Y haliwr mawr tew!

Everyone is asked to vote for their favorite Welsh heroes.

But something might not be right in the land of sheep and unpronounceable town names. Why, there might be an email campaign to get one person named.

The shock! The horror! There should be an investigation! What if the wrong Welshman is given the honor of being the Greatest Welshman of them all?

To quote from the Assembly Member Leighton Andrews:

"I can understand why people might want to get their friends to vote for a particular hero. It's not a hanging offence - this whole contest is a bit of fun.

"But if people want to get their friends to vote they should do so from their home e-mails. I'm not actually sure that members of organisations promoting the contest should be voting at all."

Politics: Secretly the high school prom committee all over again.

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	littlekitsch 2004-02-21 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Well, this certainly makes me proud to be Welsh! /sarcasm (Reply to this)(Thread)

	katemonkey 2004-02-21 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	What, Catherine Zeta Jones wasn't enough? ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kijikun 2004-02-21 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	I'm offended that the Irish don't have something like this! I wank Irish wank! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	musette 2004-02-22 06:10 am UTC (link)
	Psh, the Irish out wank them ALL. 1922/1922 dude, Easter Rising, etc. "omg Michael Collins you sell out!!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kijikun 2004-02-22 07:20 am UTC (link)
	It's sad really..I think the irish are too busy getting plastered to wank on the internet... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2004-02-22 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	Sounds good to me. Where's the Guinness? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	musette 2004-02-22 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Welsh wank? WELSH WANK?? boggles My ancestors are either spinning or pointing and laughing. I'm hoping the latter. (Reply to this)

darthfi
2004-02-22 02:53 pm UTC (link)

I'm going to sulk. John Humphries isn't on that list but Catherine Zeta Jones is?

There is no justice in this world.

*sulksulksulksulksulk*

Re the Irish wank - there was a memorable one a couple of years ago where the BBC hastily shut down a "Nation's Favourite Song" poll because vote-stuffing led to "A Nation Once Again" being top of the list.

Oh, and the organisers of the 100 Greatest Black Britons seem to have got slightly caught out. There was a sub-category of Greatest Female Black Briton, but not one of male, so they were clearly expecting a man to win... only Mary Seacole got it instead.

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