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Ruffling feathers

• Betsan Powys
• 20 Apr 07, 11:47 AM

If you're following my colleague Vaughan Roderick's blog then you'll know that he's opened up a virtual betting shop. A painless way to lose a virtual fortune.

If you fancy your chances he's offering these odds on Aberconwy:

Plaid Cymru: 6-4
Conservaties: 7-4
Labour: 7-4
Lib Dems: 25-1

About right? One of Llandudno's seagulls put a punt on the Tory yesterday I hear, just after he'd finished giving an interview on how his party's doing. Does that change the odds in his favour?

Odds on Ceredigion to appear soon. If you can offer him any tips, do.

Birds doing the Tory leader, Nick Bourne, no favours today either. In his weekly column in Golwg Mr Bourne's old adversary - former Welsh leader Rod Richards - has this to say:

"Nick Bourne is a cuckoo in the Tory nest ... He lays his eggs in the Green
Party's nest, in Plaid Cymru's nest and indeed anywhere where
somebody will care for his chicks. He'd make his nest in any home going.
Like every cuckoo, Bourne has questions to answer".

He would say that, wouldn't he but pretty strong stuff two weeks before an election.

Off to see Gordon Brown who's swooping into Cardiff North.