Victor Clam wrote:I'm a floating voter strongly considering Plaid and you're putting me off a bit to be honest. You do come across as threatening and aggressive.
I'm in the threatening and aggressive faction - we're a lot fewer in numbers than the "well-meaning" lot.
I know plenty of Welsh nationalists who think that Plaid have been fatally compromised by infiltration and will have nothing to do with the "Party of Wales".
I'm not one of those pessimists, but I do know that when you're up against the establishment and the British state, it is important to have fighters in your ranks; people who can't be bought and who have utter disdain for cosy, consensus politics.
Part of the reason that floating voters are attracted to Plaid is that the factIon that I'm part of has demanded change and pushed the agendas which we believe are most important.
Leanne's leadership is down to separate factions having overlapping aims and Leanne's personal qualities being congruent with many of these aims.
In any revolution - something that is unfolding slowly now in the UK - each side will have its workers, leaders, dreamers and fighters.
The only way I've "threatened" anyone is that I've said that I may quote Cambo Dai.
He is a public figure - he is on a tax advisory panel for the Welsh Governmnent - and he is very opinionated - and like all of us, sometimes very wrong in his analysis and assumptions.
My view is that if public figures say things which others find unpalatable, there should be no moral dilemma in disseminating their words to a wider audience.
I haven't done that, because Cambo/Randy may be regretting unveiling his identity on this forum, which means that I don't want to "expose" him - I'm not a bully or a creep.
All the same, if a public figure wants to make quasi-public pronouncements then they should be careful what they say. That is part of the price one pays for being a public figure.
Which, by the way, I am not, and never will be.