How will Carwyn cope with this cranky kid ?

Kirsty Williams has her proverbials in a twist over the use of £17m spent on staff pay-outs, which include the ubiquitous confidentiality clauses, there is a little issue the Lib Dem leader might like to consider ...

Tina Donnelly, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said she believed the spending on compromise agreements was the result of previous government policies to reorganise the health service in Wales and the costs incurred when shedding staff,  "constant reorganisation, every two to three years, does have a price.

How our politicians forget the true costs of their constant meddling ..........

The other cranky kids are without ideas hanging about the street lights in Cardiff Bay, elections soon ...
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Plaid seems to be ...

... in disarray, Rhun ap Iorwerth the Plaid candidate for Anglesey walks in one direction, whilst Plaid grass-root support walks a well trodden path in the opposite direction, of course the grass-root support might be less influential than it would have people believe.

In a nutshell Rhun ap Iorwerth spoke to BBC's Vaughan Roderick, and during the interview he was the unrepentant supporter of the new Nuclear Wylfa B power plant, his is the pragmatic politicians approach to electioneering, tell it to the electorate exactly as they wish to hear it, in this case they yearn for jobs and prosperity.

Now the grass-roots in the morphed shape of MH, read his diatribe here, calls Rhun ap Iorwerth calls him dishonest, a liability, a cookoo in Plaids nest....

 ... the people of Anglesey see MH and chums as head in the sand buffoons.

The peoples of Anglesey prefer prosperity, being able to buy meat occasionally, as opposed to the poverty of narrow nationalist visions.

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Morgan out, Price in, musical ...

... chairs at Plaid.

BBC report, my prediction....

Welsh language put aside by Crown ...

... Body.

"Welsh language services are to be scrapped at a state-owned savings organisation because they cost around £900 per Welsh-speaking customer."

How can you justify an uneconomic service in times of great austerity, it's not possible when the poor are being forced to give up their bedrooms to save the taxpayers money !

... difficult to explain away !

Countdown - 64 (working) days to ...

... I day !

... and in Scotland the separatist agenda continues too play to the gallery, play to the crowd, perform to get the approval of the audience.

Give separation a chance and we will abolish ....

• rules on under-occupancy
• take housing benefit out of Universal Credit

... nothing that describes a brave new Scottish world, just Deputy SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon  highlighting unpopular measures that might or might-not be changed by a future SNP government if the peoples of Scotland vote for independence next year !

With less than 13 working weeks before retirement I was reminded by a brother that I need to plan to fill my time in the future ....

walking the dog
fly fishing (once again)
baking ( bought "100 cakes and Bakes" by  Mary Berry for the Kindle this week ).
having a beer in the evening
not working until midnight

... and try to be a help sometimes.

Today I am taking into work a few Devonshire Splits (recipe) ...

It's a real pain being a diabetic, making but not eating ..............

Why Salmond and Cameron ...

... must never meet in a debate about Scotland and the intentions of the separatist agenda ...

BBC story here

... it's is simple, Cameron is not a Scot, my advice David ...

... stay south of the border and keep your mouth firmly shut, the Scots must defend their Scotland isolated from the vagaries of Westminster, you might like to send a memo advising MP's of all parties that this is a fight amongst 21st century Scottish clans, not a 21st century Bannockburn in which Salmond is in a battle with the rest of the United Kingdom.

A final word David, you do not have a Scottish accent, remember this very small detail.......

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To have and to hold in Wales, ...

... but not as much as in Scotland or Ireland:

Westminster plans to spend an extra £531 million in Scotland this year, boosting that department’s Expenditure Limit by nearly 2%. It plans to spend an extra £327 m in Northern Ireland, boosting the Limit by 3%. It plans another £107m in Wales, a rise of 0.7%.

Two questions ....

...why is Wales receiving a disproportionate increase compared with Scotland, proportionately the amount should be £189 million (per head of populatin ?

more importantly ....

... why the extra spending at all when so many have tightened their belt in the extreme ?

... I wonder how Jack would read this ?