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 ...

When Jonathan Edwards, Plaid MP and Westminster rabble-rouser ...

... calls for greater investment in existing Welsh TV services, he is calling to the nationalist faithful.  He is saying ...

"That means stopping the cuts being made to S4C and BBC Wales and giving ITV Wales the scope for improvements.  Wales must have a national television service worthy of the name, with quality programming that represents us as a nation."

He continues the rhetoric ...

"Welsh is an everyday language amongst audiences across Wales, and this must be reflected in the television services which they receive.  Our priority here in Wales, though, must be improving and developing the level of Welsh news and current affairs rather than furthering the ill considered agenda of a Westminster minister."

This ill considered agenda is no agenda at all, Westminster believes the UK would benefit from local TV coverage, and the envisaged TV has to be self financing ... and that could be a problem, who wants to sponsor current affairs on "TV Swansea" when there is an opportunity to sponsor "Four Weddings and a Funeral" ... on ITV.

The bottom line for the separatist at work at Westminster is he wants three terrestrial channels ported to a Welsh platform working at the behest of and directed by the politics of Welsh Nationalism. Not once does the man offer a financial model to pay for his proposed extravaganza, he would like his scheme paid for by the taxpayers of Britain ....

.... in a world of shrinking budgets, the nationalists would expect a larger share, in the world of television they would like a louder voice, but only if it in Wales ...

... 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 .....