Preseli Pembrokeshire
2010 Results:
Conservative: 16944 (42.79%)
Labour: 12339 (31.16%)
Liberal Democrat: 5759 (14.54%)
Plaid Cymru: 3654 (9.23%)
UKIP: 906 (2.29%)
Majority: 4605 (11.63%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 14385 (36.7%)
Labour: 13617 (34.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 5034 (12.8%)
Plaid Cymru: 4905 (12.5%)
Other: 1284 (3.3%)
Majority: 767 (2%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 14106 (36.6%)
Labour: 13499 (35%)
Liberal Democrat: 4963 (12.9%)
Plaid Cymru: 4752 (12.3%)
Green: 494 (1.3%)
UKIP: 498 (1.3%)
Other: 275 (0.7%)
Majority: 607 (1.6%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 12260 (33.3%)
Labour: 15206 (41.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 3882 (10.6%)
Plaid Cymru: 4658 (12.7%)
UKIP: 319 (0.9%)
Other: 452 (1.2%)
Majority: 2946 (8%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 11741 (27.7%)
Labour: 20477 (48.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 5527 (13%)
Plaid Cymru: 2683 (6.3%)
Referendum: 1574 (3.7%)
Other: 401 (0.9%)
Majority: 8736 (20.6%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Stephen Crabb(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)
Stephen Crabb(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)Mari Rees (Labour) Former BBC radio journalistNick Tregoning (Liberal Democrat)Henry Jones-Davies (Plaid Cymru) Richard Lawson (UKIP)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 71859
Male: 48.3%
Female: 51.7%
Under 18: 22.9%
Over 60: 25%
Born outside UK: 3.5%
White: 99%
Asian: 0.4%
Mixed: 0.3%
Other: 0.3%
Christian: 74.5%
Full time students: 2.5%
Graduates 16-74: 17.3%
No Qualifications 16-74: 31%
Owner-Occupied: 69.6%
Social Housing: 17.8% (Council: 14.2%, Housing Ass.: 3.5%)
Privately Rented: 8.6%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 13.1%
‘the Chinese are completely colonising Africa, to their immense benefit in terms of long term access to precious natural resources.’
That’s right – the Chinese don’t really have any moral qualms about the regimes they assiciate themselves with
I’m the first to criticise the US for propping up a string of tyranical governments from South America to South East Asia during the Cold War – but you don’t hear too many of the anti-American brigade turning their file on the Chinese who are happy to befriend military juntas in Asia, despotic autocrats in the Middle East and brutal totalitarian dictators in Africa
In the case of the latter they are definitely one step ahead of the West and I think the coalition’s ring fencing of the foreign aid budget has nothing to do with doing the right thing and more to do with recognising this defecit
Well in terms of promoting long term access to new natural resource deposits, it is the “right thing to do” and completely in our national interest. Any human benefits to the recipient country are welcome, but in reality incidental, though the government can never say so.
As far as Africa is concerned, and the poorer parts of Asia, the aid budget is good value for money. I don’t know why we were donating to China or India .
“Ironically, that is a very Lib Dem view.”
How dare you H.Hemmelig! That is not the kind of personal abuse I have come to expect from you