Question Time 5th June 2025
The Panel:
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)
Darren Millar (Conservative)
Llinos Medi (Plaid Cymru)
Mark Serwotka (Trade Unionist)
Annabel Denham (Journalist)
Venue: Llandudno
Annabel Denham is cagey about her personal details. We know she left the University of Manchester with a degree in History and French, followed by a Master’s in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London.
While studying, she was a researcher for Peter Lilley and a press office intern at Conservative HQ before becoming coordinator of the Trade Out of Poverty All-Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster.
According to themselves, “a cross-party group of Members of Parliament and Peers who share a common interest in helping developing countries achieve inclusive growth and prosperity through sustainable trade and investment.”
The group’s secretariat is the Overseas Development Institute, a global affairs think tank. Their current Chief Executive is Sara Pantuliano CMG (Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George), who is also a trustee of the controversial Muslim Aid.
Other senior people at ODI include Lord Lilley and Puffin’s favourites Lord Paul Boateng and Chi Onwurah.
If that hasn’t raised your blood pressure, visiting their website and seeing splash screens that show placards stating “One world, one family”, “Refugees welcome”, and “No one is illegal” should do the trick.
As a registered charity, ODI’s income relies on grants and donations. Some of its largest funders are the Foreign Office (i.e. you), Gates Foundation and USAID.
From the APPG, Annabel progressed to City A.M. and The Huffington Post, and—despite never having been one—became a director of The Entrepreneurs Network. She then moved to a communications role at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Now at The Telegraph, Annabel is a columnist promoting the globalist agenda of her previous employers. She is also the deputy comment editor, where, one assumes, she removes references to “Londonistan” and uses the below-the-line liquid paper to change Tommy Robinson to Thomas Yaxley-Lennon.
Not her real name (Llinos Medi Huws), Llinos Medi is one of those irritating people from the Celtic fringe yelling, “Look at me, look at me,” by spelling their names wrong. Hughes is written as Huws (as in Edwards) and her children appear as Twm and Elliw, rather than Tim and Ellie.
A farmer’s daughter, after her education Llinos worked in a care home before a career with the Young Farmers morphed her onto the local council. The MP for Ynys Môn since July 2024, a 4% swing from the Tories won her the seat and made her one of four Plaid Cymru MPs.
Alex Davies-Jones should be a farmer’s daughter. Not of the Cereal King kind who allows daddy’s money to be burnt in Town by a sophisticated daughter, but one who needs a good big lass to march up a hillside at 4 am with a ewe across her shoulders and a lamb under each arm.
Excuse me while I fill my mouth with phlegm. Alex hails from Pentre’r Eglwys in the parish of Llantwit Fardre, which is in the Taff Ely district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, about four miles from Llantrisant.
After graduating from Cardiff University with a degree in law and politics, Ms Davies-Jones did nothing other than research in the House of Liars and Thieves and at the National Assembly for Wales. Pointless communications and consultancy roles followed, as did positions on local councils, before being parachuted into Parliament in the 2019 general election as the Labour MP for Pontypridd.
A Friend of Israel, she ran into trouble when questioned on the doorstep by two ‘local women’ during the 2024 election campaign. Ayeshah Behit and Hiba Ahmed asked about the conflict in Israel and Palestine and wondered of Alex’s conduct as an MP. Had she taken part in the Gaza votes? Is she a member of Labour Friends of Israel?
As Alex and her canvassers left the area, Ms Behit and Ms Ahmed followed. Not to worry, the police were called, with the two constituents later being convicted of harassment and fined. But not by a jury, by a district judge.
Whereas Ms Denham keeps mum, Ms Davies-Jones overshares. Not only does she tell us too much of her IVF treatment but she also shares pictures of the family. From which we can deduce, as further proof that God makes them and pairs them, that husband Andrew should be a farmer’s son, and they shop at B&M.
One might have expected them to shop at Sainsbury’s. Earlier this year, Ms Davis-Jones accepted a donation of £10,000 from Fran Perrin, also known as Mrs Francessca Perrin OBE, daughter of supermarket plutocrat Lord Sainsbury, Baron of Turville.
With the guff that accompanies QT describing him as Wales’s youngest mayor, one wonders how ancient the rest of them must be and/or how difficult Darren Millar’s paper round was.
In between delivering a ton of Dailys in the steepest valley in the Principality (on a bike with square wheels), Mr Millar has been a councillor on Conwy County Borough Council and on Towyn and Kinmel Bay Town Council.
After serving on various local government committees and a previous failed attempt, Darren entered the Senedd in 2007. There, he has squatted ever since, rising to become the present Conservative Party Chief Whip.
Sound on Brexit, homosexual sin and creationism, examination of the small print — while bearing in mind the BBC’s clickbait tendency towards the superlative — reveals Darren once was the youngest mayor in Wales. But is that even true? Hmmm.
According to my reliably unreliable unpaid assistant, Miss A.I. Chat, the youngest ever Welsh mayor, appointed at age 22, was a certain Owen Hurcum, “the first openly non-binary mayor of any city worldwide.” Is this Miss Chat’s odd sense of humour again?
