Hat Tip to David Cynical Dragon
To save you looking -this is on Leighton Andrews Blog -wonder who wrote it , they style doesn't sound like Mr Andrews.
PS I am not a Nat Blog,or a Tory Blog or Lib Dem Blog or a Labour Blog
"Since becoming a Minister nearly 2 years ago, I have pretty much stopped reading Welsh blogs - even Glyn's, which I used to enjoy for the wit, independence and honesty. There simply isn't time.
And, let's face it, none of them matter. Most of the Welsh blogs talk to or about themselves. Particularly the ones written by Nats, which means - er - most of them.
The hundreds of daily referrals to my own weblog rarely come from other Welsh blogs. Occasionally there are some from Peter Black's or from Glyn's. But over the last 24 hours, for example, there have been more referrals from Norman Geras's blog than all Welsh blogs put together.
But most visitors to my site come because they have gone through a search engine, looking for my site or for something about the Rhondda. Occasionally because they share my frustrations about Windows Vista and have found this post, or because they looking up anything on the last episode of the Sopranos and have found this post, or they are fellow City fans.
I look at blogs and websites written by Labour colleagues when I have time, and sometimes at Vaughan's blog and those by other journalists I have time for, and at Adam Higgitt's site very occasionally.
So, here's a message to Welsh Labour bloggers. Most of the Welsh blogs around don't matter in the slightest. None has ever influenced a voter or made a difference to politics. So, don't bother with them. Concentrate on building a strong Welsh Labour presence on the web, which speaks to the future and to real people, that sets out a debate about where our party is going and what it is doing in government at UK and Welsh levels, and sets out our dividing lines with the other parties.
In particular, ignore the nasty, bitchy, irrelevant world of the self-opinionated nat bloggers.
I add nothing to this David Taylor outburst.
4 comments:
I'm not a Nat blogger or a Tory blogger. In fact I'm not a blogger. But I still think leighton Andrews is a hypocrite for crying foul after he and his minions have debased the way in which Welsh politics are conducted with their nasty, tribal and childish behaviour.
I'm also amazed at the man's pompousness: all these people referring to his blog, all his important work as a minister etc.
Paul Flynn has it about right about Leighton Andrews. And it's not flattering. Needless to say, it represents what most people think of him.
if Leighton Andrews hasn't read any of the blogs then how can he make those comments, talk about trying to change the news agenda and deflect flack, only this time its not working for Labour, shame the Tories will benefit from it though.
PS count yourselves lucky - here every day is Obama day. It is getting so tedious, and the inside surface of my tv screen is complaining about it!
Wasn't Leighton Andrews brilliant yesterday on the TV. Criticising his own Labour controlled RCT authority for closing a swimming pool when he is part of the government that gave RCT such a poor settlement that they were forced to introduce cuts in services. I would love to be fly on the wall when the Rhondda Labour Party meets and Andrews is asked to continue the debate in traditional valley fashion outside.
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