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Bacon butties and baiting

  • Betsan Powys
  • 5 Apr 07, 11:04 AM

Hot cross buns from the Electoral Commission yesterday, bacon butties from the Lib Dems today.

They still got a bit of a drubbing at their manifesto launch.

1. If the Lib Dem future is 'fair and green', why not play fair and tell people which pledges they'd stand by in coalition talks? Mike German leafs through the manifesto an awful lot, as if hoping to find the answer there ... He won't.

2. Don't their election leaflets deliberately con the public? Quoting in one 'an election expert' who bigs up their chances, failing to mention he's the party's own Chief Executive. Naughty naughty.

3. Where is Lemibt? Photos in the manifesto of Jenny Willott MP, Mark Williams MP ... but Lembit Opik MP? No sign of the Welsh leader anywhere. "He's busy, all his time goes on canvassing in Montgomeryshire. He was in Chepstow yesterday". Buy the man a map.

Two members of the Wales 60 group sit in front of me, watching proceedings. What did they make of it? "It's a very small world" said Anthony Berrow, who'd learned nothing about what the party was actually proposing on the issues in which he's interested.




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  • 1.
  • At 01:52 PM on 05 Apr 2007,
  • James Radcliffe wrote:

May be he learned nothing about what the party actually stood for because you were more interested in gossip about Lembit.

  • 2.
  • At 02:15 PM on 05 Apr 2007,
  • A Non wrote:

I think you'll find that Lembit was at a photoshoot with his celebity girlfriend. Funny that eh!

  • 3.
  • At 07:41 PM on 05 Apr 2007,
  • Nonny Mouse wrote:

Why are you leading with Rhodri says for the first time that he would step down if the election did not go well? He has been saying it since he announced is intention to stay until 2009, if the voters wanted him to.

You could also have read it again in the Echo last week.


  • 4.
  • At 08:12 PM on 05 Apr 2007,
  • A Nother wrote:

The word in Lib Dem circles is that they are deliberately keeping him quiet.. hmm can't think why? An embarrassment.. surely not.

First chance they get to elect a new Lib Dem leader in Wales the better

  • 5.
  • At 08:14 PM on 05 Apr 2007,
  • A Nother wrote:

The word in Lib Dem circles is that they are deliberately keeping him quiet.. hmm can't think why? An embarrassment.. surely not.

First chance they get to elect a new Lib Dem leader in Wales the better

  • 6.
  • At 12:45 AM on 07 Apr 2007,
  • Manjit wrote:

H茅l猫ne Mulholland of the Guardian did a interesting piece on Michael German.

'Heavy going in Chepstow'

Mulholland see's him a sensible centralist, I guess that's why the Lib Dems only have six seats in the assembly.

  • 7.
  • At 01:43 PM on 07 Apr 2007,
  • Garth Thrust wrote:

The Cheeky Song could of course have been written for Mr Opik and his party in this election. As I recall, the lyrics go something like this...

"I never ever ask where do you go,
I never ever ask what do you do,
I never ever ask what鈥檚 in your mind,
I never ever ask if you鈥檒l be mine,
Come and smile don鈥檛 be shy
Touch my bum this is life".

It seems clearer than most political manifestos anyway. But they are missing a trick : I'm sure that it would sound even more uplifting in Welsh.

Keep up the great work!

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