A bit of a punfest has broken out over on that other website following Jamie Adams’ promotion of retired Crymych baker Cllr Keith Lewis to deputy leader of PCC.
Jacob scaled new heights, or, depending on your taste, plumbed new depths, when he likened the saga to Shakespeare’s “Much a dough about muffins.”
It seems that, when confecting bake house puns, readers of that other site are determined to leave no scone unturned.
Still, as they say: the man who never made a cupcake never made anything.
Cllr Lewis’s promotion will allow him to sponge an extra £2,500 from the taxpayer.
There was one excellent piece of news last week when seven FIFA bigwigs received an early morning call from the Swiss police and are now awaiting extradition to the United States where an indictment has been filed alleging money-laundering and various other forms of corruption.
Despite these troubles, Sepp Blatter easily won the vote for the presidency of FIFA in the face of opposition from most of the big-hitters in Europe.
Mr Blatter is a cunning old fox and enjoys the support of most of the smaller – some would say insignificant – nations which he has larded with FIFA cash over the past several years.
The similarity with the way power is acquired and retained in PCC is striking.
However, just a few days later Sepp has handed in his resignation.
He is presenting this about turn as an act of self-sacrifice for the game he loves.
My hunch is that the FBI have unearthed evidence that leads straight to Blatter’s bank account and he is jumping ship before it goes down with all hands.
Meanwhile Lib Dem MP Alaistair Carmichael is in a spot of bother with the Parliamentary Standards Committee over the leaking of a memo during the election campaign suggesting that Nicola Sturgeon had told the French Ambassador that she would prefer David Cameron as Prime Minister.
Leaking the document was one of those dirty tricks that are a Lib Dem specialty and would be bad enough in itself, but in Carmichael’s case it is even worse because when asked about it by the press he denied all knowledge.
This, he has now admitted, was a lie.
To add insult to injury we had Lib Dem grandee Sir Malcolm Bruce on the Today Programme defending his colleague’s action by suggesting that telling lies is a matter of routine for most politicians.
If that is true, all the more reason why they should have the book thrown at them when they are found out.
Carmichael’s chances of surviving this scandal are slim indeed and the SNP can now look forward to making it 57 out of 59 Scottish seats.
If they repeat their success at next Scottish Parliament elections the country will have become a virtual one-party state.
Meanwhile Jamie Adams clings on to power in the Kremlin on Cleddau, though rumours are again circulating about Cllr Brian Hall’s breakaway party.
This seems to be an annual event timed to coincide with hearing the first cuckoo.
But as a South African football official said on Radio 4 the other morning before Blatter decided to cut and run: “When someone surrounds themselves with their cronies and lackeys they become difficult to dislodge.”
And so it proved when the Leader faced a vote of no confidence over the mendacious account of his expedition into the attic of Coronation School Pembroke Dock with his sidekick Cllr David Pugh.
The minutes (no 65) show that Cllr Adams survived comfortably by 29 – 20 with only Cllr Miles Pepper failing to toe the party line but being cancelled out by Phil Kidney (unaffiliated) who supported the Leader.
However, changes over the past couple of years have seriously depleted Cllr Adams’ war chest and he is now clinging on by his fingertips.
First the Remuneration Panel scrapped Special Responsibility Allowances for vice-chairmen of scrutiny committees and other committees – seven £4,500-a-year sinecures down the pan.
Then the Local Government Measure removed the ruling clique’s monopoly of scrutiny committee chairs – three at nine grand, and changes to Milford Haven Port Authority’s constitution did away with the two local authority appointed board members which deprived two IPPG lackeys of the £6,500 salary that went with the job.
And, finally, the leader couldn’t even deliver the council vice-chairmanship to one of his own.
All we now need is for the FBI to start taking an interest in Pembrokeshire and the game will be up.
I also notice that the bungalow farmers have staged a comeback with the most recent council meeting giving planning permissions for a house near Spittal and a caravan park at St Florence despite the fact that both were contrary to the development plan.
The Leader spoke out strongly against both these departures from policy which is richly ironic given that both he (Cottage industry) and his predecessor (No udder conclusion) were the recipients of dodgy agricultural consents as a result of the bungalow farmers’ creative use of the planning system.
It seems the National Park has also caught the disease because it recently granted retrospective permission for a campsite near St Davids in clear violation of its statutory policy.
According to the newspaper report, the applicant told the Park Committee that they needed the income from the campsite because they couldn’t make the farm pay and neither had they been able to get a job to help them keep house and home together.
Does this mean that the policy has been changed to allow anyone with a field and a tear-jerking hard-luck story to have consent for a campsite. And, if not, how does that square with the principle of justice that says everyone is equal before the law?
I will return to this subject in more detail later in the week.