We need a new law on Electoral Expenses,

Well with with only a 8 days to go to election day I still have only received one Candidates election communication  and a letter from Carwyn Jones .

Modern technology now allows you to do mailshots to individual voters but the Tories may however have come a cropper  in the letter it appears that is being sent to voters

Wakes Online reports that 

The cost of personal letters sent by Theresa May to voters that include references to local seats should be included in the expenses of local candidates, according to a former general secretary of Plaid Cymru.Emrys Roberts and his wife Margaret received a letter from the Prime Minister containing six references to the Cardiff West constituency in which they live.

he letter from Mrs May to Mr and Mrs Roberts states: 

“If we don’t get the Brexit deal right, your economic security and prosperity will be put at risk, and the opportunities you seek for your family will simply not happen.
“But with your help, Margaret and Emrys, and your votes locally in the Cardiff West constituency, together we can get it right.”

Later, Mrs May states:

 “Some people say Jeremy Corbyn can’t possibly become Prime Minister and it doesn’t matter how you vote locally in Cardiff West constituency.“But just remember the opinion polls got the general election wrong in 2015.
“It’s nonsense for Labour to claim that a vote for them locally in the Cardiff West constituency doesn’t matter nationally.
“Because the simple fact is that Jeremy Corbyn will claim each and every vote for Labour in the Cardiff West constituency as a vote for him, and as a vote for his nonsensical and dangerous ideas.

 h“And if Jeremy Corbyn wins in the Cardiff West constituency, his position is strengthened and my negotiating position weakened.

“So the only way to back me is by voting Conservative in your local constituency of Cardiff West.”

 n a letter to the election returning officer, Mr Roberts and his wife stated:

 “We enclose a copy of a letter which we have recently received from Theresa May. Everyone I have spoken to locally has received a copy of the same letter.“We would draw your attention to the fact that our names and the constituency in which we vote are mentioned four times (sic) each.
“The letter is obviously an attempt to persuade us to vote a certain way in a particular constituency and our understanding of electoral law indicates that the cost of producing and sending the letter to us – and presumably to every other household which includes persons with a vote in this constituency – must be included within the permitted expenditure of the Conservative Party candidate and the total must be included in the financial returns which have to be forwarded to you after the election. We trust you will ensure that this is done.”

Mr Roberts told uthe Mule 

 “The fact that the letter has gone out under the imprint of the director general of the UK Conservative Party strengthens my concern that they intend to class this as national, rather than local, expenditure, which in my view would be in breach of both the letter and the spirit of electoral law.
“When a few weeks ago the Crown Prosecution Service said it would not be bringing charges against a number of Conservative candidates and agents at the 2015 general election who had failed to include items of spending in their local expense returns, the reason given for not prosecuting was because the agents said they did not know the law.
“I want to make sure that excuse cannot be trotted out again, which is why I have written to the returning officer and to the Conservative agent.”I

If this is true then its deplorable   flouting of the spirit of the law even if the CPS has proven time and and Time again to be toothless  in such issues.

But so is Carwyn's " letter" 

I am assuming that it has been sent to every one on the electoral register in Wales , but will be included in Labour's UK wide expenditure,

This means both the Tories and Labour can send such mail shot to every elector in Wales and write it of as UK expenditure.

We seem to have a situation where Parties can really spend as much as they like in a constituency  and pass it of as "National" expenditure.

Its a rigged system and the introduction of Mail shots mean we need not only  to update the rules but to enforce them.

Even if this men disqualification of Candidates  which seems to have the reason the CPS chickened out of the Tory scandal from the last election.

We need an electoral system which concentrates on the issues of the campaign , Mot on the manoeuvrings of accountants.

 

 

Wasting Mule has fortnight old "Scoop"

Congratulations to Martin Shipton of the Wasting Mule  for his scoop on Labour have devoting a leaflet to a message from former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Elis-Thomas

An entire Welsh Labour leaflet has been devoted to a message from former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Elis-Thomas urging voters to back Cardiff West Labour candidate Kevin Brennan in the general election.
In a wholly unprecedented move Lord Elis-Thomas, who resigned from Plaid last year and now sits as an Independent AM, warned that the seat could be won by the Conservatives if “progressive” voters who normally vote Plaid, Liberal Democrat or Green don’t swing behind Mr Brennan, who has represented the seat since 2001 and had a majority of 6,789 in 2015.

