Stopping the Devonwall Constituency .

In order to Gerrymander in favour or the Tories  reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons, constituencies ( the areas within people vote for a representative) across the country have been reviewed.

The Boundary Commission has undertaken a boundary review to create parliamentary constituencies which are more similar in size.

In the proposed changes to the South West, a new 'Devonwall' constituency will be created, crossing the border between Devon and Cornwall.

The concept of Devonwall 

This was a political concept introduced in the United Kingdom in the 1970s by the Conservative government. It was an attempt to link Cornwall and Devon together in an economic, political and statistical sense to form a South West region. This involved combining and centralising some local government functions and services such as the police, ambulance, fire services and media output such as local TV and newspapers.

The Liberal Democrats supported this process until the late 1990s. The process was opposed by the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow and did not receive widespread support from the Cornish public^] After the 1997 general election the Liberal Democrat partly withdrew their support as they said that they agreed that the 'Devonwall' process undermined Cornwall's claims to European Objective One funding. Cornish demands for Objective One grant aid in the early 1990s for regeneration were often dismissed by Government officials as unrealistic and unobtainable.^] but this ignored the fact that of the 56 most deprived areas in Devon and Cornwall, 51 were in Cornwall. Cornwall also had less than 75% of the average European GDP but these statistics were hidden when statistically Cornwall and Devon (with a higher GDP) were linked together. There were also claims that 'Devonwall' was an attempt by politicians to hi-jack the cornish  identity.

In 1998 Cornwall was recognised by the UK Government as having "distinct cultural and historical factors reflecting a Celtic background",^[1] thus allowing it to be separated in a regional and economic sense from Devon. This fact underlines the importance of Celticity to Cornwall in recent years. In July 2000 Mebyon Kernow issued the "Declaration for a Cornish Assembly".

"Cornwall is a distinct region. It has a clearly defined economic, administrative and social profile. Cornwall's unique identity reflects its Celtic character, culture and environment. We declare that the people of Cornwall will be best served in their future governance by a Cornish regional assembly. We therefore commit ourselves to setting up the Cornish Constitutional Convention with the intention of achieving a devolved Cornish Assembly--Senedh Kernow."

Current Constituency boarders

Opposition to this from Cornwall has been large and there has been a two day
Boundary Commission hearing at Truro and you can see Mebyon Kernow leader reports on it  here .

This is not just  a case for Wales to support Cornwall's separate Identity. it is also a warning for the future.

By voting for Brexit with England, Wales surrendered  much of negotiating powers and there has been speculation of a political concept of Wangland,in a scenario where Scotland has left the Union.

If this was to be given further Kudos, then there could be an argument that whilst recognising  some cultural differences , there is no reason why some parts of Wales could not be merged into English-Welsh constituencies,

People on both sides of the border were angry that reforms going through parliament could lead to at least one "Devonwall" constituency, straddling Cornwall and Devon were first put forward .

At the time  interview with ITV's the West Country Tonight at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham in 2010. 

David Cameron said

"It's the Tamar, not the Amazon, for heaven's sake," 

 Stopping a Devonwall constituency is something we should totally back in its own right.

But who knows if such an argument could be made that the Welsh boarder is just lines on a map that has no part in how Westminster Constituency  boundaries  are draw,

Would Farage and Hard Brexiters sell "British Sovereignty " to Trump?

It was once a common jibe against any of of us who exposed any form of Left or even Liberal belief that.

"If you love socialism so much go and live in Russia".

Maybe we should reverse this and tell Brexiters 

"If you love Trump so much , go and live in the US"

Already there has been a campaign for controversial columnist Katie Hopkins to keep a promise that 

 

Dorina‏@Dorina335

The only joyful note from last night...@KTHopkins has pledged to move to USA if Trump won #USElection Need a hand to help you pack Katie?

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3:37 AM - 9 Nov 2016

Maybe she will be joined by UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described US President Barack Obama as a "loathsome individual" and a "creature" who "couldn't stand our country".

He told Talk Radio he "couldn't be happier" about Donald Trump's US election victory and that he would work to further trade relations.

Mr Farage said he would advise him: "Come and schmooze Theresa [May], but don't touch her, for goodness' sake."

