tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post7607112529370577729..comments2023-11-05T09:37:36.840+01:00Comments on A View From Rural Wales: Assembly to SeneddGlyn Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442114752573417252noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-38747857624062823252008-05-01T17:52:00.000+01:002008-05-01T17:52:00.000+01:00anon - top class comment, most of which I would ha...anon - top class comment, most of which I would have been happy to have written myself. So happens that Martin Shipton of the Western Mail has been on the phone today about this issue. I support law making powers for the Assembly over currently devolved issues for two main reasons - to strengthen accountability, in that everyone would know which tier of Governemnt is reponsible for each policy area - and create greater stability, in that there would no longer need to be the constant bickering between Westminster, Whitehall, the Wales Office, the Assembly Government and Cardiff - which is only going to get worse.<BR/><BR/>anon 2 - Tomorrow's Wales is what we make of it, ourselves. If we carry on voting for 'socialist' politicians, we will continue to get the sort of thing you hope ain't so. That's democracy.<BR/><BR/>Welsh lobbyist - agreed - which is why 2011 is as dead as it it so obviously is.<BR/><BR/>anon 3 - I have not seen the WM letter, but it sounds as if it chimes with what we've been hearing as we've been campaigning over recent weeks. Whenever I'm asked for my opinion about what will happen in Montgomeryshire in a General Election, I say that I will do my best to win, that I need a huge 13% swing to win, and that name recognition is usually a strong plus factor. I will add that if there were to be a General Election now, I believe I would be in with a very good chance.Glyn Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344589217554138315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-47580851805335064602008-05-01T17:11:00.000+01:002008-05-01T17:11:00.000+01:00You always go on about name recognition Glyn! Rea...You always go on about name recognition Glyn! Read a letter in today's Western Mail sent by a Mont constituent. This is exactly how people around here feel about our joke of an MP. The writer has brilliantly summed up what the majority of us feel about him and why we won't vote for this fake ( I was, until he started embarrassing us all, a lifelong Liberal voter )<BR/>Perhaps you should pin it up in your kitchen to inspire you. Who knows, it might even stop you focusing unecessarily on name recognition. Yes, he's known, but as this letter points out, for all the wrong reasons. Buy a Western Mail.....and rejoice!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-90681466135428619482008-05-01T10:46:00.000+01:002008-05-01T10:46:00.000+01:00we could have the law making powers by now but giv...we could have the law making powers by now but given our First Minister's long run in to retirement he has no incentive to take the bold steps needed or you can argue the will, say compared with Scotland's First Minister who seems in a real hurry to get Scotland moving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-34665934966323856632008-04-30T18:53:00.000+01:002008-04-30T18:53:00.000+01:00"Tomorrow Wales", will this version of Wales final..."Tomorrow Wales", will this version of Wales finally be the small clever country that Wales ought and needs to be? Not the current WAG defined version that is bottom of the prosperity league table in the UK, lowest GAV, school system that has attracted very low scores on a recent OECD review, hopeless at turning Welsh universities inventions into assets and jobs for Wales? "Tell me it ain't so."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34112832.post-73359739531688737052008-04-30T12:17:00.000+01:002008-04-30T12:17:00.000+01:00I'm sure that you enjoyed yourself yesterday but c...I'm sure that you enjoyed yourself yesterday but can anyone explain what is the point of these conferences? All that happens is that the usual suspects fork out £40 for the day meet their friends, listen to the same old arguments and then read a short piece in th Western Mail the following day.Meanwhile in the real world people worry about the really important issues. The great and the good should understand that winning a'yes' vote in any referendum isn't going to be easy. 2011 is already off the radar for most sensble politicians. The interesting thing about all this of course is that if you give the average AM a blank sheet of paper sent them away for a week and ask them to write down a new law which would make a difference the would give you back a blank sheet of paper. There is this automatic asssumption that new lawmaking powers will automatically lead to an improvement in the quality of life in Wales. Look at Scotland which has those powers. Many would argue that all it has led to is lawmaking for its own sake. Many of the new laws which have a financial element attached also could cause major headaches for Scotland if the Barnett formula is reformed. Lawmaking also requires more AMs has the Richard Commission pointed out and some form of direct revenue raising powers. Emyr Jones-Parry making interesting speeches is no real subsitute for the politicains of wales actaully engaging in a meaningful debate with the people of Wales. If the quality of debate in the last four weeks is anything to go on then the political class of Wales seems to be lacking both the intellect and the ability to lead us any where. Like the Isrealites we seem destined to wander in the politcal wilderness for years to come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com