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FIVE BLOGS ON WALES AND THE GENERAL ELECTION



I have, frankly, been too busy over the last few days with various projects to even contemplate writing anything on the election.

With just over a week to go until we elect a new government, I was interested in examining what others outside the Welsh blogosphere had to say about the state of the campaigns and, more importantly, their impression of Welsh life and politics.

Here, in my opinion, are five recent entries worth reading:

  1. Denis Campbell, writing on the Huffington Post, gives his views to the US on the election race in the Vale of Glamorgan
  2. The Guardian examines where the party leaders have been visiting constituencies and concludes that “figures place Labour in particular trouble in the north-east and Wales and neither region has seen much of the prime minister so far”.
  3. Daniel Hannan discusses the issue of as “we have Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies and a Scottish Parliament, ought there to be an English legislature, too?”
  4. The Wall Street Journal’s picture of the day comes from Venue Cymru in North wales, visited yesterday by her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
  5. Slugger O' Toole examines the FT’s claims that there is an alleged deal between the Conservative Party and the so-called Celtic Fringe of the DUP, SNP and Plaid Cymru

Comments

Anonymous said…
As Vaughan Roderick points out, all very good but it is your post on the IOD document which is the only one which has raised any issues during this election in Wales.

And the real irony is that despite the bleatings of Peter Hain, YOU WERE RIGHT TO POINT OUT THE REAL ISSUES FACING THE UK ECONOMY AND THE CUTS NEEDED IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies has pointed out yesterday three weeks after you noted this.

The slience from Labour is deafening but also the Tories seem to be caught in the headlights.

Perhaps that is why the Conservative Party is wary of you, prof.

You speak the truth and it hurts.
April 28, 2010 2:09 pm
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