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A confused Welsh Labour Party?

Just found this pearl of wisdom on the Welsh Labour website, Aneurin Glyndwr

"With the European elections just around the corner, let's remind ourselves exactly what a victory for the Tories would mean. David Cameron's policy of isolation in Europe and promise to abolish Regional Development Agencies would be a double blow to British business. RDAs drive their regional economies forward, pulling together European investment and identifying local priorities to deliver for business. Independent auditors recently found that, overall, every pound invested by Regional Development Agencies grows the local economy by four times that."

So it would seem that the Labour Party believes that regional development agencies are good for the economy.

Therefore, such perfect logic from this website begs the question why did the Labour Party abolish the Welsh Development Agency in 2006?

Yet more proof that, as Huw Lewis has pointed out, it is time for Labour to focus on constructing a credible message for voters instead of experimenting on the internet.

Comments

Jeff Jones said…
There are no regional development agencies in Wales. The WDA was subsumed into the Assembly I thought. In any case what has a policy about abolishing RDAs in England got to do with Wales. Whatever happened to devolution? As a Labour Party member of over 40 years I often wonder where we get these characters from. I'm afraid Dylan it could be argued that it is a real indictment of the decline in the rigour of university education in the last 20 years. I dread to think what my old Prof would make of certain individuals who now have firsts. But there again I went to a department which was proud of the fact that it had not awarded a first for years! Perhaps as a party we should take the advice of Marx, Groucho that is and look for a child of three for inspiration.
May 22, 2009 1:11 pm
Anonymous said…
Aneurin Glyndwr is typical of anything Labour does on the web - a bit of controversy followed by nothing. A waste of time.
May 24, 2009 2:17 pm
Anonymous said…
Was this written by Eluned Morgan - she had better stick to singing badly if she hasn't realised that there is no more development agency left in Wales.
May 26, 2009 8:31 am
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