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Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Welsh Assembly Commission has once more set the pace on reforming allowances for elected politicians by launching a consultation on legislation that will take control of pay and allowances out of our hands and give it to an independent remuneration body instead. The measure, which will go before an Assembly Committee for scrutiny shortly proposes: The establishment of a five-member remuneration...
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A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
This will be my last post about the proposed referendum on transferring law making powers to the National Assembly for Wales - until at least the New Year! Its inspired by some of the discussions I enjoyed while in and around the National Assembly this week - including appearances on AM/PM and CF99, where the subject dominated. Much of the discussion followed Labour's clumsy attempts to scupper any...
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Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Wales: Muslims celebrate 10 years of Welsh devolution The Muslim Council of Wales held a dinner in the City hall to celebrate 10 years of Wales Devolution and to honour First Minister, Rhodri Morgan AM, for his achievements and services to Wales. Over 400 guests attended from all walks of life; from business, academia, charities, faith groups and non-governmental agencies. Secretary General of the...
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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...
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Wales Office (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
25 November 2009 Diolch, Llywydd, a diolch ichi i gyd. Mae’n bleser mawr imi fod yma unwaith eto. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thank you all. It is once again a privilege to report to you on the Queen’s Speech, my seventh such appearance. And can I pay tribute to my comrade Rhodri Morgan. We have supported the [...]
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Syniadau :: The Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The GoWA 2006 puts us in the strange position of knowing in exact detail what we will get if we vote "Yes" in the referendum, but it doesn't actually set out the precise wording of the question. There was quite a bit of debate in the Senedd about it in yesterday's debate, but according to Nick Bourne the Electoral Commission have already started asking the parties, and I guess other interested...
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A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway is a very good book. I've read it twice. When David Cameron delivered his ' Broughton Statement' it was the equivalent of old Santiago casting his line. The Welsh Labour Party takes the role of the unfortunate marlin who took Santiago's bait. Labour can huff and puff and thrash around all it likes - but there is no escape. There will be no veto of a request...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
THE importance of agriculture to ensuring a healthy and secure future for the uplands of Wales was highlighted yesterday by NFU Cymru when giving oral evidence to the National Assembly for Wales’ Rural Development Sub Committee Inquiry into the Future of the Uplands.
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Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
You wait years for decent polling data on Wales and then you get a load at once. The most recent is today’s published by YouGov/ITV . As is the tradition for polling data in Wales the progressives supporting further powers are most pleased. The results show that a large majority of people were in favour of increased powers for the National Assembly for Wales. 51% - 30%. A staggering 21% lead....
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Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A voting intention poll commissioned by the BBC? In your dreams and let's face it, in mine. Still, at least someone's been canvassing the opinion of the great Welsh voting public. Problem is they've been coming back with different answers. A few weeks ago a YouGov poll asked this question and got these answers: If there were to be a referendum tomorrow on giving the National Assembly for Wales full...
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Vale of Clwyd AM, Ann Jones this week took a tour of Tenovus' Mobile Cancer Support Unit, which parked up at the doors of the National Assembly for Wales this week. The visit was designed to raise awareness of the services the unit provides, having treated 3,000 people across 24 locations in the first nine months it has been in operation. The unit delivers cancer services – such as chemotherapy...
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A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today, Sir Emyr Jones Parry presented the Report of The All Wales Convention to the First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales. Regular readers will know that I thought the establishment of this Convention to be no more than a 'device', which enabled the Labour Party to consign a coalition promise to the long grass, and provided Plaid Cymru (particularly its leader, Ieuan Wyn Jones) with a fig...
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A Change of Personnel (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I feel sorry for Sir Emyr Jones Parry and his team, like Lord Ivor Richard before him he has produced a comprehensive and thorough report on peoples understanding of devolution in Wales and the future of the National Assembly for Wales that will probably end up gathering dust like the 2004 Richard Commission report in a basement in Cathays Park somewhere despite the warm words from the First Minster...
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ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As a (Labour) correspondent in North Wales points out, there has been no official reaction to the publication of the Jones Parry report . At the time of writing, not even the National Assembly for Wales web-site refers to it. Of course, most of the UK media will be concerned with what - probably irrelevant - measures are in the Queen's Speech delivered this morning. Peter Black can, however, be relied...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Vote to boost assembly's law-making powers 'is not guaranteed, but could be won' A referendum should be held in Wales on whether the Welsh assembly should be given full law-making powers, according to an inquiry set up by the governing coalition. It warned that a yes vote was not guaranteed, but said it could be won. The coalition deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru included a pledge to hold a referendum,...
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