I expected no less from the BBC.

Here you go Royston, less than two weeks removed from Neil McEvoy being re-elected to Cardiff city council, and this appears.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-61436605

A coincidence, or is he still perceived as a threat to the established order. You decide.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/taunton-woman-tried-incite-schoolgirl-1372477

In January 2021, he turns up in Plymouth and after an arrest for possession of drugs, it was found that he had failed to properly register his address there as a registered sex offender.

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/sex-offender-27-could-jailed-4852745

He was handed a further sentence of nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months, and at that hearing the barrister commented “He is described as hostile in a police interview. He called the officer and idiot and said she was a slag”.

Move to Wales.

On 14th May 2022, Jack Harris ends up in social housing in the Port Tennat area of Swansea. We know this because he was convicted at Swansea Crown Court for train fare evasion, detected as the train was travelling into Wales from Bristol. Police were alerted and while being apprehended upon arrival an altercation took place which resulted in the dislocation of a police officers shoulder.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/travelling-train-without-ticket-23954362

“Harris was restrained and taken to the floor, and this was to be the start of a violent 20 minute disturbance played out in front of shocked passengers during which he threatened to cut an officer’s throat, to bite-off an officer’s nose, and made crude sexual suggestions about the mother of one. During the struggle he also mocked the shoes of an officer, repeatedly told police they were abusing their power, and told them they owed him for a packet of crisps which he had dropped. When he began clearing his throat as if to start spitting, a hood was place over his head.”

https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article23955317.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_SWEP_JE_JackHarrisStationAffray13052022JPG.jpg

The judge also activated six months of the previously imposed suspended sentence for failing to comply with the sexual notification requirements to run consecutively with the sentence for the station offences, making an overall sentence of 16 months. Harris will serve up to half the 16 months in prison before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.

Which community?
How did he end up in Port Tennant?

I certainly like to think that history will look upon these elections as the beginning of the end of the Hegemonic Fiefdom.

I think that you may have answered your own question, Jac.

Just look at the results summary for England, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2022/england/results. Included here are the Reform party with just 2 councillors and UKIP who were wiped out and now have no local councillors.

And it’s not as if the BBC are not aware of Neil McEvoy and his party. Four stories, three of them full of negativity and one, probably grudgingly, added to provide that famed BBC balance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-60491267
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58996114
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-55797912
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49964366

The British establishment propaganda outlet, as ever, are setting the agenda, creating a narrative, just as they do in Scotland. Love him or loathe him, just remember how they treated Alex Salmond, here, https://inews.co.uk/news/bbc-told-it-failed-to-do-enough-to-correct-a-serious-error-in-coverage-of-alex-salmond-and-nicola-sturgeon-1502621
here, https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/bbc-says-sorry-first-minister-rude-and-dismissive-interview-2453523 and once again here,https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alex-salmond-could-sue-bbc-over-one-sided-trial-documentary-hosted-by-kirsty-wark-zz5g9lcfh.

One fly in the ointment in Scotland was bad enough, imagine if there were one in Wales also.

Is it a genuine mistake or is it deliberate?

Same in Cardiff (McEvoy, Propel). As far as I’m aware, both Gwald and Propel are registered as political parties at the electoral commission and the returning officers have correctly recorded this. The BBC are in error.

Ceredigion councillors have been reduced in number from 42 to 38. What is odd though (and misleading) is that the BBC has lumped in Gwlad with the Independents total, rather than listing that seat as being won by Gwlad, a separate party. This is incorrect – the ballot paper did not list Gwyn Wigley Evans as “Independent” in any way, rather the name “Gwlad” was on the paper that electors marked, and the totals the BBC list should reflect this

Or did Plaid really gain one?