Has Mr Morgan asked Ms Morgan to be nice to litte Wyn

This riveting conversation happened just before Prime Ministers Questions
from hansard

Julie Morgan (Cardiff, North) (Lab): What recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Assembly Government Ministers on helping small businesses in Cardiff, North constituency. (i.e. has he talked to our porkbusting friend the little jones)

The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Paul Murphy): I have regular discussions with Welsh Assembly Government Ministers on a range of topics. ( i.e. no) Numerous initiatives are in place in Wales to support small businesses, including in my hon. Friend’s constituency.

Julie Morgan: I thank my right hon. Friend for that response. (i.e. gotcha gotcha gotcha) Is he aware that Whitchurch in my constituency is one of the two places chosen by BT to pilot its super-fast broadband system? Does he agree that that will be a huge boost to local small businesses, giving increased access in a more effective way?

Mr. Murphy: Yes, I do, and I welcome that news from my hon. Friend. It is one of only two pilots in the whole of the United Kingdom. etc.............................

The Steamer is a big fan of Ms Morgan but she seems to be implying that WAG had something to do with BT decision to trial the broadband service in Cardiff. BT give a slightly different reason. -two sites were chosen because of their mix of customers and net providers in these areas as well as the make-up of the local communications network and geography.

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Just been posted this - also from 22nd

Don Touhig (Islwyn, Labour) Iceland is the 10th most prosperous economy in the world and Wales should follow its example—that was the advice given by nationalist Assembly Member Helen Mary Jones earlier this year. Unfortunately, the nationalists who run my council listened to her and put £15 million into Icelandic banks. Now unsure whether they are going to get the money back, they are having to raid balances for £11 million to deliver Labour's promise on equal pay. What advice has my right hon. Friend got for my constituents in those circumstances?

Paul Murphy (Secretary of State, Wales Office; Torfaen, Labour) My advice is that they should vote Labour.

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The steamer would like to commend to listeners the joint Welsh Office / WAG strategy on the crisis crunch. The economy – a focus for Wales. It treats the Welsh people as adults and sets out pretty clearly what the government in Westminster and Cardiff can do. And can’t do.

Kim Jong-Morgan and St Murphy have also been largely successful in keeping the bleating of Plaid Cymru away from the detail. Crucially the document is signed by the two leaders and not the economically illiterate little Wyn.

The Steamer is rarely critical of our great leader St Murphy, however, we cannot fail to think that the people of Wales would have been better served if the saintly one had spent yesterday morning preparing for the National Economic Committee (in which he was representing Wales), rather than sharing a platform with little Wyn’s at the Assembly’s economic summit in the morning.

The meeting was a pointless talking shop that brought together the great and the good to talk. It changed nothing, reassured no one. The sad reality is that gathering of this nature can do little to ameliorate the economic tsunami that is about to crash over Wales.

Late news

Social Justice and Local Government Minister Brian ‘Do the funky’ Gibbons has however made a small and largely unheralded step to ensure that all the people of Wales have access to credit unions. Good work Bri!

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St Murphy’s conference speech.

Why the Man is a saint!

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Man who condemns labour MPs to lead Wales’ economic fight back

An all-Wales Economic Summit to discuss the present financial crisis and its impact on the Welsh economy has been announced by the Deputy First Minister to the Assembly.....................

First the good news

St Murphy will be in attendance. SERVE AND OBEY.

Then bad news

little Wyn Jones will also be in attendance. One can only imagine what hair-brained ideas Jones Bach will be bringing to the table. It will however be a good opportunity to put some questions to little Jones on how he thinks Labour is handling of the crisis.

For example I am sure St Murphy will ask for clarification on little jones' conference statements that Gordon Brown had been "found wanting" and had be shown to be "incapable of handling a major economic crisis".

I am sure St Murphy will comment upon Little Wyn’s recent assertion that

"Frankly, people have had enough. They want a government in London that not only understands their concerns but is prepared to do something about it,"

And hopefully he will ask Little Wyn what exactly he meant means when he said

"Labour MPs have let us down," and "There'll be no hiding place for Welsh Labour MPs who say one thing in their constituencies and another in their cosy club atmosphere of Westminster."

At a time like this our leaders in Cardiff and Westminster need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their comrades in the party and the trade union movement in support of Gordon Brown and the Welsh Labour MPs.

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Top 10 most powerful Welsh Labour Politicans

1. Paul Murphy (Torfaen) – The great leader, supreme protector. Serve and Obey

2. Rhodri Morgan (Cardiff West) – A once great leader but now an ageing lion. Rhodri's health is so fragile that balloons have been banned at official WAG functions in case one pops unexpectedly.

3. Kim Howells (Pontypridd) – Chair of the Security and Intelligence Committee. Keep a close watch..........

4. Edwina Hart (Gower) – Runs the Welsh NHS, hard as nails

5. Chris Bryant (Rhondda) – Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and Curry House Plotter Part of the outer, inner circle, a Brownite to his underpants. One of the best communicators in Parliament

6. David Hanson (Delyn) Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice – Consistently the most impressive Welsh minister.

7. Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office. Small but perfectly formed.

8. Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore) – now looks after English Soil

9. Jane Hutt Vale of Glamorgan Minister for Welsh children

10. Wayne David (Caerphilly) – Great Leaders Number 2

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Kim Howells in charge of Spooks (and I don't mean the TV program)

Kim Howells has been moved from the FCO to Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee. This is the parliamentary committee that rubber stamps overseas the work of the MI5, GCHQ and MI6.

This is a position of some importance as the chair can virtually hold the prime Minister to ransom on issues of national security. He is the first person to Chair the committee who has not been a cabinet minister and replaces Margaret Becket who replaced our great leader St Murphy.

This is an interesting appointment for an ex-communist, especially who ran one of the NUM offices in South Wales during the miner strike. Younger viewers will remember the 1994-85 was also a time of great economic upheaval where the government had a somewhat confused attitude to protecting the rights of its citizens that disagreed with it. Although Kim Howells was a moderate there has always been a whiff of suspicion about what exactly he was up to during the conflict.

Although the strike was particularly strong in south Wales the union rank and file remained sensible throughout. Despite this the union was engaged in activities that were clearly outside the law. Kim Howells has even admitted destroying clandestine union records when he thought the policy were going to raid an NUM office after a taxi driver was killed driving miners to work.

Many in the NUM believe to this day that Kim wasn’t exactly on the side of the union and that he was a stooge of parts of the Labour Party that wanted an end to the divisive strike. This was however obviously not the worst crime that a union official could commit. During the strike sections of security forces infiltrated the NUM probably to undermine the efforts of the moderates.

Kim is maybe now in a position to maybe find out what really happened.

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Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent!

I love Wayne David. So does the great leader.

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Not since the Vikings pillaged our land have the people quaked with such fear. But the good L(G)ord has protected us once again. St Murphy returns, not that he ever went away. Halleluiah!

More importantly the return of St Murphy is good news for intelligent tipsters. As the senior politician in Wales he will have some oversight into the whole process of the election and will make sure that all fair and square. ( And that his man will win!!!! And it will be a man, Murphy is not sexist but he is not going to Edwina win with her wacky pro choice views )


For this reason the odds have shifted. Edwina and Carwyn drifting ; Huw and The Fragle stiffening.

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