With a line in David Cameron’s speech to his Welsh Party conference in Llandudno that included ‘whatever happens here in Wales we want better co-operation between Cardiff and Westminster’ and a small drop in the latest YouGov/ITV Wales poll this week, you get the feeling the Tories have this weekend started managing Welsh expectations downward.
Gone is the talk of a rugby team of Tory MP’s or double figures emphasised by Cheryl Gillan’ comments to Nick Bourne about his over confident statements a few months back of at least double figures of MP’s’, at the pre conference press conference according to BBC Wales Editor Betsan Powys, Cheryl has never put a figure on how many seats the Conservative would win although at the same press conference she did talk about the referendum as an ‘some obscure constitutional matter’ not really helpful for a Party trying to sell itself as Devolution friendly or the possible next Welsh Secretary.
They aren’t quite in wobbly jelly territory yet, Labour still have big problems, but the Tories seem considerably more anxious and less sure footed than when they gathered in Cardiff last year. Maybe it’s the narrowing of the polls or David Cameron mess ups because his speech failed to lift the conference, he delivered some good lines and jokes but it was heavy on technical details of waste saving in Government the sort of thing that makes most of us glaze over, but will according to him help bring the UK's budget deficit down.
The Tories will put the gloss on ‘the best conference ever’ like every party do and they remain on course for more Welsh MP’s, but are we any clearer what a Conservative Government will mean for Wales, from today’s efforts the answer for me at least is no.Any source
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