The Worst Welsh Politician Of The Week

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

The worst Welsh politician of the week is not something I'd normally chat about as if I started to do this the winner would almost be either Secretary of State for Wales Alun "Chucky" Cairns, First Minister Mark "Jeremy's Disciple" Corbyn or the leader for UKIP in Wales Mr Creepy. So there would be no point doing it.

However this week is different. There would be three choices.

1) Labour minister in the Welsh government Lee Waters. We have spoken about Mr Waters before when he spoke on Twitter that their surprisingly socialist policy regarding free hospital car parking should be examined.

Here it's to do with his discovery revealed on Twitter that there is such a thing as a four holed punch and his childish wonderment of same. Leaving aside the question "How cut off from reality are you?" (I knew about this decades ago) it also showed a lack of sensitivity given that as a Llanelli Assembly Member the nearby Office Outlet store in Swansea is threatened with closure due to it's parent company being put under administration.

2) Carwyn Jones.....yes him. Lambasting Theresa May on Twitter over what's happening re Brexit. He's quite right of course. She's a subprime Minister in a subprime government. And yet what does that make him given as First Minister he surrendered Welsh powers to her for seven years?

However he doesn't win today. No the title of Worst Welsh Politician Of The Week goes to the equally titled Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.

I've chatted about him before. He's a politician whose trajectory has moved from Plaid Cymru to it's leader to being in the House Of Lords to becoming an Independent Assembly Member and Minister for Culture in the current Welsh administration.to advocating (and this is where I have chatted about him previously) that for tourist purposes Wales should promote itself as a principality!!!

And on the last point let's not forget this from the man who used to be leader of Plaid Cymru!!!

You don't think he couldn't move further away from his Plaid Cymru roots? Think again. Now it has been revealed that when the position of Chief executive of the National Welsh Library in Aberystwyth was advertised he tried to stop one of the conditions of the post being that he/she had to be a Welsh speaker saying that it needed to attract the broadest field possible. The Welsh library, to it's credit, ignored him (and let's pause here - librarians were revolting - throwing the book at him - it takes a certain type of politician to do that).

There were many arguments that were put against the minister's position. I think though the most important one is this. There are some organisations though bilingual should have it's head a Welsh speaker simply because of it's responsibility to safeguard the Welsh language. The Welsh National library with it's vast collection of Welsh literature is one of these organisations. How can you be Chief executive of the Welsh National Library when you don't have an appreciation of a large proportion of what is stored there because you don't understand Welsh?

The fact that Elis-Thomas, a Welsh speaker, did not seem to care about this seems just to illustrate how far from Plaid Cymru he's moved from. Perhaps Plaid should organise a competition to see what his next step moving away from his roots will be. My entry will probably be him changing his name to David Ellis....sorry Lord David Ellis.

Until the next time.