A story that places Wales democracy in doubt ...

... where civil servants are employed to prevent real change to the way we are governed ...

... and in Syria the craven dictator, hereditary President Bashar al-Assad, has spoken on the state run TV, he said of the government action  "This is a test for our unity", what he didn't say was "......  that hundreds of people chanting "freedom" had taken to the streets of Latakia," he didn't assure the supporters of his despotic regime that ".... troops had fired warning shots in an attempt to get them to disperse."

The dictators government is reported to be studying the liberalisation of laws on media and political parties as well as anti-corruption measures, the easing of restrictions on civil liberties and political freedom.  The operative word is studying, nothing new then, but from human rights activist Aktham Nuaisse he believes the country stood "at a crossroads".  he is reported as saying "Either the president takes immediate, drastic reform measures, or the country descends into one of several ugly scenarios. If he is willing to lead Syria into a real democratic transformation, he will be met halfway by the Syrian people."

The people of Syria should seize democracy not listen to this son of a dictator, look to other countries in the region, use these examples to topple Bashar, there is everything to play for, in the west we call it freedom.

In Wales our civil servants are trying to prevent the submission of the proposed amendment to the GOWA, it reads ....

We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to petition the UK government to modify the Government of Wales Act 2006 to include the following Legislative Recall and Referendum option.

Where a Bill has been passed by the Welsh Assembly, one-third of the members of the Welsh Assembly may, within five weekdays from the final passing of the Bill, request of the Plenary Chair that the Bill be submitted to a referendum. Such request shall be made in writing and signed by the members making the request.


At the referendum votes shall be cast for or against the Bill. For the Bill to be rejected, a majority of the electors who vote, and not less than thirty per cent of all persons who are entitled to vote, shall have voted against the Bill.


Finance Bills, Salaries and Pensions Bills, Taxation (Direct and Indirect) Bills, UK and European Union government Bills, as well as Bills for the purpose of discharging existing treaty obligations shall not be submitted to decision by referendum.

... it would make law making more inclusive, no-matter what flavour of politics, the government of the day would be obliged to consider everyone, not just reflect on party politics, good for democratic accountability, the death-knell of partisan politics.

Would you support such a bill, currently the "badger cull" bill might be the subject of the Legislative Recall and Referendum option I am proposing, as might the "presumed consent" for the organ transplant bill, but nothing is certain, Assembly politicians after due deliberation could pass the laws with such a majority that the laws could not be subjected to recall.

While I consider the importance of giving politicians tools to strengthen democracy, in Syria its dictator murders citizens .....

Libya is falling apart and Yemen is changing .... is Saudi listening to the winds of change blowing from the dunes ........

The wind of change is blowing ...

... in Syria, the tyranny of the despotic son of the despot has reached new heights of despicable behaviour, he has sent 20,000 troops to Deraa to quell the call for democracy, for greater freedoms, to put it into perspective the dictator of Syria sent 1 soldier for every 3 citizens of Deraa.

With a population of 24 million the "Hereditary Dictator", a craven son of a bitch, will need to super-size his half a million army to a massive 8 million, and then coerce it to murder or imprison every citizen, because that is the only way to suppress democracy ..........

Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain et al ....... take note of the wind of change, people like to speak, I am a human being ...... and I have an opinion


............. once again from Naom Chomsky ...

... "make it a real functioning democracy where the people participate".

... whilst back in the ranch, the Assembly tried to prevent the petition, to be posted soon after the May election, they tried the "not in the remit of the Assembly Government", to bad I have read the GOWA ...

... GOWA 2006 section 62,  

Representations about matters affecting Wales

The Welsh Ministers, the First Minister and the Counsel General may make appropriate representations about any matter affecting Wales.

... democracy is difficult even in Britain ...................

... all the gear, no idea, ....

...... it probably sums up the politics of Wales today, for example ...

