'The small things'
Patience please.
On January 31st a new song, to celebrate St David’s Day will be launched at the National Assembly.
The children of Ysgol Pen-y-Garth in Penarth will cross the Bay by boat to perform the song - “Cenwch y Clychau i Dewi – Ring Out the Bells for St David”.
They're a very wise bunch getting in so early. Leaving it until the day itself would probably mean competing with the annual March 1st Conservative Chorus calling for a national holiday on St David's Day.
But there's more:
"After their performance the children will be the first to vote in “Welsh Idol” the National Assembly’s quest to find the Nation’s favourite Welsh person. During February, visitors to the Senedd will be asked to name their favourite Welsh person. People from other parts of Wales will be able to send their suggestions to the Assembly on a postcard. A shortlist will then be announced in time for voting for Wales’s favourite to begin on St David’s Day."
Someone warn the Electoral Commission now.
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I'll vote for you if you vote for me ;)
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Miss W
I think you've just broken the rules already. The new Electoral Commissioner for Wales is here to meet and greet this evening - I'm telling!
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I went along last night to say farewell to the outgoing Electoral Commissioner for Wales, Glyn Mathias and to meet the new man on the block, Ian Kelsall. A fair number of Conservative, Lib Dem and Plaid Cymru AMs turned up too but I spotted just the one Labour AM, Alun Davies. Will the new man be wondering whether his baptism of fire - being at that Commission meeting in Edinburgh that decided to hand over Peter Hain's case to the police - had some effect on the turnout?
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Speaking of Scotland. Maybe Miss Wagstaff can try to use Wendy Alexander's line, "It might have been impermissible, but it wasn't illegal."
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