Elsewhere 11/01/2010

• Plaid Cymru's future role in Welsh politics remains unclear: Professor Richard Wyn Jones

• Wales and Scotland should be allowed to have their own time zones: Lord Archer

• "Yorkshire Tory MP on Welsh Affairs Committee"

• "At a time like this we can't afford a first minister for funny hats and launching shortbread tins and celebrating world porridge day." : Iain Gray

• Up to 860 people would have to become bilingual in Scots Gaelic each year "if the decline of the language was to be halted"

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

The enemy of the enemy is also an enemy... for Scottish Labour and the SNP

Whilst the DUP and Sinn Fein take part (possibly "work together" is putting it too strongly) in a joint Executive and Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour have performed reasonably amicably in a common Welsh administration, there are two parties for which hell would need to freeze over first before there were any hint of an alliance:

RIDING high in the polls, Labour activists supping their pints got to talking about the post-election carve-up if they won the most seats.

Why is it Labour and the SNP can't sort out their differences and club together? "There's a lot of agreement with their policies," said one activist. "But we just don't like each other very much."

A fact which is probably good news for the Union.

And perversely enough, despite the public objections to the contrary, it's somehow easier to imagine a Salmond-Goldie than a Gray-Salmond coalition.

Quote of the day

Fergal Moore:

"I look forward to the day when Republican Sinn Féin can sit round a table with the British Government and discuss the ferry timetables from Larne"

And what if we British refugees wish to take the plane rather than the ferry?