Alun Davies AM took to the press this week to respond to rumours about internet allegations over an S4C contract. Alun, like people from all parties, has been making loud noises about the need for reform at S4C.
Alun was “appalled at the material, which has been circulating in political and media circles since the weekend.
The material wrongly suggests Mr Davies’ company Bute Communications was awarded a contract by S4C in contravention of EU competition law, as part of a deal under which he relinquished his role as the broadcaster’s director of corporate affairs in 2004″
Displeased, Alun went on to clarify his reason for leaving the broadcaster
“The fact is that I decided to leave S4C because I wanted to be a candidate in the 2005 General Election [he stood unsuccessfully in Ceredigion]”
The Liberal Democrats of course are well aware of the result in Ceredigion. There really were only two parties in with a chance in that election, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats. The voters plumped for the latter and Mark Williams MP. The Labour party came fourth. The same position they came in the 2000 byelection and the 2001 general election.
Alun Davies is rightly regarded as a smart operator. If the sole reason for leaving his well-paid job was to stand in a no hope seat as he claims, where he went on to lose his deposit, then that was an uncharacteristic miscalculation.
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