. My campaign is essentially going direct to the people. Biggest problem I have is keeping up with the issues that people are bringing to my office. I feel a bit like a 'voluntary' MP at the moment.Glyn Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344589217554138315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-63149427387908153192008-09-30T23:28:00.000+01:002008-09-30T23:28:00.000+01:00Have not seen the County Times this week because I...Have not seen the County Times this week because I now refuse to buy it, such is their insistence on printing pictures of that awful Lembit man. And going way OTT with him. You could argue that they are harming LO's cause ( if he has one, apart from promoting his own monstrous ego) for a couple of reasons: the first being that the more he appears, the more fed up we locals become, Let's face it, more often than not, he's so blatantly pushing himself and just looking like an idiot in doing so. The second being that a lot of local people are now refusing to buy the County Times paper because of their partisan attitude towards the Lib Dums. I know for a fact that this is the case. So whilst you might be fed up that they don't give you the coverage you deserve, Glyn, in a roundabout way they might well be doing you a favour. People are not stupid. No one here has an ounce of respect for this excuse for an MP. The more the local paper pretends he's a person of substance, the more cynical we become and the more determined to vote for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-66655509184337315572008-09-29T23:20:00.000+01:002008-09-29T23:20:00.000+01:00OK ... an 'aside' but a pretty BIG one 'actually'....OK ... an 'aside' but a pretty BIG one 'actually'. What's your take on the failed 'bailout vote" (re: House of Representatives)? <BR/><BR/>It seemed to me that in some extreme left-wing quarters that there was much anticipated glee, even frothing at the mouth, at the demise of the financial sector in the USA - never mind that it will likely (has already) rebound all over the shop including main-street Wales.Dr. Christopher Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09066490027824527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-14790714737581213752008-09-27T11:30:00.000+01:002008-09-27T11:30:00.000+01:00Anon - but how true is the maxim that no publicity...Anon - but how true is the maxim that no publicity is bad publicity?<BR/><BR/>Anon 2 - Sorry to read of your disillusionment. But you will have to explain a little more about what is partisan about this post, before I can respond properly to you. I do not think that I absolved any past Governmnet from blame. I can only say that the inevitability of more nuclear generating capacity and a move to incineration only became obvious to me around 4/5 years ago.Glyn Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344589217554138315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-52574194923871497532008-09-26T22:03:00.000+01:002008-09-26T22:03:00.000+01:00Glyn, our energy crisis can indeed be laid at the ...Glyn, our energy crisis can indeed be laid at the labour door or dithering, but many of the issues hark mback to conservative glory days of the 80's and the foolish wasting of our north sea energy reserves - arguably the reason France now leads the nuclear world and we don't.<BR/>You really are becoming a very typical westminster tory whcih is a shame as you had at one point secured my vote - ebbing away now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-56170576836838340762008-09-26T13:25:00.000+01:002008-09-26T13:25:00.000+01:00Sun is shining here too! Your opponent has once ag...Sun is shining here too! <BR/><BR/>Your opponent has once again excelled himself in twitdom in th Count Times this week! Several pics of him of course, and one particularly looking a complete idiot - and he wants to be president of the Lib Dems! - Dream on LemsipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com