Neil Hamilton in desperate bid to keep his seat.

I suppose you can (if you are minded to) at least give Neil Hamilton the credit for sticking with Ukip despite  the rest of the seven members  Waka Junping and either joining the Brexit Party or becoming independents.and after having four people leading the party in the assembly in four years .

The last Gareth Bennett  left the party in November and such is the state of the party . No One Noticed.


Though it may be no  party wants to touch him with a bar  pole.

So the prospect for him getting reelected next year looks slim and he now seems to be seeking an alliance with the Abolish the Assembly Party

Wales Online reports that

UKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton has held talks with the leader of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party with a view to collaborating in advance of next year’s Senedd election, we can reveal.
Mr Hamilton confirmed he had invited Richard Suchorzewski to his Wiltshire home for lunch last Sunday to discuss “various options”.

After defections last year to the Brexit Party, and the resignation from the party of South Wales Central AM Gareth Bennett, Mr Hamilton is the only remaining Ukip AM.
He said: “Most of the people in the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party are former Kippers. Ukip wants to see the Assembly abolished too and it wouldn’t make sense to stand against each other.
“The Assembly has been a costly waste of money for the people of Wales. It’s achieved nothing. I’m not saying we should revert to the position before 1999 – I’d like to see real devolution, with money coming from the UK government directly to councils. I’d also like to see directly elected health boards, so the NHS would be democratically accountable to locally elected people instead of the current arrangement, where the health minister sits in an office in Cardiff.”
Mr Hamilton pointed out that both he and Mr Suchorzewski had stood in last year’s Newport West parliamentary by-election: “I got 8.6% of the vote and he got 0.9%,” he said. “We haven’t taken the conversation further, but one option could be a pact and another a merger. I don’t think Ukip is a tainted brand – we’ve got rid of Gerald Batten, who brought in Tommy Robinson, and another leader who struck me as a political fantasist.”
Mr Hamilton said he didn’t think the Brexit Party would succeed if it renamed itself the Reform Party: “Most of them are supporting the Tories now. I don’t think Mr Farage is really interested in leading a post-Brexit party. Isn’t he going to bugger off to America and work for Trump?”
Mr Suchorzewski wasn’t as upbeat about working with Mr Hamilton as Mr Hamilton was about working with him. He said: “Neil Hamilton’s invitation came out of the blue and I must say I enjoyed the cooking.
“There’s a solid core of voters who have always been against the Assembly, and I’m one of them. But Ukip has not been consistent, at first opposing the Assembly, then backing it and now it seems opposing it again.
"Can we be sure that Ukip genuinely supports abolishing the Assembly, or is this just a bit of political opportunism with a view to securing seats in the Assembly? We’d have to be convinced before making any deal.”

Note  Mr Hamilton confirmed he had invited Richard Suchorzewski to his Wiltshire home for lunch last Sunday to discuss “various options”.

This a member of the Senedd who still lives in England four years after he was elected to the then Assembly.

I doubt that you can legislate to prevent residents outside Wales for standing for the Senedd, but can you imagine a similar situation in the Northern Ireland assembly or Scottish Parliament.

The sooner he and the rest of the UKip/Brexit Party/Abolish the Assembly bunch the better.