Says Alun Davies AM..”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.

It’s clear that Alun Davies doesn’t think much of his current party’s selection procedures – no doubt in the light of the departure from the party of Labour’s previous Blaenau Gwent candidate, and because of the age (70) of the candidate chosen to wrest (or, more likely, not wrest) Llanelli from Helen Mary Jones, of Plaid.

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

Such a tautly-worded stand-off has seldom been seen in the Assembly as that between Michael Grade, executive chairman of ITV, and Alun Davies, boss of the new broadcasting committee.… Read the rest