Comments on: Welsh Assembly Results http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2007/05/04/welsh-assembly-results/ Website of the UCL Conservative Society: promoting the Conservative Party at UCL since 1910 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Tim Roll-Pickering http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2007/05/04/welsh-assembly-results/#comment-7930 Tim Roll-Pickering Sun, 06 May 2007 00:03:47 +0000 http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2007/05/04/welsh-assembly-results/#comment-7930 From what I can tell of the Lib Dem blogosphere, it seems that any attempt by Michael German (Welsh Lib Dem leader) to take the party into a coalition with Labour is likely to trigger a backlash and even a leadership challenge. German has now led the party into its third Assembly election and <i>again</i> they've only won 6 seats - hardly encouraging news and Lib Dems are not stupid to believe it was all the fault of Cheeky Boy Lembit. The other point that no-one is talking about much is who will become the Presiding Officer and deputy in the assembly (especially as John Marek lost his seat). It's quite probable that none of the parties will want to take these posts as it would deprive them of crucial votes in the numbers game (Dafydd Elis-Thomas's decision to keep the post in the last Assembly gave Labour their initial majority). There's a similar problem in the Scottish Parliament. From what I can tell of the Lib Dem blogosphere, it seems that any attempt by Michael German (Welsh Lib Dem leader) to take the party into a coalition with Labour is likely to trigger a backlash and even a leadership challenge. German has now led the party into its third Assembly election and again they’ve only won 6 seats - hardly encouraging news and Lib Dems are not stupid to believe it was all the fault of Cheeky Boy Lembit.

The other point that no-one is talking about much is who will become the Presiding Officer and deputy in the assembly (especially as John Marek lost his seat). It’s quite probable that none of the parties will want to take these posts as it would deprive them of crucial votes in the numbers game (Dafydd Elis-Thomas’s decision to keep the post in the last Assembly gave Labour their initial majority). There’s a similar problem in the Scottish Parliament.

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