Scoop? Well this Blog reported on this over a fortnight ago  on May 13 ans I was alerted to it by Cai Larson  of Blog Menai who even producer the relevant leaflet



Now don't get a huge readership and don't now if anyone from the Mule reads this 

I bet  Cai's Blog Menai gets monitored regularly. and one wonders why this has only hit the headlined now?

Is it maybe a new leaflet? Or is it Labour Press Office pushing their story.

It is clear from listing to this Mornings Breakfast which comes from Wales , claiming to cover the election here that they are pushing the Labour V Tory agenda.  

So maybe its not a surprise that any chance of Plaid advancing even more in Cardiff West is sidelined,

Of course as I pointed out Dafydd Els endorsement does not always work for his preferred candidate,

But is it not time the AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd  did the honourable thing and redesign his seat  and fought a By-election?  As an Independent  i have no doubt he would win but I wonder what would happen if he stood for Labour?

Chris Bryant seems to have forgotten his Tory past.

Chris Bryant who us defending the Rhondda seat for Labour seems to have forgotten part of his own CV.

In the Wales Online guide to the Constituency Battle he was asked 


What inspired you to get in to politics?

Two words. Mrs Thatcher. When I was a young vicar in the 1980s I saw what Mrs Thatcher had done to the inner cities and the mining communities of this country and how she had promoted greed and selfishness by letting the banks run riot. It made me angry and determined to do everything I could to change this country. She did something else. She sucked up to dictators like General Pinochet in Chile, who had killed and tortured friends of mine – so I wanted to stop this country selling arms and torture weapons to dictatorships – and she had allowed Rupert Murdoch to have far too much power. My biggest fear now is what the Tories will do if they get a massive majority.

Which is odd since according to the Wikimedia entry we are told 

"After completing his first degree, Bryant began his training to be a priest in the Church of England at Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire. There, he obtained a further degree in theology. Although initially a member of the Conservative Party, and an elected office-holder in the Oxford University Conservative Association, he joined the Labour Party in 1986 after leaving Oxford."

Now I have no problem with Mr Bryamt   if he admitted to formally bring a Conservative , and  at the age of 24 changing his views. Many people  have a difference with the Politics of their youth however he was  asked What inspired you to get in to politics? and being an elected member of the Oxford University Conservative Association unless they had a very small membership ,seems to be he was an active member and not just there for the social life.

He does not however seem to use the excuse pf Ed Balls who while at Oxford University he was a partially active member of the Labour Club, but also signed up to the Liberal Club^[ as well as the Conservative Association, 

"because they used to book top-flight political speakers, and only members were allowed to attend their lectures" 

Of course Bryant was an enthusiastic Blarite , and maybe his shift in political thought was not that radical.

 While at Oxford University he was a partially active member of the Labour Club, but also signed up to the Liberal Club^[10] as well as the Conservative Association, "because they used to book top-flight political speakers, and only members were allowed to attend their lectures" according to friends.^[11] Balls was a founding member of the all-male drinking club, The Steamers, and suffered embarrassment when a contemporary photo of him wearing Nazi uniform appeared in the papers.^[12] 
Its not as if people are not aware of Chris Bryant past affiliation, but maybe as Plaid seem to be making advances in the Constituency maybe this not the time to remind the people of Rhondda.

Is the "English Question" really unsolvable?

As the General Election and Pol tics in general in Scotland diverts from a a mostly Labour-Tory battle to a Nationalist V Unionist campaign. We actually  see  very little  concrete proposal to address the devolution of powers and in particular what happens to a number of powers that  currently come under the EU which will be returned to the UK.

But I am not going to talk about Wales or Scotland , Because is it not about time the English Question is addresses?

The last Government after the Scottish Independence Referendum  saw David Cam for English Laws (EVEL) in which only English MPs are allowed to vote on laws perceived  as affecting (Mostly) England.

But it seems the English Problem will still remain unsolvable by what are supposed to be astute politicians.

Labour Manifesto claim they will will redress that imbalance as part of their thinking on devolution.by creating a Minister for England , who is actually currently the Prime Minister

However think more junior minister than an English Nicola Sturgeon.or Carwyn Jones and we can wonder what the English Minister would do.

Would they or the Minister currently responsible steer EVEL laws through the Commons if it is the latter then the Minister for England will be in his or her office with nothing to do.


UKIP wants to create an English Parliament with a First Minister of England sitting in the chamber of the abolished House of Lords.

