Last year Gudio revealed that the Senedd Commission has spent £12,000 on 82 flags for use on the Senedd flagpoles and in the speaker’s office, including North Korea, Belarus, and Cuba. Meanwhile South Korea didn’t get a look-in…
Two Welsh Labour leaders later and the Senedd has now finally binned its North Korean flag. A Guido campaign victory…
The Commission is still holding onto a number of separatist flags including those of Catelonia, the Basque Country, and Quebec. They join numerous EU and LGBT progress flags – held in higher numbers than the Union or Welsh flags…
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies jokes: “People in Wales will wonder why the Senedd has such a substantial collection of separatist flags, though it’s no surprise, given Labour and Plaid Cymru nationalists’ readiness to jump into bed with each other after every Welsh election.” Kim Jong Un will be reeling from this latest diplomatic earthquake…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”