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Welsh Assembly Results
The full results are now in for the Welsh assembly and it has been a bit of a let down from the Conservatives.
It is nice to see Labour lose control, but now we must wait and see who they will form a coalition with (probably the Lib Dems), which will mean that we wont even be the Party of Opposition.
UPDATE: the BBC got it wrong! The Conservatives 12 seats in the Assembly is actually a rise by 1 from last time. Not a big change, but with only 60 seats in the Assembly it is actually an important rise.
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May 6th, 2007 at 12:03 am
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.