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May 252010
‘KINNOCK BACKS ED!’ scream the headlines. A sense of déja vu? A vague frisson of ‘we’ve been there before’? Well, of course, we have. Remember the Screwloose fiasco just a few months ago and the pathetic hissy fit by Huw Lewis and his whingeing acolytes before poor old Screwers was soundly thrashed by Carwyn Jones in the Welsh Liebour leadership elections? Well, you will also remember that we wrote in Cambriapolitico at the time that one of the chief contributory factors to Screwloose’s defeat, something which sounds like an eerie echo from the tomb of 1980s politics – was The Kinnocchio Factor.
Almost certain demise of Ed’s quest
Yes it’s here again, but then you can’t keep a good windbag in a state of deflation for long. He just can’t help putting in his twopennyworth. The self-important magniloquent Baron of Bedwellty, replete with the usual pseudo-avuncular bombast and flimflammery is at it again, thereby ensuring the almost certain demise of Ed Miliband’s Labour leadership quest. Which prompts the question: is Kinnock actually a closet supporter of brother Dave?
Graham Henry (Eh?!) of the dear old Western Mail (God bless it, as we must now say) commented: “Lord Kinnock’s backing for Ed is a setback for his brother, former Foreign Secretary David” which reveals a huge and staggering dollop of political naiveté given the Baron’s miserable record. Certainly such a comment wouldn’t have come from the pen of saintly, national treasure, Martin Shipton – one of the few commentators at the WM with real political nous.
Kinnock intervention nail in coffin of Ed’s dream
As anyone in Wales with any political intelligence will have gathered, Kinnock’s unwelcome intervention is actually a serious nail in the coffin of Ed’s dreams, and one hell of a boost for his lugubrious brother David and the bouncy little Mr Balls.
It seems that a huge majority of WM readers would agree. The WM’s online ‘Quick Vote’ box posed the question “Will Neil Kinnock’s backing help Ed Miliband to become Labour leader?” A spindly 15.28% said ‘Yes’, while a vigorous and informed 85.72% voted a resounding ‘NO’!
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[IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTE: The terms ‘Screwloose’, ‘Screwers’ and other jocular and whimsical terms or epithets in this article are employed in a purely satirical sense and make no personal implications / insinuations / aspersions / assertions etc as to the mental condition, intelligence, personal propriety, morals, religious inclinations of any persons alive or dead etc etc etc……..]
The redacted version of the Huw Lewis blog post instead of the one the Labour Party bully-boys don’t want you to see. We’re confident that the full version will be back on line for your delectation (and their confusion) soon!
xxxxxxx xxxxx the xxxxxx
By Axxxxx Llxxxx Pxxxx
xxx xxxx it all appeared to be going swimmingly well for xxxxxx, xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Labour leadership candidate Huw ‘xxxxxxxxxx’ Lewis – xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxxx.
Over the last few weeks in the gripping battle to succeed Rhodri Morgan as First minister of Wales, it appeared that rank outsider xxxxxxxxxx, xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxx xxxx Harry Ramsden xx x xxxxxx xxxxxx, might yet slip under the radar and bring the contest to a tight finish.
Obvious favourite Carwyn Jones, a xxxxxxx xxxxxxx and xxxxx xxxx xxxxxx with xxxxxx gravitas to lead a political party, xxxxxx out on the burning issue facing Wales: increased powers for the Assembly – apparently xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx. Meanwhile xxxxxx xxxxxx Edwina Hart’s campaign ran xxxxxx xxxxxx with xxxxxx the future of xxxxxx.
No mention of anything remotely xxxxxx, xxxxxx xxxxxx or xxxxxx
Suddenly xxxxxx seemed to be a contender. The former chemistry teacher’s 5-minute interview on Thursday’s AM/PM programme actually gave the impression of a reasonable, softly-spoken family man and with no mention of anything xxxxxx, xxxxxx xxxxxx or xxxxxx -as might have been expected. When considered against the xxxxxx of Edwina and Carwyn on the same programme, xxxxxx his chances. xxxxxx then came yesterday’s headline…
xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx BEHIND HUW LEWIS’ VISION FOR WALES!
and the dream is all xxxxxx.
