Nick Bourne takes a cool view
Pierhead - Welsh Politics
Tory leader Nick Bourne takes a cool view of the latest stream of ravings produced by one of the most extreme right-wing Tories in Westminster after their usual uncritical reproduction by an organ of the Welsh press.
David Davies, once AM for Monmouth, is regarded as a blast from the past, whom leaders of the Tory Party in both Cardiff and London would gladly be rid of as an unwitting agent for Gordon Brown's re-election.
Welsh Tories are rapidly moving on from the Thatcherite era, with the Welsh party being praised from London for its success in rebuilding. Asked for evidence of a change, Mr Bourne lists the team who fought last May's election without being returned, such as Glyn Davies and Guto Bebb.
While admitting that Mr Davies's two Westminster colleagues - both chosen much closer the days of Mrs Thatcher -are also devolution sceptics, he points to the mass of newer candidates. Figures such as Susie Davies, seen as a strong hope for winning Brecon and Radnor - she voted 'Yes' for devolution as long ago as 1979.
Within days, Angela Burns, newly-elected for Carmarthen West and South Pembroke, was out-devolving Labour's arch-devolutionist Carwyn Jones. She asked what discussions he had had widi London on Wales having its own High Court. None, he replied, at which she blurted out her amazement. A more balanced view of the Tory party would occasionally highlight Mrs Burns, rather than always concentrating on the friend of lost Thatcherite causes and a possible aid to another Labourite victory.
Welsh Tories are rapidly moving on from the Thatcherite era, with the Welsh party being praised from London for its success in rebuilding. Asked for evidence of a change, Mr Bourne lists the team who fought last May's election without being returned, such as Glyn Davies and Guto Bebb.
While admitting that Mr Davies's two Westminster colleagues - both chosen much closer the days of Mrs Thatcher -are also devolution sceptics, he points to the mass of newer candidates. Figures such as Susie Davies, seen as a strong hope for winning Brecon and Radnor - she voted 'Yes' for devolution as long ago as 1979.
Within days, Angela Burns, newly-elected for Carmarthen West and South Pembroke, was out-devolving Labour's arch-devolutionist Carwyn Jones. She asked what discussions he had had widi London on Wales having its own High Court. None, he replied, at which she blurted out her amazement. A more balanced view of the Tory party would occasionally highlight Mrs Burns, rather than always concentrating on the friend of lost Thatcherite causes and a possible aid to another Labourite victory.
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