The claim There is almost no need to introduce the above claim, such is the attention given to it by the media and blogosphere over the last few days. Nevertheless, and for completeness, it comes from Neath MP Peter Hain, who used it on the Labourlist website to describe the new Labour-leaning Aneurin Glyndwr website. [...]
Archive for March, 2009
#17: “an Obama moment for Welsh Labour”
Posted in Debunked, Labour on 29 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
#16: “There are still a lot of people who are undecided”
Posted in Debunked, Devolution on 28 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The claim The publication of the All Wales Convention’s social research report has furnished a greater depth and range of information about the Welsh public’s attitudes towards devolution than any other contemporary source. In the discussion thread of an earlier article I suggested that it would be good to learn about the intensity – rather than [...]
#15: “Labour’s leadership chose to please Rupert Murdoch’s papers rather than support the miners”
Posted in Debunked, Economy, Labour on 21 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The claim If you haven’t done so, I’d urge you to read Adam Price’s trenchant and provocative blog post of Thursday. In it, he compares Labour’s proposed part-privatisation of Royal Mail with the Conservatives’ approach to the Miners’ Strike of 1984-5. I could dwell upon the claim that that the Conservative government of the early [...]
Please support me
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
Please forgive me using the site for a personal message. I hope once you’ve read you’ll agree it was worth doing. In September, my friend Clayton and me are taking part in the Alps Cycling Challenge – three days of cycling over six of the toughest peaks there are. I’ve started training, but expect many [...]
#14: “Wales had, and has, a distinct political culture from England. Even before the dark days of Thatcherism”
Posted in Defended, Elections on 17 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
The claim Belatedly (and due to the time afforded by being stuck at home with a nasty cold) I want to pick up on a claim made by Plaid AM Helen Mary Jones last week: Since working people in Wales first had the vote in the 1870s they had never elected a majority of Conservative [...]
#13: “the Welsh economy has been in relative decline compared to England since 1924″
Posted in Devolution, Economy, Independence, Plaid Cymru on 14 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
The claim Adam Price is one of the more historically aware Welsh politicians active today, as demonstrated by his elegiac pieces (here and here) on the life and times of Rhys ap Gruffydd. He also supplies today’s claim, voiced on this week’s Dragon’s Eye. He said: the Welsh economy has been in relative decline compared [...]
#12: “under the principles of the Vienna Convention…Wales would remain a part of the European Union”
Posted in Debunked, Europe, Plaid Cymru on 10 March 2009 | 9 Comments »
The claim Yesterday, Plaid launched its highly impressive new website WalesCan.com setting out the case for Welsh independence. In the Busting the Myths section the party takes on the accusation that “Wales would be kicked out of the European Union”. As part of the rebuttal, it is argued: under the principles of the Vienna Convention [...]
Did the BBC Wales poll overrepresent Welsh speakers?
Posted in Devolution, Media, Welsh language on 9 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
The publication of BBC Wales’s annual St David’s poll is a keenly awaited event. For the politically active, it provides what is now the only regular opportunity to measure public opinion about politics in Wales, and especially devolution. Beyond that, the datasets are useful to academic researchers. In time, they will also provide a good [...]
#11: “The split amongst Labour ranks is extremely similar to that which existed in 1979″
Posted in Defended, Devolution on 6 March 2009 | 5 Comments »
The claim I’m grateful to Huw Thomas of the always excellent Chanticleer blog for providing a translation of part of Dafydd Wigley’s intriguing Daily Post blog article (original here) on the wisdom or otherwise of embarking on a referendum campaign. Urging caution, Wigley compares the situation today with the failed devolution referendum of 1979. In [...]
#10: “Paul Murphy…opposed devolution in 97″
Posted in Debunked, Devolution on 2 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
The claim A relatively straightforward one tonight, from Plaid-leaning gossip blog Welsh Ramblings: Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy has never been a transparent politician. He is one of the ilk that covers their true feelings in layers of soothing euphemisms, abstractions and platitudes. Remember, he is the self-confessed ‘devo-realist’ and opposed devolution in 97. The evidence [...]
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