tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post1337761162752574854..comments2023-05-08T10:46:34.371+01:00Comments on Y Cneifiwr: Services to the CommunityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-75098933151064240702012-06-25T10:10:06.162+01:002012-06-25T10:10:06.162+01:00It's not actually the benefits or social refor...It's not actually the benefits or social reforms that are the "problem". Social benefits are pretty normal in civilised countries and the levels in the UK are not that generous. The problem is the lack of jobs and the move away from industry and agriculture towards a services economy based on travel-to-work hubs. This accelerated particularly under Thatcher and since then under New Labour as well. It makes more sense to call these depressed areas "low pay zones" not "benefit zones" because the problem is majority of the jobs there are too low paid. The only option is to commute (which is becoming more expensive) or move away. A select few will be able to stay if they accept low pay or land a decently (but never extravagantly) paid public sector job. This problem applies to most of Wales.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-65127766951466245392012-06-20T10:58:59.093+01:002012-06-20T10:58:59.093+01:00I can but wonder at what poverty that Lloyd George...I can but wonder at what poverty that Lloyd George has brought Carmarthenshire.<br /> Possibly not meant but as we know many of the so called reforms brought in by Mr George are now used aganist the peoples.<br />Those who cant move away to get better jobs or to gain good employment are made to settle for benefit zones or should i call them zones in need of regeneration. <br /> Younger people who need dont go to these zones there are no jobs and those that are left in the Zones either have to use the benefits system or die.<br /><br />There is much more to this so called regeneration than meets the eye.<br />To speak of the likes of Lloyd George in the context of Carmarthenshire and Regeneration im sure he would find the biggest insult he had ever had.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-45034544531411694462012-06-18T15:47:00.695+01:002012-06-18T15:47:00.695+01:00Diolch Cibwr. I was thinking about the Gorsedd too...Diolch Cibwr. I was thinking about the Gorsedd too as a Welsh alternative to the British system. It certainly has its merits, especially now that it is becoming more egalitarian. <br /><br />The problem there is that the Gorsedd is not as broadly based.<br /><br />A purely Welsh Urdd Dewi Sant/Order of St David for the people of Wales would certainly be better than what we have now.Cneifiwrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08767078276794410524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-56348018211460639182012-06-18T15:09:13.205+01:002012-06-18T15:09:13.205+01:00It has to be said that everyone sold honours, Lloy...It has to be said that everyone sold honours, Lloyd George's sin was to be open about it and to employ a dodgy middleman. And while the Lloyd George fund benefited from the sale of honours, when he was in coalition with the tories they got a half share of every honour sold..... He had utter contempt for the system so was happy to subvert it. <br /><br />I have to say we have our own more egalitarian honours system in the Gorsedd...Cibwrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621705905770341542noreply@blogger.com