A couple of days later, in another part of the Kingdom:
THE body charged with gauging the appetite for more National Assembly powers has been criticised for breaking a promise to release a schedule of public meetings “by early summer
From the All Wales Convention’s website:
"For the All Wales Convention to be successful, we will need to promote the broadest debate possible. This will mean hearing from people from all over Wales.
"By early summer we should have a plan of events that will be taking place across Wales."
No such events are, however, mentioned on the site.
"Postponed" due to lack of public interest perchance?
3 comments:
As usual Western Mail prints a nothing story knowing that there is a meeting that day which will give them a follow up story the next day.
Here you go
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/09/03/views-of-30-000-to-be-sought-on-future-of-welsh-government-91466-21662095/
Happy now? :-D
Looks more of a promise than direct action, but, yes, still delighted to see the wheels of democracy slowly rolling;)
Regarding The Western mail, I'm coming to the conclusion that it's your version of the Belfast Telegraph and that's not a compliment. Any other news sites to watch out for?
Unfortnately no. The Mule, owned by Trinity Mirror, is the only Wales wide paper. The other big regionals are the South Wales Echo (South) and the Daily Post (North), both owned by, yep, Trinity Mirror!
Trinity Mirror also happens to own most of the local paers as well.
We're unlucky in Wales that we don't have Scotland's strong seperate print media - we're left with the Mule, who use the same formula for every political story:
Party A says x (10 paragraphs)
Party B says party A wrong (4 paras)
Party C angry with party A (2 paras)
Lib Dems say something or other (1 sentence)
Snce it's all we have however we all keep reading! The obvious alternative is the BBC. They have two very good blogs on Welsh politics which are much better informed than the Mule - Betsan Powys and Vaughan Roderick. Vaghan's is in Welsh but a translation is always posted by Ordovicius on his own blog.
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