Will Hayward on X: Blimey. Barn Cymru poll by YouGov for ITV Cymru Wales/ @WalesGovernance Puts Plaid Cymru ahead of Labour. Reform joint 2nd. Senedd voting intention: – Plaid Cymru – 24% (+1) – Labour – 23% (-4) – Reform UK – 23% (+5) – Con – 19% (+1) – Lib Dem – 5% (-1) – Green – 6% (+1)
by Thetonn
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Reform second – what a shocker.
Reform are grifters
Seems some people want Farage to bring Project 2025 to Wales !
I will diverge from everyone else and say the reform vote makes sense.
The Conservatives under RT are terrible and not deserving of a vote. Labour have overseen decades of stagnation and decline, and deserve to be voted out. Plaid Cymru make sense if you want a left alternative to the status quo, but don’t really work unless you are open to Indy.
Reform are basically the proxy for ‘a plague on all your houses’ for people who, after two decades of Labour solving every problem by cresating more bureaucracies and quangos, don’t think the answer is more bureaucracy and quangos under Plaid.
It seems like Plaid vote has held with the big change being 4-5 points going from Labour to Reform.
I’m sorry to say that change is likely to hold or increase as the Beeb, social media and our wonderful broadsheets push Farage on us.
We need Welsh independence, not whatever grift the reform clowns are scheming
Watching Ireland currently counting the seats in their election using the STV method and wishing we’d adopt that here.
On these figures, Reform would likely get the exact same number of seats than Labour & Plaid (maybe a couple less than Plaid) whereas in Ireland’s STV system you can rank on preference. Ranking on preference would hurt reform because not many people would put them 2nd. They’re a marmite “love them or hate them” party, whereas there would be quite a few exchanges between Lab-Plaid-LD-Green etc.
Fck Rfm. If you’re voting for them over Plaid you’re voting for billionaires to shaft us. Can understand the reticence of voting Labour completely, even though they’re not all bad, but for heavens sake not Reform. It’s a Trump style pile of right wing populist bullsh1t.
A little troubling, we should stick with Labour, it’s a lot easier to oust bad politicians in this country than England.
Ask anyone you know who wants to vote Reform if they can name you more then 3 of their policies 😆 So far I’ve tested 5 people who legit dont know anything beyond “immigrants innit?”
Reform getting support from the Welsh electorate makes me wonder if the Blue Books were right.
Reform are entirely a media phenomenon and Nigel Farage ego project. Their only interest in the Senedd is as a proxy, or step, towards power in Westminster, with Farage pulling the strings of the whole operation from over the border in England.
As such, they have no clue about any Welsh political issues, no policies for government, and, as a bunch of nobodies propped up by the Farage personality cult, no experience of being anywhere near government. With no real prominent members in Wales, we don’t even know who Reform would be putting up for the office of First Minister (let alone any other cabinet positions).
Wales will regret it if voters are conned into putting this bunch of grifters and cowboys anywhere near government.
That narrow lead for Plaid Cymru is a silver lining though.
So many issues in Wales need addressing. For a small country we have a lot of division. North and South Wales being a big one. Up here on Ynys Mon I feel the Cardiff bubble has no real relevance or meaning at all. Reform are chancers that see an opportunity to feast on a bloated inefficient Welsh government. Plaid need to focus their efforts on Reform rather than lab or con
Reform have absolutely no interest in helping anyone but themselves. I love the idea of political reform, because the system we have is an archaic mess, but these people just want fewer restrictions so they can make more money, they’re neoconservatives. They’d sell Wales and everyone in it if they had a tidy profit margin and nothing legal stopping them.
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