Mr Trump and Mr Farage campaigned alongside one another in August.

He described the result as "Brexit times two", adding of his own role in events: "I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites and all these dreadful people who, working hand-in-glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich and ruined our countries."

He claimed Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated in January, "hates the EU even more than I do" and predicted an improvement in US-UK relations, saying: "That Obama creature, loathsome individual, couldn't stand our country. He said we'd be at the back of the queue [for trade deals], didn't he?

"What was interesting was that Trump said we'd be at the front of the queue."

Mr Farage said it was unlikely the US president-elect would take him on as an adviser, as he was not an American citizen, but told Talk Radio: 

"I will be encouraging him to make the United Kingdom his number one global priority."

Noticeably he has not ruled out working for a foreign power, which seems odd for someone who claimed the day after the LEAVE referendum 

"I got my country back".

I wonder what sought of Trade deal Farage would accept and whether it would accept the sought of deal that allows US companies into a privatised NHS

While the party remained, in general, on the fence regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), William Legge, the 10^th Earl of Dartmouth – commonly referred to as William Dartmouth – confirmed in an email exchange that should a transparent agreement come to pass, the party "wishes to see public services such as the NHS and education included in TTIP".

I have always suspected that much of Ukip opposition to the EU was not so much "British Patriotism"  as a hatred of the EU's stance on human and  workers rights.

They would happily become a client state of Trumps America removing any rights for workers , claiming it hampered Free Trade .

We would not even have the same rights as even the small state of Rhode Island  but would  surrender any sovereignty to the US in order to prove that Brexit means we have a friendly trading partner  outside the EU.

Prehaps Mr Farage  and his fellow Brexiters new slogan ,

Should be 

"We got our country back, now let's hand into the US , lock, stock and barrel".

Would Farage and Hard Brexiters sell "British Sovereignty " to Trump

It was once a common jibe against any of of us who exposed any form of Left or even Liberal belief that.

"If you love socialism so much go and live in Russia".

Maybe we should reverse this and tell Brexiters 

"If you love Trump so much , go and live in the US"

Already there has been a campaign for controversial columnist Katie Hopkins to keep a promise that 

 

Dorina‏@Dorina335

The only joyful note from last night...@KTHopkins has pledged to move to USA if Trump won #USElection Need a hand to help you pack Katie?

• LIKES7
• 

3:37 AM - 9 Nov 2016

Maybe she will be joined by UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described US President Barack Obama as a "loathsome individual" and a "creature" who "couldn't stand our country".

He told Talk Radio he "couldn't be happier" about Donald Trump's US election victory and that he would work to further trade relations.

Mr Farage said he would advise him: "Come and schmooze Theresa [May], but don't touch her, for goodness' sake."

Mr Trump and Mr Farage campaigned alongside one another in August.

He described the result as "Brexit times two", adding of his own role in events: "I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites and all these dreadful people who, working hand-in-glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich and ruined our countries."

He claimed Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated in January, "hates the EU even more than I do" and predicted an improvement in US-UK relations, saying: "That Obama creature, loathsome individual, couldn't stand our country. He said we'd be at the back of the queue [for trade deals], didn't he?

"What was interesting was that Trump said we'd be at the front of the queue."

Mr Farage said it was unlikely the US president-elect would take him on as an adviser, as he was not an American citizen, but told Talk Radio: 

"I will be encouraging him to make the United Kingdom his number one global priority."

Noticeably he has not ruled out working for a foreign power, which seems odd for someone who claimed the day after the LEAVE referendum 

"I got my country back".

I wonder what sought of Trade deal Farage would accept and whether it would accept the sought of deal that allows US companies into a privatised NHS

While the party remained, in general, on the fence regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), William Legge, the 10^th Earl of Dartmouth – commonly referred to as William Dartmouth – confirmed in an email exchange that should a transparent agreement come to pass, the party "wishes to see public services such as the NHS and education included in TTIP".

I have always suspected that much of Ukip opposition to the EU was not so much "British Patriotism"  as a hatred of the EU's stance on human and  workers rights.

They would happily become a client state of Trumps America removing any rights for workers , claiming it hampered Free Trade .

