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Sgint – Sherman Cymru
February 10, 2012 15:02 -
AWEMA – a failure of governance
February 10, 2012 10:02 -
The show must go on
February 10, 2012 07:02 -
The Welsh re-Development Agency
February 9, 2012 07:02 -
An excuse to do nothing
February 8, 2012 07:02
Archive for the ‘Westminster ’10’ Category
There must be a price for failure
NORMALLY at least one party leader resigns after a poor election result. Since pretty much everyone lost on Thursday, it’s quite surprising that no heads have yet rolled and there have been so few attempts at regicide from those who have won or lost. Of course David Cameron has no need to go anywhere and [...]
Welsh Blog Round Up, General Election Week 5
IT MAY be taking a liberty but as the results of the results are still an issue, then we’re keeping the weekly blog review going for a bit longer. After all, people may have some very interesting things to say online now, don’t you think? The campaign is history now – let’s not go there [...]
Everyone’s in power
THE day after the night before, and instead of the inquest we get the horse trading. Rumours of a done deal, between the Tories and Plaid Cymru in a balanced Parliament, swirled through Senedd corridors and seeped on to Twitter late last week. The terms for achieving Plaid’s manifesto commitments – a smooth Westminster passage [...]
Thoughts on four parties in Wales
SOMEONE described what we’ve just witnessed as 40 Welsh by-elections on the same night, and to an extent they have a point. But beyond that there are actual trends that can de discerned – even if you have to look a lot harder to find them than usual. But I’ll have a damn good try [...]
Your guide to the hung Parliament
AS at 5.30am it looks like we are indeed heading into NO Overall Control. So how will it work from here? Here are a few pointers. What are the rules? As with most things constitutional, there are few if any written rules. However, a few areas are established by convention: The Prime Minister remains in [...]
Have a Go Hero
OK, what the hell. Here are my predictions on where there are probable results and where the action still is. Bound to get half of these wrong, but it’s better to have tried and failed… LABOUR WILL HOLD 1. Ogmore 2. Bridgend 3. Swansea East 4. Aberavon 5. Neath 6. Clwyd South 7. Wrexham 8. [...]
Shifting sands
ALL quiet on the streets of Neath today. It’s not the situation I would have envisaged some eight months ago – taking the day off work and spending it pounding the pavements in Bryncoch South and Cimla. But there was no evidence of the Green-Red battles that have coloured Valleys politics in the past. This [...]
Neck on the block…
I’M getting a feeling in my water. And that’s never nice. Don’t ask me to put names to seats yet but I reckon that we’re looking at a Wales result which: – is relatively close to 1983 in Wales in terms of vote shares – could end up something like 20, 9, 6, 5 Turnout [...]
Will you be up for..?
ELECTION night – what’s not to like? Well, quite a lot if you’re on the lookout for certain declarations and have no idea when to expect them. Fortunately, those nice chaps at PA have published a list of declaration times (hat tip also: MOF). Obviously the Welsh seats will be top of our interest list, [...]
Join the live blog – from 10pm tomorrow
AS SOON as the polls close tomorrow, we’ll be live blogging what promises to be an exciting – and tight – Westminster election. We’d love it if you can join us. Daran will be at the heart of the action, appearing across the Beeb and hoovering up every rumour, whisper and nugget of information. We’ve [...]
Good night, bad night
WHAT will make a good or bad result for Wales’ four main parties in a little over twenty four hours time? This is a bit of an indicative guide: the way things may pan out may span several options and scenarios for individual parties. But it might be a helpful guide to show just what [...]
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