Regular readers will know that during an election this blog refrains from posting on overtly political issues connected with the ballot but, now that the vote's over, we thought we'd bring to you the more humourous side of the Senedd elections 2021.
It's also interesting that there should be a political party to abolish something that from May 2020 technically no longer exists: the Welsh Assembly is now the Senedd or, if you must, the Welsh Parliament. Okay, so I am picking nits. Also, give that 'Abolish' is so much larger than the other words in the party's title, is it perhaps 'Abolish, the Welsh Assembly Party' rather than 'Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party'? As with all good grammar, that comma makes a real difference.
For obvious reasons, we've had no one knock on our door. Instead, we've a recycle bin-full of leaflets drifting in like snow on an easterly. We've had eight varieties from the Conservatives alone and a couple have been on never-mind-the-quality-feel-the-width card. Here's the one that tickled me.
I can only assume that if unelected this time, Millar is looking for a career change. He says,
'I was in your area today...'
and given that this card was delivered within May 2021's Clwyd Connection, I assume he was killing two birds with one stone by delivering both at once. Also, his agent can't spell can't. Perhaps the agent needs to look up what 'cant' actually means. The front shows that Millar is on top of his case load, with an empty desk and blank computer.
Just to ensure absolute fairness, Millar was actually the only 2016 candidate back then to knock on my door. Representatives there may have been for the others but only he worked his own patch.
Also within Clwyd Connection was a folded A4 from UKIP... and within that an A5 for Nathan Gill's Reform UK Wales party and an A5 for the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party. Are we to draw conclusions as to why the three were bundled together? Hmmm. Perhaps not. None of these was bilingual, with not a word of Welsh among them.
On March 24th, this UKIP flier was seen blowing in the breeze hopping from place to place. The demand for a referendum on the Senedd is fair enough, if that's what people want. Foreign aid is not in the Senedd's gift, of course. UKIP's sort-of half-sibling Reform UK is promising to halve the number of county councils and that, no doubt, will have its supporters—even if it's likely to cost money in the medium terms rather than 'put money back in your pocket' as promised.
