Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Saturday, May 2, 2015

And here comes the Plaid surge, as Leanne Wood's party overtakes UKIP in Wales

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A rare rift between the national movements in Scotland and Wales occurred just after the devolution referendums in 1997, when the future SNP...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Compare and contrast

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Scenario A - The SNP First Minister of devolved Scotland expresses a mere opinion on the likelihood that the London government would agree...
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Friday, November 1, 2013

Yeah, Blair, what have the nationalists ever done for Wales?

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Those ever-delightful anti-independence chaps on Twitter seem to be terribly excited about events in Wales today. Better Together : Devol...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Jeremy Purvis reaches the light at the end of the tunnel

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One of the constant refrains from Neanderthal opponents of electoral reform in the London parties is that it is simply unconscionable to hav...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Will Carwyn Jones be required to 'clarify' his remarks?

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Carwyn Jones, the Labour First Minister of Wales, has very wisely suggested that it would be a good thing if Scots had a wider constitutiona...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

YouGov poll : All to play for in Wales

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Still no sign of a new Holyrood poll, although for good or bad it sounds like we're twenty-four hours at most away from the next one. I...
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Which was less likely - Governor George W Bush of Texas granting clemency to a death row prisoner in 1999, or the unionist parties giving the people a say on their constitutional future in 2007 or 2010?

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You have to hand it to the more mindless critics of the SNP and Plaid Cymru - if nothing else, they have their tedious little repertoire wel...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

A few thoughts on liberty and stealing

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I got into an unexpected exchange at Political Betting a few hours ago with someone who feels that a wealthy person who suffers as a result...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Welsh Labour leader wants perpetual Labour rule in Wales - who'd have thunk it?

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Well, I've seen some cynical political manoeuvres, but this one takes the biscuit. Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Carwyn Jones ...
Friday, December 3, 2010

McLetchie favours tyranny of the linguistic majority

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In a predictably sneering report (not to mention the outrageously misleading headline) on proposals to boost the Scots language, the Telegr...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Ryder Cup : In Europe, not run by Europe

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I happened to catch Colin Montgomerie's speech at the (tremendously earnest, but that's golf) opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup, and...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Could the greatest challenge to Calman's timidity come from Wales?

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Interesting to read in yesterday's Herald the suggestion that, if the Holtham Report is implemented in full, the Welsh Assembly would a...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Give me just a little bit more

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Something for almost everyone in the latest full-scale Welsh YouGov poll - except for Lib Dems. Labour still lead (just), the Tories make ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Wales warms to self-government

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I (slightly wearily) had a look at the ICM website tonight on the off-chance that the detailed breakdown of their latest poll might have bee...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Shadow Cabinet gains another junior part-time observer member

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I get the impression that the BBC's Betsan Powys has, to some extent, interpreted Annabel Goldie's elevation to part-time "Sha...
Monday, February 2, 2009

No wonder Jade thought she'd be singing for 'England'

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Alwyn ap Huw has a piece lamenting Mark's failure to win Your Country Needs You , and wishing that S4C was able to put him forward as a...