Leanne Wood, a Caucus Race and a Long Tale

March 7, 2008

Turning to another Chapter in the Adventures of Leanne Wood in Cyberspace …
Leanne Wood's Further Adventures in Cyberspace

In January, Leanne Wood’s blog disappeared from the Internet.

This happened shortly after her last blog posting attacking Queen Elizabeth II at Christmas.

And shortly before the Welsh Assembly Standards Committee issued ‘blogging guidance’ to all Assembly Members.

Did Leanne Wood take a Vow of Silence ?

Did the spin doctors from Ty Gwynfor make her an offer she couldn’t refuse ?

It appears that some one else is to blame for the disappearance of Leanne Wood’s blog.

On a completely new blog website, she tells it like this : “technical difficulties … have resulted in my blog being off-line during the past week or so”.

Many people may wonder how can “technical difficulties” explain both the deletion of a blog and creation of a new website.

Consider the parallel story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll for a moment…

In Chapter 3 of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, entitled “A Caucus Race and a Long Tale”, the heroine engages in a futile race in a circle, an idea suggested by a dodo. The race ends with every one ‘winning’ and gaining a prize, however, Alice, at the end of the race succeeds in alienating all her companions through her impatience and selfishness.

The promiscuous use of websites to promote a single Welsh Assembly politician is the equivalent of racing around in a circle, albeit in cyberspace. There are, to our knowledge, no prizes for the Assembly Member who has used the most websites to promote themselves, but the spectacle is certain to alienate many voters.

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