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It looks as if all this is rooted in something that happened a few years back, in that before she got into politics, Jane Dodds was a social worker and for a time she worked for the church in England.
And a report came out a few years ago that did criticise her handling in a sex abuse scandal in the church.
At the time, Jane Dodds admitted that there had been shortcomings.
Now, Ed Davey suggested at that time that Jane Dodds should consider her role as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, interpreted by most people, I think, as a suggestion that she should think about standing down.
Jane Dodds said she wasn't going to do that.
She was going to stay put and stay put she has.
But it doesn't look as if the relationship has recovered from that, really.
Yes, that's absolutely right.
I mean, we have a new voting system here in Wales, of course, and there are big question marks over the extent to which it makes tactical voting relevant because the idea is that it's supposed to be more proportional than the old system.
But having said that, it's not totally proportional.
It favours bigger parties and you probably need to get around about 12% or above in any constituency to start winning seats.
The other...
interesting thing about it and the thing that makes it very difficult you know when the polls come out they come out with vote share they also come out with seat projections the vote share very interesting the seat projections you have to take with a huge pinch of salt because the fifth and certainly sixth seats in a lot of these constituencies could be decided by a whisker and therefore make seat projections very very difficult to make with any sort of accuracy at the moment now what Eluned Morgan has done in her constituency in West Wales
is try to explain all of this with a row of tinned or canned cocktails, all of them still unopened, from what I can tell.
And she's a strawberry daiquiri, by the way, in case you were wondering.
I think from memory, the greens are a pina colada.
Plied, I think, Plied Cymru are a mojito.
Yeah, I know.
Not quite sure about about what the other ones are.
But her message appears to be that she's saying plied her a shoe in in this constituency.