Plaids Edwards on Tory Jones ...

... is the denial of political and economic reality !

Edwards is on record as saying the Silk Commission may be "wasting their time".

The Plaid reasoning is at wide odds with reality, the original intentions of the commission were always intended to make it accountable to the electorate, a democracy in an almost Wales Aristocracy.  Established by Cheryl Gillan, its brief was in two well defined parts :

Part I: financial accountability

To review the case for the devolution of fiscal powers to the National Assembly for Wales and to recommend a package of powers that would improve the financial accountability of the Assembly, which are consistent with the United Kingdom’s fiscal objectives and are likely to have a wide degree of support.

Part II: powers of the National Assembly for Wales

To review the powers of the National Assembly for Wales in the light of experience and to recommend modifications to the present constitutional arrangements that would enable the United Kingdom Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales to better serve the people of Wales.

If the two parts are explored for the real Westminster intentions we can conclude that it is to strengthen the relationship between Cardiff and Westminster ...

Part I:

... financial accountability of the Assembly, which are consistent with the United Kingdom’s fiscal objectives

Part II:

... United Kingdom Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales to better serve the people of Wales.

The first part subordinates the Assembly to the UK's fiscal objectives and part two establishes Parliament as the superior body in the service of the electorate.

So why the pointless babbling and chattering of the "Separatist Agenda of Wales" ?

Edwards said at the recent Conservative conference :

I think what we have to stress is we are talking about modifications. We are not talking about a wholesale rewriting of the Government of Wales Act.  What we are talking about, if you like, is tweaks to the devolution settlement to see if there are ways in which it can be made to work better.

The message is clear, Government (Westminster) has learned a lesson and intends to bind Wales to the Union not give succor to the nationalists ...

... and if you consider the messages coming from all the UK political parties, there is little difference, this leads me to believe the bluster of Carwyn Jones towards the activities of Westminster is just ...

... an illusion of dissent, in fact we are working very well together ...

... a lesson for Jones from North Carolina ...

... on how jobs are attracted !

The Jones boy could be our erstwhile First Minister Carwyn Jones, or  newly appointed Secretary of State for Wales David Jones, of the two David has the ear of Prime Minister Cameron so he could probably do more, yet some of the levers are in the hands of Carwyn and Co, so there's to do from each camp.

Back to basics ...

• In North Carolina, the city of Charlotte has become the new home to German engineering giant Siemens AG.
• The factory manufactures gigantic gas turbines needed to power new electric plants under construction around the globe.
• A few years ago, the factory and its 825 jobs might have gone to India, China or another low-wage country. 

This time, American workers won out, why ....

Siemens executives talk about public investments, the state-funded rail spur that runs through their facility,the city’s international airport, which recently added a fourth runway using $132 million in federal funds.

They talk about the Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency that in January approved a $638 million loan to finance the sale of turbines to Saudi Arabia, helping Siemens beat bids from companies in Germany, South Korea and Japan.

And they talk about the quality of the workforce in Charlotte, where local leaders are retooling the public education system to churn out the engineers and skilled technicians needed to operate one of the most efficient gas-turbine plants in the world.

So could our politicians do the same, of course they could, unfortunately in Wales our politicians lack a certain vision, politicians have become accountants rather than visionaries, and that's all the political parties ............

A very small question at the back of my mind, why did the German economy lose out in this particular game of 5 card stud ..........

... noh theatre or M4 politics, I ...

... wonder, might the theatre be a better comparison.

At one end of the M4 we have our home grown First Minister Carwyn Jones, and at the other we have our home grown Wales Office minister David Jones with the home grown Secretary of State Cheryl Gillan.  I am running out of noh masks .............

Carwyn was to have ... 

Whilst  David would have ...

... and for Cheryl ...

... does the surreal effect of the masks enhance the dialogue as it would in Japan ?

At the Cardiff end there is a call from Carwyn to be given power over planning approval for major renewable energy ...

... 132 miles, or 212 km to the East at Westminster, Wales Office minister David Jones roars in response "this will not be devolved".

Another player slides into the pantomime, Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards ...

... we have no mask for the Plaid Cymru MP, he doesn't need one, his words are probably enough when he accused the Labour Welsh Government of manufacturing disputes with its Westminster counterpart, he said:

"A lot of the disputes to date are manufactured hot air by the Welsh Government – play-acting that they are defending the interests of Wales when in fact it has more to do with the sectarian hatred between Labour and the Tories."

And Cheryl, she said nothing, a waste of a mask in this particular Nogak, is our Secretary of State making a contribution to Wales or might she be engaged in a private Noh .....




It seems that the Plaid player has the rights of it ................ that was difficult .....