The best we could hope for I think. Deform and Tory together can't reach them. So they should be able to have a reasonable crack at it. Labour, Lib and Green would struggle to vote against them in any circumstances surely, given the kicking they've already had.
No party has ever had a majority in the Senedd. Plaid should be able to govern on a vote by vote basis. I very much doubt there’ll be any kind of formal coalition on those numbers. And if they did they definitely won’t be teaming up with the Tories.
Yes it could have gone worse if the pollsters had been out, which is always the worry. I feel sorry for Eluned Morgan. The Senedd to a degree has its hands tied in terms of what it can do and she seems pretty open and decent, yet she seems to have paid the price for Starmer being useless and Reform looking to capitalise. Not that I'm upset about Plaid though, but again I think and radical changes will be off the cards because there isn't enough free rope away from Westminster.
“Welsh” Labour are an English party so will always toe the Westminster party line. She knew what she was getting into, bollocks to her.
Of course, there is no registered "Welsh Labour Party", it's just a branch of London Labour
Starmer seriously doesn't accept any blame, in terms of his direct contribution to this. His response was everything that is wrong with him. Tin eared, robotic, textspeak, emotion free bullshit. Reflect and respond, my arse. He's a walking disaster, and labour need to lance the boil.
Not much, but it’s the first step.
Nice speech from Eluned and she pointed at the massive problem of media influence without stating how thick the electorate are. Stunning performance from Plaid even though a big part of it was to stop Reform plan which saw many left wingers lend their alliance to Plaid. As Eluned said that governing with the little we are given is more complex than it looks and as long as Reform fuck up in the councils, which they will, may see the party in charge for longer which does create another conundrum. Dafydd Wigley was batting away the question of independence though.
