If bandwagon jumping was an Olympic sport

No surprise to see First Minister Carwyn Jones jumping at the chance to bask in the reflected glory of our athletes for the second time this year (after the Grand Slam Senedd parade) by announcing a homecoming parade for Welsh Olympics and Paralympic athletes yesterday.

The Welsh public do want to say thanks to the athletes and celebrate their achievements, but it’s  a pity that Carwyn and his fellow minister didn’t take a leaf out of the athletes book and grabbed a small slice of the world wide attention that was on London and to a lesser extent Cardiff to show the best of Wales to the world in culture, business and  tourism. 

I hope that the opposition will ask questions about the lack of action on this issue on their eventual return from recess in September/October and press the First Minister into trying to salvage what he can to make sure this is not a totally wasted opportunity for Wales.

After all the Scottish and Irish Government’s managed to have the foresight to take advantage of London 2012 along with many other countries who had showcases in London.

So yet again we are left wondering why didn’t the Welsh Government do more than pay for an ad campaign in London and why we Welsh continue to accept such inadequacy and indifference from those who claim to be ‘standing up for Wales’? 

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