Jones-Evans: Welsh economic success could be home-grown
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- Jones-Evans: Welsh economic success could be home-grown
- Welsh economic success can be home-grown
- On the defensive
- Flextech TV selects agency for Trouble.(Flextech Television Ltd.)(Holl…
- Strange state of terror
Jones-Evans: Welsh economic success could be home-grown
Conservatives.com – May 19, 2006
His philosophy of public service to his electorate is one that I aspire to, and is one that I would hope is at the heart of the modern Conservative Party. I am still finding my feet as an apprentice politician and I know it will be extremely hard work to become the first elected politician within the newly created constituency of Aberconwy. I would obviously ask for your support, but unless you have a holiday home in Deganwy or Betws y Coed, all I can ask for, with the probable exception of Russell, is that you consider voting Conservative at the next election once you have carefully considered our policies for the economy. For the rest of this speech, I am not going to concentrate too much on policies – mainly because the Welsh Conservatives are still developing these throughout the summer and will be reviewing where we stand in September. Certainly, I am working on some exciting new policy ideas which will be radical not only for the Conservative Party but hopefully for Wales as a whole. As a result, I am not going to speak too much about any specific policy so not to let the cat out of the bag. I would certainly like to talk more widely at what exactly the Assembly can do, especially for business, and possibly where it can make a difference.
Welsh economic success can be home-grown
Conservatives.com – May 19, 2006
Professor Jones-Evans, the party’s candidate for Aberconwy and one of the leading economic analysts in Wales, says civil servants and government agencies seem ‘more impressed with suits from over the border than the abilities of Welsh firms’. And he warned that this obsession was costing Welsh firms ‘a crucial opportunity to use public funding to build up high value added businesses’. Prof Jones-Evans pointed to the fact that at present only 30 per cent of goods and services procured by the Welsh public sector goes to local firms. He said that increasing this to 50 per cent would mean at least £800mn of additional funding a year would go into the private sector in Wales.
On the defensive
The Age – May 19, 2006
But Interior Minister Schaeuble has vowed suchmeasures if a terror strike makes it necessary. The most vulnerable targets have been identified as areas wherehuge TV screens have been set up in match cities for fans withouttickets to watch games. These areas will be flooded with police andspooks, both home-grown and foreign. Manhole covers will be weldedshut, rooftop snipers deployed, sewers searched and then manned forthe duration of games, NATO AWACS planes will fly overhead toprovide aerial intelligence from eight kilometres in the sky andlitter bins will be removed to prevent explosives being dumped inthem. But this is last-gasp stuff. The real antiterrorism battles arehappening now. The trenches are the mosques and study groups acrossEurope that have been under surveillance since four planes slammedinto America in September 2001 and changed the world forever.
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Strange state of terror
Guardian Unlimited – May 19, 2006
Terrifying because this is how it is for a lot of the time, though of course we prefer not to say so. The accuser of Jacob Zuma, a 31-year-old family friend, was HIV-positive, and in the course of the trial it was she who seemed to be in the dock, she who had to explain and defend her sexual history. Outside the court, meanwhile, crowds of people in Zulu beadwork and Zuma T-shirts proclaimed their devotion to the big man JZ, our home-grown “Zulu Boy”, while cheerfully calling for her head. Intimidation? Yes, but of a peculiarly South African kind – fear-mongering dolled up in its scary festive best. “Burn the bitch!” demanded the dancers in the streets, and as they danced, waving mock AK47s, they were holding up pictures of the woman who had dared to bring the rape charge. And, often, after another round in court, the accused would join his supporters in the hit song “Awulethu Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun)”. What was to have been a trial about possible rape was revved up into a political rally, with supporters of Zuma bussed to Johannesburg all the way from Kwa-Zulu Natal, hundreds of kilometres away.