tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post338476437407954386..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: One more try is still neededJohn Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-1951204849680884712020-04-02T08:05:20.467+01:002020-04-02T08:05:20.467+01:00Anon,
You don’t understand the April Fool concept...Anon,<br /><br />You don’t understand the April Fool concept either, do you? The point about a well-aimed comment on 1st April is that it should be witty – ideally it should have a superficial credibility and then be at least mildly amusing when the reader realises it is a spoof. Your comment fails on all counts – instead it just reads like the deranged outpourings of an English supremacist, for whom actual facts are an inconvenience which need not trouble him, and who can’t understand why the rest of us aren’t overcome with gratitude to the master race for imposing its rule on us.John Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-86025098269688635742020-04-01T19:52:07.990+01:002020-04-01T19:52:07.990+01:00Dafis, do bear in mind that it was the English tha...Dafis, do bear in mind that it was the English that brought a modicum of civilized behaviour to Wales via the 'blue book' and do bear in mind that healthcare in its modern form only came to Wales because the English decided it was essential.<br /><br />Without the English settler Wales has little money and no healthcare ... but it might well be a happier place for those of imaginery Celtic origins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-86621182026249284662020-04-01T12:34:33.336+01:002020-04-01T12:34:33.336+01:00Perhaps Anon with his/her capacity for perverse lo...Perhaps Anon with his/her capacity for perverse logic might tell us how he/she would set out to mitigate the negative demographic effect of the cumulative migration of ageing people from east of Clawdd Offa. It appears that many of those who come here, and have come over last 20 years or so, who were say over 50 become a progressively greater burden on our services even in normal times. In times of pandemic they have the capacity to distort demand even further and could in a deteriorating scenario contribute to an inflated mortality index, if we accept that advancing age is a key factor. If Devolution has permitted all this then the solution must be secession, not closer integration with dear old mother England! dafishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04216920242825385976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-62297382066631996142020-03-31T08:35:34.873+01:002020-03-31T08:35:34.873+01:00The style and content of this comment suggest that...The style and content of this comment suggest that you are the same Anon who has a record of saying some very silly things in comments here, but this is about the stupidest and most ill-informed to date. I take it that we can add ‘understanding statistics’ to the list of skills that you don’t possess.<br /><br /><i>” How come the figures for death are so much worse in Wales than elsewhere in the UK?”</i> Simple - they aren’t. As of yesterday, there were 1408 deaths in the UK; at 5% of the population, one would expect around 70 in Wales, and there have actually been 62. Your premise is just plain wrong.<br /><br />Even if there were a significant difference between Wales and the rest of the UK, it would tell us nothing at all about the success or otherwise of devolution per se, because ‘devolution’ makes no policy decisions, only governments do. The very most that a difference between Welsh figures and UK figures could tell us is that different policy decisions taken by governments of different colours lead to different outcomes – and that tells us nothing, zero, zilch about whether the institutions of government are appropriate or not. At best, it tells us only about the competence and adequacy of different politicians. And given that there are a whole host of other factors which would need to be considered in working out why there was a difference if such a difference did emerge, I’m not even sure that it would tell us that.<br /><br />You have drawn what a statistician might call an unwarranted straight line from an invalid premise all the way across to an unjustified conclusion – and demonstrated only that your aversion to any idea of Welsh political expression blinds you to anything remotely resembling a fact. And your comment isn’t even vaguely relevant to the original post either.John Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-88243369037556535682020-03-30T12:11:41.839+01:002020-03-30T12:11:41.839+01:00How come the figures for death are so much worse i...How come the figures for death are so much worse in Wales than elsewhere in the UK?<br /><br />No, these people aren't dying in the places where we have an over supply of the elderly. Something else is going on.<br /><br />Time to end this experiment in devolution me thinks, Wales simply cannot afford to carry on with such abject disregard for human life. <br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com