@fkamiah17 Utter stupidity. Emergency fast response services are pointless if they’re not local, can’t arrive quickly, and can’t offload to a local-ish hospital asap.
(Cousin was a paramedic on these choppers, quit some years ago when the direction of travel was clearly set to doom)
@BashStKid It's pure cost-cutting (on the wrong things, as ever). We're lucky we've still got ours down here.
The Welsh Government is going downhill fast.
@fkamiah17 Often, as you say, in response to cost cutting. But recently they seem to be doing own goals for no reason - 20mph backtracking being an example.
I believe the speed limit is a safety/environment thing, it's not a "no reason" thing.
Pedestrians killed or hospitalized by autos has shrunk dramatically since speed limits were enacted here. Downtown has become popular again. (Ingelheim is a beautiful city)
Also, most importantly, and let me be perfectly clear on this: Fuck your car.
@BlippyTheWonderSlug@BashStKid You're welcome to be a buttinsky 🥰
I think you're right in general. Also totally agree on the "fuck your car" point.
Doesn't change the fact that the Welsh Tories are lapping it up.
@BlippyTheWonderSlug@fkamiah17 Hi there.
The ‘no reason’ was directed at the Welsh govt undoing their own successful road safety schemes for no reason rather than budget limits or similar.
We’re used to ‘we haven’t got the money so will do a dumb thing’, now we’re getting ‘going to agree with Sauron and do a completely avoidable dumb thing’
The 20mph changes have been good for everyone, including car drivers, but that doesn’t stop rightwing ranting about Muh Freedoms.
It feels like they're now engaging in "navel gazing" in the wrong way - getting bogged down in the "donations" scandal (don't get me wrong - this is very important) and other internal things rather than rolling up sleeves and dealing sensibly and constructively in a cross-party way with the first-order issues facing Wales.
@fkamiah17 IF and I mean IF you wanted to centralise the bases, then surely somewhere like Prot Madoc/Canarvon would make more sense, than a spot basically on the English border and as far from the remote areas as possible.
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