Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Publicity Seekers
Arch self-publicist and Tory AM for Monmouth, David Davies, demonstrated yesterday that he is not above acknowledging the ability of other AMs to compete with him for attention:
David Davies: The Conservative Party is united in its astonishment that in the week that 45 lecturers were made redundant and hundreds of people discovered that their courses are to be severely disrupted and that they will have to travel by bus to attend any courses that may be running after a scythe has been taken to provision, we have not had one word from our normally loquacious Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. She cannot normally resist the temptation to make a statement to the Assembly if someone in a school so much as opens a can of peaches. Why have we not had a debate or a statement on this issue?
David Davies: The Conservative Party is united in its astonishment that in the week that 45 lecturers were made redundant and hundreds of people discovered that their courses are to be severely disrupted and that they will have to travel by bus to attend any courses that may be running after a scythe has been taken to provision, we have not had one word from our normally loquacious Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. She cannot normally resist the temptation to make a statement to the Assembly if someone in a school so much as opens a can of peaches. Why have we not had a debate or a statement on this issue?
