Monday, 5 March 2007

Ambition reaches a critical condition

Better services at the heart of ambition was the bold headline emblazoned on the Swansea Leader newsletter - otherwise known as Pravda - as it dropped through city letter boxes in January 2005.

"Customers will no longer be forced to travel to either County Hall or the Guildhall to meet staff". Well, that turned out to be bollocks.

And today, the Lib Dem dominated cabal will attempt to spin another off-the-shelf strategy as its own while looking to recycle the 'European city of distinction' idea that it inherited from the previous regime.

But there will also be a key question at today's launch to which the embattled leadership would be hard pressed to provide an answer if it was asked .... if the Swansea Administration is making such advances then why is there a continuing exit of disillusioned councillors seeking to distance themselves from its works?

And these are not the political flotsam that a crony coalition normally attracts but committed & astute individuals who were not so long ago considered by their peers to be potential AMs or MPs.

We are asked to believe that the answer lays in another patently undelivered claim but we suspect that Peter Black was probably more accurate when he made the comment:

“Unfortunately, that is the problem when you form an electoral alliance on the basis of popularism and of being anti-Labour. The moment you start to think about what you really stand for is when the group begins to come apart at the seams.”

Update: As if to prove our point, the naff attempt by the Braised Turkey spin-site to support dubious claims of making improvements in the city centre uses a picture of a scheme commissioned by the previous administration ...

... and we can't wait to hear how putting the bus station on the back burner is yet another example of moving Swansea forward.