Senedd election prediction

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Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton out of the Senedd!!

Two seats for Plaid Cymu and two seats for the Conservatives in South Wales East.

[Wozza16]

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Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton out of the Senedd!!

Two seats for Plaid Cymu and two seats for the Conservatives in South Wales East.

Great news, good for Plaid to pick up a gain seat after the disappointing showing yesterday

[Wozza16]

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When I think of Boris and his great achievements I remember after spending years saying that we need to get control of our borders, a pandemic came around and he left the borders open with Europe and the rest of the world ending up with 1000’s of needless deaths, disastrous economic damage and a huge amount of national debt. Inspirational.

2 trillion of debt but Wales is too poor to make its own decisions.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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No. It’s because I’m fed up of the likes of you and your generation, you care more about the Conservatives than you do the people of Wales. We’ve had a lifetime of mediocrity and we’re falling behind. Regardless of who I want to govern, the current system is failing us. 5 more years of a Labour held Senydd and Tory Whitehall just means more of the same but hey ho the tories didn’t gain seats so all is good.

Sore loser

Wales does not want plaid cymru

More people voted tory ff sake

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South Wales Central result – as expected, two for the Conservatives, two for Plaid Cymru.

That’s Andrew RT Davies (Welsh Conservative), Rhys ap Owen (Plaid), Joel Stephen James (Welsh Conservative) and Heledd Fychan (Plaid Cymru).

https://nation.cymru/news/live-blog-...nedd-election/

Labour – 30 (+1)
Plaid Cymru – 13 (+1)
Conservatives – 16 (+5)
Lib Dems – 1 (-)
UKIP – 0 (-7)

On the face of it there doesn't seem to be any complete jokers in the Senedd. A couple of difficult years coming up now but each party could do a lot of good work (what's best for Wales from a Liberal, Tory, Plaid, Labour perspective rather than how do we pick up seats in Westminster) and we could have a really competitive race in 2026.

[City123]

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Interesting point on BBC Wales last night that covid ended up really damaging Plaid, they had planned for a presidential style election campaign pitting Price against an unknown Drakeford but the immense media exposure Drakeford had doing daily press conferences helped labour massively. Also, because of the covid restrictions they lost months of potential canvassing and door knocking which is key to them as they don’t have the financial donors that labour and Tories do.

Plaid need 3-4 regional seats today to limit the damage but I can’t see more than 3 to be honest

Richard wyn Jones was ranting that Plaid aren't professional enough and he's right, they don't use data in the manner the other parties do, they allow petty squabbles to escalate and play favourites with candidates. Helen Mary Jones was a massive liability in a winnable seat in Llanelli but they stood with her for no apparent reason, they also threw the Cardiff North branch under the bus to try and protect Leanne Wood

It wasn't a disastrous night for Plaid but it was very poor and should serve as a wake up call. They've increased the vote share in a lot of places but been abysmal in their target seats. Aberconwy and Llanelli in particular were shocking whilst the swing in Rhondda was dreadful

[the other bob wilson]

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One thing Boris did get right was the gamble to thrust millions of tax payers money Into vaccine research, production and deployment, probably best in the world .

I clearly remember some doubting his decision including Sir Kier , as at the time there was no guarantee of success and there were calls to join the European model , glad he never 👍

Ah yes, the consolation goal - I did say it was like scoring when you were 20-0 down in the last few minutes, but that was unfair, credit to the PM and his party on the vaccine, so I’d say now that was like scoring a consolation goal when you’re losing 3-0.

[Nobody's Rep]

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One thing Boris did get right was the gamble to thrust millions of tax payers money Into vaccine research, production and deployment, probably best in the world .

I clearly remember some doubting his decision including Sir Kier , as at the time there was no guarantee of success and there were calls to join the European model , glad he never 👍

He and the Westminster government did Wales no favours in the first few critical weeks of either the pandemic as regards PPE etc or with the first few critical weeks of the vaccine rollout as regards to supplies - we have the best vaccines rates in the UK despite Westminster not because of it

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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Sore loser

Wales does not want plaid cymru

More people voted tory ff sake

This is probably as much to do with people not understanding the voting system.

[DubaiDai]

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He and the Westminster government did Wales no favours in the first few critical weeks of either the pandemic as regards PPE etc or with the first few critical weeks of the vaccine rollout as regards to supplies - we have the best vaccines rates in the UK despite Westminster not because of it

And when it comes to the economy, NHS and education we are 4th in the UK on every count. Not because of Westminster but an underachieving Welsh labour government

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And when it comes to the economy, NHS and education we are 4th in the UK on every count. Not because of Westminster but an underachieving Welsh labour government

Well to be fair , much of it is

Wales is given a poor deal money wise from Westminster to deal with the NHS etc

If you are trying to build a house that is going to cost 200 grand but are only given 100 grand to do it what sort of quality house do you think you would come up with ?

I think its a fair chance it wouldn't be up to standard wouldn't it ?

[the other bob wilson]

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And when it comes to the economy, NHS and education we are 4th in the UK on every count. Not because of Westminster but an underachieving Welsh labour government

Any links to back that up?

[Nobody's Rep]

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And when it comes to the economy, NHS and education we are 4th in the UK on every count. Not because of Westminster but an underachieving Welsh labour government

Certainly aren't 4th on the NHS - far from it and as far as the economy is concerned how can you use that for comparison when we don't have full control of our financial affairs?

[WJ99mobile]

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Richard wyn Jones was ranting that Plaid aren't professional enough and he's right, they don't use data in the manner the other parties do, they allow petty squabbles to escalate and play favourites with candidates. Helen Mary Jones was a massive liability in a winnable seat in Llanelli but they stood with her for no apparent reason, they also threw the Cardiff North branch under the bus to try and protect Leanne Wood

It wasn't a disastrous night for Plaid but it was very poor and should serve as a wake up call. They've increased the vote share in a lot of places but been abysmal in their target seats. Aberconwy and Llanelli in particular were shocking whilst the swing in Rhondda was dreadful

You talk about individuals but I would suggest that the vast, vast majority of people look at the overall party and leader only.

Hefin David won Caerphilly for Labour. I don’t know a single person that knows what he’s for or against, or what he’s done

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You talk about individuals but I would suggest that the vast, vast majority of people look at the overall party and leader only.

Hefin David won Caerphilly for Labour. I don’t know a single person that knows what he’s for or against, or what he’s done

I think that's right