Watching the Defectives

Oh dear. This plotting business appears to be a little too complicated for the Plaid-Labour-Con Coalition leaders to get right with any consistency. After getting the tip-off about their failure to get rid of Nick Tregoning and Paul Tucker at Area 2 Planning yesterday, I rang one of my moles with a few questions about what they had been trying to do. It seems that Labour's David Phillips was going to propose his fellow PLC Coalition leader, and new best mate, Tory 'Dear Leader' Rene Kinzett. (They get on well together outside the chamber too; another source saw them nip out for a high-level pow-wow in a nearby office.)

Darren 'Baby Face' Price wasn't there, but then I guess that given Plaid's new role as Labour's Little Helpers in the Assembly, they didn't really need him to be. I'd always thought Plaid had a bigger role to play than as a glove-puppet for Swansea New Labour - and now for their new Tory partners. Seems I was wrong.

What really sums the new coalition up, however, was that in the attempt to unseat Tregoning and Tucker, two non-voting PLC members who were there actually stuck their hands up and voted. Luckily, eagle-eyed officers spotted the 'mistake'. No doubt the PLC spinners across at the former New Labour spin-site will have some excuse for this. Cue injured huffing and puffing from Inside Leg!