The Doctor Disappears and Glyn Flies the Red Flag
Today there was a massive and effective peaceful protest urging the Welsh Assembly government to save threatened community hospital services throughout Wales. The co-sponsors of the event were Mark Isherwood and Kirsty Williams and the CHANT Wales group dedicated to community hospitals attracted support from three of the political parties in the National Assembly, namely the Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, and the Liberal Democrats. Labour did not lend support…
Dr. Brian Gibbons the Minister had been invited to attend and speak. The crowd was calling out for him, not quite in the way that an excitable audience might call out for a pop act admittedly but more like “where the hell is the pantomime villain “… No sign of the Doctor but under the pressure of probing cross-examination in the Senedd he confessed to me that he had apparently had to attend to some pressing engagements in Carmarthen.
Now this must have been incredibly frustrating for him and no doubt he expended a great deal of time in trying to re-arrange his diary. I feel sure he will now be seeking to make time available to speak to the protestors and holding off pressing demands from communities throughout the western world.
Later in the Chamber the excitement continued when Glyn Davies asked the Culture minister to do his utmost to make May 1st a public holiday. What was this? I know we are in the process of putting the finishing touches to our manifesto but this one had not crossed my desk!
Labour meanwhile looked stunned and horrified at being outflanked! But wait May. Day is a Bank Holiday already! Had Glyn misunderstood which flag we are waving - the Welsh flag not the Red one. Glyn claimed he had meant 1st March but our Chief Whip is keeping a close watch on him for any further signs of Old Labour behaviour (it would certainly stand out in. today’s politics!) So Glyn hide those Lenin posters, delete “Dear Leader” Kim from the contact list and burn those little red books before William Graham’s dawn raid!
Glyn Davies said on November 24th, 2006 at 6:50 pm:
Just ‘a slip of the tongue’ as Tony Blair said when admitting the invasion of Iraq was a disaster