I have from time to time blogged about the questions surrounding the enterprise company, limited by guarantee called Cymad, although with care given imminent court proceedings involving the Chief Executive.
Several investigations seem to be ongoing and with a company Board dominated by senior local members of Plaid Cymru, much falling out between these former comrades. This weeks local press carries stories about two more departures from the company Board (both prominent Plaid people again), and people starting to squeal about the way that the company carries out its business. One (former) Director confirms the recent DTI "raid".
How long can Plaid's 4 senior elected representatives : Alun Ffred Jones, Dafydd Elis Thomas, Hywel Willaims and Elfyn Llwyd remain quiet ? Oh and I suppose we had better include Dafydd Wigley as he is on Plaid's regional list for North Wales and must be concerned at developments on his home patch.
As`they say in the military - it is on your watch chaps !!
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All very interesting - but fairly trivial really when compared to this sort of carry on:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/funding/story/0,,1943165,00.html
Some may say "trivial" but it still seems important that those elected to represent us tackle any local injustices.
Yes, quite. Nice to see such an interest in financial probity by a potential elected representetive.
Anyway, back to the rather unsavoury monkey business at the top of your own party.
Now, you seem to be interested in the Cymad story & especially interested in linking various public figures who belong to a party that you dislike to the affair. The link itself is rather tenuous, but there you go - I suppose that you've got an agenda to follow.
Now, running concurrently with this rather modest scandal in Porthmadog which has very loose & informal connections with Plaid Cymru, is another scandal which is intimately linked to some of the most senior figures within your own party. Furthermore it's outcomes were central to the funding of your party during the 2005 election.
To be fair to you, it can hardly be expected that you'd draw attention to a scandal which might yet show institutional corruption & flagrant disregard for the law of the land within your own party, in a blog that's designed to further your own interests & those of your party.
However, as a potential constituent of yours, I feel that I have the right to ask whether or not you've expressed any misgivings at these events to the leadership of your party. Furthermore (& I confess that I know nothing of how local Labour election concerns are funded), how sure are you that your own campaign in 2005 wasn't partially funded by the set of understandings known to some as the 'loans for honours scandal'?
I am releived to report that in the former Caernarfon constituency we were a hard working, but low spending, Party. We were able to account for all our spend and its sources. Of course I must accept that our performance locally must have some unmeasurable link to the effect of national spending, but we had no control over that.
Time will of course tell whether anything illegal has actually occurred at the London end, but I know that it all leaves many Party members feeling uncomfortable - in addition to any perceptions from 'outside'.
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