While you were watching ...
Did you watch Jane Hutt delivering the Assembly Government's spending plans?
"The response of a responsible government" was the Finance Minister's offer. A "hypocritical" budget that "puts front line services at risk" retorted Welsh Conservatives. Only they would pledge to protect health-spending. How? No figures yet but Nick Bourne confirmed to me tonight on Wales Today that he'd be prepared to cut the schools budget by over 20% if necessary and freeze the pay of higher than average earners in the public sector to fully protect health. That's what the public want.
It's not, says Carwyn Jones who must have been watching Wales Today, as well as appearing on it. "At last, some clarity from the Conservatives. In order to protect health to the extent they want to, they want hammer schools budgets".
She hasn't made the same pledge on health but this budget was, said Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams, full of missed opportunities.
That debate will go on as headline figures give way to real, hard cash cuts.
Meanwhile Assembly Members were debating the future of Welsh broadcasting. Thanks to the wonders of Democracy Live, the unmissable (ok, I've no idea what the debate was like because despite having two eyes, both were trained on complex budget tables ..) is indeed unmissable. If you do want to know more, you can watch the debate here.
a whisper arrives from Westminster that on Tuesday, when the Welsh Affairs Select Committee discuss the future - and immediate turbulent past - of S4C, there may be some key and interesting figures giving evidence.
Unmissable?
I'm Betsan Powys, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales' political editor. I'll be blogging the inside track on .
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