If Gary Jones is right about anything to do with Ysgolion Llangennech, it will be a first.

I’m not really obsessed with Plaid at all. My fundamental, overarching concern is Wales, and doing the best for our people. I write about Plaid because it is in a position to achieve something but does nothing. And worse, doesn’t seem to try.

As for Llangennech, wasn’t that a decision by the county council? I’m aware of the good work done by Gwyn Hopkins, but Gary ‘Poumista’ Jones insists that a couple of Plaid community councillors support him, and the shy, retiring Michaela Beddows. Is he right?

Your obsession with Plaid distracts you to such an extent that you fail to see that it is precisely a Plaid Cymru Council that is changing Llangennech from a dual stream to a Welsh medium school in the first place. Plaid Cymru has been involved since the very beginning, Jac.

I understand that the Bethan Jenkins arrest was the result of a tip-off. She had attended a demonstration in Newport that day, and subsequently consumed excess alcohol at a residential premises in Cardiff with personal acquaintances. I understand the police stop was (a) concern for her welfare, and (b) suspected drink driving. The police were acting on information received.

The correct course of action if you are in the presence of a person who has consumed excess alcohol is to confiscate the car keys to prevent the crime occurring in the first place. To allow the person to put themselves (and others) in danger and subsequently ‘dob-them-in’ suggests other motives, but it is the correct course of action once a drunk has ventured onto the road.

What’s needed in the Senedd is more like McEvoy with some fire in their bellies. Of course he has his faults or he wouldn’t be human. I look around me and I see my country imploding…..economically, culturally and linguistically. If we have any hope of stopping this, then Labour need to be kicked out for good along with the other London parties.

Brychan

I hadn’t realised it was drink driving – in her pyjamas as well? Willing to risk driving after some pops but not for her electors?
NM has got under their skin probably because he only joined the club last May and has already stirred things up in a way which the others have not. I wonder if any of these other AM’s would have even risked going to court to help an eviction defendant? Good for him I’m sure the person was delighted to have such help and AM’s get to know first hand what really goes on in the S Wales corrupt courts.
If I had known about the Julie Richards domestic abuse allegation that would have told me all I needed to know – they are generally false, made for advantage and if in court made to get legal aid for the lawyer, oh and custody of any children. Judges always like or prefer legally aided plaintiffs/defendants.

This is your most worrying contribution yet. First off, I know Keith Parry, we go back a long time, and if he supports McEvoy, then that’s a plus in my book. Now you say that he scares you, which puts a different complexion on it. And if that is the case, why are you commenting here, you must know that he reads this blog, and could probably identify you?

And if there around 200 Plaid members in Cardiff West I don’t understand how, with the meagre support you allege, he got selected as candidate. (Which is the question I now see Dafis asking.)

The problem I have with all that is that the ballot remains secret – therefore if so many people find McEvoy not to their liking how did he conjure a majority ? That question, by the way, is not an invite for some imaginative Labour twat to come on here and accuse the man of ballot rigging ! as we all know that in other parts of the U.K Labour have mastered the dark arts in that subject area.

I have backed McEvoy since he joined Plaid from Labour; I have put my own reputation on the line to support him. Apart from Keith Parry (who is a decent man), and McEvoy’s staff and family, I can’t think of one long-term (more than three years) member of Plaid in Cardiff West who is willing to publicly support him on a forum such as this. There are quite a few people on Facebook and Twitter who are lending their support but these aren’t members in Cardiff West, where Plaid has around 200 members.

Spend some time with him and draw your own conclusions. I wish that I could publically challenge him but to be honest he scares me.

The problem I have with what you say is the reference to ‘a silent majority’, because this is a tactic used by many people to disguise the fact that there is little or no support for what they say. What evidence do you have for your allegations?