The Senedd Election 2026

[J_B]

A spoiled vote or a no vote is great news for Nigel Farage.

 

[rockinj]

Keep it on topic please.

Mate I can’t make any posts without it turning into this. It’s tiring.

 

[rockinj]

A spoiled vote or a no vote is great news for Nigel Farage.

It’s still voting. I don’t like the thought of doing it but the choice is awful.

 

[PenlanJack]

I don't vote, because whether it's the Tories, Lib Dems, Labour, Reform they'll sell bombs to people like Netanyahu, and my conscience can't abide by it.. I don't invest in stocks and shares, because my money could be siphoned off for guns, bombs and equipment that will kill some poor sod, there's a lot of dirty money out there, blood money that I don't want any involvement with..

 

[Scotia]

I don't vote, because whether it's the Tories, Lib Dems, Labour, Reform they'll sell bombs to people like Netanyahu, and my conscience can't abide by it.. I don't invest in stocks and shares, because my money could be siphoned off for guns, bombs and equipment that will kill some poor sod, there's a lot of dirty money out there, blood money that I don't want any involvement with..

There are alternatives. The Green party for one. They may well hold a bit of power in the Senedd from May under the new system.

 

[Scotia]

To be there thats probably your smartest point yet.

Spoiled ballot incoming.

Our choice in May is appalling, but with PR and the new system in place anything other than an actual vote is a vote for somebody else. No vote or a spoiled ballot makes a Reform government or a Reform / Tory coallition more likely.

I genuinely don't know who to vote for, Labour aren't an option for me and neither are the parties on the right. I won't vote for any party with a snivel of independence about them (yet) so that basically leaves the Lib Dems.

It's going to be a Plaid led coalition though anyway. I can't see Reform / Tories getting 48 seats between them surely - provided people actually vote!

 

[rockinj]

Our choice in May is appalling, but with PR and the new system in place anything other than an actual vote is a vote for somebody else. No vote or a spoiled ballot makes a Reform government or a Reform / Tory coallition more likely.

I genuinely don't know who to vote for, Labour aren't an option for me and neither are the parties on the right. I won't vote for any party with a snivel of independence about them (yet) so that basically leaves the Lib Dems.

It's going to be a Plaid led coalition though anyway. I can't see Reform / Tories getting 48 seats between them surely - provided people actually vote!

Yep. It’s not a good situation.

It’s a shame the liberals are so hopeless in Wales as there’s an opportunity there for a centrist pro business party that will actually reform public services and not just moan about needing more money as if that’s all that is required.

But as you say it’ll be Plaid with reform second. Meaning worst of all worlds another coalition of the left with Plaid leading it this time and opposition just intent on chaos.

Wales is in a lot of trouble.

 

[Trampie]

Reform just like Labour in theory can win every seat I Wales, Plaid can only win a few seats, therefore Plaid need to win all the seats they have a chance in and hope the rest of the seats are split between the other parties, Plaid should want the Tories to win Monmouth, Lib-Dems to win Brecon and Labour to win Swansea.

 

[Scotia]

Reform just like Labour in theory can win every seat I Wales, Plaid can only win a few seats, therefore Plaid need to win all the seats they have a chance in and hope the rest of the seats are split between the other parties, Plaid should want the Tories to win Monmouth, Lib-Dems to win Brecon and Labour to win Swansea.

That's not the way the new system works.

 

[Smurph]

Our choice in May is appalling, but with PR and the new system in place anything other than an actual vote is a vote for somebody else. No vote or a spoiled ballot makes a Reform government or a Reform / Tory coallition more likely.

I genuinely don't know who to vote for, Labour aren't an option for me and neither are the parties on the right. I won't vote for any party with a snivel of independence about them (yet) so that basically leaves the Lib Dems.

It's going to be a Plaid led coalition though anyway. I can't see Reform / Tories getting 48 seats between them surely - provided people actually vote!

Jane Dodds isn't fit to run a bath.

During her stint serving as National Senior Casework Manager for the Church of England's National Safeguarding Team she took six months to arrange an urgent meeting with a victim of historical child abuse.

Honestly don't know how anyone could consider marking an X beside her name on a ballot form.

 

[monmouth]

Jane Dodds isn't fit to run a bath.

During her stint serving as National Senior Casework Manager for the Church of England's National Safeguarding Team she took six months to arrange an urgent meeting with a victim of historical child abuse.

Honestly don't know how anyone could consider marking an X beside her name on a ballot form.

Almost no one with any real talent or capability goes into government these days. They are all puffed up committee types, ego driven psychos, or low quality middle managers. Reform and people like Andrew RT Wank, and whoever that nobody leading the Senedd is now, probably make Dodds look like Edison.

Despite that, we do need a tactical voting plan to put those Deform turds back in their box, and that might mean on this occasion, holding one’s nose and voting for a different shade of shit.

 

[Smurph]

Almost no one with any real talent or capability goes into government these days. They are all puffed up committee types, ego driven psychos, or low quality middle managers. Reform and people like Andrew RT Wank, and whoever that nobody leading the Senedd is now, probably make Dodds look like Edison.

Despite that, we do need a tactical voting plan to put those Deform turds back in their box, and that might mean on this occasion, holding one’s nose and voting for a different shade of shit.

She's in the same bracket as deform

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

Almost no one with any real talent or capability goes into government these days. They are all puffed up committee types, ego driven psychos, or low quality middle managers. Reform and people like Andrew RT Wank, and whoever that nobody leading the Senedd is now, probably make Dodds look like Edison.

Despite that, we do need a tactical voting plan to put those Deform turds back in their box, and that might mean on this occasion, holding one’s nose and voting for a different shade of shit.

Isn’t tactical voting all but impossible with the new system. It’s pretty much nailed on that reform will get at least 1 of the 6 seats in each of the 16 constituencies - the only question is going to be in how many of them they’ll get a second and third seat.

Only two things will impact that, the number of people that vote reform and the total number of people who vote for all the other parties.
If people want to keep a particular party those are the only two roots:
(I) Minimise the number of people voting for that party
(II) Maximise the total number of votes for everyone else (or those you want/wouldn’t mind getting in)

 

[Smurph]

Is anyone considering voting Labour?

 

[monmouth]

Isn’t tactical voting all but impossible with the new system. It’s pretty much nailed on that reform will get at least 1 of the 6 seats in each of the 16 constituencies - the only question is going to be in how many of them they’ll get a second and third seat.

Only two things will impact that, the number of people that vote reform and the total number of people who vote for all the other parties.
If people want to keep a particular party those are the only two roots:
(I) Minimise the number of people voting for that party
(II) Maximise the total number of votes for everyone else (or those you want/wouldn’t mind getting in)

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten the voting system isn’t as rigged here