Blowing bubbles

Politicians and their staffers get very irritated when someone accuses them of operating in a bubble. But they do little to dispel this widely-held perception when they show the kind of exultation that greeted news of how 2015 will not see clash of election dates between Westminster and Wales after all.

Lib Dems seek credit by association for the highly reasonable ministerial move whilst Plaid’s Jonathon Edwards makes the point that he was personally involved in wrenching this concession out of the ConDem coalition. His local AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas is sufficiently moved to describe it as “yet another fantastic victory for Jonathan”.

Pardon us for being unimpressed, but if the motivated self-interest which was plainly behind the eagerness to work out a mutually acceptable date on a calendar is a “victory” then there is a lot more wrong with Welsh politics that even Adam Price suggests – if only because Welsh politicians think that electors will actually believe such arrant bullshit.