Liebour’s pathetic pigeon shadow soup

Byline: The Rev Idwal Lloyd Price

You’ve got to admit it, it’s an interesting idea juxtaposing the names of Aneurin Bevan, fiery champion of the working masses and international socialist, later socialite, landowner and lusty devourer of Saxon gold, and Owain Glyndwr, undefeated guerrilla warrior and champion of Welsh independence, who fought with sinew, blood, smoke and steel to throw the English out of Wales, in one website name.

But this is what  ‘Welsh’ Liebour have done with their new Dolly Draperesque  political blog their “Obama moment” riposte to Plaid Cymru’s genuinely sleek, professional and reasoned www.walescan.com.

Perhaps the scintillating talents of Liebour’s obviously underused propaganda department would have done better with www.clutchingatstraws.com ­ a far more appropriate title for you can’t imagine two more fundamentally dissimilar, disparate or heterogeneous characters than Aneurin Bevan and Owain Glyndwr if you tried very hard indeed. Put together Attila the Hun and Mother Theresa perhaps, Sweeney Todd and Robert the Bruce, Mickey Mouse and Che Guevara and you’ll have an approximation as to how risible this is.

The lumping together of the two is also interesting in that it betrays one of Liebour’s dark secrets: the fudging of the ‘Greatest Welshman of All Time’ poll on 1st March 2004 which ensured that Bevan beat Owain Glyndwr by 127 votes in a highly dubious, and quite plainly gerrymandered, internet poll.

The site itself with its crude unprofessional titling, appalling sound quality and fifth rate graphics looks very much as though the editor of the Wasting Mule and his team had been hired as production consultants. The brains (!) behind the whole extraordinary and embarrassing exercise is none other than Eluned Morgan, once a Sandinista-championing, red-beret wearing, slogan-shrieking member of the wimmin’s club, and latterly lamentable sidekick and lackey to Glenys Kinnock, assisted by the orange-skinned lounge-lizard Peter “Vain” Hain, the supercilious and superfluous former Secretary of State for Wales. It was indeed wonderful to see this valueless virago appearing on BBC Wales’s lunchtime news claiming huge volumes of visitors to the site. Calm down dear ­ we’re only going there to laugh at you!

On Liebour’s “Obama moment” website ­ which, incidentally, would prove a severe embarrassment to the IT department of Ysgol Meithrin Cwmscwt .­ Nick Bourne is portrayed as a vampire, Ieuan Wyn Jones, Jill Evans and Adam Price are portrayed as clowns.

Well let’s look at the real vampires and clowns in Wales shall we? The English Liebour Party in Wales is facing oblivion. Their power base, built on patronage, intimidation and corruption, is melting away before their eyes. The recession will wipe it out. Desperate for a lifeline (in other words their own salaries and fiddled, inflated expenses, whether as MEPs, MPs or AMs) they are clutching at straws and lashing out in all directions. And we can expect a whole lot more of this in the coming months before Liebour’s ignominious defeat at the next Westminster election.

Liebour has sucked the political blood of Wales dry for nigh on a century. Now, with their teeth drawn after the greatest election loss since the Second World War in 2008, the vampires have become clowns, frightened of the inevitable dawning of the New Wales, terrified of the solid stake of Welsh oak aimed at their collective heart.

Let us use the words of one of the greatest American Presidents of all time to describe their attempt at aping the success of the latest one. Liebour’s pitiful endeavour trying to use slick media tricks instead of winning the hearts and minds of Welsh voters in an honest and open way is, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “as thin as the homeopathic soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”

Byline: The Rev Idwal Lloyd Price

Update: see Hen Ferchetan on this