The First Day of RAGS
Ieuan’s first speech as Deputy First Minister was a perfectly rounded piece of work. There will surely be a honeymoon period for the Lab Plaid government. However, the seeds of future trouble were even then evident five members from the Labour benches were missing from the Chamber for Ieuan’s speech and no doubt alibis have been arranged for all of them but they were the same five who spoke out against a coalition with Plaid — Hub Lewis, Lynne Neagle, Ann Jones, Karen Sinclair and Irene James step forward please.
The Presiding Officer gently chided me that there was a committee in session but it had in fact already ceased its work. All other members of the committee were in the chamber. No doubt Carl Sergeant as Labour Chief Whip will seek to convince us all that the fact that the absent five were also the Refusenik five is a total coincidence like those chimps who if you leave them long enough - 63 million light years will type up the complete works of Shakespeare with out error.
The seeds of destruction are already there.
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