Listening to the remarkable rantings of Don Touhig this morning has spurred a dormant Pilchard into blogging again. It would be easy to dismiss his tirade as the embittered protestations of a man who has simply never come to terms with the fact that his beloved party failed to win a majority at the last Assembly election. Or those of a man whose own lacklustre political career is now even more peripheral to what's happening on a day to day basis as Wales progresses, the UK stagnates, and New Labour descends into terminal decline.
However, that would do Don an injustice. These were no throw away, off the cuff remarks. I have absolutely no doubt that this latest attack was well considered and part of a deliberate strategy to try and rubbish the work of the All Wales Convention before it even holds its first meeting. Conventioners* beware! There's a lot more of this puerile posturing yet to come. The path towards a meaningful and winnable referendum is going to be neither straight nor clean.
*I know there's no such word as Conventioners. But if it was a Commission they'd be called Commissioners wouldn't they?
Wednesday 9 July 2008
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