Will Plaid jump in bed with the Tories?

I was intrigued to read today’s Western Mail article where former MP Adam Price suggests that Plaid and the Lib Dems could form an Assembly coalition in 2016 after the next Assembly elections.

What's most interesting in the article is what he leaves unsaid; if there is to be a coalition Welsh Government post-2016, it will depend on both Labour winning less than half of the 60 seats up for grabs and the forming of an anti-Labour coalition by Plaid, the Lib Dems and, yes, the Conservatives.

This has been previously been attempted in 2007 when there were talks by the three parties to form a “rainbow coalition” in Cardiff Bay, but this subsequently failed to materialise. Adam Price further argues in the article that "it would be in the national interest to have a non-Labour administration next time."

Here’s a suggestion perhaps Adam and his Plaid colleagues may want to consider: If it's going to be the policy of Plaid to seek to form a coalition with the Tories and Lib Dems should they fall short of the “magic 31” seats needs to form a majority, then perhaps Plaid need to be upfront and honest with the electorate about their back-up plan before they go into the election.