Doidge Meets Cameron
David Cameron’s fishing for votes in Wales. His Conservatives have eleven seats in the Assembly, and are hoping for a big increase in May. But he might have to do better than his flying visit today, where he didn’t announce any policies for Wales and didn’t hang around long either.
He told me Plaid Cymru stood for nothing, and that his Conservatives could protect the Welsh identity better. Perhaps a contentious claim.
And he’ll have to work better on his stage management. In an attempt to look eco-friendly, his shadow cabinet followed him in minibuses. Not entirely becoming for Theresa May and her sparkly shoes. And with one bus completely empty, plus two others only half full, you have to wonder whether their environmental concerns are genuine or half-hearted. Mr Cameron himself got out and walked so we couldn’t see what gas-guzzler he’d arrived in.
The whistle-stop tour included a meeting with Conservative Assembly members and a brief – and not entirely natural – chat with children from a local primary school. He’ll be pleased to know they approved, even if his new hairstyle got a less enthusiastic reception.
23 Mar 2007 12:57
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blamerbell
“Only 11 seats… mountain to climb…”
In fairness to the Tories, they’ve been having a pretty energetic hike up that mountain recently. Eleven seats is pretty good in a country which still blames them for the state in which we find ourselves today. Not so long ago there wasn’t a single Tory Westminster seat in Wales and they could only add to that another nine in the assembly (compared to Plaid’s 17).
Going into May’s elections the party with the mountain to climb is Labour.
25 Mar 2007, 20:55
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