Come Thursday here on the island we get to vote for members of the Welsh assembly so let’s have a look at the thrilling possibilities democracy has for us.
Tories: er, don’t care, they’re fucking tories.
UKIP: er even more don’t care plus if Wales didn’t get European money it would be a damn site worse off you retards.
BNP: oh yeah these fuckwits have a candidate hoping to cadge votes from eejits and the extreme nationalists who are batshit insane. It’s pitiful that the BNP has grown and people are are not ashamed to be associated with them, well stoopid people aren’t.
So to the real contenders:-
Plaid Cymru: Ieuan Wyn Jones– big shot old guard back on the stage, Plaid to me are two parties, one the modern faction led by the wonderful Adam Price who leads the impeachment for Blair campaign, they are happy to claim the word socialist and want to build a powerful left representing the people who live in Wales. The other faction is more concerned with nationalism and language issues than socialism, which some will quietly decry. So when I support Plaid it is the new socialists who tickle my fancy. If Plaid can embrace the multicultural country that Wales has become the left can be a real force.
Lib Dems: Mandi Abrahams– a chequered history and often failing to get support because the race is between Labour and Plaid with Tories mopping up the nutcases. But the candidate for the assembly is good and I’d like to see her continue in island politics.
Independent: Peter Rogers– doesn’t have much chance, he is a centrist/pro-business so not very inspiring, but he does do good work for his constituents and stands up to a small cabal of corrupt island councillors. So he is probably doing more useful things as an island councillor than he would in the assembly.
Labour: well he doesn’t even live here, he says he will move if he wins, so a carpetbagger. Doesn’t say anything of substance, he is a Blairite thus morally reprehensible and undeserving of support.
So for me it is Plaid first vote and Lib Dems or Greens (who only have a candidate in the second vote regional lists) cos we got fancy pr type elections (best explained here, it is the same d’Hondt system as used by the European parliament, not perfect but way better than the shitty first past the post bullshit), woohoo, we are great.
None of the parties are particularly utilising the web well. As for the deluge of leaflets we have been sent it pains me to say the tories won the design award, good thick paper and a matte colour finish although obviously the content was not fully bilingual and all rubbish. Environmentally a disaster, which demonstrates the lack of even common sense the political parties show towards our planet. The likely-hood is a coalition will form to gain a majority in the assembly, the Lib Dems will almost certainly be part of that as a junior partner, ideally I’d like a Plaid/Lib ruling coalition. Labour are gonna get punished for right wing Blairism and his war crimes and hopefully no one will bother with tories apart from their core voters and gullible kids with the ignorant and confused minds of middle aged Mail readers.
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