Question Of The Day: Why Doesn't Bridgend Labour Council Call For The Resignation Of The Local AM......Carwyn Jones?

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

For the purposes of this post I'm going to take things at face value today. When I've discussed the issue of the cuts Bridgend Labour Council will impose upon it's voters in the past I have made it plain that responsibility for the situation should be spread and that the council itself is not without blame. However for today let's focus on the headlines.

For they are grim.

The Labour council have said that in view of the cut in the monies it receives from the Welsh Labour government public spending cuts will be more deeper and more widespread than previously envisaged. For the first time there would be no lip service to "protecting the venerable" as social services will also be affected.

They will, in a groundhog day move I've blogged about twice before, be "consulting" with the voters about which services should be cut and how large the council tax should be. So as they've done the groundhog day move before I'll repeat my joke then. Their "consultation" will probably go along the following lines:

"How would you like to be tortured? By electricity or water?"

Whereas the option you would prefer "I'd rather not be tortured thankyou very much" won't be available.

But the key point is that the Welsh Labour council blames the Welsh Labour Government for the situation. Which leads us back to the question at the top of this post.

Why doesn't the council call for the resignation of the local AM Carwyn Jones?

Whilst Carwyn Jones is soon to resign as First Minister he will still be the local AM for the area until the next Assembly elections in 2021. And yet as First Minister what has he achieved for Bridgend? After all purely taken at face value if the council are blaming the government for the situation where the venerable in the Bridgend county are threatened with cuts then he as First Minister is presumably responsible for the situation.

That is where the council logic takes us.

So taking this logic further how can the people of Bridgend be represented by a man who has brought them to this?

And therefore shouldn't the Labour council be calling on Mr Jones to resign. He would have resigned anyway in 2021 so doesn't this prolong the agony?

So Bridgend Labour Council. If you're blaming the Welsh Labour government for your troubles surely the right thing to do would be to call for Carwyn Jones' resignation?

Until the next time.