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Who cares?

Having just come back from another week in Finland, I seemed to have missed all the fun and furore over the "aneurin glyndwr" website established by members of the Welsh Labour Party.

The question is whether anyone cares outside of the Cardiff Bay/Eli Jenkins political bubble and, for that matter, the Welsh political blogosphere?

I very much doubt it, although those who live by the media (or multimedia) sword.....

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The Blessed Cynic said…
Yes but you add yet another blog article about this useless site :)

The site is hypocritical on many levels but the funniest is around the 'public school' background of the tories. There is much rumour around the pubs of the bay that the designer of the site was himself a recipient of private education (as was Tony Bliar).
March 29, 2009 9:42 am
Anonymous said…
Another building society goes bust, the home secretary submits bills for porn channels, and more people lose their jobs and what does Welsh labour do, attack the tories. Say no more
March 29, 2009 10:00 am
Chris said…
You say:-

"The question is whether anyone cares outside of the Cardiff Bay/Eli Jenkins political bubble and, for that matter, the Welsh political blogosphere?"

Unlike your own erudite blog, of course! :->
March 29, 2009 12:26 pm
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans said…
I suppose you could be right in that I don't even care who reads this blog as it is used mainly as a place to post the two weekly articles I write for the Daily Post (127,000 readers) and the Western Mail (135,000 readers).

Those quarter of a million readers across both North and South Wales will hopefully read those articles every week regardless of whether they visit this blog or not.
March 30, 2009 7:43 am
Anonymous said…
It has actually reached much further and has illustrated to me the wider readership of the blogs.
I think one effect will be to scupper quite a few smug labour Lovies and burst their Bubbles.
It was also a relief from the turgidness of Welsh Politics. Two parties failing to lead. another failing to oppose and another ,well just another, although I have to say kirsty is much more effective thses days and getting sharper.While Nick Bourne just gets worse.
March 30, 2009 9:19 am
Anonymous said…
mam - I have heard rumours that Dylan is not exactly flavour of the month with the tories in the Bay and that the leader has been slagging him off to all and sundry - given your contacts, can you shine any light on this rumour.
March 30, 2009 9:48 am
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