Welsh cakes and generalities

Welsh cakes and coffee - in commemorative 'One Wales' mugs - was on offer today for the media pack around the Assembly Government's cabinet table in Cardiff Bay.
It was the first birthday party of the historic coalition deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru, in the year of the 60th birthday of Aneurin Bevan's NHS, and 12 months since Rhodri Morgan underwent heart surgery for blocked arteries.
The One Wales message was that the government was 'on schedule to deliver its programme against and increasingly tough financial background'.
To prove it, health minister Edwina Hart was in Ebbw Vale for the official opening of the £53m Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan, while Mr Morgan and Plaid deputy Ieuan Wyn Jones announced progress on a commission to investigate how the Assembly is funded.
Mr Morgan, suffering from a croaking throat, dismissed questions about the highlights and lowlights of the year as 'cliched journalism'.
"Government is about the generality of achievement," he declared. "You push an agenda forward, you reach places."

The theme was largely the NHS.
Mr Morgan, a recovered heart patient, predicted that over the next 20-30 years some 90% of health gain would come from the switch from treating illness to people taking better care of themselves through diet and exercise.
Mr Jones enthused too over the NHS pointing to investing at Bronglais hospital, the future of Llandudno acute services being secured, and a new mental health unit at Abergele.
Plaid made much of the threat to local hospitals in its Assembly election campaign.
Mr Jones earlier declared that Plaid had brought a 'Welsh agenda' into WAG, did Mr Morgan agree?
"I suppose at a time like this both parties in a coalition will look back over the previous year and say 'we have delivered X, Y, and Z."
But he went on to highlight the future of local hospital services as the nettle yet to be grasped.
"I's an almost insoluble problem. How do you persuade people to accept change in the NHS, the hospital pattern in their area?
"Do we find people want a sacrifice in the excellence of the service because they want the hospital to remain exactly as it is or are they willing to accept some access issue because they don't want any compromise in excellence.
"That's a great big question mark over the provision of services.
"We (Labour) didn't persuade people in 2007 to accept certain changes, that they should travel further to obtain certain excellence.
"It's a huge democratic dilemma we haven't got the answer to, just a big question mark."