NATO summit 2014 in......Newport!

[ddraig]

Create the fear
Not much else for them to do yet

 

[teqniq]

I have a feeling that next week may be a little difficult.

 

[ddraig]

fair play to Cllr Bridges
not that the LibDem administration would have done anything different
Berman wouldn't have turned this down
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/south-wales-echo-letters-wednesday-7676142

No-one stood up to summit organisers

I have seen a couple of times now that Cardiff council has defended the disruption being caused by the Nato summit by saying that the cost is being met by the UK Government rather than the council.

While this may be true, it fails to take into account two points.

The first is that, either way, it is still public money which is being spent on preventing citizens from accessing public spaces. Bute Park is owned by us, the people of Cardiff, and it is reprehensible that Cardiff citizens as well as tourists to our city will be prevented from accessing it during parts of the coming weeks.

The second point is that, regardless of who is footing the bill, Cardiff council must have given its approval to these security measures – and no-one among the council’s (Labour) leadership had the guts to stand up to the organisers and say “no” to allowing our city to be littered with barriers and checkpoints. Neither did they have the sense to point out that erecting an 8ft metal fence next to 80ft high stone castle walls might be an unnecessary waste of time and money.

This is a high price for Cardiff citizens to pay – both financial and in terms of disruption – just so a few senior councillors might catch a glimpse of Barrack Obama.

This is at a time when bin collections are being missed, potholes are being left unrepaired and recycling targets are being disregarded. The fuss over this Nato summit suggests the council is severely misjudging its priorities.

Dr Ed Bridges

Liberal Democrat councillor for Gabalfa ward

 

[teqniq]

Yea I saw that too, like I said upthread I suspect the whole Cardiff thing is an exercise in vanity, that and egos.

 

[ddraig]

more pics in nationals

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic...ff-and-Newport-in-pictures.html?frame=3018335
and Kim Howells is a dick

 

[nogojones]

Kim Howells was always a dick

 

[ddraig]

still trying to make up for his FARC gaffe init

 

[nogojones]

I don't think that was a gaffe on his part, only that he got called up on it. He was a shit during the strike and he's slowly got shitter

 

[ddraig]

NATO flags are flying above Cardiff castle

 

[William of Walworth]

We'll be at Newport tomorrow by 1 pm. If we're allowed to get there by train, that is

 

[ddraig]

what a load of shit!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28958292

 

[nogojones]

We'll be at Newport tomorrow by 1 pm. If we're allowed to get there by train, that is

why do you think the trains will be dodgy?

 

[ddraig]

dirty hippy marxist communists descend on a childrens play area!!! the HORROR
who is paying for this?
nevermind the £50million+ for the security operation

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11440889.Protesters_move_in_as_Nato_summit_nears/

oh, and the peace camp is open

 

[Clint Iguana]

two different streams of protests

stop nato

no to nato

 

[Clint Iguana]

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11440889.Protesters_move_in_as_Nato_summit_nears/

'On behalf of the Labour Group, the majority political group, in Newport City Council we would like to welcome you as delegates to our home City'.

'In common with all decent and right-minded people we look forward to the prospect of political, not military, solutions'.

 

[William of Walworth]

why do you think the trains will be dodgy?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was wondering more about really heavy policing at Newport station (and everywhere) tbh. But yes, that rushed post from me must have looked over-paranoid.

We'll still be coming along anyway.

 

[ddraig]

 

[tufty79]

That'll learn 'em.

 

[ddraig]

i didn't do it!
can't tell if you are being sarky or not...

 

[tufty79]

I'm more than likely just being a grumpy knobend tbf

 

[ddraig]

RT report from today
http://rt.com/uk/183940-nato-summit-protest-march/

 

[William of Walworth]

Not sure about numbers in Newport, but higher 100s (600?) to 1000 tops?

I'm not good at estimating these things.

Still, was very glad to be there

 

[nogojones]

RT report from today
http://rt.com/uk/183940-nato-summit-protest-march/

Wow! Bruce Kents' eyebrows are making a break for freedom

 

[ddraig]

 

[ddraig]

bins sealed already! not like they can check them on the 3rd or something is it now!

 

[ddraig]

caption?

 

[ddraig]

had this beauty in town earlier too

 

[SpackleFrog]

Somebody should have played them this:

 

[SpackleFrog]

Oh good. An excuse to play this.




Casnewydd is apparently so bereft of things to say about it, even a song taking the piss had to take quite a lot of references from Wales generally.

Bugger.

 

[teqniq]

Just in Cardiff city centre earlier I have seen a Community support officer get a little old lady to retrieve a fat envelope from a rubbish bin she's just put it in. It got more ridiculous as she pulled a couple of pieces of paper out of it to show him and chucked the rest of the still-fat envelope back in the bin. I did not see what happened next. I have never seen so many cops in town.