What the Lib Dems are for
Bubble — By Adam Higgitt on October 28, 2009 9:30 pmWe feasted on the YouGov poll yesterday, but there’s still plenty of flesh on them bones. Today, it’s the turn of the two anon Plaid blogs to spit some chunks at the Lib Dems (paying no heed to Daran’s recent exhortation, obviously). “What are they for?” asks Welsh Ramblings while Guerrilla Welsh-Fare bemoans the lack of formal response.
In the spirit of that, therefore, here’s one existential justification:
- Without the Lib Dems there would have been no Richard Commission.
- Without the Richard Commission there would have been no Government of Wales Act 2006.
- Without the GoW Act there would be no provision for a referendum and no means for the Assembly to gain primary powers any time soon.
Which does kind of make you wonder why the Plaid bloggers aren’t thanking the Lib Dems instead of pulling their pony tails.
(But then describing Lib Dems’ poll rating of 12% as “the verge of disappearing as a political entity” might not be that well advised for a Plaid supporter, given that Plaid itself is within that margin of error.)
Tags: Plaid Cymru, polling, Welsh Liberal Democrats
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I don’t think anyone’s suggesting the Lib Dems have never contributed anything to Welsh politics, just that it’s becoming less and less clear what they contribute now.
Really? In a partly proportional electoral system the smaller parties nearly always punch above their strength. The current arrangement of a grand coalition is, if anything, the aberrant one.