Oi, Mush! I don’t man this blog 24/7; I have other things to do, football to watch, meals to eat. I have removed the piece you objected to – haven’t you checked? Now take yourself away unto a far place.

I notice you have also failed to publish my previous post here. One can only assume your faceless accusations and blatant attempts at deformation of character, have also resulted in your morphing to an invertebrate?

See you in court soon!

Different and probably difficult to motivate out of that negative mindset. But radical pro-independence parties will have to make a sustained barrage of information in punchy succinct points to stimulate initial interest with more in-depth info to hand for those whose curiosity is sufficiently aroused. This will require people willing to discuss debate and argue, yet not resort to some abstract moral “high ground” in which so many of our present representative leaders are inclined to indulge.

Newport West is very similar to Cardiff West in terms of cultural demographics. The fact that Neil McEvoy can draw half the vote in one constituency and Plaid Cymru can barely scrape 5% of the vote in the other tells a story. The narrative of Plaid Cymru does not engage the electorate. This is because Plaid is currently obsessed with ‘middle class coffee shop ishoos’ and is not relevant to ordinary working people of the inner city. It’s wrong to say that the people of Newport are any less Welsh than their compatriots elsewhere. They are ‘different’ and they have a unique Welsh identity, something that has not been ‘engaged’. The reality is that over 60% of the voters in Newport West did not vote at all and are turned off by ‘British’ politics and there is no party that is providing an Welsh alternative motivating them to turn out at the ballot box.

https://nation.cymru/opinion/why-a-new-200000-fund-is-critical-to-supporting-independent-journalism-in-wales/

or does it mean that you have to be a touch more “compliant” to get the deal ?

Maybe they should have found a tourism project and shovelled any grants received into the construction business instead?

Will be interesting to see/watch who buys out the salvageable bits of the wreckage, may give a clue as to what happened.

With regard to Neil Hamilton [and Missus?] – from some dealings in west wales people have found him far better at raising issues with councils than the plaid MP/MP, maybe a lesson for Caebrwyn as she tries valiantly to deal with Carms CC and its CE. Looks like Jonathan Edwards MP not quite cutting the mustard. NH not to my liking due to his past etc but if he does his day job in comparison to others then not to be dismissed.

That’s what you get with a “Hide Behind the Sofa” party. Sadly they’re not so gentle and timid when it comes to attacking their own within the ranks.

Lee Felton provided a nice analysis on the by-election on our News Portal, I don’t know if you’ve read it. If not you can find it by clicking HERE.

You’re right about Newport being a hard nut to crack, as are big swathes of old Monmouthshire. I lived and worked in the Cwmbran/ Newport area in the late seventies and early eighties. It was quite a culture shock to see how closely aligned with the Bristol area the public down there are. Of course historically they have been aligned with England and were administered from there until comparatively recently. The Gwent Valleys are a different proposition though, and ripe for the picking in my view.

Newport was always a hard nut to crack. Though given the rise in house prices due to the removal of bridge tolls leading to an influx of Bristol commuters Plaid should have done better. But of course Plaid Cymru would never play that card, it would be too ‘nationalist’.