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Why isn’t Kirsty making a bigger impact ? (0)

7/02/09 •

I WONDER whether the new Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams can ever win over the issue of payments to Assembly Government contractors.
She complained to the press at the weekly Lib Dem briefing that while suppliers of goods – such as paper and pencils – to the Welsh government get their bills paid very rapidly, contractors who supply training services – particularly to the newly-unemployed – have to wait at least two months.

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Need for Speed (1)

7/02/09 •

Ieuan Wyn Jones, the transport minister and Deputy First Minister, is bringing in new speed limits for roads which are HIGHER than for the same sort of roads in England.

£20K for Bum Art (3)

7/01/09 •

It’s a bum deal. A bum’s rush. Take your pick of the bottomless jokes arsing about the latest Arts Council of Wales grant of £20,000 to Swansea-based bum artist Sue Williams apparantly to study ladies’ posteriors.

All coalition roads lead to failure (1)

7/01/09 •

THIS MUST be the first document for the 2011 election campaign, writes Clive Betts from the Assembly press gallery.
Perhaps significantly, it was launched by Ieuan Wyn Jones, leader of Plaid Cymru and Deputy First Minister, rather than by Labour First Minister Rhodri Morgan.
Ieuan of course hopes that the May 2011 election will see him [...]

A Tory vote winner (3)

6/29/09 •

The Welsh Tory strategy for countering Nationalists appears to be to ‘give in’ on national sovereignity and full devolution but repair Unionism byinsisting on ‘ federalisation’ to the UK in a sort of United States of Britain.