Bye bye Blackpool
Just faced the long drive down from Blackpool - long enough for the buzzing about an election announcement to get even louder and for next Thursday to turn into 'anytime from Tuesday'.
Long enough to start worrying about how we properly cover the implications of the Comprehensive Spending Review for Wales and the delivery of the One Wales Agreement if there's an election announcement in the air.
Long enough too for Plaid Cymru's Helen Mary Jones to lay into the Tories and their play for Plaid votes over the past few days.
βAs Welsh Conservative leader can Mr Bourne guarantee that Tory candidates will campaign for a βyesβ vote in a referendum on further powers? Can he guarantee that a Conservative government in Westminster would support reform of the Barnett Formula if that is what the independent funding and finance commission advises? And can he assure us that David Cameron, as Prime Minister, would support Welsh Language legislation proposed by the One Wales Government? Unless the Conservatives can meet these requirements then his recent comments are nothing but cheap spin and should be treated as such by the Welsh public.β
Spinning. Buzzing. Let's see what see what 'anytime from Tuesday' brings.
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Betsan- what Plaid's Helen Mary Jones needs to recognise is that many disillusioned members of their party are wanting to move across to the Tories and that the invitation is not 'spin' it is a genuine recognition that there is a need for real change!
Plaid's rhetoric has failed, and is failing, to deliver. Labour has suffered a humiliating loss of power, and the Welsh Conservatives policies are starting to demonstrate their political prowess.
Glad that you came away from Blackpool buzzing- it had the same effect on me too for all the right reasons.
A bit hard on Plaid having to fight two elections in a year from a financial point of view. Still reckon Lib Dems in big trouble in all their rural seats. Going to the bookies tomorrow to bet on 2 Tory gains in Powys and a Plaid gain in Ceredigion.
Despite the Brown bounce still see the Tories having a good election in Wales - maybe up 4 seats, 2 from Labour.....Anyone know Peter Rogers' intentions in Ynys Mon ?
Why would Plaid members want to switch to a party that is deeply divided over devolution, let alone any advancement in it? As far as I can see the Tory party in Wales is a mirror image of the Labour Party in Wales, ie its MPs are against devolution while its AMs are more for it (if very cautiously).
"Plaid's rhetoric has failed, and is failing, to deliver. Labour has suffered a humiliating loss of power, and the Welsh Conservatives policies are starting to demonstrate their political prowess."
ok Foucault - would that be the prowess that has made them (Thatchers Spawn) the third/fourth party in Wales after 300 years or the prowess that gave us the ERM debacle or the poll tax, maybe the prowess that invented student loans or John Redwood singing (Foucault them prowess you can keep) What Wales needs is real powers not mythical Tory prowess.
Iain Morrison the man who lays the claim of 'myth' at my feet. Let me respond to that one for what it is. What party in the last decade has failed to deliver on health, education, crime and disorder, etc? Yes you will agree Labour.
When it comes to 'myths' I am still waiting for the tears to dry in my eyes watching those helpless victims in iraq get bombed, murdered under the real myth of this century- weapons of mass destruction.
Labour are the masters of deceit. I am many others will not forget that. Time for change...Come on Nick, and come and join us..