Political xxxxxx
The very idea of this xxxxxx duo of political xxxxxx and xxxxxx xxxxxx (Kinnock as Labour leader, Glenys as a xxxxxx ‘xxxxxx’ MEP xxxxxx xxxxxx Foreign Office minister) giving a boost to anyone in this contest is as xxxxxx as it is xxxxxx. Here is a couple whose xxxxxx Wales, its people, language, culture and history (xxxxxx is on record as saying that xxxxxx) is matched only by an xxxxxx (see Cambriapolitico passim). Lewis xxxxxx that he was “honoured and humbled to have the backing of two such great party figures”, adding xxxxxx that xxxxxx was somehow responsible for having “saved the party from electoral extinction”, xxxxxx opposite xxxxxx case. He famously xxxxxx election xxxxxx it to years in the xxxxxx until Tony Blair recreated it along Tory lines in the lead up to the New Labour victory of 1997.
Champagne- xxxxxx
xxxxxx avowed socialist AM for Merthyr Tydfil – who lives with his AM wife in xxxxxx Penarth (xxxxxx his “passion is to rid Wales of the xxxxxx of child poverty”) – being endorsed by a duo of champagne- xxxxxx and political xxxxxx, is one step xxxxxx.
xxxxxx the Labour Party in Wales has the sense to see straight xxxxxx.
The Stasi are waiting in the wings!!
Just when it all appeared to be going swimmingly well for ultra-left, ultra-unionist devo-sceptic Labour leadership candidate Huw ‘Screwloose’ Lewis – suddenly it’s all gone pear-shaped.
Over the last few weeks in the gripping battle to succeed Rhodri Morgan as First minister of Wales, it appeared that rank outsider Screwloose, despite having more chips on his shoulders than Harry Ramsdens on a Saturday night, might yet slip under the radar and bring the contest to a tight finish.
Obvious favourite Carwyn Jones, a patriotic Welshman and the only contender with enough gravitas to lead a political party, wimped out on the burning issue facing Wales: increased powers for the Assembly – apparently terrified of being labelled a closet nationalist. Meanwhile statuesque valkyrie Edwina Hart’s campaign ran messily into the mud with an unnecessary and unwise spat over the future of Faith Schools.
No mention of anything remotely anti-Welsh, rabidly unionist or loony-left. Suddenly Screwloose seemed to be a contender. The former chemistry teacher’s 5-minute interview on Thursday’s AM/PM programme actually gave the impression of a reasonable, softly-spoken family man and with no mention of anything remotely anti-Welsh, rabidly unionist or loony-left as might have been expected. When considered against the lacklustre efforts of Edwina and Carwyn on the same programme, you’d have fancied his chances.
But then came the headline…
KINNOCKS THROW WEIGHT BEHIND HUW LEWIS’ VISION FOR WALES!
and the dream is all but over.
Political clowns
The very idea of this Wales-hating duo of political clowns and abject failures (Kinnock as Labour leader, Glenys as a globetrotting ‘Welsh’ MEP who failed to champion one single local issue, and latterly as a disastrously bad Foreign Office minister) giving a boost to anyone in this contest is as laughable as it is pathetic. Here is a couple whose loathing of Wales, its people, language, culture and history (Kinnock is on record as saying that that Wales didn’t have any) is matched only by an obscene greed for wealth and gargantuan appetite for adulation (see Cambriapolitico passim). Lewis simpered that he was “honoured and humbled to have the backing of two such great party figures”, adding bizarrely that Kinnock was somehow responsible for having “saved the party from electoral extinction”, when the exact opposite was the case. He famously and disastrously lost Labour an election condemning it to years in the wilderness until Tony Blair recreated it along Tory lines in the lead up to the New Labour victory of 1997.
