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The Welsh Affairs Select Committee have put out a statement, one that a teenager would probably call "random".

Have a read:

"The Welsh Affairs Committee is aware that confusion still exists about the origin of the proposed veto in relation to the housing Legislative Competence Order (LCO).

The Committee's report on the LCO, published on 14 October 2008, did not include any suggestion that a veto should be introduced. There is no mention of a veto anywhere in the Committee's report.

The suggestion was the result of the redrafting of the Order by the Welsh Assembly Government and the Wales Office. This was communicated to the Committee in a letter from the Secretary of State for Wales, Paul Murphy, who wrote to the Committee on 9 January 2009 and advised that the proposed draft Order would be rewritten 'to require the consent of both the Welsh Ministers and the Secretary of State before any provision of an Assembly Measure could abolish the Right to Buy, Preserved Right to Buy or the Right to Acquire".

And there it ends. Curious stuff.

Why have they put it out at all? Because "confusion still exists" as they put it, or because they know who DID suggest the controversial, possibly unlawful veto as a way forward in the first place and want it made very clear it wasn't them.

At a guess then, it wasn't the Secretary of State either. Why point the finger at the boss?

So, any volunteers?

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