Sunday, 16 March 2008
Inexperienced politicans & Rhodri Morgan
Best quote ever from House of Commons questioning of civil servants involved in Quinetiq sale. MP Richard Bacon: "MR WOOLEY ARE YOU A CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT ?
"Woolley: "I AM NOT"
Bacon: "ARE YOU A QUALIFIED FINANCIAL PERSON OF ANY KIND ? DO YOU HAVE ANY FINANCIAL QUALIFICATIONS ?"
Woolley: "I DO NOT HAVE ANY FINANCIAL QUALIFICATIONS"
Bacon: "WHAT IS YOUR JOB ?"
Woolley: "I AM THE FINANCE DIRECTOR OF THE MOD"
Rhodri Morgan - Don’t worry about Plaid Daily Post, UK - 18 Feb 2008
He criticised Plaid vice president and MEP Jill Evans for attacking the proposed multi-million pounds Defence Training Academy in St Athan, south Wales, ...So who is Rhodri listening to?
Friday, 7 March 2008
massive privatisation of military training -
By Cangen Bontnewydd Branch, Plaid Cymru(Cangen Bontnewydd Branch, Plaid Cymru)
Justice Group. The subject was the proposed military training academy at St Athan. This is a massive privatisation of military training - putting it into the hands of private companies. You can read about the issue in more detail in the ...
Plaid Cymru, Cangen Bontnewydd Branch - http://plaidcymrubont.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Paul Murphy St Athan project nothing to do with him!
The Wales Office has not initiated or approved any private finance initiative projects in the last threeyears.
A. Its not a Welsh PFI. Remember that MC3 package 1 solution was based around Bordon and Cosford and Portsmouth. It was instigated by Mod with Ministerial backing. However the Welsh politicians did help Metrix win the bid by hard lobbying and the WDA provided human resources to METRIX.
Not in our NAME!
BBC NEWS | Wales | Wales bid for UK military academy
Politicians have been in London to make the case for St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan as the location for a new pan-forces military academy. ...not in my name!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4825632.stm
Same old lies....5,500 jobs ...no waySpeaking at the launch of the bid by Metrix in London on Monday, economic development minister Andrew Davies said the Welsh Assembly Government was "fully supportive".
The creation of 5,500 jobs and with 10,000 trainees being based at the site are estimated to be worth around £58m per year to the area
Even John Smith of pork barel fame and Metrix lacky doesn't agree with those figures.
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Not so many jobs then...John Smith?
Will he now apologise for misleading the people of Wales and in his constituency? Will he pay to publish a new more accurate account of the number of jobs available?? Now John Smith MP says we must be careful?....a little late for that noww that the welsh people have been repeatedly told that there will be 5,000 + jobs and that is the basis for ALL the politicians backing it. Time to ask some questions ...the people of Wales deserve better.
John Smith MP in the House of commons on Thursday 28th Feb says there are only 3,000 jobs...
Metrix has used the most conservative calculations to show that it will create at least 1,500 jobs in the wider community of my constituency of Vale of Glamorgan and south Wales generally. Metrix uses a multiplier of 0.5. That means that every new military job—uniform or civilian—that comes to St. Athan will create half a job in the community. The company therefore estimates 1,500 jobs and a total of 4,500. That is down from the original total of 5,500 but I stress that the estimate is conservative. The usual multiplier for military bases that move into an area and provide work is between one and a half and three times the number of military jobs.
The number of jobs that we get in Wales depends on us, not Metrix or anybody else. It depends on our preparedness to take up the jobs and the opportunities that come our way as a result of the process. If one read the BBC website on the day of the announcement, one would have believed that we had lost out. The calculation that I explained does not include the training of at least 6,500 military engineers every year at St. Athan. The jobs that that will create are not even factored in. It is a huge opportunity."
Note that Raytheon armsdealers is a key partner of the Metrix consortium - They mislead people in Northern Ireland ....Raytheon managers have been in collusion with Invest Northern
Are we sure they are telling the truth here to the Welsh people???
Contact John Smith MP smithj@parliament.uk