Big Shoes to Fill
Rhodri Morgan’s retirement today as the nation’s First Minister is a big event in our history. Party politics aside one cannot avoid the enormous contribution he has made to political life not just in Wales but locally here in Cardiff.
I wish him well for the future and for the transition from head of the government to back bench Assembly Member whose sole focus will be representing the people of Cardiff West until 2011.
His successor has quite a task in front of him, not just to succeed in leading his party in and ouside the Assembly but in building a national profile. Following and attempting to match Rhodri’s public image and appeal, not necessarily as a Labour politician but as a Welsh politician, will not be easy.
With the decline of some broadcast media together with a poor performance by Wales based printed media this task becomes even more difficult.