Last week's garbage

There's so much garbage spouted by the Welsh blogs that it's almost impossible to know where to start. So let's stick some of the highlights from last week in one post. Try this:

Welsh Ramblings says there was "an official boycott by the Wales Labour Party" of the St David's Day Rally in Cardiff.

What he means is that nobody from the Welsh Labour Party could be bothered to turn up - hardly the same thing at all. That kind of distinction doesn't matter in the Welsh blogosphere - if a boycott doesn't exist one can simply be invented.

Bethan Jenkins spends a whole post having a go at Peter Hain (don't these people have jobs?) for suggesting that "introducing top up fees is contained in the One Wales Agreement."

She complains that "This is a blatant miss-representation of the agreement, one which is also unfortunately being peddled by WAG."

What she neglects to mention is that Ieuan Wyn Jones is one of the peddlers, especially as his told this week's Dragon's Eye that "the One Wales agreement acknowledged that the position would remain as it is for this financial year and then we'd need to consider that in light of circumstances".

It's no good raging at Peter Hain, Bethan - your own leader is pushing the argument that student finance was part of the coalition deal!

Finally, how about this beauty from the Chanticleer blog (and this guy's a journalist):

"sources tell me there is now a vacancy at Transport House after the previous incumbent was briefed against by the same people who had lobbied for his appointment."

Hold the page! Someone has told this bloke that someone else has lost their job and he's prepared to write it up, without any names or any more information.

God help us if this is the future of journalism in Wales.

That's all for now. But keep reading.