In their plan, the English First Minister would be on an equal footing with the first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Ukip thinks the English First Minister and the English Parliament would share the House of Commons with the UK’s Prime Minister and a slimmed down House of Commons.

he manifesto says: 

“The public widely regards the UK’s current devolutionary system as fundamentally unfair, particularly to the English.
“Ukip will put England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on the same footing by instituting an English Parliament.
“It will sit in the chamber vacated by the House of Lords, have its own First Minister and its 375 members will be elected under the Additional Member system of proportional representation, one or more from each traditional county or large city and 125 top-up seats.”

Wouldn't this indicate that  some how the English Parliament is more important than its devolved equivalents? 

It would see MPs and EMP mixing in Westminster causing obvious friction  as they strut around like peacocks , trying to exert their influence

Its not for me to tell England where its devolved  Parliament but I think that it would benefit them if it was outside London in Manchester or Birmingham for example.

Why is the English problem so problematic, Could it be that in actually finding a solution , London politician realise that their "Precious Union" is doomed  as Scotland and then Wales realise that England under a permanent Tory Majority vastly differing from their Centre Left model.

PR may see an English Parliament open to the odd Non-Tory coalition, but the Tories would probably always be the largest party.

But if that's what England want unless they decide to devolve to the Regions instead that's the future for them.

It may sound selfish but why should Wales constantly , be part of a Union that is already resembling  an English-Tory  led hegemony.



  

Agree with Corbyn then probably don't vote Labour.

For the first time since I started voting at eighteen Labour have a leader who I agree with on many issues.

Except for his Unionism of course . Jeremy Corbyn refusal to support a second Scottish Referendum betrays a somewhat lack of understanding  of the whole devolution issue. Indeed i find myself struggling  to find what his views  are and suspect it does nor register  with his insular leftism which oddly makes the statesmen 

"I am not a nationalist, I'm an internationalist"

Still I an tin total agreement with him on linking the recent Terrorist Attacks with British Foreign policy

An informed understanding of the causes of terrorism is an essential part of an effective response that will protect the security of our people, that fights rather than fuels terrorism.
many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed out the connections between wars that we have been involved in, or supported, or fought, in other countries and terrorism here at home".
"That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children.
"Those terrorists will forever be reviled and implacably held to account for their actions.
"The blame is with the terrorists, but if we are to protect our people we must be honest about what threatens our security."

He said the causes 

"certainly cannot be reduced to foreign policy decisions alone" and said the prison system, where a "subculture of often suicidal violence" had developed among some young men, was also in need of "resources and reform".

You can read his full speech here , It is important as  his opponents try and misinterpret  him or arue that this is not the time to speak the truth 

Speaking on a BBC Wales Ask the Leader programme in Ebbw Vale on Friday, Welsh Leader Carwyn Jones said of Mr Corbyn's proposal:

 "There'll come a time for considering that, but that's not the time this evening.
"Bluntly, these people they will hate us whatever we do, no matter what we do.
"If we do nothing at all, if we don't get involved in any military conflict, they will still try and cause harm and death to us.
"The only way of dealing with them is to have the right level of intelligence to make sure that, as Jeremy Corbyn said, that their supply of weapons is cut off, that their money supply is cut off, to remove the means where they can cause such destruction.
"There is no room for negotiation with these people, they will never ever accept anything other than what they want, and that is something we can never accept."

Which is a misinterpretation of Corbyn's speech  coming from a supposed ally 

Even if he was to become Prime Minister.How many Labour Politicians are going to be brave enough to stand with Jeremy Corburn  and defy our lying smearing media from the BBC to the Sun and Mail?

Precious few indeed PM Corbyn would have to look across the chamber for SNP, Plaid and Green (and some Lib Dem) support.


That's the dilemma of those who support Corbyn , they may think that voting Labour will back him , but they could be electing a Labour MP who believes their first task would be to remove their leader even if he won and was Prime Minister.

I am lucky in that i don't have to even consider it . My Labour Candidate id Owen Smith who has already challenged Jeremy Corbyn and even if I was not intending to vote for Plaid's Fflur Haf , I would think more than twice about voting for Mr Corbyn.

Indeed if you support much of Jeremy's stance take a look to see if he's on your Labour Candidate electoral address. If not I would suggest you would be better off voting Plaid ,SNP or Green a real progressive alliance.
Even

Lack of Electoral Communications again..

This is becoming a regular complaint .

With less than a fortnight to go to the General Election the only electoral  communication  I have received is the "letter"  from First Minister  Carwyn Jones I mentioned yesterday and Plaid's Candidate Address, which  I received nearly a week ago.

