Jacob Williams https://jacobwilliams.com

In the comments section of my last post, my knowledgeable readership filled in the other half of the story.

It centred around the announcement from John Davies that he had finally decided that due to new commitments, he was not going to stand as a candidate in the upcoming police and crime commissioner election. I didn’t know what these commitments were, and suspected, like many, that a return to the top table was in the pipeline. One of the comments pointed me to a BBC Wales News article announcing that Davies is to become the new chairman of the board of directors of the Royal Welsh Show.

After looking a bit further, I stumbled across another news article on the internet, from The Farmers Guardian, which also covered the announcement. Among the facts, it states that Davies is also “in nomination to become High Sheriff of Dyfed next year.”  The position of High Sheriff, which is a single-year term, is appointed in early April. Is this all just an elaborate prank? We’ll have to wait and see!

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Fancy dress

In other news, I did enjoy today’s Western Telegraph story “Query over mayoral dress code,” from a meeting of Pembroke Dock Town Council. Cllr. Sue Perkins requested that the council should adopt a new policy over the use of the mayoral robes, and is quoted to have been: “…very concerned that the mayor was wearing his robes at two private functions recently.” You’ll remember a similar row over the appropriate use of mayoral regalia also erupted at a meeting of Milford Haven Town Council only a couple of months ago.

In this latest town hall contretemps, the WT reports that the mayor, Peter Kraus,  had recently attended a wedding and a 100th birthday party donning the robes, which are presumably the two events at which Cllr. Perkins took offence. The matter was dealt with by way of the mayor agreeing to only wear the robes to civic functions.

What caught my eye was the sentence: “Cllr Perkins said her father was 80 recently, but did not have the mayor in robes for that.” I’m not sure if something’s got lost in translation, but if she feels her father missed out on a visit from a local VIP clad in a posh frock and fancy headgear, I might suggest that she gives John Davies a ring some time after April fools’ day!