Labour are now less left-wing than the Tories?

So, let's get this right. It took a coalition of Plaid, LibDems and Tories to help out pensioners who'd been hard hit by Labour's stealth tax rise through the Council Tax; to improve school meals for thousands of kids and also to give easier access to Welsh students to Welsh unversities?

If the three opposition parties hadn't cooperated on this budget and kept a tight-squeeze of Rhodri Morgan's goolies (hmm, maybe I shouldn't have used that metaphore ... Nick Bourne, Ieuan Wyn and Mike German holding, yes, erm, inaanycase) then those pensioners who'd been hard hit by Labour's stealth tax rise through the Council Tax; those improved school meals for thousands of kids and the easier access to Welsh students to Welsh unversities wouldn't have happened?

So, sorry to go on, I'm just curious. But those progressive compromises were won by a coalition of the 'right-wing-non-Nye-Bevan-hagiographers-they're-just-tories-in-disguise' Plaid and Lib Dems and erm, well, real life Tories as well? Yes that's it. Not Welsh Labour? Not Rhodri 'clear red water' Morgan.

Amazing.

Never mind, still not as amazing as those Welsh Labour members in Welsh Labour fantasy Land. Those Labour members and AMs of what is a right wing Christian Democrat party in everything but name (not that there's anything wrong with Christian Democracy either) can still taunt other party members as being right wing. Not that everything right wing is wrong either.

So, Labour are now less left-wing than the Tories? It really is just tribalism and class jingoism after all.

We praise the Welsh nationalists for working with two of the other British nationalist parties to defeat the Labour smugocracy.