As all potential candidates will exclaim, there is no leadership contest. Not at least until the First Minister Rhodri Morgan hands in his notice. There has been a flurry of movement by the two frontrunners for the job, Carwyn Jones and Huw Lewis.
Huw has been spouting a lot of policy ideas over the past few months, many of them good ideas. He has now made his intentions very clear by adding people en mass to Facebook.
Carwyn on the other hand got to Facebook a couple of weeks before Huw. And he gave a speech that was said to be lacking the oratory quality of Barack Obama at Llanelli Town Hall. However, I thought he was good on CF99, although nobody really watches that programme, right?
Meanwhile, Edwin Hart and the other guy with the specks have been quiet.
All 'candidates' really need to pull their selves together. Electing a new leader to the Welsh Labour Party is the most important political event to happen so far in post-devolution Wales.
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