On his trip to Barry last Friday, David Cameron was forced to confess he'd never seen Gavin & Stacey. "I've never seen it, but I've heard it's very good," he said.
Which is fair enough: he's a politician, not a TV reviewer. But what could be more embarassing than learning the catchphrases and returning a week later and showing them off? The Conservatives winning the Vale of Glamorgan was "pretty tidy" he claimed, albeit in a clipped Old Etonian tone. And taking tea with Welsh Conservative leader Nick Bourne, Vale of Glamorgan parliamentary candidate Alun Cairns and council group leader Gordon Kemp outside the town's Fountain Tea Room, Mr Cameron asked “What’s occurring?” after being told by the waitress that the show had been filmed there. No word of a lie.
Onlookers noted how Mr Cairns was determined not to leave the side of Mr Cameron throughout his 15-minute visit (on to Nuneaton, taken from Labour, and Bury, from no overall control, next). Good job the dimunitive Mr Cairns can slip between the legs of the media scrum.
Oh, yes...the results. Plenty of analysis of those in tomorrow's Western Mail - and there's still 10 to come. Can Plaid save some face in Caerphilly? Surely Rhondda Cynon Taff won't see the same shock results as elsewhere? And can the Lib Dems (or 'Liberal Democrat Focus Team', as they seem to have billed themselves on the voting slips) continue their good run of form in Wrexham?