Lib Dems celebrate Technium closures

It’s either been a good or bad week for gaffes depending on whether you’re looking for them or if you have the job of explaining them away.

Among the crop is “clarification” from IDS that he had unintentionally misled parliament by saying official statistics showed private rents fell by 5% last year, but housing benefit rates rose. Now officials admit they did not come from the Office of National Statistics but from the FindaProperty.com website.

Lord Young, the prime minister's enterprise adviser has apologised after saying in the Daily Telegraph that most Britons had "never had it so good" despite the "so-called recession". He crassly maintained that bank borrowing base rates at 0.5% meant that many homeowners were better off.

Voters however will need to decide for themselves if Lib Dem Jenny Randerson and Freedom Central have shown good judgement by publicly celebrating the closure of six out of ten Technium centres and the loss of many full-time equivalent posts throughout Wales.

At least former minister Andrew Davies is showing a little more remorse over how Wales’ vaunted leap into the “knowledge economy” has taken a bad stumble. Perhaps the Lib Dems, who shared office with Labour when Technium concept was first launched, should be doing the same.