We would not even have the same rights as even the small state of Rhode Island  but would  surrender any sovereignty to the US in order to prove that Brexit means we have a friendly trading partner  outside the EU.

Prehaps Mr Farage  and his fellow Brexiters new slogan ,

Should be 

"We got our country back, now let's hand into the US , lock, stock and barrel".

"Stalinist" purge on Bridgend Council.

The Wasting Mule Online reports that 

....Six stalwart Bridgend Labour councillors have been barred from seeking re-election for the party.
Ross Thomas, who represents Maesteg West, Keith Edwards, Maesteg East, Edith Hughes and Gareth Phillips, both of Oldcastle in Bridgend, Cefn Glas' Cleone Westwood and Bettws' Martyn Jones have all been deselected.
The decision was made by the Ogmore constituency Labour Party (OCLP) following internal interviews in front of a panel to assess the suitability of candidates for next May's local elections.
All Labour candidates have to go through the same procedure.
It is understood the Labour panel comprised former Welsh Government Chief Whip and former Ogmore AM Janice Gregory, former Bridgend MP Win Griffiths and trade unionist Jim Hancock.
All of the councillors except Coun Westwood were told the reason for their ineligibility was because they defied the party whip and refused to back Bridgend council's failed merger bid with the Vale of Glamorgan in 2014.

They had felt the merger was a poor fit, was contrary to the Welsh Government's stated aims through the Williams Commission report and would also have jeopardised European funding for the poorer areas of Bridgend county borough.

Forty of the 48 councillors at that meeting voted to submit a formal expression of a merger with the Vale to the Welsh Government.

Ironically the then  Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews rejected the plan last month stating he was “disappointed” the bid did not meet the criteria for moving ahead.

Four of the five had voted against the plan - which was later rejected by the Welsh Government - while Martyn Jones had abstained.

The Williams Commission on the future of local government had  recommended that Bridgend should merge with neighbouring authority Neath Port Talbot, which shares the same health board.

Following the Bridgend council vote, members of Maesteg Town Council put their opposition to the merger plan on record.


Members also voted unanimously to complain to the Welsh Government about what it claimed was the council’s failure to consult properly with town and community councils across the area.


At the time, Maesteg Mayor Philip Jenkins said: 

“The council is totally opposed to this option, which it sees as a detrimental move for the residents of the Llynfi Valley. The council has advised the Welsh Government that Bridgend County Borough Council has abused its procedure/guidelines by not engaging with key stakeholders prior to making its decision.”

One of the deselected councillors Keith Edwards who represents Maesteg East said

"Obviously it's still a little bit hard to take in," said Keith, whose grandparents were founder members of the Labour Party in the Llynfi Valley.
it seems that the party machine is all about 'you will do as you are told' and the work you have done in the valley holds little or no regard.
"I am disappointed in the extreme.
"It (the proposed merger) was against the Welsh Government policy, it was against the recommendations of the Williams' report and it could have removed convergence funding from the fifth most deprived ward in Wales, Caerau.
"And hand on heart, I was born in this valley and will probably die in this valley and could not turn my back on these people.'If I was placed in that situation again then I would have no second thoughts as to making the same decision.
"We are in one of the most deprived areas of Wales and if we can't fight for the people in the community then we don't deserve to be elected by them."

So these councillors have been deselected for voting against a policy that never took place and was rejected by the very Assembly Minister who was encouraging such mergers.


Though such is the love of Bridgends Labour party for its neighbouring Council that Chris Elmorewho was a councillor for Castleland ward in the Vale of Glamorgan council. was selected for the Ogmore Byelection in May

The constituency includes Maesteg where two of the (I hesitate to use the term) rebel councillors come from.

Did this have any influence on the selection of Mr Elmore , maybe he didn't get support for his nomination from Maesteg.

How very Stalinists the behaviour of the Labour Party in Bridgend , Parties obviously have the right to disciline members who vote against party policy.

But these councillors has already been disciplined , and the reason for it had been buried.

Would anybody want to be a Labour Councillor when it appears that you must go against the interest of those you represent , and vote against the harebrained  scheme of the local party hierarchy .

Don't be smug,. Europe has its own Trumps.

