ALLEGATIONS Westminster isn’t terribly concerned about Wales and the other devolved administrations are as common as giant inflatable daffodils at a Welsh rugby game.

So it was encouraging to see Theresa May travel to Cardiff on Monday to meet Carwyn Jones and various other Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders to discuss Brexit.

Surely this was an excellent show of unity in what is becoming an increasingly divided political landscape?

Or maybe not.

While yours truly and others members of the Welsh media were corralled into a stuffy room at Cardiff’s City Hall eager to question Mrs May and the other leaders about what they’d talked about in the private meeting, the Prime Minister decided to make a hasty exit via the back door, leaving Carwyn Jones et al to tell us what they felt they got out of the day.

Hardly the greatest show of togetherness and solidarity with her devolved colleagues.

- Remember the plan to merge Wales’ 22 councils into just eight or nine, including a so-called Super Gwent comprising Newport, Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Caerphilly?

The idea didn’t win much support and, after Labour found itself short of a majority following last May’s Assembly Election, Carwyn Jones conceded the plans would have to go back to the drawing board.

And yesterday local government and finance secretary Mark Drakeford presented the latest version of the plans.

Most notably, the revamped plan does away altogether with the idea of councils having to merge, although they’ll still be able to do so voluntarily by their own choice.

But there’s a number of other more unexpected little elements including giving councils the option to do away with the first past the post voting system in favour of the single transferable vote scheme in future elections, although this will come to late to take effect in this May’s poll.

The white paper also proposes lowering the voting age to 16 - an oft-mooted idea in Wales which could finally become a reality.

There’s also some technical bits about councils working more closely together to run services, but it’s nothing on the scale of what we had before.

If recent history has shown us anything it’s that trying to predict what politicians are going to do next is a fool’s game, but I’d expect the revamped plans to win much more widespread support.

Watch this space.

- Speaking of unpredictable politicians, a petition to stop Donald Trump from enjoying a state visit to the UK gathered steam over the weekend and has now been signed by more than 1.6 million people.

While anger at some of what he’s said and done is understandable, surely trying to prevent a state visit is now too late.

This isn’t like when they let the leader of the BNP on Question Time, President Trump already has a platform and whether or not he hops over the pond to shake hands with the Queen is irrelevant. He could scratch his nose and still make the front page of half the newspapers in the world.

Surely someone really opposed to his presidency would want to take the opportunity to show him in person just what they think of him.

The President spending his entire time here having placards waved in his face, which is what’s going to happen when he does come, sends a much stronger message.

Worse, trying to prevent him enjoying his already accepted state visit risks inflaming the infamous Trump temper. He’s already sacked his top lawyer for disagreeing with him, goodness only knows how he’d react if an entire country gave him the finger.

We’re already adrift in a sea of economic uncertainty with Brexit on the horizon, let’s not turn America against us as well.

That said, we are only a couple of weeks into the Trump presidency. Maybe he’ll forget he’s supposed to be well behaved and be forced to quit following some act of lunacy before he has a chance to pay us a visit.

At this point, nothing would surprise me.

- After months and years of preparation, debate and headlines, the Wales Bill, which seemed like it would go on long into future, was somewhat unceremoniously given Royal Assent and passed into law yesterday in something of a a political anticlimax.

So that’s the end of that.

As you were.