Instead, they swapped one popular leader in Rhodri Morgan for another in Carwyn Jones, heldontight and waited for a change of government in Westminster.
By the 1980s the state gas sector that ran the operation was controlled by a classic Soviet functionary, Victor Chernomyrdin, and he heldontight to his post until 1992, a year after Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected leader of Russia.