Carwyn Jones is Labour AM for Bridgend. The five pledges on right are taken from his election literature.
Labour's 1997 pledge card was hardly ambitious but Mr Jones' retreat from any kind of boldness deserves wide recognition.
That commitment to continue to have an email address certainly got my pulse racing.
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Imagine if Labour had been honest about their 1997 pledges...
We promise to impose a tax on pensions that will cost the pensions industry £100bn by 2007...
We promise to impose the biggest tax burden in history and all by stealth...
We promise to award peerages for people who lend the Labour Party money...
We promise to send our troops to war without proper equipment...
We promise to spend more money on spin doctors than any government in history...
Posted by: Alan S | April 10, 2007 at 20:30
Absolutely disgraceful; in every way a sad indictment of politics today.
Interesting though that there is no pledge to read or indeed respond to emails...
Posted by: Shane Greer | April 10, 2007 at 20:51
...One of the problems with safe seats! If only there was some way of showing people in areas like this just how taken for granted they are by the Labour party. Unfortunately having spent part of my weekend in Bridgend, I doubt Carwyn Jones will have much need to say more during his 'campaign'.
Posted by: Chris Heathcote | April 10, 2007 at 20:55
Bridgend isnt a safe seat, Conservatives need 5% swing to win
Posted by: bb | April 10, 2007 at 21:02
Certainly sticking his neck out isn't he!!!
Posted by: Andrew Woodman | April 10, 2007 at 21:02
Yes - the full leaflet looks quite nice - well until you read all those commitments. So ambitious!
Posted by: Jonathan Sheppard | April 10, 2007 at 21:23
Plus his website doesnt even work now!!
http://www.carwynjonesam.org.uk/
Posted by: bb | April 10, 2007 at 21:23
My pledge to Mr Jones
I promise I will return to never having heard of you, as soon as possible
Except when you lose your seat, when I might snigger a bit, or snort inappropriately
As the race for Jones' seat tightens, the incumbent feels moved to release some extra pledges:
I promise that I'll only use photos taken from so far away that I appear as an indistinguishable dot
I promise I am not Chris Bryant [Ed: that's enough pledges, Jones]
Chris Bryant couldn't resist:
I promise that I'll change my underpants if Mr Jones keeps his seat. Seat!!! Gedditt!! Mr Blair you're the bestest prime minister we're ever able to conceive of ever having. Having!!! [sobs] [Ed: you're fired]
Posted by: Unkind Graeme | April 10, 2007 at 21:38
If the website is one for an assembly member (as opposed to a campaign site) then it wont be allowed to work during an election I would think?
Posted by: Jonathan Sheppard | April 10, 2007 at 21:38
I bet he'll still fail to fulfil them all.
Posted by: Chris Palmer | April 10, 2007 at 22:20
It's even more pathetic than ex-Blairite turned Brown-sycophant, Nick Palmer MP mindlessly trolling on http://politicalbetting.com/
Posted by: backbencher | April 10, 2007 at 23:26
If I were Carwyn Jones I'd start by pledging to build a safer-looking flight of steps up that hill...
Posted by: William Norton | April 10, 2007 at 23:27
Nice one William!
Posted by: Matt Davis | April 11, 2007 at 01:21
It doesn't look like a manifesto to be sure. Are you sure this isn't taken out of context?
Posted by: Josh | April 11, 2007 at 23:55