Neil McEvoy suspended by Plaid again!

As the Party Conference season begins it seems Plaid have once again managed to have a problem with one of its AMs ,

It used to be Dafydd Elis Thomas but he has now left the party so the mantle of troublemaker in Chief now falls on Neil McEvoy.
Plaid Cymru AMs have unanimously voted to suspend Mr McEvoy from the party's group in the Welsh Assembly - the second time this year.

"As leader, I cannot allow elected members to act in a way which is detrimental to the party.
"We are a party and most importantly, a team. It is my duty not to allow behaviour which undermines its unity and integrity.
"I now look forward to the assembly group being able to move on strong and united, fully focused on the task of holding the Labour government to account and offering people effective representation at every level in all parts of Wales."

Asked later by BBC Wales whether there was a way for Mr McEvoy to be admitted back into the group, Ms Wood said:

"I don't know is the honest answer to that question.
"There have been a number of incidences over the summer talking about policy for example, attacking other members of the group and generally not treating other members with respect.
"Two members complained about that behaviour over the summer and the group collectively took action today."

Earlier this year, Mr McEvoy was suspended for a month by Cardiff council after an independent panel concluded that he made a bullying remark to a staff member.

He has recently angered colleagues by opposing party policy to end the right of council tenants to buy their homes.

Last week Mr McEvoy had a social media row with the party’s housing spokeswoman Bethan Jenkins, with whom he was once in a relationship, after defending the “right to buy” on the grounds that it had been the only way many working people had been able to buy their homes.

Mr McEvoy said it would be inappropriate for him to comment at this stage, but a friend said: “This changes nothing.

"Neil will keep fighting the corrupt Labour government.
"He came from an estate in Cardiff and he’s never forgotten where he’s come from. If Plaid is to keep calling itself the Party of Wales then it needs people like Neil in it.”

Without a doubt Neil McEvoy has raised Plaid profile in Cardiff West though the process could well have ben started by Dr Delme Bowen who pursued a much more gentle approach than Mr McEvoy  who favours confrontation with Labour.

His confrontation style against Labour both on Cardiff Council and the Assembly has seen him gain support from some Plaid quarters as well as a committed Nationalism.

The problem seems that the seems to favour confrontation with his colleagues.

I am not in favour of carolling Party Members into support of a particular policy and people must always take their conscious into account.but dissenter  should ask themselves whether the inevitable publicity is worth the damage it could do to their  Party

We will see whether Mr McEvoy will rejoin the group one wonder if Plaid are beginning to think that running Labour close in Cardiff West or even winning it is worth the discord and bad publicity  that this could l involve the Party as a whole.