Udo Erasmus
Well-Known Member
Point 1: Yes, I was aware of this. It is a rhetorical statement.
Point 2: You get two votes in Adamsdown ward of Cardiff, I will be advocating a vote for the two socialist candidates in that ward, Joe Redmond, Left Party (Adamsdown RESPECT) and Dave Bartlett, Socialist Alternative. Wouldn't waste my breath on the tankies.
I notice that your party of choice, Plaid Cymru are not standing a candidate in the ward??
The other ward we are contesting is the Butetown ward of Cardiff (where an ex-councillor from your party, the respected local historian, Neil Sinclair, left Plaid to join us). The left has a rich history in the area documented in Peter Fryers, classic history of Black people in Britain, Staying Power, & the finest hour for the Socialist Workers Party in Wales is perhaps the role they played in the campaign to release the Cardiff 3.
But in recent years their has been little socialist organisation in the area.
Incredibly, despite millions being poured in the so-called Bay development and the ward being next door to the Welsh Assembly and County Hall, the area around Loudon Square is in the top three of poorest areas in the whole of Wales which is an absolute disgrace.
Some people may have heard of the area from the classic Hayley Mills flick, Tiger Bay.
We were planning to contest a couple of other wards, but due to the 'Respect Nominating Officer' not even bothering to reply to our communications preventing us using the name we are known and loved by, we chose to cut down our operations.
