Darren Millar isn’t even leader of the Welsh Conservatives – just the MS group – yet he and they are assuming dictatorial power over our party west of Offa’s Dyke.
We have low morale, collapsing local operations, defections, and a falling membership. Yet instead of trying to revitalise the organisation, our elected politicians are exploiting these conditions.
Under new leadership, the Welsh Tories are preparing to repeat the great mistake of their Scottish counterparts: normalising the nationalists in a short-sighted bid to get Labour out.
My fear is that a deep fog clouds the judgment of many in the Tory Senedd group: losing the comfortable life the Bay affords its ever-growing population of politicians and hangers-on.
Not only is our main rival on the Right potentially going to make a huge error out of self-interest, but they themselves may choose to vacate the populist field in Wales.
Some within the Welsh Conservatives need to stop treating Plaid Cymru as just another party. They are the same as the SNP and Sinn Fein: they desire the destruction of the United Kingdom.
Its proponents are making the same arguments as the advocates of devolution in the 1990s. And we know what happened there.
Does the Senedd group regret bringing down Andrew RT Davies last year? The subsequent collapse has been frighteningly quick.