By Peter Hain
I want to tell you about an exciting new Labour-supporting website I am launching with Eluned Morgan MEP and Alun Davies AM.
As you may have just seen on BBC Wales Dragon's Eye programme, AneurinGlyndwr.com promises to be a daily must-check website for anyone who wants to know what's really going on in Wales.
It is a brighter kind of blog, a rare commentary in the digital age that is not mired in the pettiness and nastiness of many other blogs in Wales and elsewhere. To prove the point, its launch includes a new You Tube video giving a familiar song a new twist. ‘Why, why, why?' penned by Eluned Morgan MEP, is light-hearted look at the choice at June's European elections. The blog is the new digital voice of Labour supporters in Wales, and 'Why, Why, Why?' certainly makes it sing.
Our aim is to build a network of progressive people who are interested in politics, but are not obsessed with it. That is the one danger of blogging, it can become the preserve of a self-appointed elite. We already have the core activists, what we need to do now is reach out and mobilise the millions of people who, although they might never go to a Labour Party meeting, will work hard to stop the Tories getting into power again.
And we're looking for contributors - we want to hear from Labour-minded people from across Wales who would like to get involved, from elected politicians to grassroots activists. Click here to register your details, and we'll be in touch.
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Everything Hain touches turns to crap.
Most of the entries by far consist of sniping at other parties.
Very uplifting.
And, unlike most blogs, no comments. (Or if there are any,they're well hidden)
Still, there must be some mileage in that video!
I'm beginning to see why you lot need PR consultants.
Peter Ive havent laughed so much in ages, that video is bloody fantastic.
Keep up the good work.
If he did, then I despair. My cat can sing better than that. Oh and the cut out images!!!
Yet again we are encouraging narrow nationalism in Wales when we should be encouraging a wider British unity in our support of social democracy. Having been born and raised in Cardiff I share the pride in our celtic heritage, but would not want that to create more division in the UK.
When we are seeing the damage created by our multiculturalist policies in our English cities we do not want to be encouraging separate development, cutoff by a separate language, in Wales or for that matter Scotland.
I've just seen the first excruciating 30 seconds of the video. I hope it gets better but I can't bear to find out!
Inane lyrics, dire flat singing, ear-popping harmonies. Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhhh!
(Stand by for the writ for copyright theft from it's original writers, Les Reed, Barry Mason and Sylvan Whittingham.)
Peter, I never miss it.