Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Act 3 Scene 2
It's called Karma or 'kick a man when he's down' and that's exactly what Alun Davies did to me in 1994. At the time he was a member of Plaid Cymru's National Executive. He lived in a flat near the Coops public house in Aberystwyth. I was a common and garden member of the Federation of Plaid Cymru Students and very often we would congregate in the confused seaside town for conferences and piss ups. After one particular conference/piss up a gang of us all ended up back at Davies's flat. It was late and we were noisy. His neighbours from downstairs came out and asked us to be quiet and allegedly I told them where to go. Inside his flat we all took up our pissed positions and I knelt behind the sofa looking at the television feeling comfortably numb. He, allegedly, having spoken with his neighbours, came raging up the stairs and he ran and took a flying kick at me, landing his boot in my ribs. He screamed and I shouted back. I didn't hit him but walked passed him and out. My ego had been bruised.
Twenty years ago now and he is no longer 'Plaid Cymru' but has taken the ambitious Politician's route and is now the tenuous member for the environment as a Labour Minister within the Grey Lady's (Carwyn Jones) administration at the Welsh Assembly Building also known affectionately as the Senedd. I thought I would publish this now to call into question his temperament as a human being first and foremost let alone as a Minister.
It is time for the Overlord of Darkness to resign. He could always get a job as one of the adversaries of Dr Who.
Stop Press
8th July 2014
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