Plaid assembly member Leanne Wood, a Rhondda lass with a taste for rhetoric but short on real world solutions, has stepped up to the podium asking for more.  This poltroon of Wales politics has turned her back on what has been granted her by the electorate and now asks to have the final say on large scale power generation, if only she had a concrete proposal to improve standards of education ........

........ or as "top rob roy" Plaid supporter lamented ".......... not just more Signposts and Hot Air that leave us just as we are."

Just a few weeks ago the Assembly were granted full law making powers by a majority of the electorate who voted in the referendum,  this followed a campaign that cried out "give us the tools and we will do the job".  Since that day there has been no word from the assembly and its officers for plans other than to destroy badgers in West Wales and those that would harvest Human Organs without your approval, it is time to use the tools WAG, and use them well, there are so many jobs to be completed before "DIY Wales" becomes the "Promised Land", as promised by Labour - Plaid - Liberal Democrats and Conservative party's.

And a reminder from Naom Chomsky ...

... "make it a real functioning democracy where the people participate".

Democracy ...

... or tyranny ................

... I'm glad I wasn't there, just to old to hate so much I guess, or is it just not my democracy .........

......... in Syria the police are shooting people who are asking for democracy, and elsewhere in this world we share.......

I am a human being ...

... and I have an opinion .........

The words of Naom Chomsky speaking at the Pierhead in Cardiff Bay are taken from Part 3.


Noam Chomsky Interview - Part 3 from Pierhead Sessions TV on Vimeo.

When asked for his advice for the future of political Wales he said ...

... "make it a real functioning democracy where the people participate" ...

... that will be a fight between politics and democracy I think.

It's not pie in the sky, it is ...

... Mad House economic nonsense, Plaid nonsense, a nationalist sound-bite designed to capture the headlines before an election ........... at best naïve, in reality dishonest.

Raise half a billion and create 50,000 jobs building the infrastructure that prudent politics is saying we cannot afford just yet, we have to pay back the bubble borrowing of the last decade.

Even if circumstances were different, the half a billion doesn't create 50,000 jobs, the proposed job creation is related to infrastructure projects where each job will require between £60,000 and £100,000;  £60,000 per job if the project is housing to a massive £100,000 per job if the project is a Hospital, build a road and a vast amount of money is used for plant not jobs.

Plaid "experts" who assume that £ half a billion could be spent creating 50,000 jobs, an average of £10,000 per job, which, when you factor in the various expenses attached to an average construction job that earns between £16,000 and £22,000 we have a 4 to 6 month job.....

.... unfortunately the Plaid experts forgot to factor in such fundamentals as cost of land, cost of design and project supervision, and last but by no means least, the cost of materials and manufactured equipment needed to complete a project.

So, the 50,000 jobs is in fact approximately 5,000 jobs, unless of course Plaid intended to convert Wales into a third world country living on third world wages, where like the Egyptians of Old Testament days the bricklayers have to make their own bricks after finding their own straw.

A small debate dominated by the nationalists can be found at Betsan's blog, the debate is tedious in the extreme, these people are those that would take Wales to a new promised land, the bullshit is overpowering with the smell of incompetence ...........

I'm still looking for the love song, ...

... the politics of Wales I wrote about earlier, but there is little friendship or amity in the corridors of Power at the Assembly.

Looking across the world through the reportage of news-hounds and bloggers there is little friendship anywhere, in Libya the president is searching for his opponents, apparently to destroy them completely, because .................. they asked for democracy.

I read that in Syria police opened fire on demonstrators in Deraa, killing one and wounding several others, its president might like to reconsider his position, when people ask for freedoms that are basic rights elsewhere in the world it is probably to late, democratic change will be taken by the people not drip fed by a despotic ruler.

Other nation states are in similar positions, Yemen President Saleh is treading water in a most uncomfortable sea of change, he was even deserted by his ambassador to the United Nations in protest at the violence perpetrated by this second despot, he is responsible for 40 deaths murdered by his snipers last Friday.