Champagne-swilling freeloaders
The very idea of the avowed socialist AM for Merthyr Tydfil – who lives with his AM wife in comfortable middle-class style in the leafy avenues of smart, upmarket Penarth (he claims his “passion is to rid Wales of the curse of child poverty”) – being endorsed by a duo of champagne-swilling multi-millionaire freeloaders and political dinosaurs, is one step too far.
Let’s hope what remains of the Labour Party in Wales has the sense to see straight through this grotesque charade.
By Cynfelyn
Editor’s Note
Wales gives notice to Liebour’s Stalinist bullies – we will not be silenced!
After due consideration by Cambriapolitico’s legal counsel, we feel that the people of Wales have the right to read, in full, our contributor Cynfelyn’s article which has induced such a hissy-fit in Huw Lewis’s highly-strung henchmen Matt Greenough and Luke Holland.
The idiotic idea that reminding readers of Huw Lewis’s nickname “Screwloose” – it’s been applied to him in political circles in Cardiff Bay for some considerable time – and, DOH!, it’s also er… a play on his name, is in anyway a comment on his mental health, should send those who thought it up scrambling onto the couch of their own therapists in Cathedral Road.
The whole silly exercise shows how running scared Liebour’s lost legions
are, and that’s what’s made them so pathetically – and babyishly – touchy.As we have said – be warned – this is a foretaste of the sort of intimidatory regime a Huw Lewis Liebour leadership will mean.
The Kinnocks: an unreserved and abject apology from Cambriapolitico
We make an unreserved and abject apology to the readers of Cambriapolitico. We got it badly wrong.
We were wrong, wrong, wrong!
We calculated – from a series of given data – the extent of the Kinnock’s murky empire, and we badly UNDERESTIMATED their booty by many millions of pounds. Revelations in this week’s Sunday Times which are repeated almost verbatim in today’s Wasting Mule, show that the Kinnocks have grossed in excess of a staggering £10,000,000 in property speculation, salaries, expenses and pensions over fifteen years of “public service” on behalf of (in the Ginger Whinger’s case) “Great Britain” as EU Commissioner, and (in the Anglesey Fishwife’s case) in the service of the people of Wales (for Wales, incidentally, read Africa, tuna fish, mangos, bananas and bushmeat ….anything BUT Wales. Oh and p-u-h-l-e-a-s-e, not the ghastly Welsh language). £10,000,000? That’s a badly needed dialysis unit or a specialist children’s facility so badly lacking in Welsh hospitals. But no, it’s all gone on Neil and Glen’s champagne and goodies, trinkets and fripperies, junkets and high jinks. Are you complaining? Well you ought to be.
Bloodsuckers and Welsh suckers
Now revealed as bloodsucking parasites on the UK’s body politic in all its tawdry squalor, the “Socialist” Clan Kinnock continues its ride on the governmental and European gravy train with an ever-swelling bundle of ongoing salaries, perks and pensions.
Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty’s reaction to the revelations? “No Comment”
The soon-to-be “elevated” (?!) Baroness Kinnock’s response? “Unavailable for comment”.
These are the very same brown-nosing Anglophiles who campaigned against the EU in the 1970s, are still campaigning against further devolved powers for Wales (on the heads of whose blinkered voters they clambered the greasy pole to “up yours” prosperity) and a against a new Welsh Language Act. One wonders how on earth the Fishwife’s other “elevation” to Minister for Europe is tenable or justifiable when ordinary MPs are being hauled over the coals for the lesser crimes of ‘flipping’, moat cleaning and indenting for lipstick. They pale into insignificance against the crimes of the Kinnock Gang – all, you understand, strictly committed “within the rules” and, of course, under the radar.