As we wake to the prospect a Donald Trump victory , lets not be too smug in Europe and point to the US and shake our head saying what a load of right wing nutters,

We have Ukip in the UK . Nigel Farage  shared a platform with Trump  during his election campaign,

I am not saying that all of those who voted for Brexit exhibit the right wing philosophy of Trump and it supporters . But those who do were empowered by it and there is a direct link to racist attacks as a result of Brexit , and as we we have seen with the e Daily Mail declaring the three pro-democratic judges to be "Enemies of the People" on their front page is a clear attack on the independence of the judiciary, and their homophobic attack on one of the judges was as An Another Angry Voice points out  a clear reminder that they are a bigoted extreme-right propaganda organisation with a long history of promoting fascism, racism and homophobia.

I may be wrong but I suspect we will be seeing most of the UK  expressing shock and dismay at the prospect  of a Trump Presidency . even though he has expressed much the same lies and racist  rhetoric as their own coverage over Brexit.

I suspect some of those on social media who supported Brexit  will be posting they think the Citizens of America have gone crazy over voting for Trump.
In France the National Front received 4,712,461 votes in the 2014 European Parliament election, finishing first with 24.86% of the vote and 24 of France's 74 seats.^[It was the first time the anti-immigrant, anti-EU party had won a nationwide election in its four-decade history." The party's success came as a shock in France and the EU.^[] The next year, the National Front went on to win another victory in the first round of the 2015 regional elections on December 6, placing first in 6 of the 13 newly redrawn regions and emerging ahead of both major establishment parties overall.^[ In Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, Marine Le Pen won 40.6% of the vote.

Le Pen will be the FN candidate in 2017 for the French Presidential Election where she is likely o make the run off and even top the poll on the first round.

In Germany  With the migrant debate remaining the dominant national issue, on 13 March 2016 elections held in the three states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinateand Saxony-Anhalt saw the AfD receiving double-digit percentages of the vote in all three states.^[In the 2016 Saxony-Anhalt state election, the AfD reached second place in the Landtag, receiving 24.2% of the vote. In the Baden-Württemberg state election, the AfD achieved third place with 15.1% of the vote. In the 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, the AfD again reached third place with 12.6% of the vote. In Angela Merkel's home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern her CDU was beaten into third place following a strong showing of the AfD who contested at state level for the first time, to claim the second-highest polling with 20.8% of the vote in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2016. However AfD voter support in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania appears to have come from both left and right wing parties with support for the SPD down 4.9%, CDU down 4.1%, The Left down 5.2%, Alliance '90/The Greens down 3.9% and support for the National Democratic Party of Germany halved, dropping 3.0%. Rising support for the AfD meant that The Greens and the National Democratic Party of Germanyfailed to reach the 5% threshold to qualify for seats in the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern so consequently lost their seats. In the Berlin state election, 2016which the AfD also contested for the first time they achieved a vote of 14.2% making them the fifth largest party represented in the state assembly. Their vote seems to have come equally from the SPD and CDU whose votes declined 6.7% and 5.7% respectively.^[

Before we start looking at the US lets look at our own right wing politicians  and their media allies .

Farage, Le Pen and Frauke Petry (APD) and other European far right leaders who are using racism and islamophobia to gain power are no better or worse than Trump.

He may well be getting his hands on power but how long before a European democracy follows,

Welsh Americans may actually make the difference today.

The Wasting Mule surveyed some Welsh Welsh Americans to find out who they will back in Today's Historic US Elections and found that they might not be  following traditional norms and voting  Democrat,

Because since the days of Lincoln

Welsh voters for the most part went over to the new Republican Party and voted overwhelmingly for its 1860 presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. Several items in the Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress illustrate the very personal way the Welsh of New York State supported Lincoln, before and after his election.
In 1860 David C. Davies, a book and job printer at 131 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y., sent the letter below to then Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. That year Davies had published 50,000 copies of a Welsh-language biography and speech of Lincoln for distribution among Welsh-Americans.
Hon. Abraham Lincoln--
Dear Sir,--
I hope you will please to pardon me for intruding on your patience thus knowing well that I am one among thousands, nay, millions that pays homage to our next President. Enclosed you will find a copy of his Life and Speach (the one delivered at N.Y.)--in the Welsh Language. My motive in writing to you is to trouble you for the name of the Chairman of the State Rep. Com. I understand there are many Welsh people in the State of Illinois. The Welsh as a people must understand the issues of the Campaign before they can freely and conscientiously vote. I have issued 50,000 copies, and hope they will be of great service to the good cause. Hoping you will excuse my boldness,
I ___,
Yours obediently,
D. C. Davies

