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Skinning cats

Betsan Powys | 09:03 UK time, Thursday, 31 January 2008

Try these headlines for size: "Breakfast with fellow blogger"; "EC Vice President calls for all-Wales EU debate"; "Intercourse first night".

Eye strangely drawn to the last one? I thought so. Margot Wallstrom, the EC's Vice President thought so too. Thanks for the tip Mrs Wallstrom!

She IS a blogger and she was in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ for a traditional Welsh dry croissant breakfast. She's also the EC's Vice President and was here to try and work out how to engage with us Europeans, how to persuade us to debate big European issues. She's a big fish and she's right - we don't do enough in our own news coverage. She's right too that trying to sell stories emanating from Brussels to the newsroom is tough, even if those stories about farming, food labelling, global warming do eventually ... after much consulation ... touch lives in Benllech and Bedlinog.

So Mrs Wallstrom came up with a suggestion and it seems worth listening to a woman who was voted the most popular in Sweden in 2006. She rather thought there was a lesson to be learned from a fellow Swede who for years had been trying to attract an audience to his community film nights. He lived out in the country and was finding it tough to persuade people to turn out.

He then decided to show a film with a bit of sex in it. Just a little bit but being a truthful kind of bloke he put up a poster before the premiere advertising "Intercourse first night."

The hall was packed.

I don't think it was an invitation to bring sex into everything but yes, I think we got the point that there's more than one way of skinning un chat domestique.

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  • 1.
  • At 02:22 PM on 31 Jan 2008,
  • dotcommentator wrote:

I hope Rhodri Morgan doesn't start bringing sex into everything. That would scar me for life.

  • 2.
  • At 10:15 AM on 01 Feb 2008,
  • Richard Harris wrote:

Perhaps if our much respected MEPS...Eluned and Glenys (Wales...that's SO yesterday!) ...could instigate some REAL debate about the neo liberal core agenda of their "project"...people might listen...but hey, its too late for that...so WHERE'S MY EXPENSES"?

the above was typed in green ink. twice.

  • 3.
  • At 08:57 AM on 04 Feb 2008,
  • John R. Walker wrote:

Margot's usual vacuous nonsense about her trip to Wales can be found here:

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