#14: “Wales had, and has, a distinct political culture from England. Even before the dark days of Thatcherism”

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 [...]

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#11: “The split amongst Labour ranks is extremely similar to that which existed in 1979″

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 [...]

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#9: “directly before Labour came to power children were being moved into poverty in their thousands”

The Claim An interesting one from Huw Lewis AM, whose has the following to say on his blog: Since Labour came to power in 1997 and made child poverty a national priority, 30,000 children in Wales have been lifted out of poverty. That’s a real achievement, especially when you consider that directly before Labour came [...]

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#8: The Welsh Parliamentary Party “could be re-exhumed to approve the Elcos”

The claim Paul Flynn MP again supplies the claim upon which this post is based, arguing in his most recent blog that: The Welsh Parliamentary Party has a 150 years of history. They were last summoned to take a decision when William Hague was Secretary of State for Wales. The party approved of the use [...]

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#3: “the language is not the divisive issue it once was”

The claim We will stay with the Welsh language, particularly in the wake of yesterday’s publication of the LCO. Today’s coverage has furnished our third claim, from The Western Mail’s editorial: Things have changed since the late 1970s, and the language is not the divisive issue it once was. The identification of the late 1970s [...]

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