As is tradition, here's my verdict on how the Welsh Government and opposition leaders have performed in the first year of the Fifth Assembly.
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Showing posts with label UKIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UKIP. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 July 2017
End of Term Report 2016/17
As is tradition, here's my verdict on how the Welsh Government and opposition leaders have performed in the first year of the Fifth Assembly.
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
FMQs: RIFW Redux, Tuition Fees & Parking Fines
The final FMQs of the 2016-17 Assembly term took place this afternoon and it's also the final FMQs covered on this site.
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
FMQs: Mind Your Language
The penultimate FMQs of the 2016-17 term, and although there's still a lot of heat being generated on the Circuit of Wales saga (yet again) it's not generating much light at the moment but that might soon be about to change.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
FMQs: Circuit of Wales, Stressed Teachers & Gambling
Here are the highlights of this afternoon's First Minister's Questions which, as you might expect, was dominated by the Welsh Government's decision earlier today not to underwrite the Circuit of Wales project in Blaenau Gwent.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
FMQs: Brexit, Recycling & Grenfell Tower
Things are starting to get back to normal after the general election (ha!) so it's back to the grind for me with the latest First Minister's Questions from the Senedd.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
FMQs: Gaffes, Circuit of Wales & Borrowing
This afternoon saw the final FMQs before the local elections on Thursday and the first since the announcement of the forthcoming UK general election.
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Reckless Abandon?
The last day of term in the Senedd always seems to throw up curve balls, and just before AMs broke for Easter recess came the news – after a day of rumours and counter-rumours – that Mark Reckless had left UKIP to join the Conservative group.
Thursday, 6 April 2017
Automation: Resistance is Futile?
Continuing the running theme of the backbench members debates this term - the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" - AMs turned to automation, something that was once science fiction but fast becoming science fact.
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
FMQs: Sport Wales, Gibraltar & Banks
This afternoon saw the final FMQs before an extended Easter recess, which will no doubt be taken up by local election campaigning.
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
FMQs: Article 50, NHS Deficits & Grass fires
The news that the Welsh Government will refuse to bail out four health boards dominated proceedings today, but the activation of Article 50 tomorrow also focused attentions.
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Coast with the most?
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Wales doesn't have the longest coastline in the world – and the Welsh perhaps aren't considered "seafaring" in the same way as the Cornish or English. Nonetheless it's a spectacular addition to the natural beauty of the country and could also provide a significant economic boost, which was the focus of the latest backbench debate in the Senedd.
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
FMQs: City Deals, IndyWales & Rough Sleeping
It was a rather sedate edition of FMQs this afternoon (not that it's different to any other week) with today also marking Carwyn's 50th birthday 🎉 - to the jocularity of opposition leaders.
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
FMQs: IndyRef2, Drugs & Urgent Stuff
The usual stuff was on the agenda today alongside an abnormally large number of urgent questions (a few more weeks and I never have to do this again). Once again, Leader of the House, Jane Hutt (Lab, Vale of Glamorgan), was filling in for the First Minister.
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
FMQs: Aid, Air & Dogs
After last weekend's “excitement” I was hoping to return to normality. Plaid's Assembly Group have dealt with the issue in a refreshingly swift and professional manner even if – despite what I wrote on Sunday - a suspension seems too strong. As far as I'm concerned the matter's closed.
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
FMQs: GMC, MS & FGM
Following the half term break, the Senedd reconvened with First Minister's Questions....
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
FMQs: No Love Lost
The increasingly fractious row over Carmarthenshire Council's decision to make Llangennech School Welsh-medium-only continues. Plus, other questions on climate change, scams/cold calling and the Welsh Government “leaning” on lobbyists and the Third Sector.
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
FMQs: Teachers, Llangennech & Bridgend Ford
A refreshingly Brexit-light edition of First Minister's Questions this afternoon.
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
FMQs: Trump Ban, Cancer & Tidal Lagoons
For most of this afternoon's FMQs, you would think you were following a parliamentary session in an independent country: foreign policy, condemnation of foreign governments, state visits, discussion of immigration, how to win the battle against Islamic State – and Carwyn Jones was using the language of a Prime Minister, not a regional premier.
Thursday, 26 January 2017
Tainted Blood
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The latest member's debate covers what was once described by Prof. Robert Winston as one of the worst disasters in NHS history.