Its pretty good Imust say.

I don't know how this is reflected in the rest of the constituency  it is possible that other electors have received all the mail from the other candidates and not from Plaid.


Alas I am old enough to remember sitting with a group of activist in a church hall addressing envelopes  by hand, Time that could be taken up canvassing '

Indeed it led to an uproar in the 1980's when the Plaid Head Office sent a guideline on this stating

"The Ladies are very good at this"

Considering the Plaid candidate was my old friend Janet Davies she was not alone in being more than slightly displeased,

Modern Technology has allowed the use of an electoral database to print mailshots .

I wonder to what extent do the Parties or Royal Mail stagger these freely delivered "Electoral Communications",

It is understandable otherwise our poor old Postie would be weighed dowm.


Is there an means of separating those on the electoral register who will be voting by post?

It's over 20% mow and many will have voted with over a week of the campaign to go .

Personally  I believe that only those unable to walk a short distance to the polling booths . should have a postal vote.

But if people ate not getting electoral communications then maybe we should consider  having a week period before the Official election campaign where parties are not allowed to take to the streets bit prepare their literature and get it printed ready to be dispatched.

I have of course made my mind up who i'm voting for  and its the above Elin Fflur , but I would like to see what the other candidate have tom say for themselves,

Just who are the "Welsh" Party leaders?

In some ways  this election has raised the question of just who is the Leader Branch Manager of the various parties in Wales? Especially as the Tories are trying to turn it  into a Presidential Election of May verses Corbyn,,

So who is fronting their Party here .



Plaid  Cymru.

No problem here Leanne Wood is undoubtedly the voice of her party and is the only one cannot be called a Branch Manager. After a gruelling month fighting the Local Government Election , she has now been every where on both UK and Welsh Media (though not as much as the Party hopes for.

Appearing  in the Welsh Leaders Debate Nd the UK one the day after she is proving to have huge amounts of stamina.

Labour

Clearly to have decide to push Carwyn Jones  rather than UK leader Jeremy Corbyn,or who ever is the Shadow Secretary of State at the moment is an interesting strategy and resulted in me receiving this through the Royal Mail Yesterday.

No mention of Corbyn and unless Carwyn  remembers me from our days in Aber and is writing to an old acquaintance  the above will be going to every voter. So I wonder how this will appear in the electoral expenses.

Conservatives

A real curiosity as John Dixon Points out

I suppose the very fact that the ‘Welsh’ manifesto was launched by the UK leader rather than depending on any natives should have been warning in itself (the self-styled ‘Welsh leader’ wasn’t even present – whether by lack of invitation or lack of inclination is unstated). But some of the comments made should give serious cause for concern in relation to the resilience (I was tempted to say strength and stability) of the devolution settlement. How can these statements:

So where is Andrew RT Davies? It was Alun Cairns who was push forward  invited to the recent BBC meet the leaders from Wales an appearance where he resembled   a deer caught in the headlights and surely the bombastic Andrew RT would have put up a better show.

Is he ill or is he resisting the power grab from Wales that Mrs May seem sto be pushing.

Liberal Democrats ,

With Uk leader Tim Farron  struggling to heared Mark Williams would be facing an uphill task and probably concentrating on defending his Ceredigion seat  where oddly if there a Tory swing he might lose to Plaid,

This would cause the Lib Dems a problem as their Constitution demands that the Welsh leader must be a MP or AM. Where will that leave Kirsty  and the "Not a Collation"  Assembly Government.

Ukip

It was Neil Hamilton who was pushed for the "Wales" segment of meet the leaders, which seems to confirm the finality of the coup against Nathan Gill who was deposed  as the Ukip Group Assembly leader shortly after he led them to an unrepresented 7 seats in the  last  General Election

Mr Gill then left the Group but still claims to lead Ukip Wales.

Perhaps this sorry state underlines the whole of the "Welsh" leaders branch Manager  syndrome.

Latest Poll takes us back to square one in Wales

The latest Welsh barometer poll  comes as shock only that it shows a  a return to the norm with huge reversal in the positions of Labour and the Conservatives, with Labour up nine points and the Tories down seven.

Previous polling had suggested that the Conservatives were about to make a historic breakthrough in Wales, seizing a slew of seats from Labour and sending more Welsh MPs to Westminster than any other party. However, if these numbers are accurate, only a single seat will change hands — as Labour take Gower back from the Conservatives. 

