Friday, 2 February 2018

Corbyn seems to back Carwyn's absence from byelection.

Just how long can Welsh First Minister carry on ? I am not a betting man but I would recommend checking the odds that he will resign before Prime Minister Theressa May.

It could be that he is only waiting for next weeks  Alyn and Deeside result to be announced before he steps down.


Yesterday UK Labour leader  Jeremy Corbyn was forced to come upp with the banal  clain that Carwyn Jones is "getting on with his job as first minister"  when he was asked about the Welsh Labour leader's absence from the campaign trail in Alyn and Deeside.

Mr Corbyn visited the seat to support Labour's by-election candidate, Jack Sargeant, who is running to succeed his late father Carl as the local AM.
Carl Sargeant was found dead after apparently taking is own life.

It was four days after Mr Jones sacked him from his cabinet last November.
He had denied allegations of improper conduct towards women.

Asked if he thought Mr Jones should come to the seat before polling day, as other Labour AMs including Welsh Government ministers had done, Mr Corbyn told BBC Wales:

 "Carwyn is getting on with his job as first minister.
"I've a good relationship with the Welsh Government and the Welsh cabinet and I'm here today supporting Jack. I'm delighted to be here."
Mr Corbyn said he was

 "very supportive of what the Welsh Government has achieved in housing and health and in education, and we are taking that message to the doorstep.

Really he attacks the SNP governments record in Scotland when it is clear it is far better than his own parties running  of said housing health and in education.

I advise Mr Corbyn not to go to Scotland again with  his attack on Nicola Sturgeon when he is supporting  a worst preforming government here.



 Nearly everybody expects  that Jack Sargeant will win on Tuesday, but whatever the result it will not be good news for our First Minister.


Mr Sargeant did not take part in a BBC Wales TV hustings with other candidates on Tuesday and I think that we are entitled to wonder if he did not want to be pressed on what is relationship with Carwyn Jones will be if he  joins the Labour group in Vardiff Bay.
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Mr Corbyn - who criticised Theresa May for not participating in leaders' debates last year - said Mr Sargeant was

 "out door-knocking and he was out talking to people".

Since the programme was live  can any one  in Alyn and Deeside let me know if they were canvassed by Mr Sargeant late on Tuesday night .

Even the most fervent supporter would not like having canvassers knocking on their door at 10:30 PM.




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