By Denis Campbell
In three months the UK will contest a general election. Wow! Can you feel the tension build… Zzzzzzzz.
Three months out from November of 2008, US candidate Barack Obama spoke before 85,000 people at the Democratic National Convention’s outdoor football stadium. Here? The three parties reluctantly and finally agreed to their set of televised [...]

By Denis Campbell
Congratulations, you won. You have no more bottom line to manage or expenses to cut so time to focus on swiftly building Wales’ top line. One only need walk past your constituent office in Bridgend to see that 1 in 4 storefronts lay empty (or leased by charity thrift shops). Economic growth is [...]

By Denis Campbell
Fat Lady? Back to those wings and no humming! This opera is not over.
Those in the Conservative party already measuring drapes at Number 10 need to remember this will be a contested election vs. a Tory coronation. The display on the steps of the Welsh Senedd the morning after Conservative wins in [...]

By Denis Campbell
3rd in my series on Economic Development and Politics in Wales made more critical by this week’s growing ‘silly season food fight’ over the Labour Leadership election.
It’s been anything but a quiet week in Lake Woebegone, (apologies to npr, Garrison Keillor, and most in Wales unfamiliar with the reference).
After my Sunday’s BBC The [...]

Last night Japan’s ruling party lost control of the Diet by a 3:1 margin.  Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown escaped the UK and spent the weekend in Afghanistan. Is this where we are? The PM must go to a war zone to get some peace? As Japan goes, so goes Labour in 2010?
Mr. Brown has [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
The ultra racist British National Party (only native born white Brits can become party members), had an Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s moment and captured two European Parliamentary seats (a body they wish to see destroyed but whatever means needed) for the first time ever in UK-wide elections. 
Geert Wilders far right Dutch nationalist [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Talking heads are having a field day over recent Cabinet resignations, prospects for yet another huge Labour loss this weekend in the EU elections and calls by many in Parliament (even some Labour back-benchers) for a no-confidence vote and immediate elections. You have to wonder if the Prime Minister relishes getting out of [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Welsh and English blogs were all a-Twitter this week over the latest revelations of Member of Parliament expense claim inconsistencies. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown was raked over the coals for claiming £6,000 in dry cleaning expenses. David Cameron, Tory (Conservative) Prince-in-Waiting was shown in his trademark scowl demanding that all of his [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Gordon Brown knows quid pro quo. 
He sat quietly in waiting for 12-years as his would-be mentor Tony Blair stayed vainly in power much too long and frittered away Labour’s public standing in a series of dramatic pratfalls, the biggest being a huge backlash for being a loyal Bush lapdog for years over Iraq. [...]

It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]