Personality

I caught some of the leaders debate, enough to realise that this assembly election is not about politics and policy, it is about personality. The doyen of the Westminster establishment broadcasting bubble, Huw Edwards, who was probably still a bit moist down below from having interviewed Barack Obama relaxed back into his fuss arse West Walian patois and clucked around like a mother hen. He gave the big hitters namely Conservative, Labour and Plaid Cymru the Lion's share of the debate on Tata Steel and health from what I saw. It was who could bellow the loudest and from the part I saw, our Huw didn't let Alice Hooker-Stroud, the leader of the Green Party have a look in. There is only so much bluff and bluster that I can put up with and I left the room. Only 3 of the Personalities can speak Welsh, not that that makes a blind bit of difference because we are in Wales 2016 where Cymraeg is an afterthought and a bloody good anthem at the beginning of the Rugby. I'm not sure whether the language was discussed on BBC Wales but I'm sure a natter was had with Huw behind the scenes. I don't think that Nathan Gill, leader of UKIP in Wales has got much of a personality. They could have put the cardboard cutout that they were so busily touting beforehand up on stage and that might have done a better job but I re-iterate it was only ten minutes that I saw. Carwyn Jones actually looked well groomed and coiffured and he is displaying more of a personality in this election run up than in all the years that he has been leader since he took over from Rhodri Morgan. But these are Welsh establishment figures and to the shock of the world this morning we find that Welsh Labour have said that the Leader of Labour in the UK is not welcome in Wales. So what is this? Have Wales declared UDI before the votes have been counted next Thursday! Are Welsh Labour telling us that Jeremy Corbyn is not welcome in Wales? What kind of a personality would decide something like that?

A Blairite that's who. A man who was full of personality.