Despite repeatedly questioning by Adrian Masters the other night as to whether she accepted personal responsibility for not passing on key info on changes to candidate eligibility, Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams could only unconvincingly respond with something along the lines that “lessons had been learned”.
Unlike David Cameron who faced up to shortcomings in judgement this week, Ms Williams has patently decided that it is OK for her to keep hopping long after the music has stopped.
The confirmation that two more of their candidates would have been disqualified if elected suggests that party organisational skills would be challenged by a combination of piss-ups & breweries. It compounds what has been an embarrassingly clumsy performane by their business manager to firstly attempting to downplay matters as a 'technicality' and then grasping at straws which included a claimed anti-Welsh language conspiracy by the Electoral Commission.
Welsh Lib Dems were not wiped off the electoral map as many had predicted, but the events of the past few weeks more or amount to the same thing for a party that has a very hard climb ahead of it.
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It was Felicity Evans on Dragons Eye who interviewed Kirsty Williams last Thursday. Felicity was quite vicious - I thought Kirsty Williams was going to "cry".
What a mess - the Lib Dems in Cardiff and Swansea are a disgrace to politics.
But it was Adrian Masters who gave Kirsty a a few squeaky bum moments on the The Sharp End (ITV Wales) by persistently asking her why she had not passed on the information on changes to eligibility rules. Kirsty offered up some inane flannel whilst keeping up the collective responsibilty routine.
She also denied that the emphasis placed on keeping Aled Roberts in place was so that Ms Burnham could be kept in her box.
The only real meaningful question arising however is why teh accomplished Mr Masters ever thought it was a good idea to leave the Beeb in exchange for the arse end of ITV's programming schedule.
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