It is time for the voters of Wales to create an unholy outcry about the stink rising from the overflowing sewer that is Liebour whether Welsh or English.
With Liebour – and especially “Welsh” Liebour – in meltdown, Gordon Brown has chosen the time of his latest (and probably last) cabinet “reshuffle” to punish the Welsh (“the f*****g Welsh” to use his predecessor Tony Blair’s words). Out goes lugubrious, maladroit Welsh Secretary Paul ‘Spudface’ Murphy. Back comes disgraced Orange-skinned Lounge Lizard Peter Vain, originally parachuted in to take over one of Liebour’s safest seats, Neath, one of those “if-you-put-a-monkey-up” constituencies which have held back Wales’s progress for so many decades.
Some like it hot!
Vain returns to the now largely superfluous post, still badly tainted with sleaze, not just because of the scandal over hidden contributions to his disastrous campaign for the party’s deputy-leadership, but over his ‘new wife, new home, new shed roof’ parliamentary expenses.
Vain, The Daily Telegraph revealed, charged the taxpayer for a new tin roof for his ‘log store’ and asked if he could claim “the mortgage interest on a £440,000 new home which be bought with his second wife Elizabeth Hayward in 2004 – as well as claiming for his former home six miles away.”
Lucky for some, but not for many in Neath, one of the most economically depressed parts of Wales. Keeping the homes at a temperature appropriate to one with so profound a tan and lifestyle to match cost us in excess of £6,000 in heating oil in just over two years. Phew! We all know some like it hot, but 25 degrees right round the clock?
New Welsh Gauleiter a danger to democracy
Seriously though, with devolution the role of Secretary of State for Wales is – and should be -largely superfluous, there’s a nasty sting in the tail. What is dangerous for democracy in Wales is that Vain will in all probability abuse his role as Welsh Gauleiter by clipping the wings of the powers of the National Assembly. He threatened to do so before until scandal floored him. He will do this by obstructing the progress of LCOs in Westminster and ensuring that the acquisition of further powers by the Senedd are consistently impeded and frustrated.
The vast majority of Liebour’s Welsh MPs are recalcitrant dinosaurs wholly opposed to any further transference of power to Cardiff. They will shortly be fighting for their political lives, but, as we will soon see, London’s new Gauleiter and his cronies will try and inflict the maximum possible damage to Welsh devolution on their way down. And out.
Glenys’s new first class seat on the gravy train
Gordo’s other act of spite is the appointment of Anglesey Fishwife Glenys Kinnock as Minister for Europe. It just goes to show that a combination of mediocrity, failure and extravagant gravytraining – with a solid measure of anti-Welshness thrown in – are what get you results in the Liebour menagerie. Five times round the world Glen, (127,465 air miles and counting) who received one of the highest expenses allowances in the European Parliament, was rated 71 out of a total of 78 in the Taxpayers’ Alliance evaluation of ‘best value’ MEP in the UK, which rather puts things into perspective. Despite supposedly representing Welsh electors, she failed to mention the need of he constituents once in all her years as an MEP but instead used her time in Brussels to pursue a bizarre hotchpotch of issues (“ishoos”), causes and personal obsessions which had nothing whatsoever to do with her remit.
Referring to La Kinnock and her sidekick Eluned Morgan (TA ‘best value’ rating 66 out of 78) a Cambriapolitico correspondent commented last week: “Thank God these freeloading swindlers have left the stage – hopefully for good.” No such luck. Brown has “elevated” the Fishwife to the House of Lords to replace Caroline Flint as European Minister, where she can sit next to hubby Neil, and, yes you’ve got it, carry on milking the system as never before. Minister for Europe? Attendance allowances, housing allowances, entertainment allowances, pensions, golden handshakes, junkets, jets and jollys…. all over again. And best of all, no nasty voters to wise up to your tricks!
