We hear that there were a few intakes of breath among WAG senior officials at suggestions by Swansea council leader Chris Holley that he was influential in moves to get a Japanese car components manufacturer to take over the former Valeo plant at Gorseinon.
Although the Lib Dem councillor was clearly eager to give the local paper an impression of being up to speed with events, stating “I'm trying to attract more and more of that business”, a well placed source tells us Department for the Economy & Transport staff have been equally keen to keep details to an absolute minimum during briefings with Swansea council.
Whether this reticence is related to a habit by some administration members to mouth off at boozy match-day events in the council’s Liberty stadium hospitality box is not clear. But we understand that suspicion has already fallen on Calamity Hall for news of on-going negotiations with Toyoda Gosei getting out prematurely and that government officials will be pointing fingers if the deal now goes sour.
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(JX)
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most posts on this site include a modicum of truth, not this one
read the article the leak obviously came from cardiff bay desperate to announce good news
they had to leak it lest all of those other parties got the credit
What you appear to be saying is that the only untruthful part of the post is that the leak came from the council.
Notwithstanding Holley’s blatant attempt to be associated with some news for a change, our contact(s) say that the story which appeared in yesterday’s Western Mail came from a Swansea source and that the same ‘insider’ text was copied to the Evening Post who updated their website at 09.21and to the BBC who published at 13.10 GMT.
Having said that, it is hardly a leak as the Western Mail reported Toyoda Gosei interest in Gorseinon this time last year. (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2009/01/23/japanese-car-firm-toyoda-gosei-considers-making-car-components-at-former-valeo-site-in-gorseinon-91466-22758078/).
And when it comes to recycling good news stories ad nauseam, there are few more adept than the Swansea Council spin-corps.
Of course the leak had to come from Cardiff. Chris Holley and his cronies could not organise a p-ss up in a brewery.
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