I've been trying to contact my Assembly Member Brynle Williams without success all this month. Is he back on the picket lines?
Fear not, Brynle 'the fuel' Williams had zipped off to Australia since November to judge some Welsh Cob competitions.
He's also taken the family and will be out there for a total of five weeks. When questioned by the Western Mail it emerged that the Welsh cob competitions had been cancelled due to equine flu.
What Brynle, the Tory AM for North Wales, neglected to tell the Western Mail was that equine flu had been a problem in Australia since August 2007.
Furthermore, the Welsh Pony and Cob Society of Australia has told me that it cancelled all shows at a management committee meeting on October 15 - a full six weeks before Brynle left these shores.
Competitions were cancelled until February 1 and notice was posted on the society's website to inform members as well as putting it in the members' mailout.
So, despite knowing that he would not have any judging to do, Brynle still jetted out during Assembly time to enjoy a few tinnies and a barbie.
Barrie
2 comments:
You posted a comment on our blog re. Ieuan Wyn Jones and nuclear power, it brings me no joy to say that you are either lying, deceiving yourself or don't know what your talking about!
Ieuan Wyn Jones support for new nuclear power stations being built in Wales was widely reported in the mainstream media, see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6529901.stm
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/politics-news/tm_headline=plaid-leader-backs-plan-for-anglesey-nuclear-plant-&method=full&objectid=18866327&siteid=50082-name_page.html
At the time, Cardiff RESPECT produced two briefings refuting Jones position and outlining why it was a bad move that you might care to read:
http://cardiffrespect.blogspot.com/search/label/nuclear%20power
The leaders of Plaid and New Labour advocate building new nuclear power stations in Wales, RESPECT unequivocally says: KEEP WALES NUCLEAR FREE!
This is the same Ieaun Wyn Jones who publicly a year ago welcomed £16 billion of public money that could have been spent on regenerating Wales being spent on the military industrial complex building a huge, privatised military academy to train the latest recruits to the war on terror at St Athan's
Maybe you would care to read this interview with Ieuan Wyn Jones where he directly states that he supports a new nuclear power station being built in Ynys Mon:
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/politics-news/tm_headline=ieuan-will-for-battles-ahead-&method=full&objectid=18945514&siteid=50082-name_page.html
Quote from WalesOnSunday interview:
"Plaid has always been anti-nuclear power. But their manifesto does not explicitly set the party against it - and Mr Jones has now backed a new nuclear plant in his constituency, Anglesey, when the current Wylfa plant shuts in 2010.
Can your policy be summed up, WoS wonders, as opposing nuclear unless it's your own constituents' jobs at risk?
"No, I said that I support a new station on Anglesey and I've said I've put conditions on that," says Mr Jones.
"The first is I'd need to know what kind of reactor is being used, secondly I really want to know how many people it would employ, and thirdly I think I'd need answers about how they're going to deal with waste.
"But in principle I've said that I'd support it
As a lifelong environmentalist and anti-nuclear activist it makes me sick to the stomach to see a party such as Plaid which has taken a very firm anti-nuclear position in the past now backtrack.
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