Utica, Aug. 14/60

They remained with the Republican Party from then on

From RECONSTRUCTING WELSH IDENTITY IN THE AMERICAN COALFIELDS

Ronald L. Lewis

West Virginia University

the most striking feature of the nineteenth-century migration was its concentration in industrial locations. Certainly this was true for coal mining.3
Welsh miners came first to the anthracite fields of eastern Pennsylvania, but they were soon North American Journal of Welsh Studies Vol. 6, 1 (Winter 2011)
33 followed by others bound for the bituminous fields of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and beyond the Mississippi River as the mining frontier advanced westward during the nineteenth century. Relatively few ventured south of the Ohio River. Known for their opposition to slavery, their support for the Republican Party, and loyalty to craft unionism, Welsh immigrants found little to attract them in states with oppressive labor systems. The limitless coal region of Central
Appalachia was developed after Welsh immigration began to decline. Therefore, the vast majority of Welsh miners settled in the northern fields, the largest number in Pennsylvania, and secondly in Ohio.Welsh industrial immigrants, like the British generally, were the expert workers of the industrial revolution who transferred their knowledge and skills to the infant coal industry of nineteenth-century America. They moved from field to field, coal town to coal town, and mine tomine, making decisions about when and where to go based on knowledge passed along through
the network of personal and professional relationships that bound Welsh occupational
communities together.Transitional institutions, such as clubs, societies and fraternal orders, newspapers, and churches, not only helped to fill the void immigrants felt when torn from their own culture and transplanted in America, but they also gave form and meaning to ethnic communities. In these
enclaves members of the group found necessary services, sympathetic people who understood their language and culture, and acquired vital information about work opportunities, which further bound them together as an expatriated community. As the Welsh adapted their
institutions to American life, they continued to maintain communications with kith and kin back in Wales and with other émigrés in America. To do so they developed complex formal and informal networks linking fellow travelers within the diaspora and back to the homeland.
Various modes of communication, both institutional and individual, formal and informal,
linked the Welsh. Labor leaders in Wales often cooperated with their American counterparts by assisting in the formation of emigration societies to assist miners who wanted to emigrate, and maintained contact and occasionally visited the emigrants in the United States. Moreover, minin gnews on both sides of the Atlantic was reprinted in labor journals, providing an important two way flow of information regarding the state of the coal trade, employment, and mining legislation
in Britain and America.

It must be noted that the Welsh  stayed with the Republican party and shunned the Democrats, partly because the latter was the Party of the Democrats who were ousting them from Labour Organisations.

With the state of Pennsylvania being a vital swing state the traditional loyalties of those Americans with Welsh Ancestry might  actually make the difference this time,.

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Glyn Davies makes a pathetic defence of accusing academics " of not being experts".

Conservative  Montgomeryshire  MP  has finally tried to explain his controversial tweet which triggered a huge backlash after he accused academics of not being experts.

Glyn Davies, MP for Montgomeryshire since 2010, said the nation’s teachers and researchers had “no experience of the real world” in a post on Twitter.

Personally, never thought of academics as ‘experts’. No experience of the real world.

— Glyn Davies (@glyndaviesmp) October 29, 2016 

His comments earned a swift rebuttal from Lord Philip Norton, a peer from his own party who has been Professor of Government at Hull University since 1986.

Lord Norton didn’t hold back when he retaliated:

@glyndaviesmp They probably know, though, a non sequitur when they see one!

— Lord Norton of Louth (@LordNortonLouth) October 29, 2016

Mt Davies starts with a reasonable explanation that he has not been well recentltly

Not been at all well over last few days. My aim of writing a blog a day evaporated as I sunk into what can only be described as a deep sleep.