Conservatives: 41% (+1)
Labour: 35% (+5)
Plaid Cymru: 11% (-2)
Liberal Democrats: 7% (-1)
UKIP: 4% (-2)
Others: 2% (-1)

A situation one commentator seemed to think was not so bad if  it kept out Plaid out.

The Tories look set to make deep inroads into South and North Wales. Veteran contrarian Paul Flynn is set to lose while Kevin Brennan is in a dead heat in Cardiff West. Perhaps most strikingly, Owen Smith, who challenged Jeremy Corbyn last year for the leadership, is within a couple of thousand votes of losing in Pontypridd.
However, as bad as the situation looks, it could be worse. What happened in Scotland does not seem imminent in Wales.
It’s notable that Plaid’s number one target, Ynys Mon, a seat where they finished just 1% behind Labour in 2015 looks set to swing to the Tories rather than them.
The structure of Labour’s problem in Wales is as elsewhere across England: banks of Ukip votes tumbling to the Tories while Jeremy Corbyn turns off traditional Labour voters. Dreadful as this is, it’s still better than Plaid expanding across North Wales, breaking into South Wales and shutting Labour out entirely, as the SNP have in Scotland.

Latest

Of course there may be a few changes in individual  seats however but it looks the squeeze on other Parties is on.

For Plaid in particular it id a disappointing  poll after what did look like promise.

Some have been comparing Plaid to the SNP  but lets remember that even with a much more viable Scottish Media  the SNP 

974 (Feb)	21.9%	7 / 71
1974 (Oct)	30.4%	11 / 71	High-water mark, until 2015. Increased presence contributed to Labour holding a devolution referendum in 1979.
1979	17.3%	2 / 71	Poor performance compared to the two 1974 elections caused internal ructions during the 1980s.
1983	11.7%	2 / 72
1987	14.0%	3 / 72	During this period the SNP did win the Govern By election with Jim Sillars
1992	21.5%	3 / 72	A large rise in the SNP vote saw no increase in seats but did highlight that Scotland had voted against the Tories and despite  50 Labour MPs the  feeble 50) these were largely useless when it came to fighting Scotland cause
1997	22.1%	6 / 72	Th year of Balir's victory  and when there were no Tories in Scotland and Wales
2001	20.1%	5 / 72
2005	17.7%	6 / 59
2010	19.9%	6 / 59
2015	50.0%	56 / 59

The Independence referendum changed everything , but in order to to do this the SNP had to win in Holyrood .

Before then they, as Plaid are now were caught in a Catch 22 situation that in order to garner momentum they first had to win .

No Plaid leader has managed to make such an impact in UK elections as Leanne Wood  and I suspect a replacement would find it very hard..

Unless Plaid were to get lucky and there's a by election  win in the next few years which would create the momentum , but after the elation of 1974 the SNP found it hard going,

Clearly the answer is to win control of the Assembly , but even this could be a hard task.

Manchester Attack

In the  wake of the news of last night apparent terrorist  attack in Manchester . my  pithy polemics seem irrelevant.

\my thoughts are with the victims and their families.

Post Brexit we will be going Cap in hand to Westminster even more.

It has been speculated that one of reasons that Wales voted with England to leave the European Union was that Welsh Politicians were too busy fighting the Assembly Elections to put the case for the EU especially pointing out the funding that came from Brussels .

The latest 2014-2020 round of European Structural Funds was due to inject more than £2bn into the poorest parts of Wales.

Now we will be no longer getting such funding  in the future , the question now is we will receive equivalent funding  from Westminster?

Maybe not 

The Conservative manifesto states: 

“We will use the structural fund money that comes back to the UK following Brexit to create a United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund, specifically designed to reduce inequalities between communities across our four nations. The money that is spent will help deliver sustainable, inclusive growth based on our modern industrial strategy.
“We will consult widely on the design of the fund, including with the devolved administrations, local authorities, businesses and public bodies. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be cheap to administer, low in bureaucracy and targeted where it is needed most.”

Wales Online reports   Cardiff University’s Professor Kevin Morgan – one of Wales’ leading experts on regeneration and an adviser to the European Commission on regional policy – said Wales had the greatest level of need in the UK. as saying

“I really think it would be a really regressive step, a real step backwards, if central government saw the prosperity fund as [a fund] where poor areas simply bid into it willy-nilly on a one-off ad hoc basis...
“When you treat unequals equally that’s not a recipe for territorial justice...
“If the prosperity fund is treating unequal regions equally then it’s not a recipe for sustaining the union let alone rebalancing the economy. It would be a step backwards if the prosperity fund was simply a new bidding system and it didn’t recognise the structural inequalities that exist today, which is what the European Commission recognised.”