What of the other countries of the middle east, Iran where a person may be hanged because he is gay, Bahrain who is using Saudi Arabia troops to subdue the pro-democracy movement, Saudi Arabia is another candidate country where people are held in captivity because of political allegiances.

Then in Morocco King Mohammed has yet to fulfil his promise of democratic reform and to end government corruption, whilst back in Wales .........

............ Carl Sargeant has suspended democracy ............

Opinions left elsewhere ...

... we all have opinions, though some political bloggers close conversations with the words "This entry is now closed for comments", it has happened frequently at the BBC since last Summer ......

Betsan's " word is my bond"

Betsan's "yes we can"

Betsan's "the big freeze"

David Cornoc's "Silence me on English issues, pleads Welsh MP"

Wales Home "what's next for devolution/"

The Druid's "changing allegiance"

...... it's a strange world.

Carl Sargeant and Colonel Gaddafi have similar ...

... attributes, both men suppress democracy, admittedly Sargeant is not directing fighter bombers to bomb the citizens of Anglesey as the butcher Gaddafi does in Libya, but the bottom line is our democracy has been suspended by the Sargeant in the Northern corner of our green and pleasant lands ...

... and when some say there is no comparison between the two men, remember that Gaddafi is doing to the people of Libya with weapons what Sergeant does to the people of Anglesey with the legislation, the only difference is the lack of blood in Wales.

Democracy in Anglesey is not a perfect activity, it is about people, through elected representatives exercising control over the matters which affect their interests, the sky hasn't fallen on the heads of people living in the Royal Borough of Beaumaris, the people of Moelfre are not marching through the streets demanding the removal of the local politicians, so until the sky falls Sargeant might like to remove his proboscis from democracy.

... better an imperfect democracy than a dictatorship.

An awayday yesterday ...

... but today we are presenting the petition for confirmation that the wording is correct ...

It reads ....

We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to petition the UK government to modify the Government of Wales Act 2006 to include the following Legislative Recall and Referendum option.

Where a Bill has been passed by the Welsh Assembly, one-third of the members of the Welsh Assembly may, within five weekdays from the final passing of the Bill, request of the Plenary Chair that the Bill be submitted to a referendum. Such request shall be made in writing and signed by the members making the request.


At the referendum votes shall be cast for or against the Bill. For the Bill to be rejected, a majority of the electors who vote, and not less than thirty per cent of all persons who are entitled to vote, shall have voted against the Bill.


Finance Bills, Salaries and Pensions Bills, Taxation (Direct and Indirect) Bills, UK and European Union government Bills, as well as Bills for the purpose of discharging existing treaty obligations shall not be submitted to decision by referendum.

... democracy possibly.

It seems that scrutiny is becoming a buzzword ...

... in our very own Bay of Fundy, for those unfamiliar the bay which is to be found in Canada, it has the greatest tidal range in the world, a total of 17 meters; our Bay of Fundy is of course Cardiff Bay, though the vast quantity of Fundy water is replaced in Cardiff by an enormous amount of hot air, in the most part.

Amazingly, in our dynamic political powerhouse, even the Remuneration Board for the National Assembly is trying to get in on the act by encouraging our politicians to fill the democratic deficit the public know exists by the complete lack of effective scrutiny, much like a democratic black hole that sucks political moderation from our Wales politic; this independent body has confirmed both a four year pay freeze for Assembly Members and confirmed its independence is an illusion fostered by politicians to deceive the public.

If the the Remuneration Board for the National Assembly were an independent body its mandate would not include statements, such as that found at Betsan's Blog ....

The Board is clear what it wants to see in return. From May AMs must demonstrate that at least one of their staff work "to support them in the formal committee and Plenary business of the Assembly and with a significant research element". The message is clear - the quality of scrutiny is as vital as the constituency casework undertaken by all 60 members.

.... it's the third from last paragraph, presumably Betsan Powys thought she was demonstrating that by having that particular statement at the end of the piece, her readers would gain a happy glow, that feeling deep inside that things are going to be OK, well both she and the Remuneration Board are wrong, scrutiny is not going to be helped by employing poorly paid assistants, who presumably will be politically akin to the Assembly member who selects them; scrutiny needs a little more than the equivalent of a low paid civil servant in a sycophant suite of clothes.

