Some days ago I asked the question "When Ed Townsend ousts Jessica Morden in Newport East, which barrel will he thhow himself across in order to gain power. Will he drop his trousers grit his teeth and think of Baby Face Nick facing to the left, to be buggered by Mandelson in exchange for power on Gordon Brown's government benches, or will he instead face to the right so as to be buggered by Duncan in exchange for his buddy Nick getting a seat at Diddy Dave's right hand.

At the time I pointed out that past performance suggests a leftward bias seeing that the Welsh Lib Dems bit the bullet and propped up Rhodri Morgan's Labour administration in the Assembly rather than see the Tories get handed power, just as David Steel propped up Jim Callaghan in the "Crisis, I see No Crisis" government of the unburied dead in the winter of discontent.

And today I have my answer. Ed Balls And Peter Hain have both told The Torygraph that voters who find Gordon's Government of The Talentless a step too far on the ballot paper should vote Lib Dem so as to keep Diddy Dave from Number Ten.

Mind you, Cameron's party are still hated more than the black death in the constituency I am contesting, and a couple of adjacent ones. Out canvassing with our activists yesterday many of those who spoke to me said they hated to see Brown returned to power but could not stomach the thought of Cameron being victorious after what Thatcher did to the area.

It'll be another century before there will be a welcome in these hillsides for Cameron.

The problem is, by the time it happens the voices in the valley won't be singing "Bread of Heaven" like they did when wales won the Grand Slam in the 80's.

They'll be singing "Allah Akbar"