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Comment on What future for television in Wales ? by cambriapolitico

cambriapolitico — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:51:15 +0000

Perhaps there are two Alun Davieses ?

Comment on What future for television in Wales ? by Anthony Carnswell

Anthony Carnswell — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:07:35 +0000

Is this irony? Alun Davies - one of the weakest, dimmest, smuggest and poorly-informed members to ever ‘grace’ the Senedd - a match for Michael Grade? Words fail me.

Comment on Caerffili makes its Plaid mark, and then spoils it by cambriapolitico

cambriapolitico — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:27:26 +0000

Yes.

Comment on Peter Hain’s pamphlet by Politics in America » Peter Hain’s pamphlet

Politics in America » Peter Hain’s pamphlet — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:30:17 +0000

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Comment on Caerffili makes its Plaid mark, and then spoils it by Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:27:47 +0000

Two of my Welsh speaking friends Caerffili (is Morgan Jones a ward?) and another from Bedwas both commented how the literature received from PC was in English only - I assume this is what you’re refering to?

Comment on Honesty, Plaid and Y Byd by cambriapolitico

cambriapolitico — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:49:59 +0000

Beware the newest kid on the block - he might not be worth as much as he thinks he is. So with the web for information-gathering. I’m currently trying to impose order on last week’s election results so I can write about them. The Cardiff press has all but abandoned ward results and the statistical compilations based on them. Torfaen was one of Wales’s most interesting results. But the council site is a disaster - each ward has to be accessed separately for the results; but party affiliations can only be found by accessing the nominations, again on a ward basis. Why doesn’t someone invent something called a newspaper so they can be easily collated ?

Comment on Cymraeg wins; English - 0 by sanddef

sanddef — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:35:03 +0000

Da iawn Elin!

Comment on A blooming liberty with council cash by Susan Kishner

Susan Kishner — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:25:39 +0000

Nice writing style. I will come back to read more posts from you.

Susan Kishner

Comment on Honesty, Plaid and Y Byd by Peter D Cox

Peter D Cox — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:40:09 +0000

The £200,000 grant is derisory for any kind of start up for a news organisation - who’s to say you actually need less for an online newspaper - the only saving is print and distribution which is usually covered by ads that you don’t get online.
And I don’t share the notion that printed newspapers are dead. It would have been better if Y Byd had been more ambitious in its aims: at a minimum there should be a nationwide free delivery, five days a week to every school, educational institution, and to every councillor - oh and AM’s bless them.
The only self-called national newspaper in Wales (the Western Mail that doesn’t have much about Wales in its title does it?) relies for its very existence on huge public subsidy through exorbitant rates for large public sector recruitment and statutory adverts.

Comment on Rhodri tells why Labour lost by Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:41:20 +0000

I knew that the comment came from Rhodri. It is typical spin without any substance. One of the problems with local elections as you highlight in another post is that people very rarely analyse the results. They often forget that they are local and in most cases voters are not voting to decide who will run the council. Instead they are often voting to decide who will represent the ward. When people lose their seats it is often much easier to explain the defeat because of national factors or other reasons. National factors might play a part but it doesn’t explain why some Labour councillors survived on Thursday night whilst others were defeated. In local politics voters often cast their vote after assessing the quality and personality of the candidate. In Bridgend you had virtually a rerun of 2004 with this time all the votes being counted! there were 39 mini elections not one elcetion to run the council. Labour will run the council with indpendent support not because it listened to the voters. What happened was in the Ogmore constituency it regained seats it had lost in 2004 because of the failings of the sitting councillors. In the Bridgend constituency Labour once again did badly. It only gained one seat and even that result I would put down to the personal vote of the individaul concerned who came second to the Lib Dem who topped the poll. It lost another seat to the independents in what was formally a very safe Labour ward dominated by council houses.. It nearly lost another seat after a recount and held on to another because the anti Labour vote was split. On low turn outs where most of the voters are not really interested who represents them then those who do vote are often delivering a verdict not on the parties but on their perception of the qualities of the individual candidates. Ironically if Labour had held on to control of Bridgedn in 2004 they would probaly have been hammered on May 1st. Unfortunately the Labour party in ,many areas has been in decline for a number of years. This decline has been masked first by hostility to Thatcherism and then by economic prosperity. The party organisation is often a shell with an age profile closer to 70 rather than 40. Everyone knows that this years the Labour party had difficulty in getting candidates to stand in many areas. In Bridgend there were wards without candidates only months before th election and two of the candidates came from the Ogmore constituency. Others stood because no one else would come forward and they will not be there in 2012.The Labour party needs an honest debate about went wrong both last year in the Assembly election and this year. If it doesn’t then it will start to lose seats at both a Parliamentary and Assembly level. Blaming Gordon Brown and UK politics is far too simplistic and it stops people asking the really searching questions as to what direction the party in Wales should take in the 21st century.