THIRD TIME LUCKY?

Having failed to get elected as the Labour candidate for North Wales Police Commissioner and as Labour candidate for the Ynys Mons By-election (where the Labour vote crumbled away) where next for Labour in Wales’s so far unelected representative Tal Michael? Perhaps the Newport West Westminster Seat, currently being kept warm by its current incumbent (Citizen Flynn) may well just suffice? Just a thought but perhaps long held public principles may crumble (just like the Labour in Wales vote on Ynys Mon) with the offering of a cosy seat (as Lord Llanwern perhaps?) in that last bastion of privilege that unelected quango also known as the House of Lords? 

AN OPENLY PARTISAN APPROACH?

The longer the row goes on and on about the departure of the former Gwent Chief Constable the more convinced I am that this is mostly the Labour Party in Gwent having a pop at the PCC because he happens not to be their man. I am sure that if the Labour candidate had got elected and a simular train of events had taken place that we would not have heard a peep form Labour’s motley crew of backbench usual suspects who are occasionally, when not cluttering up the Westminster backbenches, found loitering here in Gwent.