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Chanticleer (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
This week's infrequent Naughty Boy award goes to Matt Withers , who is thoroughly chastised by the Presiding Officer in the letters page of today's Wales on Sunday . Captain Mainwaring Lord Elis-Thomas, in the way that only he can, derides Withers for saying Wales has no written constitution as part of a witty aside in last week's paper. Apparently Wales has had two written constitutions. News to me....
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Andrew Nutt (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
A row between the assembly government and Welsh MPs over affordable housing powers in Wales has deepened. The assembly presiding officer Lord Elis Thomas has revealed he has written to Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy. He has expressed concerns and accused the Welsh affairs select committee of MPs of "anti-devolution sentiment". "Dafydd [Lord Elis Thomas] is absolutely right in what he says - 100%. "It...
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A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Dragon's Eye back with Adrian Masters, a man of gentle demeanor and a probing inquisitor. Looking forward to seeing him bare his dragon's teeth during the series. Hope its not me or my party he's sinking them into. To start the new series off, who else but Lord Elis Thomas, Presiding Officer of the National Assembly. He dismissed the two twentieth century Prince of Wales investitures as political stunts,...
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A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Just home from leafleting and looked through the Western Mail online. And there it was. The latest round in the undignified spat twixt Alun Michael MP, former First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales and Lord Elis Thomas, Presiding Officer of said institution. Demeaning and damaging. Do you remember that recording of Joyce Grenfell, trying to keep control of schoolboys misbehaving? Personally,...
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Brother Tecwyn (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The Assembly Presiding Officer (and self-proclaimed President of Wales) Lord Elis-Thomas has hit back in a letter to the Secretary of State and Papal Knight Paul Murphy over criticism by the British Parliament's Welsh Affairs Committee (WAC) that the Assembly are proposing too many new LCOs (Legislative Competency Orders). Lord E-T is of course right to point it out that only four or five LCOs have...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
THE National Assembly’s Presiding Officer has fired a broadside at an all-party group of MPs, accusing them of misrepresenting the facts about the making of new Welsh laws.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
WE suspect Lord Elis-Thomas is correct in his suspicion that MPs on the Commons Welsh Affairs Committee who claim they are being “swamped” by legislative bids from the National Assembly would rather there were no such bids at all.
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
The speaker of the Welsh Assembly was under pressure to resign yesterday after he called for a boycott of the Israeli ambassador. Lord Elis-Thomas sent an email urging members to stay away.
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0725 to Paddington (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Wherever pigeons are gathered, you can bet Assembly Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas is lurking nearby, trying to procure a cat to place among them. I gather there is much shock and horror in the Assembly today after Lord Elis-Thomas invited AMs to follow his example and boycott a meeting with the Israeli ambassador . If AMs are shocked, they clearly haven't followed the career of this connoisseur...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
ASSEMBLY Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas, pictured, insisted yesterday that the devolution settlement was working well in Wales, a year after controversial new arrangements were introduced.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
THE National Assembly's Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas faced upsetting a number of Welsh MPs after telling the meeting he thought the Justice Committee should scrutinise Welsh legislation rather than the “tardy” Welsh Affairs Select Committee.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
THE National Assembly is to launch a major review into its expenses regime to avoid being tarred with what Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas has called the “disgraceful” behaviour of MPs.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
THE National Assembly is to launch a major review into its expenses regime to avoid being tainted by what Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas has called the “disgraceful” behaviour of MPs.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
THE National Assembly is to launch a major review into its expenses regime to avoid being tarred with what Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas has called the “disgraceful” behaviour of MPs.
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Miss Wagstaff Presents... (Free subscription) | 18/01/2008
Is he a Presiding Officer [a role of equality and impartiality] or a party politician that feels he is the real voice of Plaid Cymru? The Cardiff Bay crowd have always been left confused and bewildered by this dual role, and his thirst for getting involved in anything that not only raises his own profile, but also puts him in the position of official spokesman for Wales - it is seen as legendary in...
