The Wardman Wire

Miss Wagstaff, who does the Senedd Circular reports for this site, blog is not accessible from within the Welsh Assembly Government, has decided to bite back in blog fashion - that is, humourously.

Bearing in mind how many projects are labelled “supported by the Welsh Assembly Government”, we spent half an hour on chat designing this blog button:

The cork, by the way, is one from a bottle of champagne. As Rhodri Morgan said way back when:

We’ve got to uncork the Welsh champagne bottle and let it fizz.

I say let’s do the same thing with blogs. Uncork them all.

I had an exchange with Tom Watson MP, who launched the debate that lead to eventual creation of the Principles for Participation Online for Civil Servants, before my interview with Radio Wales.

In my first post, I said:

I wonder if I can get a statement from Tom Watson by 5:00pm that the Principles for Online Participation apply in Wales as well as England?

This article is to look at Tom’s reply and to ask a couple of questions about the Welsh Assembly Government.

A painless experience, and I’ll comment in more detail later.

The audio of me and Peter Black AM. is a little further down.

We were talking about the restrictions on blogging Civil Servants in Wales, in the light of Miss Wagstaff’s expulsion from Facebook.

I’m delighted that Peter Black was more controversial than I was. Welsh Assembly Government “stalinist” indeed - ouch !

A painless experience, and I’ll comment in more detail later.

The audio of me and Peter Black AM. is a little further down.

We were talking about the restrictions on blogging Civil Servants in Wales, in the light of Miss Wagstaff’s expulsion from Facebook.

I’m delighted that Peter Black was more controversial than I was. Welsh Assembly Government “stalinist” indeed - ouch !

I am going to be on Good Evening Wales a little later today (just after 5:30) talking about Welsh Political Blogging by Civil Servants from the point of view of an “outsider”, as a result of the coverage I have been giving to the Christopher Glamorganshire case in Wales, and also the Civil Serf case before that.

I expect to be talking about the difference in attitudes to political blogging by Civil Servants in England and Wales.

I am told that Peter Black AM will be joining us.

I think this is the first time in my life that I will have been on the Radio with a real politician. Is that good or bad?

I wonder if I can get a statement from Tom Watson by 5:00pm that the Principles for Online Participation apply in Wales as well as England.

“Welsh Culture Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas has resigned after claims he walked in to a pub holding a lit cigar.”