I never tire of bigging up the performance of the Welsh Conservatives, as they are doing a fantastic job of reviving the party's fortunes in the Principality. Further proof comes in the number of candidates they are fielding at the local elections on May 1st.
While all the other parties are fielding fewer candidates than they did in the equivalent elections in 2004, the Tories have nominated 515, which is 41% more than the 347 they fielded four years ago. I hope when I go and speak at a dinner iN Cardiff later in the year I can congratulate many of the 515 in person!
Completely off topic except insofar as there is a Welsh connection....
ReplyDeleteAfter Cardiff City's semi-final win, whom do the BBC wheel out on Radio Five the morning after? Neil ***ing Kinnock, that's who. Quite disgusting.
They have even got 3 candidates in Neath Port Talbot. I think this is the first time they have contested the authority since its creation.
ReplyDeleteThe irony was always that NPT had no Conservatives, but does have 3 SDP councillors!
When are you in Cardiff Iain? I plan to be one of the 515 but not for a couple of years yet.
ReplyDeleteThis fantastic result is due almost entirely to the efforts of Matthew Lane, Welsh Conservatives tireless Director. Well done Matty!
ReplyDeleteKeep an eye on Powys Iain. We've had no Conservative councillors in the past - but I hope that is about to change significantly.
ReplyDeleteThis fantastic result is due almost entirely to the efforts of Matthew Lane, Welsh Conservatives tireless Director. Well done Matty!
ReplyDeleteI make that 48%.
ReplyDelete41% more than 347 is 489
To find 515 Welsh Tories is in itself an achievement!
ReplyDeleteAre they all Common Purpose graduates?
ReplyDeleteMatt Lane isnt the only one, associations, PPCs, AMs and of course our North Wales ACD have played a huge role.
ReplyDeleteRene Kinzett has done a fantastic job to field more in Swansea than any other party!
Matt Lane, Director of the Welsh Conservatives, is himself part of the effort to spread the reach of the Welsh Tories right across Wales by standing in the Gabalfa ward of Cardiff.
ReplyDeleteThis is not natural Tory territory - all 7 of the Gabalfa Primary attendees in my secondary school class are now parents at the age of 17/18 - in the crucial marginal (and in 2007 Assembly election strongly Conservative) Cardiff North seat. We have fielded candidates for all of Cardiff's 75 seats and hope to reach out of Cardiff North and capture seats in C.West and C.South.
I would like to make my predictions for the local elections in Wales.
Cardiff - (currently 10/75) Con Gain 16 - 26/75 - second largest party after LD
Bridgend - gain 4 to 12/53
Monmouthshire - solidify control - gain 5 to 29/43
Swansea - gain 4 (incl. party chairman Lyndon Jones in Gowerton) - 8/62
Vale of Glamorgan - gain 5, take overall control - 25/47
"This is not natural Tory territory - all 7 of the Gabalfa Primary attendees in my secondary school class are now parents at the age of 17/18"
ReplyDeleteNot bigoted in the least bit.
Alas the group leader in Cardiff told the local paper he couldn't win control.. oh dear
ReplyDeleteFor comparison does any one know haw many Labour, Lib Dem and PC candidates are standing in Wales, or for that matter what are the totals across the UK I can remember a last year a Tory press release summarising the situation but this year it only seams to be bits and bobs?
ReplyDeleteThe tories in England hate the Welsh and the Scots. Only their current leader is protecting against a total hatred of celtic people sweeping the tories tio tbe the NAZIS of Englsand with xceltic people as ther jews of NAZI England.
ReplyDeleteWe all know what English tories think of the celtic people you do nothing but insult us.
Dirty European Socialist, the Tories aren't Celtophobic as such, they just want to get rid of some poor, working-class areas which vote against them in the hope of entrenching their own rule in England. About as cynical and underhand as you'd expect, especially coming from a party which used to talk about patriotism and the union when they thought they could use it as a stick to beat the other parties.
ReplyDeleteNothing ever changes at the Daily Hell-reading "heart" of this party.