Labour seem to believe that their continuing campaign to halt the Council's plan to move the West Cross children's home to Blaenymaes will damage the administration. However, as with all obsessions they cannot see the damage it is doing to them.They are already in trouble for Blaenymaes for slagging the area off, now they are embroiled in a saga of misrepresentation as they try to drive home their imagined advantage. Their problems however are many.
In the first place anybody with their ear to the ground knows that this issue is not about the children or their home at all. All of this fuss is an attempt to sink the new Welsh School in West Cross by forcing the Council to leave the children's home in situ. Essentially, Labour are exploiting children for their own political ends. Perhaps the Children's Commissioner should investigate that. No doubt the Welsh Language lobby have already taken note.
Secondly, Labour know full well that the children themselves have been consulted because they were told in Council by the cabinet member. The outcome of that consultation was favourable to the move. The Children's Commissioner also knows this because the Council have told him at least twice. In fact we understand that what is in his letter bears no resemblance to what is reported in the Evening Post.
Somebody is misleading people and it is not the Administration. As with all of Labour's little storms in a teacup nothing is as it seems and it is the brothers and sisters who are in the frame.
