Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

Is the Western Mail’s highly-unusual over-the-top call for Nick Bourne to resign as Tory leader the final service that paper can render to eccentric right-wing Monmouth MP David Davies and his father Peter, a Newport councillor ?

The leader the next day on the paper’s own-styled “IPodGate day six” descends to hysteria as if the paper [...]

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The housing Legislative Competence Order which threatens a constitution crisis between the Natonal Assembly and Welsh MPs should be treated as a game of ping-pong between Cardiff and London.

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There’s a slight smell of 1978 wafting around the Assembly nowadays.

That was the time when the government headed by the MP for Cardiff South East launched a campaign to convince voters to vote-yes to the formation of a Welsh Assembly.

Except that they didn’t really set up a campaign.

And when the battle began, the government didn’t [...]

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The appearance of full-page government adverts last week in some of the largest newspapers circulating in Wales struck right to the kernel of the Welsh media problem.

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Top ten positions for Cambria Politico in Iain Dale’s list of Welsh blogs (7) and Non-aligned blogs (9) has been achieved after only 3 months of operation.
A BIG THANK YOU to all of you who voted for us. Now for the Sauregurkenzeit Trophy- the ultimate accolade!
Total Politics List of top ten Welsh blogs.
1. Peter Black [...]

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Only limited sympathy today in the Assembly - which often loves to go overboard in political correctness - over the massive bullock that Alun Cairns dropped on the radio last week.

In a light-hearted item on which soccer team he supported in the current European championship, Mr Cairns attached the description “greasy wops” to the [...]

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