Jacob Williams
Tuesday, 4th June, 2024

Money for nothing?

Money for nothing?

Since my last blogpost Wales has had a new first minister, Vaughan Gething. Facing a historic no-confidence vote tomorrow with a strong Pembrokeshire connection, his stock is tanking. Mr. Gething’s path to his narrow Welsh Labour leadership election vict... Read more →


Fair crack of the whip
Friday, 29th September, 2023

Fair crack of the whip

The first agenda item at Pembrokeshire County Council’s education scrutiny committee meeting last week may have caused some head scratching. Members were ...


Tuesday, 30th May, 2023

Blogatha Christie

Blogatha Christie

Conclusive evidence has emerged linking Pembrokeshire County Councillor Alan Dennison to a Facebook account which is anonymously targeting a female fellow councillor Few would disagree that the ‘whodunnit?’ is the king variety of mystery fiction. ... Read more →


Tuesday, 16th May, 2023

Huw dares, wins?

Huw dares, wins?

Following on from my last two blogposts (here and here) it’s little surprise that Cllr. Huw Murphy’s name is going forward as a candidate to become leader of Pembrokeshire County Council at Thursday’s extraordinary meeting. As I’ve prev... Read more →


The previously-scuppered motion to unseat Pembrokeshire County Council’s leader, Cllr. David Simpson, will now be debated at a special meeting convened by...


Sunday, 23rd April, 2023

Murphy’s law

Murphy’s law

The late queen’s legacy played its part Pembrokeshire County Council’s latest source of amusement, this week. The story begins just after 7pm on Tuesday, the 18th April. It was an email sent to all councillors by the chief executive, Will Bramble ... Read more →


Tuesday, 4th April, 2023

Another one bites the dust

Only a quarter done, and 2023 is proving to be quite a fluid year for Pembrokeshire County Council’s political composition. All of the changes so far have...


Thursday, 27th October, 2022

Cabinet call-in: school funding

An extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council’s schools and learning overview and scrutiny committee is being held tomorrow afternoon. It’...


Ballot box dodgers
Thursday, 30th June, 2022

Ballot box dodgers

Some quite fairly anticipated my post-election writeup much sooner. It’s delayed and won’t cover many contests, but my pre-election preview wasn’t too wide of the mark…


Wednesday, 4th May, 2022

Just browsing

Just browsing

We’ll have to wait until Friday’s vote count to know who they are, but Pembrokeshire’s new cohort of councillors emerging from tomorrow’s local elections may never experience a pre-pandemic-style full council chamber. Fully remote meeti... Read more →