Wales Office (Free subscription) | yesterday
Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain today [Wednesday 2 December] visited the Eagles Meadow shopping complex in Wrexham to see how it is bucking the trend during the recession and placing the town firmly back on the shopping map. The new shopping centre, which has been nominated for a gold award in the annual awards [...]
Wales Office (Free subscription) | yesterday
Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain today saw how the Government-funded Future Jobs Fund is helping young people find employment and gain valuable work experience in North Wales and urged more organisations across North Wales to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Fund. On a visit to Groundwork’s Pedal Power Project in Wrexham [...]
Wales Office (Free subscription) | yesterday
Officially opening Wales’ largest offshore wind farm today (Wednesday, 2 December), Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain hailed it as another major step towards a Wales powered by clean, green renewable energy sources. The Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm, situated five miles off the coast of North Wales at Rhos Point, becomes the largest Welsh [...]
Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today (December 2nd 2009) Carwyn Jones says in order for Labour to turn around its complete meltdown in Wales the party has to listen . (September 27th 2009) Peter Hain argues that Labour can win – if it listens . (June 8th 2009) Following Labour’s defeat at the European elections Peter Hain said Labour need to listen to what the voters had told them. (May 3rd 2008) After Labour’s...
Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Carwyn" said Welsh Secretary Peter Hain first thing this morning "is very seized of the whole of the party focussing laser-like on one target over the next few months and that's winning the General Election. Frankly nothing else matters". I'm sure the new Welsh Labour leader and soon to be First Minister will have heard the message. Half an hour later, in a studio just down the...
World Auto News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
Secretary of State for Wales, Rt. Hon. Peter Hain PC MP, was the special guest of Welsh Motoring Writers (WMW) at their annual dinner at the St David’s Hotel Cardiff on Saturday. Earlier, at a ceremony in the National Assembly Building hosted by Helen Mary Jones (Assembly Member Llanelli) and supported by Rhodri Glyn Thomas (Assembly [...] Copyright © 2007 World Auto News & Reviews This...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Cabinet supporters of an early referendum on reform of the voting system for the Westminster parliament will tomorrow renew their efforts to commit Labour to include an early ballot in legislation certain to be passed before next year's general election. If ministers at the cabinet's democratic renewal committee (DRC) agree to raise the stakes in their tussle with the Conservatives over electoral...
Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Consensus throughout the Welsh Blogosphere appears to indicate that Peter Hain is not well regarded and that his pronouncements are reprehensible and shameful, and that he does a disservice to Wales. He should go, along with the rest of his New Labour colleagues, Messrs Brown, Balls, Straw, Darling, Harman, Mandelson, Denham, Miliband (2), Alexander, Johnson, Byrne, Royall, Ainsworth et alii.
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Letter sent to the Daily Post and the Leader today. Dear Editor, What is Peter Hain for? He’s not for Wales that’s for sure. In a week where he has attempted to undermine the One Wales Coalition Government by going back on Labour’s word to hold a referendum which came close to destroying the coalition between Plaid Cymru and Labour. Secondly Hain chooses to ignore the main platform...
Syniadau :: The Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
When Betsan Powys reported that Gerry Holtham was " clearly on side " about the Labour Government in Westminster's response to his report, I must admit I was a little dismayed. I didn't see how he could possibly be happy with it. Especially when I looked at Peter Hain's press release on the Wales Office site which, as we might have come to expect by now, trumpeted: Hain secures fairer funding...
Welsh Ramblings (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
There have been a few online pieces analysing Peter Hain's position on devolution in Wales, following an interesting week where he appeared to try and derail the progress on the ruling coalition in Cardiff Bay. The article at WalesHome alleges that Hain is in fact sincere about taking devolution forward, and that he simply understands the political conditions very well and does not want to hold a referendum...
Politics Cymru (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The Barnett formula is not popular . Nor is it fair according to Gerry Holtham who issued a report on the subject back in July. The formula is based on population and not on the age of that population or the levels of poverty amongst that population. Peter Hain says it’s worked alright until now but accepts that Wales could lose out in the future and to make sure that doesn't happen he’s...
Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
It is quite sad really. Back in the day you may have remembered Peter Hain as an anti apartheid campaigner and even someone who played a role in the devolution campaign to establish the National Assembly for Wales. Today his record is one of a lonely, irrelevant and dodgy character who has never really addressed the financial questions of his doomed deputy leadership campaign and who has rejected the...
Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Now is the time for Plaid Cymru to begin preparations to mount a strong campaign throughout the Neath/Port Talbot area to oust Peter Hain MP from the parliamentary constituency once and for all. The Secretary of State for Wales is a blight on the future course of the nation and his statements and actions are calculated to hold back and even reverse progress towards the holding of a Referendum leading...
icWales (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
PETER HAIN threw down a general election gauntlet yesterday, with a minimum funding guarantee for Wales if Labour wins a fourth term.
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