Welsh Labour's biggest ever internet farce has come to an early end, with the widely mocked Aneurin Glyndwr website now appearing to be inactive, according to Betsan's blog.
At the time of this post, the link to Aneurin Glyndwr leads to a username/password interface under the mispelled heading "Anuerin Glyndwr".
Let's not pull punches, the website was supposed to be a jewel in the crown for Labour's internet presence, or as Peter Hain described it "an Obama moment". Aneurin Glyndwr also claimed that Rhodri Morgan backed the site's launch, although the First Minister leading denied this. In a first for Welsh politics, the website was even mocked in different countries and in non-political internet communities. This in itself is something of an achievement.
Leading Labour "online activist" David Taylor wrote recently in the Institute of Welsh Affairs' journal Agenda that his Aneurin Glyndwr site had turned out to be a success despite initially being mocked.
Have Welsh Labour supremos now moved to shut it down? After all, the site itself continued to be cringeworthy for some time after its launch, containing badly thought-out attacks on BBC Wales employees amongst other gems.
The site has clearly become a liability for Leighton Andrews who will now be looking for a top post if Carwyn becomes First Minister. How can he be taken seriously when his staff are responsible for such a hideous own goal?
With all that said, we'd rather it had stayed up.
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Peter Hain description of Aneurin Glyndwr website - An Obama moment! ha ha ha, biggest laugh I've had for ages!
It hasn’t posted since David Taylor went to lobby for Carwyn up at Westminster, remember the pictures!!! Raising questions about use of his time paid for by whom.
It was never going to succeed was it?I have checked it on odd occasions.
No comment allowed, no debate, just a bit of sad rant. where is openess and democracy in that.
All the labour people I know were embarrassed by it. Make no mistake DT would not have done it with out his bosses approval
Wonder what the next effort will be named, cos he just cannot help himself, can he.
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