AN INTERESTING answer from Rhodri Morgan on how the Assembly should fund its programme in his final press briefing before retiring.
Should the Assembly have tax-raising powers. The sort of right that almost every democratic body possesses, right down to ecommunity councils.
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Rhodri and the tax raising question
Language
Carwyn bucks Labour’s language phobia trend
A possible hint as to who would be the new leader of the Labour Party who is best fitted to serve ALL of Wales.
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Declaring for Welsh Democracy
We are entering a critical phase in the history of our nation. During the next two years we have the opportunity to transform our National Assembly into a proper legislative parliament. In June 2007, the new One Wales coalition government committed itself to seeking primary law-making powers for the Assembly and ‘to campaign for a successful outcome’ to a referendum on that subject.
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Tories and ‘the slippery slope’
DAVID MELDING spelled out a few Conservative principles to the weekly Conservative party briefing.Mr Melding stated the obvious – that his party is not united on devolution. He reckoned it was split in three equal parts – pro extra powers; happy with the present split between Cardiff and London; or favouring the abolition of devolution.
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Sacrificing the language
IF LANGUAGE and heritage minister Alun Ffred Jones is confused about what is happening to the Welsh government’s legislation on the Welsh language, he would be far from the only one
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Will Melding follow Marx into Federalism?
IS THERE any possibility that Tory David Melding will follow the path carved out by that other UK federalist, William Gladstone
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A Tory vote winner
The Welsh Tory strategy for countering Nationalists appears to be to ‘give in’ on national sovereignity and full devolution but repair Unionism byinsisting on ‘ federalisation’ to the UK in a sort of United States of Britain.
