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Vote Labour Get Plaid?

  • Betsan Powys
  • 1 May 07, 11:25 AM

Gareth Thomas, a contributor to this blog and former Labour MP for Clwyd West is expected to endorse Dafydd Wigley as a candidate on the regional list in north Wales this afternoon.

He's not endorsing Plaid but must know his days a Labour Party member are about to come to an abrupt end.

Come on Gareth, tell us more!

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  • 1.
  • At 11:43 AM on 01 May 2007,
  • Arfon Jones wrote:

Betsan,

If Gareth Jones regains the Aberconwy seat and the other 3 Plaid AM's retain their seats, I feel it will be highly unlikely that Plaid will get 2 Regional seats, so Dafydd Wigley loses out... with or without Gareth Thomas's support...interesting developments though!! What do you think?

  • 2.
  • At 12:11 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Gareth Thomas wrote:

Yes. This is true I will be voting Plaid in the North Wales list. I believe Dafydd Wiggley is an outstanding politician whose experience, vision and passion will add value to the Assembly as it enters a new stage of its development. I will be voting for Alun Pugh in the individual seat of Clwyd West. I might not always warm to his style but there is no doubt that he has been a hard working AM and it would be a shame to lose him for a right wing Tory. If Wigley gets in it will carry the added bonus of knocking a Conservative off the North Wales list.
I expect to be chucked out of the Labour party for this. However I am not ready to join Plaid. I do not support their policy of independence and I continue to be of the view that Iraq notwithstanding Labour has been good for the UK and Wales.

  • 3.
  • At 12:21 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Henlaw wrote:

Why should GT's days as a Labour member come to an end? Bliar and Mandelson are helping Sarkozy fight an election against Labour's sister party candidate in France. But that's just silly of me - obviously there are totally different rules for bosses and workers in Blair's neo-con state. Surely the real question is why GT hasn't announced his resignation a long time ago.

Gareth Thomas wrote: "I continue to be of the view that Iraq notwithstanding Labour has been good for the UK and Wales."

Is he letting on more than he intended:)?

  • 5.
  • At 10:12 AM on 02 May 2007,
  • Lyn David Thomas wrote:

Well sounds like he was not a fan of the Iraq war. He is right Dafydd Wigley is an outstanding politician and a man of both passion and vision, something that many of the gray men and women in the Assembly lack.

  • 6.
  • At 11:52 AM on 02 May 2007,
  • John R. Walker wrote:

Has anybody asked Janet Ryder if she's planning to stand down if she gets elected as #1 on Plaid's N. Wales Regional list?

If I was a political journalist I would be asking her that very question...

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