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From More Sniping at Leighton Andrews [and David Taylor], to Quality Blogging from Chicken Yoghut and Owen's Musings...

Posted October 13th, 2005 by ringverse

Our low brow tête à tête with Leighton "Scum" Andrews features on the Britnat Watch weblog, along side their story of how it was Leighton's researcher David Taylor who, apparently, ordered the ejection of Walter Wolfgang from Jack Straw's derranged speech.

Whilst there has been nothing that I have come across [please correct me if I am wrong here] that confirms the allegation that it was indeed DT who ordered Mr Wolfgangs 'bouncing' out of the hall, the fact Andrew Neil alluded to it the other week on Daily Politics would indicate that, as Britnat Watch suggest, journalists believe it to be so.

In digging around for this I found a few more nugets about Leighton's Damascene conversion from Liberal Firebrand to New Labour acolyte [and David Taylor's Boss].

New light is cast on the strange transformation of Leighton Andrews AM "from Liberal thinker to cheerleader for Blair's authoritarians".

CymruMark observes:

Leighton Andrews on the other hand is a complete mystery to me. His splenetic rants in the Assembly debating chamber are the stuff of legend and there was a fine example in the budget debate the other day. Yet the Leighton Andrews I observed in the Liberal Party in the 80's was a very different character. Always associated with the ALC/Liberator self-appointed keepers of the radical flame element he was a fluent persuasive speaker with impeccable anti-authoritarian views.

It was astonishing to see him in Welsh Labour and his contributions to the assembly seem utterly at odds with his previously expressed opinions.

So it is perhaps appropriate that it is his infamous researcher who is alleged to be behind the most public and explicit exhibition of New Labour authoritarianism we have seen to date.

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However, if you are tired of my vindictive scurrilous posting about Leighton, there is gentlemanly inteligent debate to be found on the interweb.

Justin [Chicken Yoghurt] vs [Owen's Musings] on the amount of money the Department for International Development spend on private consultants is a great example of quality blogging, and not to be missed.

Round by Round:
Justin starts here, and Owen gets back here. Chicken Yoghurt comes back here, and Owen replies via comments here.

Enjoy.