Thread 6 Burnham: Resitting and Resetting

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This is excellent news

Yvette Cooper tells Labour conference 'Sure Start's back', as she expands healthy babies support programme

Should never have been scrapped!

I remember how good Sure Start was. It provided a brilliant group for mums and toddlers when DD1 was small (she came to us aged 1 in 2010). But by the time DD2 came to us in 2013 (also aged 1), the Sure Start centre had closed.

It’s just an abandoned building now in an estate which has gone downhill during the last few years. It’s very tragic indeed.

It was folly and such a false economy. Ideologically driven of course.

it was a false economy - for health & educational attainment and therefore for future earnings.

You want the healthy tax payers of the future? People who are able to reach their potential, whatever that might be. Then you invest in them at the first opportunity.

ifs.org.uk/publications/short-and-medium-term-effects-sure-start-childrens-outcomes

Wow. What about Chris Mason? If he was anything other than scathing I would be stunned.

That's a word I haven't heard for a long time. Especially in politics!

I had to Google it - what a great word!

It’s extremely versatile and useful! One of two Welsh words that I think English coukd do with a direct translation/equivalent of - the other being Hiraeth. There was a bit of that in the speech too…

Impressed with the breadth and urgency of the speech. Sceptical about Burnham's capacity to deliver.

Not scathing, but not massively positive either. Lots of doubt expressed…
Not sure he thinks Burnham’s emotion is a good thing either (I, on the other hand, do)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmeq847qxde5o?app-referrer=deep-link

That’s sums it up. Mrs.B!

Now that one, I have come across before.

I really ought to try learning Welsh at some point. My grandmother was a Welsh speaker and my dad has a smattering, but I only know the odd word. Perhaps a project for retirement when I get there...

I absolutely think the emotion is a positive.

Chris could do with a bit of hwyl in his life.

I’ve lived here in various places since 2001. My daughter was Welsh medium educated until 13 and is bilingual. My dad was a first language speaker (but never spoke it at home when I was growing up). I’ve tried. A lot. But I’m not a linguist and my ability is patchy to say the least. It’s quite fun though.

This is why I miss the laughing emoji.

It's the trying that counts, as they say!

I'm rather a lover of language learning and I seem to be curiously good at it, so it seems an obvious thing for me to pursue. At some point, when I actually have some time...

Use Say Something in Welsh app. It’s slangy and doesn’t explain grammar but I reckon it’s a lot better for conversational Welsh than other offerings. You can get t(e standard courses online sometimes too if you like the grammar.

The Resolution Foundation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies are both happy with Andy Burnham's proposal to get a change to the pensions triple lock.

My thoughts are it was introduced as an emergency measure by the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition to stop the pension poverty downslide.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/sep/30/andy-burnham-eu-brexit-rejoin-customs-union-fuel-duty-budget-latest-news-updates

The new thread title has to have the word hwyl in it.

I lost heart at mutations.

Yes, I agree. What I meant was it's a shame that it's all the LOTO has to offer. Sorry, I should have phrased it better.

Happy to oblige but someone has to put it in a title/phrase

I will do the copy and paste

I agree Say Something In Welsh is good. Duolingo can be confusing because of the many differences between North and South Welsh. Dysgu Cymraeg do online and Zoom classes and are great - the online classes have participants from all over the world. I go to an in person one.
It isn’t an easy language though- it was my first language, my mother is fluent. but I’ve forgotten most of it. Mutations come naturally after a while, they evolved in part to make the language easier to speak. But even so, any good teacher will tell you not to stress about the mutations and just speak!