Comments on: Llanelli

By: A Brown

A Brown — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:52:06 +0000

Surprised me as well Joe, the polls pretty much predicted the Plaid vote accurately but the PC vote
was all over the place in Wales.

It was higher than I expected in Arfon (going up) but fell more in unexpected places like Ceredigion but did very well in next door Carmarthen W (due to a popular candidate).

I think PC is possibly a bit more insular than Plaid and does not do triangulation like the SNP.

Plaid clearly peaked in 1999.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:25:34 +0000

Looks like Plaid C haven’t been doing all that well for a little while.
They seem to flatter to deceive.
Do people fear that voting for them in Wales helps the Tories, or have they just not got the infrastructure (or the enthusiam of enough people) like the SNP?

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:18:18 +0000

I thought this was quite a shock.
What caused this?

By: A Brown

A Brown — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:23:44 +0000

Just noticed that Simon Thomas ex MP for Ceredigion has been elected on the list to offset the loss of Helen Mary Jones. Possibly not the end of the world for Plaid then.

Might him and Leanne Wood be involved in a potential leadership battle?

By: A Brown

A Brown — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:36:02 +0000

So HMJ narrowly lost out, who will be the next leader of Plaid? Leanne Wood?

By: Hywel

Hywel — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:41:14 +0000

Excuse the typos, its late.
Graham you sound like you have a strange chip on your shoulder about the original brythonic languages……….its like the irrational hatred of native american languages

Can we please not drag this political forum down with these imperialistic views that english is superior….why not bring back the cane my great grandmother was hit with for speaking welsh then?? You may love that?
The fact some villages inside england spoke welsh until at least 1900 means you are speaking rubbish I am afraid, as I have studied this at univeristy and can offer you JSTOR journal links.

Another thing welsh speakers generally score much higher in english GCSEs and A levels than first language english speakers…..due to the benefits of bilingulaism….a notion it seems England and parts of the USA struggles with

By: Hywel

Hywel — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:32:59 +0000

My God you lot are incredibly ignorant of welsh history. You have no idea why the welsh language got in the state it was in.

The welsh spelling are the original spelling, the english spellings were out of total hatred and disrepespect for the local ppl…..talk about democracy pfft

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:22:53 +0000

Matt,
Thanks for your information re – ‘Llanelli’.I am surprised it goes back as far as 1965. Certainly when I was still at school in the early 70s ‘Llanelly’ was in common use.
I have never had a Welsh language in my life – anf if at school in Pembrokeshire now would bitterly resent having it rammed down my throat!

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:42:54 +0000

I think i’m with the muslims of Bombay on this. Not that I presume to tell the Indians how they choose to name their cities – obviously that is up to them. I just think the BBC etc should not be so ready to take on board these changes. Afterall we still refer to Munich rather than Munchen or Naples rather than Napoli, so why not Bombay, Madras, Peking etc

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:14:59 +0000

Apparently Muslims in Mumbai prefer to use Bombay because a Hindu nationalist local government was responsible for changing the name in 1995.