And we have a u-turn! Must have been the nice things Cameron said about the cut of Dafydd El’s suit.

“ho hum another day at the office.., tired now”

instead of

“WOW! I’m a member of the Welsh Assembly! THE WELSH ASSEMBLY! Let’s go!! I’m not going home tonight because I’ve got constitutional amendments and a new school to plan! Woohoo! WELSH Assembly!”

it’s a matter of attitude, even if just the public-face one.

I’m constantly underwhelmed by being at the Assembly.

There’s absolutely no point going to the Siambr as you literally can’t see half the poor AMs below you because of the awful design. You’re relegated to watching a small screen … may as well stay at home. The level of the debate are truly awful – not even ‘yah boo’ politics of Westminster. The architecture of the Siambr with people seated above them, behind reinforced windows for heavens sake, means that AM are under no reason to raise the level of their debate.

It’s humiliating as a Welshman to see other chamber of local county councils with more grandure and presence than our National Assembly. It’s all ok to talk of the green side of the building, which is exciting and good, but it’s a bit like celebrating the sewrage system of 19th Palace of Westminster.

DET’s political ‘philosophy’ of post-nationalism parleyd with Labour’s sans-national view of Wales to create a chamber and building which tells visiting dignitaries and Welsh people (who ahve mostly been denied Welsh history in school and the popular press and who need something to make them proud of their identity) that the Assembly, and by implication, Wales has no power, no history, no confidence in its own ability. It says, ignore us.

Seeing Carwyn Jones declare the Government’s agenda for the next hear to a quarter empty chamber was embarrassing. Our Assembly doesn’t believe itself and by implication, Wales, is important enough to celebrate it’s own democracy.

This all boils down to DET post-national and sans-national philosophy. And the British nationalists who don’t want a confident Welsh identity are very happy with it.

DET enjoys the trappings of power which the Windsors exude but seems deliberately to deny Wales the same kind of trappings and prestige. This isn’t to say that there are certainly some silly walks ministries and archaic trappings with Royalty, but, this constant underplaying of prestige and ceremony by the Assembly and DET only undermines Welsh self confidence and the appeal of the Assembly.

Nope, I think Dafydd Ellis Thomas called that right. Cameron’s paternalistic unionism needs to be curbed. Cameron can address the JMCs or the British-Irish Council if he feels the urge to communicate with politicians from the devolved institutions. We don’t need him grandstanding at a Plenary session in the Senedd. Who does he think he is – royalty?

And is Ellis Thomas really ‘in awe’ of the Royal family or he is just having a bit of fun?

Are we to expect a biography soon, my guess is that someone other than the good Lord should explain this particular life …