Of all the Parliaments in all the world, this idiot had to walk into ours!

Alun ‘Dredd’ Davies svelte Liebour List AM for Mid and West Wales and political turncoat, has recently been doing the rounds of television studios informing the public of his shock and dismay at the abuse of public funds by his party’s representatives in Westminster. When told by Vaughan Roderick on the CF99 programme that it was “common knowledge” in newsrooms throughout the land that MPs were creaming it, he retorted “Well I had absolutely no idea that this sort of activity was going on”. He feigned disgust just like the Vichy police chief Captain Renault (played by Claude Rains) in Casablanca (with whose politics Dredd can obviously be closely identified!), persisting that he was “shocked” by these goings on and the abuse of taxpayers’ money.

What Mr Davies failed to tell the BBC’s viewers was that he was himself once party to an abuse of public funds which dwarfs even the moat ‘n duck excesses of Westminster’s freeloaders. Three years ago, recognising him (he was then Head of Corporate Affairs) as a loose cannon and general liability, the newly-installed chief exec of S4C Iona Jones was anxious to get shot of from the payroll of the taxpayer-funded channel. Alas, Alun wasn’t willing to go without a fight. The fingers of his cold Dredd hand were finally prised from the Llanishen doorhandle with a package funded by you and me which included a year’s salary and a lucrative contract from the channel for his new lobbying company Bute Communications to represent S4C’s interests in the Senedd. The company also represented the carcinogenic activities of the tobacco industry in Cardiff Bay, and may still do so. A quick calculation shows that the S4C career crash-mat for the part-time pugilist cost you and me in excess of £100,000 – an abuse of public funds which makes the financial shenanigans of Messrs Cash, Kirkbride, Moran and Hain etc seem trifling by comparison.

Alun has of late, of course, been extremely self-righteous in his condemnation of Trish Law’s “failings” with regards to her representation of the interests of the electors of Blaenau Gwent. He is, of course eyeing the Liebour’s nomination for that once safe seat, in competition with that other scintillating intellectual giant of Welsh Liebour Alan Pugh.

Let’s just hope when it comes to choosing Dredd the quisling – the good people of Ebbw Vale “must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss and abuse of taxpayers’ money is abuse of taxpayers’ money.”

Play it again Trish! Stand your ground against dirty rotten Liebour.