In a Parallel World

Former Welsh Minister John Redwood has shocked the Cardiff Bay political bubble today with the announcement that he intends to stand in the next Welsh Assembly elections. Mr Redwood will run as an Independent candidate in Ceredigion. Explaining the reasoning behind this shock return to politics Mr Redwood stated:

"To be honest I thought that my career was over, especially in Wales. After being hounded for handing back £100m to Westminster and being ridiculed for my attempts to sing the National Anthem I thought that the whole country was laughing at me. But my political agent has convinced me otherwise. According to my agent the fact that the video of me singing the anthem has 45,000 hits just goes to show how popular I am. He says that each and everyone of those 45,000 people are guaranteed to vote for me now. I'm not an expert on these technological things but according to my agent if 45,000 look at a video of me embarrassing myself then this means that I'm popular. Labour have fallen right into the trap of mentioning me over and over and now I am on course to be the next Welsh First Minister"

Anyone willing and able to assist Mr Redwood's campaign should contact his agent: Mr Paul Flynn MP, Newport

Mr Defence Bores Us All Over Again

Paul Flynn has a historical habit of going to bizarre lengths to defend Peter Hain. During Peter Hain's illegal failure to register £100,000 of donations Paul Flynn was one of the only people in the country defending the then cabinet minister. And, shock horror, he's at it again.

Apparently the cringworthy embarrassment of aneuringlyndwr and the video was not a stunning gaffe by Peter and his friends but a wonderful bit of PR. The video apparently was a "loss-leader" with Labour taking the hit of embarrassment to get more people to look at their video...

Hm...really? I could just about nearly believe such nonsense if the website was of any use to Labour - but it's not, it's just as bad as the video. As I mentioned before it has no mention of Labour, no mention of Labour's policies, no mention of Labour politicians, no mention of Labour ideology. All it has is hypocritic attacks on the Tories and Plaid (more hypocricies coming soon!), and they are presented in such an immature way they pander only to the die-hard Labour voter. I doubt a single swing voter will turn Labour's way because of it.

On the other hand I can see, and have spoken to, many swing voters turning away from Labour because of it. Now as we all know the general public don't pay much (any?) attention to the world of Welsh political blogging, so even a website as laughable as this would have little effect if pretty much no-one saw it. But thankfully the press, the Tories and Plaid have had a field day highlighting it to make sure as many people as possible get a look.

So when Paul smugly tells us that

"The new Aneurin Glyndwr website is off to a triumphant start with 9,000 hits in the first day."

he is trying to convince us that it's a good thing for Labour. Firstly Paul I can assure you that about 2,000 of those hits are from me (everytime I feel a bit down I pop over for a little pick me up!), secondly the other 7,000 are now having a right old laugh, and it's at Labour's expense.