Where Next for Wales? - Adam Price MP

Adam Price MP has posted a blog on the current dynamics in Welsh politics.

I agree with Adam, there is only two games in town. Either a Red - Green agreement which is acceptable to Plaid or an inevitable Rainbow takeover.

Which makes comments by Carwyn Jones over the weekend against a new Welsh language Act most difficult to understand. Carwyn, the leading light in the Welsh wing of Labour needs a Red - Green agreement if he is to take over from Rhodri. If there is an Alliance Administration he is out of the race, because the momentum within the Labour party will flow to the unionist wing. I understand that he needs to be seen as some sort of nat basher to undermine internal criticism of being too soft on Plaid, but if he rules out a new act as the new Minister with responsibility for the language then Red - Green will be a no goer.

The reality is that a new language act is going to be a deal breaker. The ball continues to be in Labour's court, the question continues to be what will be Rhodri's next play?

update - Price outlines his position further here:
http://www.adamprice.org.uk/blog/the-red-green-grass-of-home

Labour Block Steelworkers Compensation

We are all familiar with Labour’s attempt to rewrite history as the deliverers of miners’ respiratory compensation despite being forced into awarding compensation by the Courts. The Department of Work and Pensions are now challenging a High Court Ruling that awarded compensation to the 1,000 former ASW steel workers in Cardiff, who lost all their pension entitlements when the company went bust in 2002.

It was Plaid star Adam Price that discovered the European legislation that showed that the Government had been neglecting its duty. It’s a disgrace that the Labour Government instead of accepting its responsibilities is dragging the issue through every legal avenue. Former ASW employees and other workers who have lost their pension entitlements through no fault of their own deserve better.

You wouldn’t expect anything else from a party reliant on the funding of asset strippers.

Clymblaid Glas-Coch

Yn ystod dadl Dydd Gwyl Dewi ddoe yn y Senedd, naeth Adam Price llwyddo tynnu sylwad allwedol allan o Peter Hain. Dwedodd y Gweinidog ni fydd Llafur dan unrhyw amod yn furfio clymblaid gyda Plaid Cymru.

Felly mewn sefyllfa lle mae llafur yn ennill llai na 24 sedd (mae pobol ei hun yn briffio’r wasg gall pethau hyd yn oed yn waeth na hynny) a Rhyddfrydwyr yn methu sicrhau mwyafrif, fe fydd rhaid i’r Blaid Lafur dod i gytundeb gyda’r Ceidwadwyr.

Labour's Funding Scandal

Congratulations to Adam Price for uncovering yet another scandal involving the Labour party and their lust for the money of big business. As Adam quite rightly says – it has come to something when the Labour party are reliant on the money of a foreign steel magnate, the modern day equivalent of the ironmasters and the coal owners of the past – which the Labour party was originally set up to defend workers against.

Just shows how debased and unprincipled the Labour party of today really is. A party without any cause at all, but to keep and manipulate power for their own narrow self interest.

Cometh the hour - Cometh the man

Press reports indicates that Lakshmi Mittal, the richest man in Britain has bailed the Labour party out with a £2m gift. Mr Mittal is the steel magnate who in return for his kind donations in the past has received favours from the Prime Minister as exposed by Plaid Cymru star Adam Price. The infamous Mittalgate scandal was the first nail in New Labour’s coffin of sleaze and spin – where Price discovered a letter by the Prime Minister to the Romanian Government aiding his bid to purchase the former nationalised steel company. The deal is understood to have been negotiated by Lord Levy, the PM’s tennis partner who is currently on police bail pending the completion of the Police investigation of the cash for honours scandal also exposed by Plaid and the SNP.

At a time when Corus plants in Wales are under threat from takeover, I’m sure Welsh steel workers will be interested to learn that Labour will be using the donations of a rival company to buy their votes in the Assembly elections.