It’s a delicious moment for Welsh patriots. Savour it, and then move on. There are a great many battles still to fight, but at least Welsh Liebour is on the run. As the shoddy amalgam of the ambitious, the venal, the craven and the power-hungry descends towards meltdown, one of the very few decent Welsh people left in the party – soon-to-retire Rhodri Morgan has tried to get a grip of his disintegrating party by ordering the pulling of the lamentable “Sound of Stupidity” video from the ether. It’s pretty obvious that this has been done on “orders from above”. While poor old Gordo wrestles with the problems in saving the world, his Welsh minions are busy queering his pitch in what was once Liebour’s golden heartlands.
The silly farce dreamt up by Peter Hain, Piggy Andrews and Eluned Morgan, (general dogsbody to the Anglesey fishwife Glenys “Glen” Kinnock) turned sour pretty quickly. As for the peevish post that the “Sound of Stupidity” video was pulled because of “complaints from humourless nationalists and tories”, these were the very people desperately searching for a copy of the wretched nonsense to put up on You Tube because they knew how wonderfully harmful to Liebour it is. As long as we can view it on the web, so it will remain.
(By the way if you missed it, you can see it here in all its splendour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT_CqY-eOYQ )
All of which leads us to the question ‘what has Peter Hain got do with Wales? Why is he here?’ The expensively primped, orange-skinned lounge-lizard was born in Kenya, came to us via South Africa and, of all things, the Liberal Party, and was parachuted into Neath where he was guaranteed a safe seat for life. Neath is – for the time being at least – one of those “if-they-put-up-a-monkey” constituencies, but as the Liebour meltdown continues may not remain so for long. Elements of this scenario will of course have inevitably brought another waste-of-space to mind. Step forward Piggy Andrews, pasty faced, charisma-by-passed AM for Rhondda (another of those ‘i-t-p-u-a-m’ constituencies), former Liberal and now rising Welsh Liebour star (the mind boggles). Which brings us breathlessly to another point. Why did Hain and Piggy join Labour in the first place if it wasn’t for the prospect of power? Lets’ face it, you’re not going to get very far with the Lib-Dems either in Westminster of in the Senedd. The same question could be asked of a number of others like Gwilym Prys-Davies, Denzil Davies, Elystan Morgan, Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones, all of them, unlike most of their peers, decent men. The answer is simple. It is because it was once perceived that in order to achieve anything in politics in Wales, you had to do it through the Labour party. The choice was limited. Which, with the emergence of Plaid Cymru as a serious and powerful force in Welsh politics, makes the defection of Plaid turncoat Alun Davies to the ‘nest of traitors and lickspittles’ one of the most extraordinary acts of idiocy in recent times.
In any case, let us delight, momentarily, in Liebour’s gross embarrassment over it’s “Obama moment”, and wait for the next one. It won’t be long a-coming.
From the desk of: The Rev Idwal Lloyd-Price
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