Wednesday, April 25, 2007
  25/04/07 – WELSH ASSEMBLY ELECTION COMMENTARY
Well by now it should be obvious that I have read and given commentary on the manifestos of all the four major parties and, if you’ve bothered to read the whole ream, I hope that you have enjoyed my commentary, if you disagree then feel free to post that objection in the comments section that is what it is there for.

I have to say that I think that Plaid has the most aspirational manifesto full of new ideas, and willingness to develop Wales as a nation in new ways. The labour manifesto is just regurgitation of promises that have been reneged on or failed in the implementation. The conservatives had a very difficult document to read with a very poor layout and the basic manifesto pledge that it will cut funding to everything by 1 per cent and then use that money to buy infrastructure etc… in the most headline grabbing manner possible making it seem that a conservative government is investing heavily while it has only taken the responsibility for commissioning buildings from in-house to government. The liberal democrats, well they could have done so much better, if they had been more definitive in stead of promising to look into doing things if they get elected. Moreover, the liberal democrat manifesto is poorly constructed with massive repetition and in a document that large it is not re-enforcing the point just making you suicidal.

In conclusion, I think that my proportional representational vote will probably go to plaid even though they have, fallen inextricably in to a labour election trap nullifying their election campaign. This endless speculation about coalitions is going to stop Plaid from making inroads in the assembly and magnificently makes it a labour / conservative race. It is a magnificent piece of election manipulation by labour, and I am at a loss how they have managed it so affectively. Every interview that I have heard with a plaid politician is always about the possible construct of a coalition, and it glosses over the fantastic manifesto (and in my opinion the best programme for government and development of culture, sports and arts). The plaid election campaign has been woefully miss-managed largely by the leader, but as election coordination Adam Price must take some of the blame. It shows just how politically savvy and surreptitious labour can be and how ill-equipped plaid is in response.

Anyway, as you might have noticed I have only pledged my PR vote to Plaid. My constituency vote will have to be based on tactical voting to oust the incumbent labour AM.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2003/welsh_assembly/html/atoz.stm

This is a link to the BBC’s 2003 election coverage, I’m not online at the moment (this is written to be cut and pasted into the blog at a later date) so I can’t check who came second in the last election at the moment, but which ever party it was will most likely get my vote for this forthcoming election.

  6:57 PM
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