Scrutiny needs to be awkward, it needs to make politicians uncomfortable, it needs to ask the questions that government avoid, and then some ....... it needs the power to demand answers for all to hear.

A tale of two cities, no, two views ...

... of Wales, the pessimist versus the optimist, Carwyn Jones contemplating his pessimistic socialist navel whilst Nick Bourne writes "Wales is buzzing with optimism" ...

Jones ... "he said he believed the issue for Welsh business came down to confidence. "We have the ability to compete but we don’t believe we can," he said. "Unless we crack this issue of confidence we will never be in a position to solve the underlying problems of the Welsh economy.""

Bourne wrote ... "It is an exciting time to be living and working in Wales. There is a sense of optimism greater than I can remember for a long time, due I think to a combination of factors."....

.... he continued "Welsh Conservative proposals to free up schools, for example, so that teachers and headteachers can plan to spend their resources in a way that only they know best. Or to take small businesses out of business rates so that they can spend this money on employing more staff, developing new products or seeking new markets."



Come May 5th it seems there are two choices, the half empty glasses of Labour and Plaid who are both firmly fixed in the past or the Conservative optimists whose glass will always be half full ........

The politics of Wales should be a love song ...

... the poetry of friendship, the prose of amity; yet, we have the politics of conflict, the politics of exclusion.  There is the delusion of politicians that the public need legislative restraint, a similar discipline that might be found between parent and errant child.  Our national reality is that we find during political discourse, described by some as debate, an impoverished process that takes little notice of public opinion; we have a wider backdrop of the press, including radio and television, that is able to capture from the public their views, and project such opinion into the Cardiff Bay bubble, with such ferocity that politicians learn anew they are the servants of, not the masters of the public.

At Westminster those charged with creating and managing legislation are used to testing policies, and initiatives, for economic, social and environmental impact, as well as their effect on gender and race equality, in addition David Cameron’s advisor's are drawing up a set of indicators to determine whether a policy will increase human happiness or make people more miserable, interesting … whilst in Wales can only read in the Sunday Times that the king of Bhutan has gone furthest in making happiness the goal of government, as early as 1972 he decided to make GNH (gross national happiness) the county’s chief measure of success.

In Wales there is the politics of the socialist nationalist coalition, “clear red water”, stagnant water that must not be diluted with values and beliefs of others. 

Wales is so much poorer for such myopia.

And they are off, the race to create the first ...

... made in Wales legislation without Westminster is on, and what a race, a race between those that would  slaughter Badgers and those that would harvest Human Organs without your approval; you would have thought that the priority would have been Health or Education or even our bereft Economy.

Prior warnings by political pundits have been ignored, washed over, subsumed in the dross of political expediency, we are about to embark on a journey without a political lifeboat; and there is nothing that can be done to mitigate the effects of the two Bills that will be supported by a coalition of such magnitude it rides roughshod over any opposition.

Hat Tip Peter Black AM on the proceedings at the Assembly that demonstrate a dictatorship ...

Peter Black: I wish to focus on the welfare of protected species and, in particular, the Order that you have announced today for the control of bovine tuberculosis in the north Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire area. You will know that, between January and November 2010, there was a 34 per cent reduction on the previous year in the number of cattle slaughtered as a result of TB. That appears to be a long-term trend. Therefore, in making the decision to bring forward this Order, what estimate have you made of the reduction in the incidence of TB that will come about as a result of the cull that you are proposing in this area?

Elin Jones: I am not sure how you can say that the statistics from January to October of last year signify a long-term trend. I must look at the longer-term trend of the disease. There have been times when fewer cattle have been removed than at other times during the trend of an increase over the last 10 years: 2006 was a case in point, and, as the statistics outline, 2010 may be another. I will not make judgements on how the statistics over that period relate to a longer-term trend. We have to assess the longer-term trend over the longer term. That is what I have to do. It is too early to say whether the cattle testing and removal measures that we have put in place as a Government have had a direct impact on the short-term statistics to which you have alluded.

