Thursday, April 12, 2007
In the news
Suddenly, everybody is writing about the Welsh Assembly elections. Well, OK it made The Guardian anyway.
Somehow the newspaper of liberal middle England has managed to notice that there are significant events going on this side of the Severn Bridge. However, they only did so after the Prime Minister himself came here and even then, there is nothing in the article to suggest that its writer did anything more than cobble together a few words from the comfort of his or her London desk.
Of more interest, at least to Welsh Liberal Democrats, is this article by Russell Deacon in the party's radical magazine, Liberator. Writing before the publication of our Assembly manifesto, Russell argues that Welsh Liberal radicalism is being suffocated by the consensus politics of the Assembly. He concludes:
The Welsh Assembly election will show that the Welsh Liberal Democrats have sound and well thought out policies. Yes, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have produced some excellent ideas to try to deal with some of Wales’s major problems. Yes, their ideas are better than the other mainstream parties’ in Wales but are they radical enough? Not at the moment, they still need to stretch further.
It is an interesting challenge and hopefully, one that we have met head-on in the actual manifesto. As he is a Welsh Liberal Democrat himself, I look forward to Russell coming to future conferences with some more of the radical ideas he wants us to espouse.
Somehow the newspaper of liberal middle England has managed to notice that there are significant events going on this side of the Severn Bridge. However, they only did so after the Prime Minister himself came here and even then, there is nothing in the article to suggest that its writer did anything more than cobble together a few words from the comfort of his or her London desk.
Of more interest, at least to Welsh Liberal Democrats, is this article by Russell Deacon in the party's radical magazine, Liberator. Writing before the publication of our Assembly manifesto, Russell argues that Welsh Liberal radicalism is being suffocated by the consensus politics of the Assembly. He concludes:
The Welsh Assembly election will show that the Welsh Liberal Democrats have sound and well thought out policies. Yes, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have produced some excellent ideas to try to deal with some of Wales’s major problems. Yes, their ideas are better than the other mainstream parties’ in Wales but are they radical enough? Not at the moment, they still need to stretch further.
It is an interesting challenge and hopefully, one that we have met head-on in the actual manifesto. As he is a Welsh Liberal Democrat himself, I look forward to Russell coming to future conferences with some more of the radical ideas he wants us to espouse.
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'there is nothing in the article to suggest that its writer did anything more than cobble together a few words from the comfort of his or her London desk'.
Just like you cobble some London call centre workers to canvass opinion on the Welsh elections!
Just like you cobble some London call centre workers to canvass opinion on the Welsh elections!
If there are people phoning from London then they will have been properly trained and briefed. However, I know for a fact that there are call centres in Wales working for us so I cannot see the need.
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