At least from his personal point of view Gordo’s made one wise move in an otherwise capricious and dangerous environment. With a bottomless expense account like this, good time Glen’s never going to stab him in the back, and unlike Caroline Flint she’s definitely not fit to be put in the window. Ach y fi!
Unbelievable but we are being foisted with both Peter Hain and Glenys Kinnock yet again.
Guido Fawkes was the first political blogger to have a go at Peter Hain and here is his reaction below
Hain is we are told heading back to the Welsh Office. Is it because of his brilliance? When Gordon sacked him last time it was for incompetence.Is it because he is clean when it comes to his expenses and will demonstrate the sincerity of Brown’s plans to clean up politics? This is the man who failed to declare £100,000 laundered through a think tank / slush fund for his deputy leadership campaign. Hain, do not forget, was the cabinet minister who argued for the change in the system that allowed ministers to designate their London home as their second home, he “employs” his 80 year-old mother at the taxpayer’s expense to look after his interests, such a shame she never actually visits his office…
Diolch i chi Gordon Brown.
News that the Anglesey Fishwife’s carbon footprint is greater than almost all other 785 members of the European Parliament was revealed in today’s The Sunday Times (Globetrotting MEPs scramble aboard gravy train¹ by Jason Allardyce and Jon Ungoed-Thomas). It’s precisely what we suspected, and very much in tune with what Cambriapolitico has been saying about Glenys Kinnock¹s consistent and long-term abuse of her position as one of the elected European representatives for Wales.
Who gives a fig about the Welsh unemployed…
In all her years as an MEP, not once, it appears, has La Kinnocchia performed a single service in Brussels or Strasbourg on behalf of her electorate, preferring instead to concentrate on the needs of the people of Africa, and jet around the world at our expense on meaningless “fact-finding” junkets to exotic and interesting parts of the world. Places, you can be sure, with a good deal more sunshine than either Anglesey or Bedwellty (of which hubby Neil is now ‘baron’). Now this is not to say that the issue of the interests of the people of Africa shouldn’t be raised in the European Parliament, but since Kinnock was ostensibly elected to represent the people of Wales – one of the poorest and most deprived parts of the mighty EU – her electors might have expected a tad more for their votes, and indeed, their hard-earned money? Surely there are MEPs from relatively prosperous regions of Europe who might well have the time and the spare cash to champion the cause of Africa? No, it’s left to our Glen, despite the desperate state into which her lamentable party has led our little country. She’s got the time, the cash and the attitude. Sod the beleaguered farmers and the woebegone unemployed of Wales.
Fishwife Glen: FIVE TIMES round the world at our expense!
According to the ST, Kinnock is the ‘best travelled’ of all 78 UK MEPs, and has covered a staggering 127,465 miles on behalf of the Welsh electorate – ‘equivalent to flying round the world more than five times’! As part of her work for the farmers of Ceredigion, the steel-workers of Neath and Port Talbot and the unemployed of just about everywhere else in our little country, the Fishwife has been on delegations to the Seychelles (“Welcome to Another World”), Barbados (“Wake up to the rhythm of the tropics and paradise to explore.”) and Namibia (“Never fails to enthral its visitors….still poets do not tire to invent attributes to do justice to its unique, ever-varying magnificence.”)
Yes, yes, we get the picture. But we should be very angry.
Wales needs proper representation in Brussels as never before
Mercifully, the Fishwife and her ghastly handmaiden and sidekick Eluned Morgan are standing down as MEPs, (their only Welsh initiative in Brussels, incidentally, has been to pour scorn on the Welsh language in a revolting exhibition of BNP-style xenophobia) but when Welsh voters put their crosses to their ballot papers this week, they should think very carefully about giving a carte blanche to any representative of any party other than a Welsh one. Jill Evans has served Wales loyally and royally since 1999. Bear that in mind on June 4th. Wales desperately needs proper representation in Brussels as never before. It has been appallingly betrayed by the Fishwife and her flighty coven of freeloaders.
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