Peter Black: What is the estimate?

The Presiding Officer: Order.

It is a dreadful day when the Presiding Officer prevents further questioning, in this case by Peter Black, is this democracy in action or the suppression of debate. In our unicameral Assembly there is so little debate that our democracy could be referred to as a dictatorship.


Thanks to the input from two readers, I modified my proposed recall to extend the period for recall from three days to five, this is because the plenary session is held every Wednesday, a five workday lapsed period, and the final paragraph is simplified.

Legislative Recall and Referendum

Where a Bill has been passed by the Welsh Assembly, one-third of the members of the Welsh Assembly may, within five weekdays from the final passing of the Bill, request of the Plenary Chair that the Bill be submitted to a referendum. Such request shall be made in writing and signed by the members making the request.

At the referendum votes shall be cast for or against the Bill. For the Bill to be rejected, a majority of the electors who vote, and not less than thirty per cent of all persons who are entitled to vote, shall have voted against the Bill.

Finance Bills, Salaries and Pensions Bills, Taxation (Direct and Indirect) Bills, UK and European Union government Bills, as well as Bills for the purpose of discharging existing treaty obligations shall not be submitted to decision by referendum.

It seems the petition should be worded so that the Welsh Assembly Government petitions the UK Government to include the proposal into the Government of Wales Act 2006 at section 114 or 115, for those interested the Act may be read here.

Whoa WAG, it's not quite what ...

... we were expecting.


When Health Minister Edwina Hart pushes her idea for compulsion, forcing people to opt out of her controversial proposal that the organs of the deceased shall become the property of the State at the time of death, she will be flying in the face of reality, swimming against the tide of experience.

This particular idea that creating a bonanza of organs will fill the gap in organ replacement, has been demonstrated in Spain as being ineffectual, it was only when the coordination of donor organs and organ needs were coordinated that improvements were made.

So what can the Assembly Members who see this legislation as inappropriate do in the face of a Government of incumbents, nothing at present, but following yesterdays post I have received a number of messages of support for the concept of Legislative Recall and Referendum at the Assembly much in line with the Denmark Constitutional option.

Legislative Recall and Referendum

Where a Bill has been passed by the Welsh Assembly, one-third of the members of the Welsh Assembly may, within three weekdays from the final passing of the Bill, request of the President that the Bill be submitted to a referendum. Such request shall be made in writing and signed by the members making the request.

At the referendum votes shall be cast for or against the Bill. For the Bill to be rejected, a majority of the electors who vote and not less than thirty per cent of all persons who are entitled to vote, shall have voted against the Bill.

Finance Bills, Supplementary Appropriation Bills, Provisional Appropriation Bills, Government Loan Bills, Civil Servants (Amendment) Bills, Salaries and Pensions Bills, Naturalization Bills, Expropriation Bills, Taxation (Direct and Indirect) Bills, as well as Bills introduced for the purpose of discharging existing treaty obligations shall not be submitted to decision by referendum.

The second paragraph might seem extraordinary in a country like ours, a country that accepts a simple majority no-matter what the turnout, In my opinion it is good to set the bar high, such a concept as Legislative Recall and Referendum should not seen to be a frivolous occupation, but a last resort in a unicameral legislative body where a single group holds a very dominant position.

I am inclined to submit a proposal to the Welsh Assembly petitions process .....

No rush he said, ....

... Carwyn Jones that is, it's just a shame he didn't tell his cabinet.  Or more to the point, Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones and Health Minister Edwina Hart, both pieces of legislation contraversial, both pieces of legislation questionable.  Jones wants to slaughter badgers even though the reason for such action is rapidly reducing and Hart wants your body organs to become WAG property even though compulsion has been demonstrated in Spain as being ineffectual.