Leaving school at 16, Mark Serwotka worked in a benefits office. Becoming involved in the trade union movement, he rose to become General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents civil servants.
Considered too extreme by Labour leader Neil Kinnock, Mark was expelled from the Labour Party in 1991 after being exposed as belonging to the Trotskyist Socialist Alliance.
When first elected to lead his union in 2000, Comrade Mark pledged to align his salary with that of the average PCS member. However, union rules required him to accept the full remuneration to “maintain the integrity of the negotiated pay structure.”
By 2011, his annual wage was around £86,000, supplemented by over £25,000 in pension contributions and a housing allowance exceeding £1,000. According to the TaxPayers’ Alliance, by 2017 his remuneration had increased to an inflation-busting £107,788, and by 2021, Brother Serwotka’s annual wages touched £124,608.
Now retired, the Daily Mail estimates Mr Serwokta’s union pension will provide an annual income of £63,554.22.
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Question one was about the decline of Labour in Wales and the rise of Reform and Plaid Cymru.
“How do you regain the trust?” La Bruce asked of Alex Davies-Jones. “By delivering,” she replied — the subtext being: by tipping English taxpayers’ money on the natives, as though the Welsh are incapable of doing anything for themselves.
In a comedy Welsh accent, she mentioned “both ends of the M4”, as if the Labour government in London gave a toss about anything outside of a North London bubble.
She mentioned free prescriptions and schools but was pulled up by La Bruce, who reminded her how badly the Principality scores in international education comparison sites.
Llinos began by saying Oxford and Cambridge are now in Wales. Oh. In an accent beyond the Welsh-comedic, she talked too quickly, as if overexcited at being on the tell-eee. So quickly, perhaps fortunately, that I couldn’t understand what she was saying.
Regarding Oxford and Cambridge being in Wales, Alex explained that a railway line from Oxford to Cambridge was being paid for from English and Welsh funding, because that was the nature of the administrative pot the money came from. En route, she spoiled her copybook by mentioning “train station” instead of “railway station”.
With the pair of them talking too fast, over each other, and trying too hard to be Ryan and Ronnie, we shall concentrate on this week’s girl war. They all wore dark jackets over light tops, La Bruce’s being shades of Air Force blue, the others black over white.
As Puffins will already realise, I didn’t spend the evening staring at Annabel’s bust, but I couldn’t help but notice the top five gold buttons of her white top were undone. Beneath lay a pleasing combination of skin and bling. Llinos had a white blouse beneath a jacket. Not unattractive, but a bit Matalan, if not Primark. Likewise Alex, but her white blouse was polka-dotted.
La Bruce won again in an alluring Siberian dusk-coloured jacket above a light blue top showing the recognition letters “M” and “O”. Bits of gold danced about them — not bling this time, but the precious metals used in a warhead. The last thing a Tu-99 pilot might see as La Bruce glides in for the kill on a midsummer Arctic evening.
Lots of English people spoke from the audience — in fact, only English people spoke from the audience. One was a lifelong Labour supporter, a parent of two adult disabled children, frustrated at Labour cutting benefits to get the disabled into work, while her children had spent a lifetime not being able to find employment.
Another said Keir Starmer doesn’t seem to have a plan. As we keep on mentioning in QT Review, there is a plan — mass immigration, high taxes and Net Zero — but it doesn’t work.
Extreme leftie Mark began by blaming the Tories for everything. Via reference to an “unloved landslide”, he turned his ire (to applause) on the disappointing new government in London.
When let down by Blair, Labour voters had nowhere else to go. But today, people can vote Reform. He (rightly) didn’t believe in Mr Starmer’s £22 billion black hole, but pointed out that to fill it, Starmer hadn’t brought in a wealth tax but had fleeced the most vulnerable — the disabled, the elderly.
Mark spoke very well — shame he’s a leftie.
He wouldn’t recommend a Labour vote in the forthcoming Welsh Assembly elections and expressed his dissatisfaction with the present elite by posing the following question: Would the politicians of today found the NHS?
In moving to the Tories, La Bruce reminded Darren he’s crap. All 12 MPs lost at the election. The Conservatives are way down in the polls.
Darren ignored her and gave Labour a good kicking, both on their national and Welsh records. And don’t forget, Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems have been propping them up in the Senedd.
Annabel joined in, saying how far behind the rest of the UK Wales is. Part of the reason being the waste of (English taxpayers’) money. She read from her notes that the Principality has become a laboratory for some of the worst policies ever foisted on the British public.
A gentleman said all the parties are missing something. You can say that again! Rather than brain cells, he thought what was missing was a healthy economy. Unfortunately, his own brain cells were struggling, as he stated that a vibrant economy results from higher taxes and more public spending.
The next question was about illegal immigration across the Channel. Are the numbers up because there isn’t a policy, or because of the good weather? Alex blamed the “criminal gangs”, adding that two people in Wales have been arrested — so there.
It was all very formulaic. We’ve heard it all before and are bored stupid by it — so much so that it was time for me to emigrate to bed, while pondering a political elite in favour of mass, uncontrolled, unlimited immigration at any cost — who, perhaps, can’t be stopped by anything other than Reform.
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