Neil McEvoy’s Welsh National Party forms first council group (of loyalists).

The news from Nation Cymru that Neil McEvoy’s Welsh National Party forms first council group is hardly groundbreaking.

As they say

Neil McEvoy’s new Welsh National Party announced its first political group in Wales on Cardiff Council today.Four independent Councillors announced they would join and are now members of the Welsh National Party, which was registered in January.The new group will be led by Cllr Keith Parry, with Cllr Andrea Gibson serving as Deputy Leader. The Group also includes Councillors Lisa Ford and Neil McEvoy AM.All four were elected to represent Plaid Cymru but after Neil McEvoy was expelled the others announced that they are resigning from the party in October. Cllr Keith Parry was the leader of the Plaid Cymru group.7

I believe Lisa Ford   is Mr McEvoy and the others probably hold their election to him Keith Parry may be leader  because In January Mr McEvoy was suspended as a councillor for four months after a council panel ruled he had bullied a care home worker.

Nation Cymru continue.

They said at the time that their decision to leave was motivated by the treatment of Neil McEvoy. The Councillors represent Fairwater and Ely wards in the west of the city where McEvoy intends to stand against First Minister Mark Drakeford in next year’s Senedd elections.Leader of the Welsh National Party group on Cardiff Council, Keith Parry, said:“The party is not being officially launched until the 3rd of April but we already have a four-strong group of Councillors in Wales’ capital city,” he said.“I’m really proud to lead this new group and this team as we push for individual, community and national sovereignty for Wales. We’ll also be putting forward positive proposals for sorting the housing crisis, tackling corruption and ending severe poverty in our city.“I’ve been politically active for decades and I’m just over the moon that we finally have a party in Wales that will start getting it done for our communities. I’m looking forward to electing other Councillors throughout Wales to join our growing team.”Neil McEvoy was suspended from Plaid Cymru’s Assembly Group in 2018 and eventually expelled from the party itself.

It is to be remembered that Mr McEvoy was previously a Cardiff  Labour  Councillor and joined Plaid only after hew as deselected .

I am not aware of the reason for his deselection , but I doubt that it was because Labour regarded him as a closet Nationalist.7

Time wil tel of Mr McEvoy new Party will see other disgruntled Plaid members joining  it, but  he may not be to eager to have anyone who is not beholding to him and may have ambitions and an agenda of their own.