It is with considerable sadness we announce that Huw Lewis AM has joined the Mumbo Jumbo Cult.
On 3rd July 2008, he announced on his blog that he has “joined the revolution”. This is a common phrase chanted by new Cult Members as they ritually affirm that they belong to their new ‘family’.
The Mumbo Jumbo Cult has swept through the Welsh political landscape claiming many other Assembly Member casualties.
Symptoms of Cult Membership include excessive references to brand names and imagery in a not-very-subtle attempt to recruit more people to the Mumbo Jumbo ’cause’.
Huw Lewis History
On July 18th 2007, Huw Lewis was sacked as Deputy Minister for Transport and the Economy. Two months later he published his Winning for Wales pamphlet on the future...
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Huw Lewis Merthyr Tydfil’s Labour AM publishes a pamphlet today entitled “Winning for Wales” in true fighting spirit. The pamphlet is written in plain English and offers an honest appraisal of some of the problems facing the Welsh Labour Party today.
He writes that “in order to create a party that can win elections over the next generation we must react to the 2007 result as though it were a heavy defeat – any other response will not be sufficient and we will sleepwalk to a very real loss in 2011 where the number of marginal seats we will be contesting will be unprecedented in modern electoral history. The only way to successfully combat these challenges is to create a self-sufficient genuinely Welsh Labour Party which can properly shape this next exciting...
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Alun Cairns AM worries about the impact of falling newspaper sales on the scrutiny of our elected representatives.
Culture Minister Alun Pugh AM reports on a day of campaigning and testing out his Welsh.
Plaid candidate Bethan Jenkins looks at splits in the Swansea Lib Dem group and Peter Hain's intervention on a Lab-Plaid coalition (further comment on this comes from Blamerbell, Taffia Don and Guerrilla Welsh-Fare)
Labour's YouTube attack ad has caused a bit of a stir - Blamerbell, Emma Greenow (Tory candidate for Bridgend), Huw Lewis AM (Lab, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney), Sophie Howe (Lab candidate for Cardiff North), Daniel Davies, Trefor Jones (Tory candidate for Ceredigion)
Whether or not St David's Day should be a national holiday has also been much discussed - Blamerbell,...
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BBC Wales' political reporter Adrian Browne has written an article on the contenders for the Welsh Labour leadership after Rhodri Morgan steps down. He outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the (many) possible candidates and concludes that it's a wide open race.
AMs mentioned in the article are:
Leighton Andrews (Rhondda)
Carwyn Jones (Bridgend)
Andrew Davies (Swansea West)
Edwina Hart (Gower)
Jane Davidson (Pontypridd)
Huw Lewis (Merthyr Tydfil and......
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Plaid yesterday announced they would give grants to first time buyers of up to £5000, and also take over the student loan repayments of graduates in Wales for five years.
A Unicef report has placed the UK at the bottom of a table charting the well-being of children in developed countries. Plaid and the Conservatives have argued that the Welsh Labour Government is failing children in Wales. The Western Mail editorial describes the report as a wake-up call.
Huw Lewis AM, in response to claims by Patrick McGuiness and Glyndwr Cennydd Jones that he is evasive, has offered a tour of the new Assembly offices at Rhydycar and a “chat about employment in the borough”.
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Dylan Jones-Evans, Conservative Candidate for Aberconwy, says the PCS must highlight the...
That's the verdict of Merthyr AM Huw Lewis.Huw grew up in Aberfan and is very proud to have secured £2m for the upkeep of the graveyard which commemorates victims of the terrible tragedy of four decades ago.But Matt Withers, from the Wales on Sunday, suggested there may have been an ulterior motive for the donation:In September, Wales on Sunday reported how survivors were being forced to apply for Lotto money to pay for the upkeep of the graves. On the eve of the 40th anniversary of Wales' worst disaster, it emerged villagers needed £60,000 to preserve the cemetery for future generations.... This year - and three months before the nation goes to the polls - the Assembly Government suddenly found a spare £2m for the village to offer as "final closure" for the tragedy.Sometimes you need...
I note that a few people have put a link to Carl Sargeant's blog in their sidebars.But is he still blogging? On November 25th I pointed out that he'd been on a bit of a break since his inaugural three posts.Then, on December 6th he told me: "I did recently create a blog site but to be honest , finding the time to update it is a nightmare."The sort of nightmare in which you lose all access to computers perhaps?Anyway, I'm removing Carl and Rhodri 'put your foot in it' Glyn Thomas from my blogroll if they don't get started by the end of the month. Huw Lewis recently got back to his blog (albeit with a quip at one of his constituents), after I drew attention to his extended absence.A blog is, after all, a conversation with potential voters. When someone visits a blog which hasn't been...
Merthyr AM Huw Lewis entered the blogosphere in October. Since then, we've had 11 posts, the most recent on December 6th.Huw's first post goes like this:"I’m hoping this blog is going to make it easier for people across Merthyr & Rhymney to keep track of my work on your behalf, and to ask questions about local and national issues. Being completely new to blogging, I’m happy to hear any suggestions for the site."Here's a suggestion: use...
Goes to Huw Lewis, AM for Merthyr.It is a shame that there’s no Olympic event in backtracking because I think we’d have a nailed on gold for Ieuan Wyn Jones following the recent coalition “will they, won’t they” shenanigans. Bourne and German will have a fine battle for silver and bronze.If push ever does come to shove, this is what a coalition of vested interests is going to look like. One step forward, two steps back, three side steps, and then all scurrying in different directions looking for cover. More importantly, what on earth does "we’d have a nailed on gold" for Ieuan Wyn Jones mean? Sounds painful. Still, if you believe some Plaid AMs, that's the least he...
