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To close or not to close

• Betsan Powys
• 4 Apr 07, 09:47 AM

You're talking to me. Fantastic. Keep 'em coming.

So what did you make of the rumble in the Llandudno jungle? OK, so no fists were thrown a la Rhyl just down the coast a few years ago but the gloves came off over the future of Llandudno hospital.

Labour guarantee that if they win the election, it has a safe future.
Is that a guarantee that all its services are safe? No.

That was over breakfast.

By lunchtime they were faced with a long list of other hospitals all queuing up for the same guarantee. In today's West Wales Manifesto Withybush, Glangwili, Bronglais and Prince Phillip Hospitals are all guaranteed an equally sound future. Like football managers are 'safe' when they get the dreaded backing of the club? No say Labour - a real future offering the kind of services the community really needs.

Still sounds a bit like 'downgrading' to some people.

And was 'to close or not to close' ever the question in Llandudno? No, say Labour. No say the Lib Dems and the Tories. No too say Plaid Cymru, who pepper their every utterance on health nationally with references to Labour's "hospital closure programme".

Were Labour wise to spell out their position then, especially since the guarantee they did give came more than a little undone under scrutiny? Maybe not.

Nothing much has changed for Llandudno Hospital but after weeks of goading, at least Labour took a gamble and came out fighting.

Two more bits of news.

I gather there was a meeting of South Wales West Conservatives last night. Will they stick with the same line-up of candidates or not? More on that later.

And in the list of categories into which I save this blog - Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland etc - a new name has appeared. Cymru. Soon to appear then, a blog in Welsh.

Who says the 91热爆 never listens?