Though in a previous Blog  he had announced he was cutting back on his social media postings any way

 On top of this Parliament based work, I want to become more involved in constituency issues, even if most are devolved and not matters for me. It's a question of making my job satisfying and enjoyable. All this work means a significant cutback in social networking. I enjoy Facebook. Most of my 'friends' are Mid Wales based. But there are several thousand of them - way too many. Over the next month, I will go through the list (alphabetically) removing those who shouldn't be there, and probably don't want to be there. If I defriend anyone who actually wants to remain, let me know. I'll apologise and add again. Will probably drop Twitter altogether. Have thousands 'following' me - for no obvious purpose. Going to limit my social networking to an hour per night, which should allow for stimulating a Facebook discussion and a photograph - plus a daily blogpost which I find helps me arrange my thoughts in order. Starting today. So apologies to Adam Ant for de-friending him! 

On his " Twitter Storm "  he makes a rather pathetic attempt to defend himself.

He writes

So been unable to comment on what I thought a most bizarre Twitter rumpus, following a rather clumsy 'throwaway' tweet of mine around a week ago. The 'Academic Community' didn't take kindly to me writing that I personally don't consider academics to be  'experts'. That is of course not what I actually think. No doubt I'd have altered it if the sheer number of people who considered themselves 'insulted' hadn't taken off into the thousands, by the time I'd finished my supper. Now if I'd said that, "personally, I don't think academics to necessarily be the greatest experts.... " they would prob be still 'insulted'. Blimey, when I think of some of things I'm called on social networks.  For good measure I suggested a bit of experience in the real world would help. Whatever, this post is not about justifying the clumsy wording of my tweet, ( which I don't want to justify) but the response to it which I found truly astonishing. 

He then goes down the  "I am a Victim" route

 The numbers who took offence was massive, thousands of them who do work in schools, hospitals, and reseach companies. All these people have great experience of the real world. Anyway that's not the issue. It was the response to a tweet they disagreed with. Lots simply called me a C**t. The liberal use of the F word and worse was enough to make this hill farming rugby player blush. And the leader of one of our national political parties compared me with Hitler (who murdered 6million innocent Jews.) Interesting that I had a few media calls, (which I didn't think justified a response from my sickbed) who wanting to run a story on my tweet. I had no interest whatsoever in what I thought deeply offensive tweets of others. If fact I was asked if I wanted to make an issue of the Hitler tweet. But No. We have heard far too much about the Nazi dictator over recent months. As far as I know the only coverage I actually saw was by BBC Wales's David Cornock. Could have been more but then I wasn't looking for it. It was all so bizarre, I simply refused to comment. 

Mr Davies seems to have the time to look at thousands of Twitter responses , but does not seem to acknowledge that the majority seem to be simply mocking him in 

As the Hufington Post records

Academics also took to social media to hit back at the accusation, with lecturers from the universities of Portsmouth, Northumbria and Derby among them.

“None of your fancy book learnin’.”F

— Christopher Pittard (@CAPittard) October 29, 2016

Dear @glyndaviesmp, dear @Conservatives,
Gotcha! 
Yours sincerely,
An academic from the unreal world
PS: I’m also a citizen of the world 

— Dr Tanja Bueltmann (@cliodiaspora) October 29, 2016

This tweet is everything wrong with our political culture & Universities should fight rather than submit to its rhetoric. 

— Cath Feely (@cathfeely) October 29, 2016

He finishes with an attempt to  justify the Tweet which as made him an object of ridicule.

 I'd been been listening to this Welsh political academic, from Cardiff, who is wheeled out almost as often as Derek Brockway on Welsh TV totally rubbishing the Wales Bill. Getting away with murder I thought No-one asking him if he'd actually vote for this awful Bill. Looked to me like he wanted to lambast the Bill, while hoping others would vote to approve it. The Assembly Members won't have that luxury. They are going to have to decide. 

He doesn't name anybody but it must be Cardiff University Professor Richard Wyn Jones who recently criticised the 'patronising attitude' he argues underpins parts of the new Wales Bill.

I'm sorry Glyn is not well I hope he gets better soon . But i would have more respect for him if he simply admitted the stupidity  of his Tweet, rather than portray himself as a victim.