A prominent and longstanding member of Plaid Cymru has urged the party to pull out immediately from its Cooperation Agreement with Welsh Labour to avoid being tainted by association with Vaughan Gething.
Dr Dewi Evans, a retired consultant paediatrician, stood unsuccessfully to be national chair of Plaid in 2019.
He has written to all Plaid members in his home constituency of Carmarthen, urging them to join him in calling for an immediate end to the Cooperation Agreement.
In December 2021, the Welsh Labour government and Plaid Cymru signed a three-year deal, where the two parties agreed to work together in 46 policy areas. The agreement is not a coalition or confidence and supply agreement; Plaid Cymru remain in opposition but can appoint advisers to offices of the Welsh Government.
The Welsh rosette is rather less blue than the English one… I remember when red and blue were distinct and different.
I suspect that many Welsh men who vote blue to get rid of “Dripford” would be horrified if their local authority were to go blue. Which is a distinct possibility if the anti-Tory vote is split.
Definitely agree with you there, Welsh Labour seem a little less tainted by the current direction the UK Labour Party is heading. Still too far right for my liking, though.
Worth noting I’m in favour of Independence though, so a unionist party doesn’t inspire much hope regardless of colour.
I am broadly in favour of independence, however not on the terms currently apparently promoted by Plaid - nationalism has limited use in the world today unless you are big enough and ugly enough to ignore what others might think.
Whatever the ultimate destiny of Wales, it won’t be a success if we are lead by people blaming the current situation entirely on Westminster and refusing to engage with the larger nation next door.
There seems to be a tendency, here in the Valleys as well as in Wales at large, to abdicate “personal” responsibility - everything is someone else’s problem (Westminster, local authority, police whoever can be conveniently blamed but never, ever, the locals or their actions) sadly, in the political arena, this plays right into the Tory playbook - they are masters of divide and conquer, having spent much of history doing just that.