Jantra wrote:RandomComment wrote:daearegwr wrote:Yes, the distance from Cardiff is an issue but it might be the boot up the bum needed to invest in some better road and rail links between the north and south.
No. 50 jobs and a small-ish bank aren't enough to warrant the billions that would be required to improve North-South links significantly. It just makes more sense to improve East-West links given population patterns, goods, visitor and commuter flows. Yes, they would change with improved links. But not enough to justify the cost. Manchester - Holyhead corridor and Bristol - Swansea corridor are the two most important routes in Wales, with Swansea-Ross, and Cardiff-Merthyr next.
^^^this
why do we insist on trying to tie up North and South Wales when the very obvious economic axis is East/West
Welsh nationalists and their ilk want north/south links improved in order to unify Wales culturally and economically. English/British nationalists want the East/West links because they don't see the aims of Welsh nationalists as being relevant or important.
Divide and rule is a very ancient way of building an empire and maintaining rule in client states or vassal territories. But naturally you and Cambo will deny that this occurs.
I can hear you now "Ooh, the very suggestion that England would divide and rule...how very rude! The English would never do that, or start wars, or depose democratically elected leaders, or invade other countries, or commit genocide, or destroy cultures, or impose their own language and religion. The English are the most marvellous people on Earth...they invented cucumber sandwiches and cricket! London is full of smiling hipsters from all over the world! I voted remain and England should have too! If it weren't for those damned uneducated working class oiks we could have had our Utopia!.
"Those damned Welsh nationalists...how dare they? Look at all the terrible things they've done....burnt some cottages, Leanne Wood and her dreadful accent. Disgusting!"