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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 5:35 pm This would probably be a devolved matter, so no strictly relevant, but it's somewhere I've been to a fair bit.

Brecon has a nice river, square and cathedral but it's not posh overall and it's by no means all old. It's nonetheless expensive. Is there perhaps some middle ground between increasing the size of the town with family homes and sticking luxury homes all over the most scenic parts of the Beacons?

Brecon (along with Ystradgynlais and sometimes Newtown) is the one of the few bits of Powys that elects Labour councillors. It's only just in the national park, but I think it's a bit hemmed in by geography to expand hugely. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a big town in any of our national parks. Brecon (pop. 9000 maybe) is probably the biggest. Any expansion would probably be taken up by retirees (both from England and the Valleys) and Cardiff commuters, I would have thought, with little effect on prices in general.

I can't recall the geography particularly well, just that there was a fair bit of development on the way we came into town. If it can't be expanded easily into regular fields, then I'd not be so keen on expanding it. Fair point about who'd move there (though you could build starter homes, maybe). But even that would be positive in terms of triggering moves in Cardiff etc.

Abercrave is another working class place in Powys- home of Adam Jones, who we once saw at the retail park in Merthyr. My memory of there is that it's on the side of hills and not easily expanded. Ystradgynllais perhaps could be.

Your Party sets out constitution plans including new year leadership contest
Exclusive: Proposals will bring ‘democratic revolution’ and transform ‘post-Labour left’ into formal political force, say organisers

Post-Labour left would suggest the Greens to me, but anyway. This sounds like a retro act with a bit of "decide on the internet, man" chucked in, Some of the independents may find they were happier as they were, with a mix of Gaza and local issues, rather than get caught in a pincer by Zarah Sultana calling them sexist bigots and Galloway calling them woke.

If it's going to take till the new year to have a leader, one wonders what they've been doing all this time.

They certainly don't seem to be in a hurry to do anything at all, it makes me wonder why they're bothering.

I think they may be genuinely unsure of how they fit in, given that the Greens are there already,

Jez was talking BTL on The Guardian about his good relationship with Zac Polanski. No big fan of Zac, obviously, but I can see the attraction and the relative lack of baggage Unlike the sort of cooperation that Your Party seem to anticipate, Zac's cooperation might turn out to amount to little more than "Hope you beat Galloway in Blackburn and Perry Barr, don't run in any of the many places we're doing much better than you".

Oboogie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 9:11 pm They certainly don't seem to be in a hurry to do anything at all, it makes me wonder why they're bothering.

Well it does involve Jeremy Corbyn, who is probably still trying to decide what to have for breakfast from Jan 17th 1972

Well, fuck a duck. Sultana in being (sort of) right about something for once shock :

Stopped clocks, and all that.

Where are the public on the monarchy currently? I've not found a recent poll but the impression I have is that whilst Charles is much less popular than Liz, there remains enthusiasm for Prince Peggy.

This is, apparently, for real :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv8j231yv7o

Jeremy Corbyn to make cameo in drag pantomime

Audience :"OH, NO, IT ISN'T !!!!!"

Corbyn : "LET ME FINISH !!!"

Hope the pantomime gets disrupted by angry Ukrainians and Latvians. Surely. he couldn't object to "direct action".

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 3:14 pm Hope the pantomime gets disrupted by angry Ukrainians and Latvians. Surely. he couldn't object to "direct action".

Peter Tatchell dressed as Widow Twanky?

Starting to believe “Your Party” is an Armando Iannucci live action project

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ence-opens

Oh dear, Sultana still hasn't learnt to obey yet.

This line did make me laugh though "The pair appeared to strike a fragile peace, with Sultana likening their relationship to that of Noel and Liam Gallagher. " missing the obvious difference that the Gallagher brothers are, and remain, extraordinarily popular and successful.

On what planet would any party allow members to be in another one?