Bloody noses
Two big battles yesterday and two big drubbings.
Tamsin Dunwoody - or perhaps Gordon Brown's Labour - turned a 7,000 inherited majority in Crewe and Nantwich into a 7,860 loss.
Applying 17.6% swings to a General Election may mean very little but you can bet there'll be Welsh Labour MPs in all four corners of Wales who are all too aware it would take a lot, lot less to oust them.
Prepare not just for talk of relaunching in Wales but for full-on attempts to be seen to be listening to the people who, at the moment, are not just dismissing but deriding Labour with their votes.
And at the Glamorgan Wanderers Rugby Ground last night the WRU President's XV beat the National Assembly Presiding Officer's XV by 80 to 36 (though not quite into a pulp).
Captain Alun Cairns may take comfort from the fact that at least Labour are feeling more pain than he is this morning.
I'm Betsan Powys, BBC Wales' political editor. I'll be blogging the inside track on 
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Betsan:
An excellent blog!
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What's excellent about it?
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Try the Brian Taylor blog, Blether with Brian, on the BBC Scotland website (link on the right of this page).
Although just another anglosaxophone forum, there is more to get your teeth into there.
A sober but lively colloquium in which civilized, enlightened and well informed protagonists gather in numbers to knock the stuffing out of one another. Such fun we have, and the BBC wipes the blood off the carpet afterwards.
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At least Betsan provides some coverage of Welsh affairs unlike her employer...
And if Wales undergoes this 17.6% swing then hopefully the swing won't be to the tories.
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I have dreamed of the day when Welsh Labour MPs would no longer wish to appear to treat the voters as their bond slaves.
Better the day when voters are liberated for ever from the "next decade but three, but only maybe" promises of socialism.
And just who are the toffs, when Labour's elite claimed baronial rights in Wales from one generation to another.
Seared into my memory is the day that Ron Davies offered me brain surgery because I was so stupid to vote Tory. Told him then that people aren't so stupid who want liberty and prosperity. And after all that came to pass, one wonders who needed an injection of common sense, Ron!
Best wishes from Brussels, home of elites that don't even offer themselves for election.
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Betsan's Blog is Numero Uno Cymru ~ "Blogga Continua!" as Mr.Gramsci once said. BUT...where is OUR Betsan lately?
She wasn't on "Wales' Got Talent" at the weekend (ITV Taff) ...Little Daffy Iueun (aged 11) won that with his tap dancing sheepdog that "barked" just like Saunders Lewis! Shame he got run over.
ICONIC it was...
AIN'T EVERTHING.
Hurry back Betsan...we are missing YOU.
ICONIC.
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