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Plaid and Labour

Last blog of today as I have other things to do!

Just a small question after last night's results.

Why on earth is Plaid Cymru continuing to prop up Labour in the Welsh Assembly Government?

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Anonymous said…
could it be Plaid Cymru still think Labour will deliver on a YES vote for a Scottish style parliament before the next Assembly Elections?
May 03, 2008 11:00 am
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans said…
This is assuming that Labour will win the 2010 election and support such a bill through Parliament. Do you think that is now likely?
May 03, 2008 12:44 pm
Anonymous said…
Why on earth is Plaid Cymru continuing to prop up Labour in the Welsh Assembly Government?

A deal's a deal.
May 03, 2008 2:18 pm
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans said…
Only if it achieves what it agreed to do
May 03, 2008 2:42 pm
Anonymous said…
Only if it achieves what it agreed to do

That remains to be seen. It certainly has little to do with the local election results, apart from which Plaid would lose all credibility in future assembly coalitions if it renegs on agreements as readily as you suggest
May 03, 2008 2:50 pm
Ian Titherington said…
Now that the Council elections are over, how long will it take for the Lib Dems in the Senedd to start buttering up Labour?

In terms of dumping the Assembly coalition, there may be justification in the future but there has been nothing to date to give such a decision any credibility. I will forgive you this bit of unrealistic opinion as you have every right to feel a little smug.
May 03, 2008 4:56 pm
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans said…
Not smug at all - politics is too unforgiving for such complacency!

Labour is damaged and their focus will now be on themselves and the forthcoming leadership contest rather than running the country efficiently and effectively.

Ian - you could also be right about the Lib Dems, but where does that then leave the devolution settlement?

From my own economic point of view, I have yet to see any non-Labour policies coming through in the Assembly in the last nine months and it shows.

Even some major figures within your party have expressed their concerns to me that very little is being done and that the senior civil servants in the economic development team - all Labour appointments -are still pursuing old policies which bear little resemblance to your manifesto.
May 03, 2008 6:04 pm
Ian Titherington said…
The Civil Servants in Cardiff are in my opinion a little like supertankers in terms of changing direction, but at least there are Plaid amainisters there actually trying to change the direction.
May 03, 2008 6:19 pm
Anonymous said…
Hopefully we are not talking about the Exxon Valdez here....
May 03, 2008 6:44 pm
Anonymous said…
Anybody with half an eye can see that the game is up. Low income voters who are not parents or pensioners (over 65) have been soaked by income tax and the stealth taxes Rhodri Morgan does 'not have a problem with' have spoken. Labours reaction is to 'explain' to the voters what they have done for them; with their equality ideology that hasn't worked, and their expensive public services strategy that has embolden unions to demand more. There is no chance at all that they will listen to the 'explanation' voters are giving them, before the next election. It will take years of opposition and complete re-assessment before they are fit again to govern. That's what happened to the conservatives. That's the way the political process works - thank heaven!
May 04, 2008 10:47 am
Anonymous said…
Labour returning favour in Gwynedd by propping up Plaid !
May 26, 2008 12:57 am
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