Nick Bourne AM responsible for Welsh coalition decisions (except with Labour)

The Press Association reports:

"David Cameron brushed off claims that support for the Tories was stagnating in Welsh opinion polls when he hit the Assembly election trail today. Mr Cameron said a vote for his party was a vote for more "common sense" in Cardiff Bay and that the Conservatives were the only alternative to the "failure" of Labour or the "divorce" of Plaid Cymru.

Two polls, last night and this morning, put the Conservatives in third place behind Labour and Plaid in the race for the Welsh Assembly. On a campaign visit in South Wales, Mr Cameron said: "I don't bother with polls because we are going to have a big poll on election day when real people can get out and cast real votes in real ballot boxes."

Decisions about siding with other parties in a coalition after next Thursday were up to the party's Assembly leader Nick Bourne, he said."

The 18DoughtyStreet crew are also in Wales today, filming special programmes with Welsh bloggers and Assembly members which will be broadcast on Tuesday evening.

Deputy Editor

Comments

[Nonny Mouse]

Hilarious. You do this story, and forget to do the homophobic candidate story....classic

[Mark Fulford]

"Nonny Mouse" -- quite right for CH to ignore the "homophobic" story -- which Darren Millar says is untrue. If CH responded to every malicious election-time smear, we’d be talking about nothing else.

The Conservative Party has quite a high proportion of openly gay members and activists, and I don't think that the label "homophobic" is even vaguely justified.

[Michael McGowan]

Well said, Mark

[Stewart]

Why is it that any reference to Homosexuality in anything other than fully approving tones results in accusations of homophobia?

[Tim Aker]

Tories climb in polls + Labour decline in polls = accusations of tory homophobia followed by accusations of racism.

Typical Left-wing tactics, best ignored!

On this story, however, I'm not surprised to see the tories fall. Nick Bourne isn't a very effective leader in Wales and when you offer 'common sense' and an 'alternative', Dave, you have to do more than ape the Labour party. People want change, not more of the same!

[Wayne Bridges]

"I dont bother with polls" - yeah right and this is the bloke that quotes any opinion poll with a Conservative lead whenever hes in the media spotlight!

[Editor]

Tories dispute 'gay sin' comments.

[Mark Fulford]

Wayne, can you point me to a single example of Cameron quoting polls?

[John Broughton]

I was at Darren Millar's hustings last night and he categorically did not say homosexuality is a sin; the UKIP candidiate however did say it is a sin.

Darren's Labour opponent is so desperate that he is planting questions in an attempt to make life difficult.

[matt wright]

Darren has been the target of a concerted and nasty campaign by Labour to smear him. I am suprised the media fell for it. Labour are desperate to save their necks as they know that the real vote is not going to be good for them.

[Dick Wishart]

I totally agree with John & Matt, we know whats happening on the doorstep.
Labour & Plaid are in steep decline and no amount of spin or scare stories will change that.
The Conservatives have excellent candidates back by a first rate professional team and come 3rd May the only poll that matters will show the true picture.

[Charles Darwin]

Bloody labour - they planted a PhD in Biology in the audience to ask a silly question about creationism. It's obvious that a labour party card makes him unfit to do post doc research in this field. And then another trot asked our man "did he think homosexuality was a sin?" How unfair can you get??

[J.Johns]

Some of our so called gays are not so,they are perfectly straight as we say.However,they would not be where they are today had they not declared their false gayness.I know this kind of thing goes on in other areas as a means of rising quickly through the ranks.Is it cheating?
Or,is it a case of,All is fair in.....