HOW ABOUT a bit of sympathy for Mick Bates, the Lib Dem AM for Montgomery
Welsh LibDem
Why is Kirsty trying to sink the referendum?
THE LIB Dems seem terrified that the expected referendum on extra powers for the Assembly will be lost unless a unified Yes campaign is able to concentrate fully on that issue and not be distracted by an election.
Welsh LibDem
Time for Kirsty to give way to Jenny over the Valley aeroplane
This week was one of those occasions – and not perhaps the first. Mrs Randerson had a superb point to make about the costliness of the North-South air link, which would have made headlines.
While all that Mrs Williams could present was a very vague press release which I’m sure no-one was really interested in. And, to make matters worse, the AM for Brecon and Radnor regaled us with a mother-in-law joke which was really not in the best marital taste.
Health
Slashing the health budget
Normally, health spending is absolutely sacrosanct for politicians. The only issue is how to find some more money; never how to cut the existing budget.
Welsh LibDem
Lib Dems get shot up over St Athan military base
LIB DEM financial spokesman Vince Cable is down in Newport later this week, and the press were invited yesterday to meet him in the town. On being asked whether the UK party’s biggest financial noise will also be travelling to St Athan, Kirsty Williams, the party’s Welsh leader pointedly refused to answer.
Welsh LibDem
Why a civil servant’s credit card bill is much better than a till receipt
THE COMMENTS by this blogger a couple of weeks ago that new Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams was failing to make her mark in the publicity stakes seem to have had an effect
Expensegate
Playing the right-wing Tory game on AMs’ expenses
HOW LONG before the expenses issue starts to blow up in the faces of AMs, writes Clive Betts from the National Assembly press gallery.
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