If you want to know more about the Welsh influence in early American politics, come to the lecture by Dr.Jerry Hunter in Aberystwyth on the 16th Feb. You'll be amazed!
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National Welsh American Foundation | Sefydliad Cenedlaethol Cymru America
The £103,000 question | Adam Price’s Blog: "The £103,000 question
No politician is perfect. We’re human beings who, by definition, make mistakes and misjudgements, have bad days and have fits of forgetfulness like everyone else. As such, even Cabinet Ministers should be forgiven for the occasional demonstration of human imperfection. But Peter Hain’s defence - if it can be so described - that his campaign was in a state of chaos simply won’t wash. Seventeen separate donations, some of which were re-routed through a think-tank which nobody has ever heard of and which has never produced any reports, many of which were personally solicited by Peter Hain, coming to a grand total of £103,000 cannot be explained away as ‘administrative error’ or temporary amnesia. We should take at face value the claim that nobody set out to conceal the truth. But there is a continuum which begins with ordinary incompetence, which when people get away with it, soon becomes complacency, then arrogance, and finally a wilful disregard to the rules and total disdain for the public right to know."
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Adam Price’s Blog | The Blog of Adam Price AS/MP, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr: "Hands Off The Lottery
We vote this afternoon on whether to hand over another massive chunk of Lottery money to plug the Government’s shortfall in its Olympics funding package. The Alliance of local authorities in traditional industrial areas has forecast this means that Carmarthenshire alone will lose £6.5 million as a result of the Olympics lottery raid. Plaid will be definitely voting against (along with the SNP) . Will other Welsh MPs put Wales first? It remains to be seen. It cannot be right that the most disadvantaged communities in Britain - places like the Amman Valley - should be penalised because of the Government’s dodgy accounting."
