NEW PIGGY ANDREWS SECOND HOME SHOCK
If you had any doubts that the National Assembly is a far more cost-effective solution to Wales’s democratic deficit, just look at the list of AMs claiming for second homes.
Not for them the flipping, ducking, moat-diving of their Westminster counterparts, and all for the fairly simple reason that Wales is a relatively small country. Obviously those who live in our remoter regions are entitled to, and do, claim for a second home near their place of work in Cardiff Bay, which is perfectly fit and fine.
But what of those who live within an hour or so from the Senedd? Well most – from all parties – honourably decline to claim for a second home, and are happy to make the journey by car or train. So when your constituency is just 30 minutes away -and with good dual-carriageway/arterial road links for the most part – quite obviously you wouldn’t either be entitled to claim for a second home, nor would you have the brass nerve to do so. Or would you?
Step into the spotlight – once again – Piggy Andrews! Piggy is AM for Rhondda just 20 or so miles from Cardiff Bay and lives in a prestigious area of our capital city in the agreeable home he shares with his good lady Ann Beynon, head of BT’s pisspoor, failing Welsh operation. Now, what we’d like to know, is whether Piggy’s been partial to a bit of flipping himself. Following details of Piggy’s extraordinary second-home claim by Martin Shipton, serious doubts about the propriety of the charismatic ‘Minister for Regeneration’ just won’t go away until he comes clean about exactly which house he is claiming as his ’second home’: the one he has in the Rhondda or the one he shares with Beynon in Cardiff.
One also wonders how is it possible for other Labour AMs who live even further away from Cardiff Bay perform their tasks without the need of a second home?
Other thorny niggles arise. If Piggy is claiming for the house in Cardiff’s leafy groves, does Beynon contribute to the mortgage? Do they own the house jointly? Does Beynon get a housing allowance as Wales’s BT supremerene?
We need to know the answers quickly, so that our hitherto blameless National Assembly isn’t brought into the same disrepute as the fallen ‘Mother of Parliaments’.
I agree. We should know. Couldn’t you have left the word ‘Piggy’ out? I don’t think it throws a good light on you…..but hey, I may be old fashioned.
I didn’t like it either when Labourites were calling IWJ ….. Ieuan Whinge……but I don’t expect much at all from that lot.
But everyone knows he’s called Piggy, it’s rather sweet in a piggy sort of way!
Sorry Dai – just look at the photo! It’s tough, but what can you do when that’s what he’s now generally called by friend and foe alike? It is, as “Julio” says, rather sweet though. But what a pompous idiot!
I always thought that Leighton, the third Mr. Ann Beynon Jones, was a spitting image of Elmer J. Fudd, Bugs Bunny’s mortal enemy (Where’s the wabbit?) in the Loony Tunes cartoons.
GJ
See you in court, you bastards! Expect a letter from my flipping Lisvane lawyer, aka David Taylor, demanding you apologise.
Or perhaps instead I’ll keep my snout down for a few weeks and hope it blows over. Because really I’m just a nasty little bully.