Comments on: Post RevMin. Where now?

By: cambriapolitico

cambriapolitico — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:06:07 +0000

Let’s be clear. It wasn’s smoking, or drink. It was something of much greater interest to the News of the World…

By: Backchat

Backchat — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:35:09 +0000

Thanks Silyn , if Nick Bourne is playing dirty lets have a look into his private life . Can someone ask Rod Richards to repeat all those stories he told us about trips to see boys is Thailand and Morocco? First time round we did not listen but this could changes things . Perhaps after all , that’s what Ron Davies meant by being ‘inclusive’ – that we all here in the Senedd turn a blind eye to each others indiscretion !

By: Silyn

Silyn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:12:03 +0000

The opposition parties come out of this pretty badly – a Lib Dem intern apparently grassed up Rhodders to the bar staff, Black put the story out publicly, Bourne ensured it continued to have legs by raising it in the Senedd… you’d say they were all a bunch of puritanical tosspots unless you knew about some of their own private lives.

By: cambriapolitico

cambriapolitico — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:03:44 +0000

The headline meaning came from the public schoolboy sense, not any other.

My article referred to Mr Price’s sexuality as being well known; as it has clearly not affected the regard in which he is held by the electors of Carmarthen, neither should it affect his ability to rise in a similar fashion to the leadership of Plaid Cymru.

One of the comparisons I was making has clearly passed by many of my readers. Rhodri Glyn has indeed been having a “gay” time in Cardiff Bay – I refuse to “bend” to the demands of political correctness, either here or elsewhere. My meaning is certainly not homosexual.

Those with their ears closer to the ground in his constituency as well as in Cardiff, and with their eyes more attuned to scanning what’s worth reading in the ex-Thomson media in Cardiff, would know what has happened.

Good luck to the ex-Rev Min, as well as to Adam himself and to another of the greatest politicians currently operating until recently) on the Welsh scene, the regrettably former AM for Caerffili.

It’s about time sexuality can be mentioned in the media, without far too many readers automatically taking the Sun line.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:28:20 +0000

I think this makes Plaid Cymru look small minded and spiteful . I kept repeating in my head ‘And’ when listening to the news reports last night ‘And so what did he do wrong?’ . The problem with Rhodri Glyn is that people had started to talk about his drinking and Wales is a small country in more ways than one and as the old proverbs says ‘One who has the reputation of an early riser may safely lie in bed until noon’. I have seen that footage of him at the awards ceremony countless times and he was very clearly very sober but that’s not what the ‘Chattering Classes’ wanted to believe . Plaid Cymru is going nowhere until they get rid of Ieuan Wyn Jones – he’s not that bright , can’t articulate his position on anything and is as grey as Iain Duncan Smith standing sitting on a Blaenau Ffestinog slate tip . I would of course forgive Ieaun for his lack of colour if it was not for the fact that he led the treacherous attack on the best leader any political party in the United Kingdom has had in a generation – Dafydd Wigley . He was and is every bit as good as the brilliant Alex Salmond .
‘You can always recognise a genius by the conspiracy of idiots that surround him’ and Dafis and Jones have turned their party into a grouping of the bland leading the bland . The undermining of Wigley has but the cause back 20 years and its to their eternal shame that they did it. Finally, I am getting fed of Vaughan Roderick and the sanctimonious hypocritical posture he’s taking on these issues . He was ‘Around’ when Alun Cairns political carreer was destroyed and he’s ‘Around’ this one again . He’s a bad egg. No part of Mr. Roderick’s private or professional life would stand much scrutiny -”Mae angen deryn glan i ganu!’. One final thought perhaps Adam Price and Rhodri Glyn should job swap Mr.Price can then lead Plaid Cymru and Mr.Thomas can get a rest-bite from the ‘ Village of hundred twitching lace curtains ‘ which is what Cardiff Bay has become.

By: Rev Idwal Lloyd-Price

Rev Idwal Lloyd-Price — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:43:01 +0000

Rhodri Glyn was a breath of fresh air in an otherwise lacklustre Senedd. He has a personality – just look at the shabby, surly, stale ranks of what’s left of Labour and you’ll see what I mean.

If Wales is going to turn into a politcally correct, hypocritical, inward-looking society then God help us. It is almost impossible to see a similar occurrence to RGT’s hounding by the Jeremiah’s and subsequent resignation happening in the Irish Dail. But then Ireland had the brave men of 1916.

The award ‘fiasco’ was a simple gaffe – and the idiot who put the names of the runners-up on the same card as the winner should have taken the blame. The organisers issued a pathetic get-out-of-jail apologia to try and exonerate themselves the following day. When the Oscars winners are announced there is, sensibly, only one name on the card.

In any case, the incident had nothing to do with the minister’s competence, and neither did the whiff of cigar smoke. To my mind RGT has been an effective and active politician who has fought for Welsh freedom every inch of the way, from the dark days of Labour hegemony in east-Carmarthenshire when he stood for Wales against the ghastly, squeeky little Alan Williams, to the establishment of the National Assembly.

He will be much missed.