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Postman's knock?

  • Betsan Powys
  • 26 Apr 07, 10:58 AM

"Trust status has reached the end of its useful life".

You can always rely on David Melding - the 'two brains' of the Welsh Conservatives - to take detailed notes of what he hears. And last night his pencil, though worn down having spent many months writing the party's manifesto, was in his pocket.

He was at a set of hustings where representatives of all four main parties were grilled by a room full of health professionals. When the Health Minister in the last Assembly, Labour's Brian Gibbons, delivered the suggestion that the day of the health trust is over ... jaws, we're told by one of the audience, dropped.

What exactly did Dr Gibbons mean? Blue sky thinking or is he suggesting there are specific plans afoot to revamp Wales' Health Trusts? We'll ask him.

Before I head down to the Senedd a thank you to the quick-thinking and fleet-footed voter who rushed to the door when she heard a leaflet hit the mat. It was from the candidate who for the past four years has been the local Assembly Member.

I'll let the annoyed voter tell you the rest:

"The leaflet claimed that he himself had been to my house and that I had missed him. I opened the door to ask him why he had not even knocked only to discover that the leaflet had been posted by one of two gentlemen, neither of which was ..."

No names because let's face it, he won't be the only one carrying out what this annoyed voter called 'nothing but deception'.

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No names? Dere 'mlaen Betsan. This is a BLOG!

This is the most interesting development of this election for me. As someone who's kept a very close eye on the health portfolio over the last four years I've been really impressed with Dr Gibbons' pragmatic approach. He's not a politician that changes things just for the sake of change, so the fact that the man that has run our health service for the last few years believes the days of NHS Trusts is over really is fascinating. Could changes to NHS structures be the shock bonfire of a 3rd Labour term?

On the candidate visits front no politician has called round our street in the last 3 elections, and as I suggested on Vaughan's blog last week, my first vote is still up for grabs if any candidate in Cardiff West is up for the challenge. No one's taken up the bait to date...

  • 3.
  • At 03:49 PM on 26 Apr 2007,
  • A NON wrote:

i've been out campaigning in Cardiff West and am surprised you haven't received an infor or a knock on the door from the party I'm with..

can you give us some more clues about where you live? not too cryptic though!!

  • 4.
  • At 03:50 PM on 26 Apr 2007,
  • Betsan wrote:

Y fath her! Ond na, dim enwau. Nice try but no names and according to the candidate involved, no truth in the story.

  • 5.
  • At 07:34 AM on 27 Apr 2007,
  • dwlais twp wrote:

Brian (AKA the Funky) Gibbon, is an astute politician would not say something unless it had been passed by the higher ups in the party or his advisers thinkk they know better than the politicians, and to say ia at the IHM no less.

  • 6.
  • At 11:32 AM on 27 Apr 2007,
  • Dai Thomas wrote:

Llyr,

Well my party have knocked thousands of doors in Cardiff West - you must have been out. What ward do you live in, and we will call in again?

Dai.

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