Stuart France
Active member
Hi there people of England. Lockdown Version 2.0 in Wales ends on Sunday night. Caving will resume, well here anyway!
Of course politicians are going to do the only thing they're capable of which is create more laws. They know nothing else. Got a problem? Create some laws. You find yourself in charge of a galloping cockup? More laws. Laws still not working? More laws.
The Welsh Government's L2 law runs to 6,000 words and the official guidance on how to interpret it is 13,000 words. It's that complicated that it takes over twice the number of words to explain its ramifications. Give me a break.
But there are signs of hope. Wales First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has just said:
"... more important than any rules, regulations or guidance, which we put in place will be the way each one of us responds to the virus. We can introduce new laws but these will only be successful if we all of us do everything we can to reduce our exposure to the virus by keeping the contacts we have with other people to a minimum ? at home; in work and when we go out. We need to do the minimum ? not the maximum, which the rules allow. Our real strength lies in the choices we make and the actions we take together."
Is the penny finally dropping, at least in Cardiff, that winning hearts and minds might be more effective than self-belief that coronavirus has a legislative cure?
Of course politicians are going to do the only thing they're capable of which is create more laws. They know nothing else. Got a problem? Create some laws. You find yourself in charge of a galloping cockup? More laws. Laws still not working? More laws.
The Welsh Government's L2 law runs to 6,000 words and the official guidance on how to interpret it is 13,000 words. It's that complicated that it takes over twice the number of words to explain its ramifications. Give me a break.
But there are signs of hope. Wales First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has just said:
"... more important than any rules, regulations or guidance, which we put in place will be the way each one of us responds to the virus. We can introduce new laws but these will only be successful if we all of us do everything we can to reduce our exposure to the virus by keeping the contacts we have with other people to a minimum ? at home; in work and when we go out. We need to do the minimum ? not the maximum, which the rules allow. Our real strength lies in the choices we make and the actions we take together."
Is the penny finally dropping, at least in Cardiff, that winning hearts and minds might be more effective than self-belief that coronavirus has a legislative cure?