The Assembly referendum saga slipped from drama to farce yesterday when the Welsh Government submitted its own question for consideration by the electoral commission in competition to that already put forward by the Secretary of State for Wales.
The BBC say that the Welsh government is “disappointed” that Cheryl Gillan did not agree the words with her, and called her question “deficient”, Betsan Powys explains on her blog that the cause of the conflict is over the phrase ‘without needing the agreement of Parliament first?’
It is a very narrow argument, Lilliputian in its scale, and one that will go over the heads of most ordinary people. Those who are even aware of the issues will shrug their shoulders in disbelief at the pettiness and irrelevance of it all. One of the comments to Betsan’s blog sums it up:
This is typical labour playing politics.
They are damaging the fragile chances of a ‘yes’ vote by fafing around like this.
Is there any wonder that the ‘no’ camp are claiming the Senedd to be nothing more than a glorified Council Chamber when the Labour party in Wales are behaving like this?
I find it ironic that the Assembly are set to take control of Anglesey Council because of Councillors childish behaviour up there, when Labour AMs in the Bay are no different.
Is there no end to these Labour games? They really do need to grow up.
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