He also pointed out that it is important where the decision  will be made 

 With economic development being a devolved matter, I personally believe that that money that’s coming to Wales ought to be devolved to the [Welsh Government]...“It was an explicit promise from the Leave campaign that Wales would not be worse off as a result of Brexit, the implication being that London would underwrite the money that’s currently flowing from Brussels.”
: “Whatever’s wrong with the European Commission, and there’s lots wrong with it, at least in its very DNA it’s got a commitment to regional policy... Whereas you can’t say the same of Conservative Governments in Whitehall.”

Its about this time we listened to the Proclaimers ,

The Tories hope to control funding for Wales not only through how much is allocated , but how it is spent.



The former leader f the Quebec Party  Option National  Jean-Martin Aussant . puts it this way 

: Imagine you have $50 to buy music you like. Your neighbour takes the $50, and promises to give you back $55 worth of tunes."What he doesn't tell you is that it's music you don't like -- and there are $25 in administrative fees,"  "So you started off with $50 and you ended up with $30 worth of music you don't even like."That's Canadian equalization. We need to face the facts: We'd be better off keeping our money and choosing our own music."

This is true of Wales and Scotland as well


That means that this may result in infrastructure  projects being built , that could be as I have already argued see Wales divided into two and absorbed into England


Projects like reopening the Carmarthen- Aberystwyth line,  will be declared superfluous to our needs and although it will never be admitted of little benefit to the regions around Liverpool or Bristol.

We need decide what we want for Wales .

If you really believe bring absorbed by English regions  will benefit , then vote Tory or Labour (because  it is Labour councillors in the likes of Cardiff backing tying South Wales to Bristol)

However if you believe its time Wales grew up and  stopped going Cap in Hand  
then it time to consider Independence as an option.

"Welsh" Conservatives pick candidates from outside Wales

I think it was Syd Morgan who once said that the Tories could pick a candidate for a Valleys from outside Wales who would only be seen on the night of the count  catch the Train back to London the next day,

I thought  these days had changed , but (and these are only a few samples) it seems the term Welsh Conservatives is only a Geographic term

Pontypridd

ASH
Juliette
(address in the
Oxford West and
Abingdon
Constituency /
cyfeiriad yn
Etholaeth Oxford
West ac Abingdon)

Carmarthen East and DIinefwr

HUGHES
Anthony Havard Maengwyn (Ok Welsh Name)
99 Hillsborough Court
Mortimer Crescent
London
NW6 5NT

Rhondda

CROSBIE
Virginia
(address in the
Kensington and
Chelsea Constituency
/ cyfeiriad yn Etholaeth
Kensington a Chelsea


Some may have close connections to the Constituency but  I wonder if the Tories in Scotlamd would dare to send some  party Apparatchik north of the boarder to be a candidate  even if it was to defend Theresa May's  "Precious Union"

Of course if Plaid were to publish a list of Tory and other  candidates studding  in Wales from outside London  then the would be cries of racism ,

It is cleat from his name the Tory party candidate   Ynys Mon  Tomos Dafydd Davies has some Welsh connectionbut his address is given as  Streatham.

The point is the "Welsh" Conservatives try to pretend that they at least have some autonomy  and speak for Wales ,

But it is clear aren't even a Branch Office  but more of little more than a Postal Address ,

Vote Tory on June 8th and you may well find you have an MP for whom the Constituency  is no different from one in Kent , and the fact that it is in Wales  is irrelevant.

While I'm at it  this is the address given for Neil Hamilton already a Welsh Assembly  member standing for  something called Ukip Wales

Carmarthen East and DIinefwr

HAMILTON
Mostyn Neil
Bradfield
Hullavington
Wiltshire

SN14 6EU

How much longer will we be treated by contempt by Parties claiming to speak for Wales  who long term plan is to fully absorb us into England.

Extra



The ever vigilant Y Cneifiwr has given us a profile on the Tory Havard Hughes for Carmarthen East and DIinefwr, who does seem to have some local connections.

But as with some of the other  candidates above it is indicative that (and this ids not only the Tories) seem to think that actually living in Wales let alone the constituency  somehow means you are not qualified to be a MP>