It is all to easy to find fault in politicians these days and the quip that you can tell when a politician is lying because their lips are moving is going too far, although perhaps less so that in the past.
But it has not evaded everyone’s notice that the First Minister seems at best to be ‘all over the place’. Her jaunt around Wales when appointed (there was no election) seemed akin to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in 1390 but she set off to gather the views of the populous. The question is why she and her Party did not know what citizens want after 25 years in power. At best the charade was a dreadful admission of long term deafness and arrogant disregard.
Then we have the infamous ‘Labour priorities’ all eight of them, and all massive and manifestly unachievable.
If you mix this with publicly humiliating the CEO’s of the countries Health Boards and proclaiming that Mr. Trump is not a racist because blacks and Latinos voted for him, you are left wondering whether the first Minister has got the least grip of her responsibilities, how to lead effectively, and certainly how to construct and deliver a coherent and engaging narrative about Labour in Wales and the importance of supporting it.
These are little missteps but there are more, and they are accumulating fast. Unless sound advice arrives soon or a degree of political astuteness suddenly emerges, the unthinkable question of whether she can hold on, or whether she has to go, is a real question.