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Sgint – Sherman Cymru
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AWEMA – a failure of governance
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The show must go on
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The Welsh re-Development Agency
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An excuse to do nothing
February 8, 2012 07:02
Posts Tagged ‘Rhodri Morgan’
And the winner is…
Ahead of tonight’s ceremony, Owen Hathway shares his opinions on who should be named Welsh Politicians of the Year
Scottish Labour must learn from Rhodri
While Labour remains in control of the National Assembly and the Welsh Government, in Scotland the party is still licking its wounds after the SNP’s emphatic victory in May. Lessons need to be heeded, says this leading Scottish Labour politician
The father of the nation
The most famous member of the National Assembly for Wales comes under the spotlight today
The house that Rhodri built
Wales enters a new era next week when Rhodri Morgan steps down as First Minister, a post he has held for close to a decade. Here, he looks back over his time in office, and forward to retirement
Don’t know
The one constant in the leadership campaign has been the effusive praise the three contenders have heaped upon Rhodri Morgan. Today’s YouGov poll confirms why. Nearly two thirds of voters reckon the current FM has either performed fairly or very well. Only one in five think he’s done badly. A 44% net approval rating, then. [...]
Rhodri to speak on a decade of devolution
ONE of the last chances to see Rhodri Morgan speak in public before he retires will go ahead at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth early next month. The First Minister will be delivering the Welsh Political Archive‘s annual lecture on Friday November 6, beginning at 5.30pm. Entitled Ten Years of Devolution: Reflections of [...]
What is Labour for?
In the first of three pieces from each of the Welsh Labour leadership candidates, Huw Lewis argues that Labour is adrift and needs to get back to its core priorities of eradicating child poverty and providing decent housing through investment, and of the difficulty to convince the electorate of that investment
Essex backs Carwyn
SUE Essex, one of the most senior and respected figures in Welsh Labour, has today backed Carwyn Jones to succeed Rhodri Morgan as the next Leader of Welsh Labour. The former Finance Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government and close political ally of Morgan until she stood down in May 2007 as the AM for [...]
Nation speaks unto nation
As Lee Waters pointed out, Wales got an all-too-rare outing in the UK political narrative yesterday. Lee’s own excellent runners-and-riders summary is on Comment is Free. Our own, for Total Politics magazine’s Party Lines site, is here.
Today is Rhodri’s day
Older people often move more slowly. That is certainly the case with Rhodri Morgan who has seemingly taken an age to reach the point at lunchtime today when he will tender his resignation as Leader of the Welsh Labour group in the Assembly and de facto Leader of Welsh Labour. The biggest fish in the [...]
Name the date
READING through the Welsh blogosphere today, I’m surprised how few people are actually posting on the “extension on the extension” (as an old Welsh beer ad once said). Of course, establishment bloggers like Betsan have analysed, but that’s what she’s paid to do. But what of the “amateur” blogger? Barely a peep, and that surprises [...]
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
When the Welsh Labour Conference met in Swansea in April, First Minister Rhodri Morgan’s speech lacked something. One delegate filled in the gap for me: “There was no clear exit plan.” And when Rhodri spoke to his party in Brighton today, the same was true. He basically announced an announcement that is forthcoming. Once more [...]
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