Comments on: Polling shows Lib Dem lead in Brecon by-election

By: Sean Hogan

Sean Hogan — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:09:06 +0000

2 of the 4 MEPs sent from Wales to Brussels are Brexit Party, and Farage in no mood for his candidate in Brecon to stand aside for Chris Davies. Students & recent graduates shouldn’t forget how LibDems betrayed them in 2010 by tripling tuition fees. Quite a legacy – a millstone crushing coming generations – yet Jo Swinson&co still in denial about all that. Boris making it too easy for them all by ducking Brecon today. Makes both him and Davies look bad. This seat is significant / pwysig iawn.

By: Bolsover Labour remainer

Bolsover Labour remainer — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 18:05:18 +0000

Time to stop the mad quitters, and vote Lib Dem one time only ay any seat where the Tories could lose with a united remain vote. Then sort out the consequences later when Boris and Skinner have gone, and our future in Europe is assured.

By: Michael Ladomery

Michael Ladomery — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:30:29 +0000

To those labour people going on about lib dems supporting austerity – apart from that being nonsense, the lib dems successfully pushed for raising the lower tax threshold, we are in 2019 not 2010. If the tories have their no deal brexit it will be sever austerity as the economy tanks. Support the lib dems or, de facto, allow a tory in to boost Boris. Your choice

By: Nigel Grant

Nigel Grant — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:06:02 +0000

Is that the same Jo Swinson who happily supported the Tory Party In introducing their Austerity Policies and who wanted a statue to honour Margaret Thatcher. Don’t be fooled by her sweet talk. She is not to be trusted and is no friend of the poor and vulnerable in our society.

By: a2c

a2c — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:01:55 +0000

Iss Queen Jo and the Lib Dems all the way for a2c. There the ones who will elp us on low wages unlike Labour who will take ourn ahrt of the EU n destroy jobs n trade if Corbyn gets is way. The Lib Dems will bring in more local police, save the NHS n make the country greener. Iss Lib Dems til I die, as a council tenant I’d never vote labour again.

By: Neil McCart

Neil McCart — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:00:26 +0000

What puzzles me is why the Tories put up a convicted criminal fraudster as their candidate – does it reflect their Tory values, or are they setting up a scapegoat for the trouncing they are going to receive? Possibly both.

By: Sian Caiach

Sian Caiach — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:32:54 +0000

Plaid’s deal with the LibDems could gift them Plaid’s voters, 3% of the last Westminster vote and the greens didn’t stand so hard to tell impact.
Problem for Plaid’s Leader, Adam Price is his previous public statement that he is a socialist first and nationalist second. I’m sure a deal with a Unionist Party is going down not too well with many Plaid Members and I wonder whether the promised reciprocal agreements in future elections with centrist, anti-independence LibDems will be honoured and convince the activists it was worth loosing credibility for? .

By: Chris Franks

Chris Franks — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:57:30 +0000

Well done to Plaid Cymru and the Green for behaving like adults and maximising the chances of keeping out the Tories/Brexit Party. Shame on Labour and its failing leader.

By: arwyn thomas

arwyn thomas — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:56:38 +0000

I was in the LPYS 40 years ago. We were all solidly left wing. Revolutionary even. I can’t imagine many who would not be backing Corbyn now.

By: Pat MS

Pat MS — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:12:16 +0000

I agree with those who prioritise defeating the Tories and the Brexit ‘Party’. It’s great that Plaid Cymru and the Greens have been big enough to stand aside for the LibDems. A pity that Labour has not done the same. There were several local agreements between Labour, LibDems and Greens in 2017. Labour got Ealing, Cable got back into Twickenham and the Greens hung onto Brighton. Until the proper PR that Labour has long avoided is rolled out, the best bet against the rabid right is a coalition of Labour plus all the Remain parties. This could win massively at the next election, though perhaps with no party with an absolute majority – but that’s the new normal. I suspect that Corbyn and his Marxist supporters have analysed that Brexit is a good thing, the EU being a largely capitalist venture preventing true socialism in their eyes, so believe they will storm to power once the realities of Brexit start hitting the poorest hardest. More likely, the Americans will circle over our decaying public sector and NHS and complete the Tories’ privatisation of British (well English/Welsh, as Scotland will quickly break away and return to the EU and there could be interesting changes in NI) state assets and this WelshEngland rump will become a vassal state of Trump’s USA, something surely Corbyn abhors. So much for taking back power! Pat (once a Macmillanite, i.e. genuine one-nation Tory, but drifting leftwards as I get older, now supporting the Green Party).