Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

Bloggers can be so cruel! Not for those of a nervous or Labour disposition.

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Just who was that confident, self-assured and svelte figure striding through the ranks of the huddled masses at the Royal Welsh Show

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No wonder devo-sceptic and arch-nationalistophobe Don Touhig and his Labour MP chums aren’t keen to cut the knot with Westminster. They’ve so much to lose. Not only are they members of one of the UK’s smartest, richest and most exclusive clubs - hobnobbing with the ‘great and good’ the likes of [...]

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Best wishes to Tamsin from the Tories.
You must understand, the feeling addressed to Tamsin Dunwoody from Welsh Conservative leader Nick Bourne refers, election-wise, to when she fights a safe Labour Parliamentary constituency.
But Mr Bourne admitted he had already corresponded with Ms Dunwoody, one of the most redoubtable members of Labour’s backbenches up ’til last May.
The [...]

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Source: BBC NEWS | Wales | Wales ‘is leaving Labour behind’
Mr Hain spoke after Labour was battered at the elections on 1 May, losing overall control of six of the 22 Welsh councils and retaining an overall majority in just two.Labour performed worse in Wales than in England, where the party lost only three out [...]

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A slap on the wrist for local government minister Brian Gibbons from his senior, the minister for finance and public service delivery Andrew Davies.

There has been quite a lot of quiet talk for some time that 22 councils is too many for Wales - some are too small, such as Merthyr, with only 56,000 [...]

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An admission at last (as if it was needed !) that Labour is London-centred…

Nothing less than the Welsh Labour Party’s home page today has a small oblong displaying a map of “Labour in your area” - Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Stoke Newington and lots of other places just a bus-ride from Mr Brown’s control [...]

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Real kings are proclaimed by the people, rather than announced by proclamation and heralded by trumpeters.
So it is in Wales. Rhodri Morgan told Camra (the real-ale society) AGM in Cardiff about the effusive welcome he received in a Cardiff Bay pub (the White Hart, which is hardly one where Seneddwyr imbibe) after he took over [...]

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