So how do the political representatives in opposition resist unneeded and unnecessary legislation in a unicameral legislative body where a single group holds a very dominant position, seemingly in perpetuity, the Welsh Assembly Government is in effect a dictatorship that cannot be effectively opposed except at the four yearly elections.

If a politician were able to challenge the government of the day, with a large enough body of Assembly Members, 20% for example, to put the question to the electorate in a referendum might be a good first step,something similar to Denmark where ...

Where a Bill has been passed by the Folketing (Welsh Assembly), one-third of the members of the Folketing (Welsh Assembly) may, within three weekdays from the final passing of the Bill, request of the President that the Bill be submitted to a referendum. Such request shall be made in writing and signed by the members making the request.

Just as with the Danish model, it shouldn't be designed to hamstring the day to day running of government, therefore certain administrative areas such as budget might be excluded, for example in Denmark its constitution continues ...

Finance Bills, Supplementary Appropriation Bills, Provisional Appropriation Bills, Government Loan Bills, Civil Servants (Amendment) Bills, Salaries and Pensions Bills, Naturalization Bills, Expropriation Bills, Taxation (Direct and Indirect) Bills, as well as Bills introduced for the purpose of discharging existing treaty obligations shall not be submitted to decision by referendum.

With a population of five and a half million, Denmark is not so dissimilar to Wales, though its Parliament consists of 175 members, one member to 30,000 people, the combination of MP's and AM's is a very close match.

Would sufficient people support a petition to the Assembly to create such a tool for our elected members to hold the Welsh Assembly Government to account, or is such a concept alien to Welsh democracy, accountabil;ity to to whole electorate, not just to its particular agenda.

Self Deception at the Welsh Assembly ...

... and it is our children who are forecast to suffer because our politicians decided to divert public funds from education in this depressingly poor land; the children will suffer the indignity of poor job prospects during their youth, the prospect of low pay and low personal esteem for 40 years or more, followed by retirement in poverty subsisting on state handouts.

For many months the accusation that education was deliberately underfunded was denied by the Welsh Assembly Government, then they created a smoke screen alluding to differing accounting methods that created an illusion of differing spending levels, then the Education Minister reacted to poor school results by assigning the blame to the education profession to the exclusion of politics.

Yesterday the "self deception" of government began to take on a persona that the public could understand, instead of the convulsive explanations of how the public perception was wrong a minor politician who will be fighting for her political life in a few weeks has accused the Labour Party of ineptitude by saying ...

Plaid education spokeswoman Nerys Evans said a shortfall in funding per pupil between Wales and England was "appalling".

... read the report here.

She neatly sidesteps the fact that her party, Plaid Cymru, have been sharing the same political bed these past years in a coalition of deceit.

It seems my question here 7 March should be amended to ...

... how do we bring our elected representative to book, "the next election" might be too far in the future when the public see rogue activity in an Assembly with little real accountability, with no way to recall a politician that has contributed to lying to the electorate.


Is recall the first step in making the Welsh Assembly a democratic institution ?

Elis-Thomas, the pause button ....

.... he would remove from the Constitution that would benefit his Separatist Party in its march towards an unwanted independence.

Hat tip to VM who reported ...

"Lib Dem Ben Lloyd pointed to a section of the Government of Wales Act 2006 which allows the Secretary of State for Wales to repeal or amend such laws as he or she sees fit.
It states: “The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in consequence of ... any provision made by an Assembly Measure or Act of the Assembly.” It goes on to say that if the Secretary of State wants to repeal or amend a law passed by the Assembly, a resolution would need to be passed by both Houses of Parliament.This section of the Government of Wales Act makes it clear that Westminster can amend Assembly laws if it considers it appropriate to do so."

Section 150 makes it clear that Westminster can amend Acts passed after the referendum as well as Measures passed before it.

"It is evident when you look at the Act as a whole, which delivers primary legislative power to the Assembly, that the Secretary of State has power to modify any consequential amendments to Acts of Parliament if there was an impact on non devolved areas."

