A CARD CARRYING SCANDAL

I think that Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins is absolutely right to ask for assurances from the Labour Welsh Government that no public funds will be used to pay-off AWEMA officials that have been implicated in the charity's financial mismanagement. I for one share the concern that any officials who may be implicated in recent reports into financial mismanagement at AWEMA might receive 'redundancy payments' as the organisation's affairs are wound up. Considering the actual (if not potential) scale of the extent of maladministration highlighted in last week's official report, and previous reports, it would be scandalous for those responsible to receive any further public money. One impression I get it that Labour in Wales quietly hoped that they could ride out the storm and not so secretly hoped that the problem would go away. I just wonder that if the scandal had not involved card carrying members of Labour in Wales would they have acted a great deal earlier and with something like a degree of urgency.