Is Vaughan Gething the man to watch? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Siope

Have to love whitesplaining, especially from folk who can’t tell two different ethnic backgrounds apart.

My family members are the ones I'd ask for guidance not a Gransetter.

There’s not really too many classifications 62Granny
Asians originate from Asia and black folk are of African descent

Siope

Have to love whitesplaining, especially from folk who can’t tell two different ethnic backgrounds apart.

Would you like to write out full guidance please?
As wide-ranging and comprehensive as possible

BlueBelle

There’s not really too many classifications 62Granny
Asians originate from Asia and black folk are of African descent

As DH has a cousin who has Maori ancestors, how would Siope describe him please?

I preffered the bother one. I thought he spoke a lot of sense.

Aren’t they a different race classification Callustemon, Polynesian? One of my nephews in Australia’s wife is half Māori. Mind, I guess the chance of us having a Māori first minister is somewhat more remote than one of Afro- Caribbean descent.

Yes they are.
It would be interesting to have a Mãori First Minister especially as this cousin has Welsh ancestry too 🙂

(I was answering Siope's rather patronising post.)

A Māori would be described as of Polynesia decent but not too many clamouring to be in British Politics I don’t think

I'll ask if he's interested 😁
But I very much doubt it.

Casdon

Visgir1

Urmstongran

"I have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any European country" So what colour is Rishi then, green?

Mixed Race and check out Rushi Sunak think you might notice something.

He means of Afro-Caribbean descent, as opposed to Asian, and in that regard he is correct. His mother was a Zambian chicken farmer, his father a Welsh vet.

Sorry Casdon, but Afro Caribbean is not African. Not sure if I've misunderstood your comment though.

I just meant they are both black in terms of race classification, sorry if I confused the issue.

Well, if his mother was a chicken farmer, perhaps he'll have some experience of the consequences of poultry farming and be able to stop all the pollution of the River Wye from chicken farms upstream.

Although his eco credentials might be in doubt as this man bankrolled his leadership campaign:
In 2013 the group’s director, David John Neal, was convicted at Cardiff Magistrates Court of illegally dumping waste in a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the Gwent Levels and given a three-month suspended sentence.

The economy – which is Gething’s most recent brief? Wales has the weakest economy in Britain. Council tax has risen faster in Wales, too: up by 32.4 per cent in Wales since 2018 compared with 29.8 per cent in England. Mercifully for Welsh taxpayers, the Welsh government doesn’t have the same powers to vary income tax that the Scottish government has – otherwise, they would no doubt be paying more from their pay packets, too.

Crime? Yes, you’ve guessed it. Recorded offences have increased faster in Wales than in England, up nearly 50 per cent since 2016. And so it goes on.

Wales’ miserable performance relative to England – and also Scotland – matters because we will soon be in an election campaign in which Sir Keir Starmer is determined to make competence a central issue. He will presumably be counting on voters not taking too much notice of the living laboratory that is Wales, because it offers very little to suggest that Labour is capable of making a better fist of things than either the Conservatives in England or the SNP in Scotland.

OMG

I'm living in a laboratory 😂

We’re all an absolute waste of space in Wales Urmstongran, from the politicians to the economy, education, health, environment, the language - you name it we’re beyond the pale. In fact, I don’t know how we dare position our rubbish country so close to you.

There, does that make you feel better?

Recorded offences have increased faster in Wales than in England, up nearly 50 per cent since 2016

Many of the burglaries are perpetrated by gangs coming over the border from the Midlands.

South Wales loves Labour and all those cushy quango and public sector jobs; thats why they vote for them.

Devolution has not been kind to Wales.

And drugs gangs.

Calli it gives me no pleasure to say these things.

Could you please stop your criminal gangs, drugs gangs crossing the border and targeting us and our youngsters?

Our crime rate might go down then.

Me neither.
We are all one nation.

Urmstongran

South Wales loves Labour and all those cushy quango and public sector jobs; thats why they vote for them.

Devolution has not been kind to Wales.

You do talk sh..e at times. One thing I think we can guarantee is that Wales will never be a Reform stronghold, so I don’t think we expect you to understand the industrial history and legacy of South Wales.

I do wonder sometimes if devolution was a good idea though.

It has caused rifts and divisiveness.

And before England ruled

Callistemon21

Could you please stop your criminal gangs, drugs gangs crossing the border and targeting us and our youngsters?

Our crime rate might go down then.

I wish I could Calli. But supply follows demand. And there is much money to be made. If those who ‘enjoy a line or two’ at their dinner parties would only stop to think ‘how did this arrive in my house’ eh? County line boys on their bicycles delivering to middle class ‘enjoyers’. It’s so sad.