Section 150 is the reason why the SoS and the Wales Office is essential to democratic Wales as it can sound a siren call when Assembly members become constitutional bully boys ... and girls; when Plaid personnel call for the abolition of the office, any office, you can be certain the office is a thorn in the back of its aspirations.

Once again, Hat Tip to VM, and though it stick in my throat, thank you to the architects of the Government of Wales Act 2006, was there a premonition of political ghosts of years yet to come.

What is the next step to protect ......

...... against the nationalist agenda.

It must be strengthening the supervision of the Welsh Assembly Government, by the electorate and minority parties, so that it answers its critics publicly, and legislation that is very unpopular, or legislation being steamrollered through the legislative process by a numerically superior majority, can be offered to the public for a democratic decision about its desirability.

This democratic deficit is difficult ....

The claustrophobia of political Wales ...

... when Elis-Thomas, with his narrow vision for the future, demands the Wales Office be wound up.


With this man at the helm of the Assembly, what chance reformation of a legislative chamber that is elected by a small politically active population .......... none.


Warnings of the slippery slope by Unionists were drowned by the noise of nationalists, nationalists given political power by socialists unwilling to compromise outwith their narrow dogmatic perspective, tantalising shadows of the future if Welsh Nationalism are further enabled by the Labour Party following the elections in May, as reported today by the BBC ....


... Elis-Thomas is pursuing a separatist agenda, acting above his pay-grade and is out of touch with the people of Wales.

Weetabix, the reason I voted No ....

... by post in this referendum, I could add Shredded Wheat, Microsoft Office 2010, Blue Mountain Coffee and HP Sauce.


Why ?  ... because you get exactly what is said on the package.....

.... whereas with the referendum today, the purveyors of this particular product, the Labour Party - Plaid Cymru - Liberal Democrats, and the party I have voted for all my life the Conservatives, have all created a list of ingredients that are dishonest.

This particular table sauce was designed for a single dish, the dish of difference, with every new law created, whether it it how we install sprinklers or force the public to donate their organs to the politics of Wales, the need for a real border becomes imperative, how else can differences be applied.

So when Rachel Banner of True Wales spoke about the thin edge of the separation wedge, her only fault was in the way she presented this particular sauce, a dishonest proposition by the politicians and their interest groups of Wales.

This voter made up his mind many weeks ago when Assembly Member Wood presented the "tidying up exercise" lie and First Minister Jones told the electorate there was "extra money" if we voted with him, two small lies that tripped off the tongue with practised ease, what truths are hidden in the very small political print, "Separation".


There might just be time for a majority to send a message to the Cardiff Assembly that LIES are not wanted on this particular journey, vote No and give the politicians another decade to clean up their act.

Say No for Saint David ...

... that's bullshit of course, in this secular society it is generally the less than honest who call down the blessings of a saint, the sane amongst us call for integrity, the integrity of those we vote for to recognise an injustice and stand in public opposition.  I recognise another facet of dishonest political life, the dishonesty when politicians stifle debate, the banner call by the current dishonest cabal is the label ...

"anti-Welsh"

If you oppose an important issue you become labelled "anti-", the dishonest mantra of the dishonest debaters.

The Prof ... Dylan Jones-Evans ... writes about it in his blog, read it here, though he is writing about Martin Shipton’s new book “A Poor Man’s Parliament”.  The expression that struck home was the expression "the stories of incompetence, misadministration and bullying amongst our political classes during the last twelve years."  Sounds familiar to those that observe the politics at Cardiff Bay.

Whilst we have the bullying at the Assembly we cannot have honest debate, and by definition we do not have  democracy.  We have a autocracy.

To begin a process that would force the Welsh Assembly to become an honest chamber of debate free of the dishonesty described by Martin Shipton it is imperative the referendum returns a No vote.


On a different tack, I understand "Happy Birthday" or "Merry Christmas", but "Happy St David's Day" !