Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

The Western Mail has really excelled itself in its campaign to rid the Welsh Tory party of its leader who has done so much to turn the party into an organisation which supports the nation instead of looking solely towards England and copying what happens across the border.

The basis of the campaign was revealed [...]

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Conservative leader Nick Bourne has fallen into the hands of a bunch of extremist Christian nutters in joining their attempt to ban the rights of a Liberal Democrat AM.
Christian Voice is a voice for no-one but a tiny faction of ultra-Protestant, flat-earth fanatics who judge the complications of running an entire country through loads of [...]

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Tory rebels against the party’s rapidly-developing devolution policy had better watch out.
One of the longest-standing sceptics has told them that there’s a limit to disagreement. David Jones, MP for Clwyd West and former northern regional AM, then rubbed in his message by making clear that arch-devolutionist and Assembly group leader Nick Bourne is the best man [...]

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Tory leader Nick Bourne’s thoughts on the constitutional clash developing between the Assembly and Westminster are becoming more apposite by the day.

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When the Western Mail runs a story quoting a “senior Welsh Tory” questioning whether party centrist Nick Bourne should “stay on as leader”, one must wonder how close that individual is to the self-styled True Wales group led by a descendant of Owain Glyndwr.

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Nick Bourne has found a new way of striking home the fact that the Tories did quite well in this spring’s local elections, winning more votes in Cardiff than the Liberal Democrats, who are leading the authority.

He is demanding that the Assembly forges ahead with establishing directly-elected mayors in the Welsh cities.

Talking to the press [...]

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So, there is life beyond the political grave - and it as a result might mean widespread cuts in speed limits on Welsh roads.

Alun Pugh was hardly the most successful culture minister, and now all of his controversial Labour-fuelled talk of absorbing the Arts Council into the civil service has totally vanished - successor Rhodri [...]

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Nick Bourne is one of the most open of politicians at the Assembly.

Perhaps his policies are as an open book.

Which has all the pages blank because much has yet to be written.

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Alison Halford always seemed a wee bit different from her colleagues when she sat as an AM in Cardiff. Her years as assistant chief constable for Merseyside gave her an outlook on her fellow man which was a trifle broader than most of us ever attained.

Although she sat for Labour, she was fiercely independent; independent [...]

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Nick Bourne is haring off leftwards so fast that it won’t be long before the Welsh Tory party stands to the left of Labour.

He kicked off his weekly briefing by advocating a £100 discount on their council tax bills for all pensioners. What about the millionaires ? For everyone, he replied; the matter’s [...]

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