Mathew5 wrote:Independent. I usually vote Plaid, but I'm giving them a miss until Leanne Wood steps down. Nice woman, but totally out of her depth. It needs to moderate and build bridges with the conservatives.
This is the sort of thing I mean(!) Seriously! Plaid position themselves as a firm left-wing party. Why would they ever want to build build bridges with The Conservatives? If they did, they'd lose both their traditional supporters and members. Might as well just be a different party.
They know that their actual competition is Labour, which is where they stage their campaign and their battleground. The left of centre ground is, traditionally, being fought over by three parties in Wales, leaving the right, especially with the expected return of obscurity of Ukip, exclusively to The Conservatives. We have a pretty crazy electoral system that allows them to take advantage of this, and an electorate that aren't even smart enough to take the opportunity to change it, when offered.