UPDATE Saturday: Just received a text from a pal that says 'Plaid NEC overwhelming endorsement to Red-Green'.
But with a Labour special conference and Plaid national council still to come, he adds: "It ain't over till the fat lady sings.'
What have I missed?
> No blogging here for a few days, while I log off to Berlin for a break arranged in those distant days before the Assembly elections.
By the end of Tuesday, we may know what kind of government we will have in Wales before AMs pack their bags for the summer.
My best bet refuses to discount the rainbow breaking out over the Bay.
Plaid's 15-strong gourp of AMs is meeting in Cardiff Bay to decide whether to recommend a deal to the executive and national council.
Labour and Plaid have been agonising over their negotiations for more than a week and Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones knows that Labour MPs are among those who would still prefer a deal with the Lib Dems.
He must be asking himself whether the Labour party might yet do a double deal, leaving him as leader of the opposition rather than in the cabinet, losing an historic window of opportunty to become First Minister in a triple alliance with the Conservatives and Lib Dems.
Ermmm, junior partner in a Labour-led coalition of the left, or First Minister in a Plaid-led coalition government, including the Tories?
If you were a Plaid AM which would you choose?
I think the wider party in Plaid would back a rainbow, if given the chance.
Blue Horizon wrote...
There might be one or two who think the tide can still be turned, but Labour can clearly deliver on their side, and do you really think that Plaid's national Council will reject what the agreement has to offer - especially as Ieuan Wyn Jones would then have to resign?
Posted by: Blue Horizon | July 2, 2007 2:42 PM