Is there going to be a "Stop Drakeford" campaign?

It is reported that Mark Drakeford will announce his intention to stand for the job of Welsh Labour leader today , three days after Carwyn Jones said he would quit.

The Welsh Government finance secretary is widely considered to be a front-runner in the contest.

 Drakeford, who is the first to declare his intention to run for the leadership, has already secured backing from senior Labour AM Jane Hutt, as well as Mike Hedges and Mick Antoniw.
Julie Morgan, Julie James, John Griffiths, Rhianon Passmore and Jenny Rathbone are also supportive.
Any candidate will need at least five nominations from AMs, other than themselves.

Meanwhile a former Welsh secretary has said.The next Welsh Labour leader must “shake-up” the party after almost two decades in power,

Carwyn Jones is to step down as the party’s leader and first minister in the autumn.

Lord Peter Hain said the party must now elect a “radical” new leader to shake-up the administration.


The former-Neath MP said:

“The biggest challenge facing the party is that they’ve been in power in government the entire life of the assembly.
“That’s a remarkable achievement, but the longer you’re in power in the current age, the more difficult it is to stay in power.”
“Welsh Labour must elect a radical leader in the tradition of Nye Bevan,” he added.
“The assembly administration needs a big shake-up and we need a leader who is going to do that: to really drive the welsh civil service to be more innovative and more optimistic.”

 I winder if this is  beginning of Stop Drakeford" campaign?

 Prof Drakeford, who has been a professor at Cardiff University, is on the left of the party and has been the Labour assembly group's most high profile supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.

But he is not particularly inspiring
 
Labour has led the Welsh Government, either on its own or in coalition, since the assembly was formed in 1999 and they have not exactly set Wales alight .

It comes as one political expert said some Labour members may be asking if they wanted “yet another middle aged white man from south Wales” in the top job.

Prof Drakeford, who has been a professor at Cardiff University, is on the left of the party and has been the Labour assembly group's most high profile supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.

Prof Scully said if any of the above throw their name in the hat, it opens up the possibility for the first woman, BME politician, or north Wales AM to hold the top job.
 
He told BBC Wales:

 “One question that many people in the Labour party in Wales will be asking themselves is does the next leader have to be yet another middle aged white man from south Wales?”

I don't think Prof Scully is promoting a2Stop Drakeford" campaign but is words may be used by those not wanting a Corbyn supporter  as leader may well use this to promote a candidate from the right 

Eluned Morgan, Vaughan Gething  or Ken Skates,  could be touted as the first woman, BME politician, or north Wales AM to lead the party.

Whilst this would a refreshing change I recall how the Blarites  used the attempt to get more Women  elected  to Westminster as a means of weaning out Left Wing candidates  (ironically including women) and replacing them with the so called"Blair Babes",

I am not writing this post as an old reactionary. I support positive discrimination and would like to see more  Women and  BME politicians elected.

The problem is that it could be used by the right who have opposed such positive discrimination in the past  against the left and results in a repeat of the Blair government which saw a  vast increase in Women MPs , who did little to improve the lot  of ordinary women.