The scheme that never was

It’s difficult to get all that worked up about the proprietary spat between Plaid and Labour over economic innovation. Even the Lib Dems see little point in seizing upon the suggestion that Labour is now dissing plans which were earlier submitted to the Treasury in the name of the One Wales Government.

Labour deny the charge, saying that the Plaid scheme is a “quantum leap” further down the road than what was originally proposed. But Plaid insist that the peremptory dismissal of their solution "raises questions about the integrity of the Labour Party in Wales". A mischievous tory spokesman posed the theory that Plaid had repackaged the idea and then tried to pass it off as one of their own.

Ho, hum. Let’s hope things liven up a bit from now on.