by the Rev Idwal Lloyd Price
Piggy Andrews, charismatic AM for Rhondda and WAG’s Deputy Regeneration (sic) Minister is up to his neck in mire again. It is alleged that one of his personal minions, researcher David Taylor, may have registered the AneurinGlyndwr website to his home address in Cardiff and developed the site during work time as an employee of the Labour Party. When questioned about his own involvement in the affair Piggy’s lips remained obstinately shut.
According to Wales Online’s Martin Shipton “Mr Taylor is renowned and in some quarters feared for his skills on the internet, being seen as one of the most talented disciples of Adrian McMenamin, Labour’s former chief press officer in London who developed the party’s Excalibur rapid rebuttal database in the 1990s.”
Feared in some quarters for his skills? Well yes, obviously by his own side. It seems like the renowned web whizzkid didn’t learn all the lessons, for Liebour’s new web initiative is so pitifully bad that senior party figures are already disassociating themselves from it, despite the fact that it is the brainchild of orange-skinned, oleaginous former Secretary of State for Wales Peter “Mr Vain” Hain, and employed the dismal ‘talents’ of Eluned Morgan MEP, Glenys Kinnock’s .general dogsbody.
Shipton quotes a Plaid Cymru spokesman as saying: “We expect Leighton Andrews will be feeling very embarrassed that his staff are responsible for making the Labour Party the laughing stock of Welsh Politics. It is not our place to give Labour staffing advice, but perhaps booking his employee on a course to improve his IT skills would be a worthwhile investment.
“On a more serious note,” the spokesman continued, “we are in the middle of an economic crisis and Labour AMs should think twice before employing staff who waste their time producing this rubbish. Plaid Cymru meanwhile will get on with the business of government, helping Welsh families, businesses and communities through this recession.”
It looks as though the whole project has seriously backfired on Liebour, already in a very tenuous position in Wales, and is a case of the party ‘shooting itself in both feet’. The puerile, slapdash and wholly unprofessional website with its asinine content shows Liebour for what it is: a busted flush.
And to find Piggy at the bottom of it all. Oh dear. But then, as we say in Welsh, ‘dim budr ond porchell”!
(ed) More about this from Welsh Rambling
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David is a liability to Welsh Labour. This surely has been a fatal blow to the credibility to the Party. Nothing more than a totally negative attack site, I feel sorrow and much pity for everyone in that Party.
Despite Shipton’s assertions that Mister Taylor is a feared force on the web, I have to tell you that he is far more ridiculed than feared and that the only fear anyone has about David is his potential to harm the Party he claims to love.
His hate remarks against Plaid, the Tories and Libs go way beyond reasonable comment and seem to generalise in a grossly large way.
His involvement with attack blogs in the past ought to have instantly struck him out of the running to be overtly involved in any Party Website.
This has been a sad weekend for Labour and I am going to be considering my options very carefully before putting my cross next to Labour, which I have done in the past, when this is the calibre of debate and people they allow to surface.
A true shame.
This is the actual WHOIS detail for the .co.uk domain
Registrant:
David Taylor
Registrant type:
UK Individual
Registrant’s address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Registrar:
Mesh Digital Limited t/a Domainmonster.com [Tag = MONSTER]
URL: http://www.domainmonster.com
Make of this what you will. I will comment however that it is good practice to declare names and addresses of registrants and to comply with various UK laws that now apply to websites including, privacy compliance, copyright of images, logos and music and lyrics. These appear to have been flagrantly ignored by the site. It will be interesting to follow developments.
As an update to the above David Taylor has registered the .com and .net as follows: (please note address details). This is in the public domain.
Registrar: Domainmonster.com
http://www.domainmonster.com/
The friendly future of domain name registration.
Domain Name: ANEURINGLYNDWR.COM
Nameserver: ns1.domainmonster.com
Nameserver: ns2.domainmonster.com
Nameserver: ns3.domainmonster.com
Nameserver:
Created Date: 26-Jan-2009
Expiry Date: 26-Jan-2010
Registrant Name: David Taylor
Registrant Company:
Registrant Address: 149 Glenroy St
Registrant Address:
Registrant Address:
Registrant Address: Cardiff
Registrant Address: Cardiff
Registrant Address: CF24 3LA
Registrant Address: United Kingdom
Technical Name: David Taylor
Technical Company:
Technical Address: 149 Glenroy St
Technical Address:
Technical Address:
Technical Address: Cardiff
Technical Address: Cardiff
Technical Address: CF24 3LA
Technical Address: GB
Technical Email: taylord@fastmail.co.uk
Technical Tel: +44.7891333052
Technical Fax:
Administrative Name: David Taylor
Administrative Company:
Administrative Address: 149 Glenroy St
Administrative Address:
Administrative Address:
Administrative Address: Cardiff
Administrative Address: Cardiff
Administrative Address: CF24 3LA
Administrative Address: United Kingdom
Administrative Email: taylord@fastmail.co.uk
Administrative Tel: +44.7891333052
Administrative Fax:
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