Yesterday Betsan Powys posted this interesting thought:
"All three leaders will be wondering, though, what [Kirsty's victory] means for future coalitions...
At the Labour Party conference in Manchester this Autumn one public affairs man and Labour supporter had it all worked out. Kirsty Williams would win, unite the party, talk coalition with Labour and Plaid would be out on their noses in no time.
I didn't believe it then and I'm no more convinced now..."
For your information, the 'public affairs man' who predicted the end of the One Wales to whom she refers is Steve Morgan - the man who screwed up Peter Hain's Labour Deputy Leadership campaign.
I posted something similar some months ago. My view would be that no matter how hostile many Labour MPs and Labour AMs are to Plaid Cymru's presence in government, they need to find a pretext to throw Plaid out of government. Will Labour MPs now use this opportunity to up the ante against One Wales?
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They may do, but frankly Kirsty going into coalition with Laboru will lose both parties seats. The Lib dems can;t stand Labour, and Labour One Wales peopel will be disgusted. It will cost them both.
What's interesting about this is that on Betsan's BBC blog, a place with some truly frightening crypto-fascists writing on it ('English speakers are superior', 'Welsh-speakers are preparing ethnic cleansing against us', 'Welsh speakers are barbarians and don;t have proper words for things like telephone etc'... you know the kind), several of the said crypto-fascists are hoping that Huw Lewis gets elected Labour leader and that he and Kirsty form a coalition.
So now we know who Huw and Kirsty have rooting for them: the anti-Welsh.
Though Huw says we're not supposed to use that 'smear', I hthnk someone should tell him that he's got a lot fo fans among the anti-Welsh.
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