In launching a campaign for a metro mayor, a local businessman (and Labour activist) has said aloud what many Welsh Conservatives seem to think privately.
This is the wrong levy at the wrong time. It is clear evidence of how out of touch the tired Labour establishment in Cardiff Bay has become.
Where the Conservatives have scrapped centuries-old taxes, Labour and Plaid Cymru can’t stop dreaming up new ones.
Also: dissent in the ranks! Northern Irish activists attack neglect by CCHQ amidst rumours Welsh Tories may seek split.
Meanwhile observers are already speculating about whether today’s performance will cost Douglas Ross his job.
Also: it looks like it will be a good day for Labour in both Wales and Scotland as Douglas Ross struggles to make headway.
Local communities have been held back by Labour’s high council tax rates and poor funding. The current settlement is not fit for purpose.
Also: Record haul of Welsh Tory council candidates is still just over half of seats; Scottish Tories back trans conversion therapy ban.
I am very pleased that the Treasury has refused to finance Mark Drakeford’s anti-science socialist agenda.
Mark Drakeford and his ministers are never slow to demand more powers, but seem much less keen on proper accountability.
The time for the restoration of our freedoms is here, and I’m not talking ‘liberty-lite’, but the ‘full-fat’ version.
I am disappointed that our Plaid Cymru presiding officer has chosen to ban such harmless national self-expression.
Labour enjoys huge majorities in this heartland of heartlands, but there are a few seats where the Tories are slowly getting competitive.
A quarter-century of socialist rule has given the UK Opposition nothing to write home about, and Welsh voters much to regret.