https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/ en Copyright 2008 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:03:15 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I've migrated! Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/making_a_move.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/making_a_move.html Wales Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:03:15 +0000 So it turns out that Carwyn Jones' hint on hospital reconfiguration last night was a pretty big hint. Given the events here today, thought you'd be interested in a story making the headlines in Scotland. In Scotland, a fierce political... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/lasting_impressions.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/lasting_impressions.html Wales Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:07:47 +0000 As promised, here are the comments and questions that came in during last night's programme. I can't believe they are even considering forming a rainbow alliance! This could be the final straw for me! Will seriously consider selling up and... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/they_said_then_you_said.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/they_said_then_you_said.html Wales Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:59:11 +0000 Just finished the programme but before I go home a promise that in the morning we'll do our best to put up on the blog all the comments and questions that came in tonight. No, nothing goes to waste here.... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/impressions.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/impressions.html Wales Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:39:24 +0000 So now we can all get on with it. The party to celebrate Welsh democracy went smoothly. In fact it's probably the only thing to have gone according to plan in Welsh politics over the past few weeks. A proper... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/rolling_up_the_carpet.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/rolling_up_the_carpet.html Wales Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:56:33 +0000 You disappear for a few days and what happens? You get into work to find the Royal Navy's anchored what looks like a warship a few hundred yards away in Cardiff Bay, the in-box has been inundated with offers of... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/here_we_go_again.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/06/here_we_go_again.html Wales Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:02:24 +0000 ...and you thought it was all over. Well, it ain't. Hot news from Llandrindod Wells is that the Lib Dems have voted to jump back into bed with Plaid and the Tories... or at least, they'll try to. The vote... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/lib_dems_back_in_the_game.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/lib_dems_back_in_the_game.html Wales Sat, 26 May 2007 13:51:58 +0000 Yesterday Rhodri Morgan went to the 6th birthday party of one of his grandchildren. He spotted one little boy staring at him intently. Eventually the little boy plucked up the courage to ask his friend's grand-dad "Are you the boss?"... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/the_boss_is_back.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/the_boss_is_back.html Wales Fri, 25 May 2007 17:35:09 +0000 People have taken to calling the office to ask whether anything has changed in the last 10 seconds. This is where the day ends. Rhodri Morgan will be nominated as First Minister tomorrow and everyone but Labour will abstain. He... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/post.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/post.html Wales Thu, 24 May 2007 16:13:59 +0000 Standing Order 36? Mean anything to anyone? It may become known for triggering a last ditch attempt by the rainbow's fans to keep the coalition alive. Ironically enough it was inserted at Labour's request to avoid frivolous nominations for First... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/you_wont_believe_this.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/you_wont_believe_this.html Wales Thu, 24 May 2007 14:23:47 +0000 So this is how it went: Labour started talking to the Lib Dems and to Plaid Cymru - or the unpalatable and the inedible as they were nicknamed. Not their best negotiating ploy that one, because in the end the... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/getting_over_the_rainbow.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/getting_over_the_rainbow.html Wales Thu, 24 May 2007 13:04:36 +0000 The deal that never quite was has just been made public. Once I have it in electronic form, I'll post it. Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/rainbow_coalition_deal.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/rainbow_coalition_deal.html Wales Thu, 24 May 2007 11:43:28 +0000 I'll do my best to post your comments as often as I can today. I've already realised that some of you are up very late (or very early) so I'll press the buttons as often as possible. My own posts... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/short_not_sweet.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/short_not_sweet.html Wales Thu, 24 May 2007 08:51:35 +0000 This from Ieuan Wyn Jones: "The people of Wales deserve leadership and a stable government. Plaid Cymru offered that option but the Liberal Democrats have tonight turned their backs on their duty to the people of wales and have shown... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/opposing_views.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/opposing_views.html Wales Wed, 23 May 2007 23:38:13 +0000 The Lib Dems have done it. (That's what I wrote last week). The opposition parties are about to put Labour out of government (last week). And tonight the Lib Dems have done it again. They've rained on Ieuan Wyn Jones'... Betsan Powys (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/someone_left_the_cake_out.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/election07/wales/2007/05/someone_left_the_cake_out.html Wales Wed, 23 May 2007 22:59:27 +0000