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...
Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
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.
David Jones, MP (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Peter Hain is clearly a man who knows how to drive a hard bargain.
A Change of Personnel (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A chance to improve the financial situation of Wales, to increase WAG’s and Welsh local authority’s budgets were well and truly flunked today and not just by the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain. Today’s statements from the Government and Opposition parties was entirely predictable with not a shred of courage or vision just the usual denial of reality and blame game. So here’s the...
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
There were some harsh things said during the debate on the Queen's Speech in Assembly Plenary yesterday. Most them were said about or by Peter Hain. By far the harshest were spoken by Conservative North Wales AM, Mark Isherwood, who got rather personal: It is an honour to follow Rhodri Morgan in his last debate on a Queen’s Speech as First Minister, although I suspect that he may not like everything...
Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Fair play to Peter Hain you have to credit him with one thing – consistency. He is consistently doing everything he can to hold Wales back. From attempts to break pledges, to scupper a referendum, to break up a stable coalition government , to stabbing his own party in the back and today, possibly his best effort to date, his bid to deny Wales any chance at receiving a fair funding deal . I find...
Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
So what has Peter Hain announced this morning? If you're in his shoes, the answer is "a major breakthrough for Wales". If you're in Adam Price MP's, it's "a betrayal of the people of Wales". What is 'it'? It's the UK Government's response to this man's report . Gerry Holtham chaired an independent commission that looked at the way Wales is funded. It concluded that by the end of...
icWales (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A NEW safety net will be added to the way the Assembly Government is funded from the Treasury, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said today.
icWales (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A NEW safety net will be added to the way the Assembly Government is funded from the Treasury, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said today.
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