Plaid out to undermine One Wales?

Take at look at this. Ok, Guido won't exactly be quaking in his boots.

What's more interesting is the source. It is now widely known that Welsh Ramblings is run by Plaid staffers in Cardiff Bay, and possibly also by Plaid workers at Party HQ.

This leaves one question: Is Plaid Cymru actively working to undermine its alliance with Labour by seeking to destablise the Welsh Secretary?

Today's rancid offerings

Another day, another selection of instantly forgettable drivel:

1) Valleys Mam asks whether standing for a "no frills" party would get her elected to Parliament.

No love, it wouldn't.

2) David Jones, MP went on a train. He didn't like it.

Gee. Thanks for sharing.

3) But scraping the barrel as usual is Welsh Drivelings, who has a go at deaf people. Their needs, apparently, should be ignored and priority given to Welsh speakers instead.

Thoroughly charming people these Plaidies.

And people accuse ME of bad spelling

Unlike Welsh Drivelings, at least I know the difference between "insight" and "incite".

Welsh Ramblings' Daily Durge

"Welsh Ramblings: This is not a blog, it's a Ramble" used to run the strapline of this particularly crap example of Welsh political blogging.

No mate, it's a cut-and-paste job.

Take today's offering. On second thoughts, don't bother. It's just just two snippets stolen from the right-wing Brit Nat press this moron claims to oppose.

But of course since the particular right-wing Brit Nat press in question is having a go at Labour it's all fair game.

Strangely, despite recently pledging to "Challenge the leadership of our country" the site's author (who until recently liked to style himself after a dictator) had nothing to say about Plaid's recent chaos over tuition fees. Actually, that's not quite true - he called for Jane Hutt to resign for having been written a letter, and lied about Peter Hain attacking Jane Davidson. No pathetic and obvious attempt at diverting attention there, then. Oh no.

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.