PETER ROBINSON and the Democratic Unionists of Northern Ireland are set to play a star role in the Welsh referendum campaign on extra powers for the National Assembly
Welsh Politics
The MP-friends of the late-night drunk
How was it that the Licensing Scotland Act – designed to curb the drunkenness which is too common a feature of our society – could be enacted in Edinburgh while MPs in London are still slobbering into their drinks or puking in the Westminster toilets?
Welsh Politics
Anti-Assembly MPs milk the expenses
Of the 40 MPs from Wales, only a tiny handful have failed to milk the parliamentary expenses system for every penny they could get.
Only two of them – stand up and be honoured, Julie Morgan, Cardiff North, and Alan Williams, Swansea West – have put in claims which were substantially below the £20,000-odd a year they could claim for second homes in London.
Blood Boilers
Big Don’s Westminster Windfall – an update
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 Gordon Brown, Darling, Milliband, Straw, Balls, Blears and a whole host of other sparkling and significant characters – but it’s good for the bank balance as well.
Welsh Politics
A scene to cheer the troglodytes of Untrue Wales
For there is one thing that the members of Untrue Wales and its unholy coalition of Left-Right leaders are agreed on, and this is that the people of Wales cannot be trusted to voice their own beliefs. Or to express their democratic views (except through voices in the Imperial Parliament).
We are now told by Untrue Wales that the drive towards extra powers, which will rid the Assembly of near-total control by the Welsh Affairs Committee of the Commons – certain to be dominated by near-ignorant English Tories of unknown views after the next election – is happening purely at the behest of Church and State.
Welsh Politics
Untrue, Untrue, Untrue – True Wales
Don Touhig is sending out his acolytes to freeze on Valleys streets by shadowing the road show currently being organised by the All Wales Convention.
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Welsh Politics
Alun Michael – hero of the Tory devo-sceptics
Alun Michael must be on his way to becoming the hero of the Tory devo-sceptics.
