Plaid Cymru "the establishment"? Pause,Reflect,Laugh Your Head Off

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Since the general election the Welsh Labour has gone cocky. It has an I'll deserved swagger given that it's unexpectedly good showing was apparently due to a man they had for the most part ignored in the campaign.

This cockiness yesterday has seemed to have reached it's pinnacle at a Labour tour of marginal seats where there was a rally yesterday in Bangor where the headline act was Jeremy Corbyn. One of the seat they're targeting in the area is held by Plaid Cymru.

During the rally yesterday the media got a quote from Anglesey MP Albert Owen  who said that Plaid Cymru were "the establishment" in North West Wales.

Now let me stress one thing first. I've never been to North West Wales, I've no idea about the situation there and more local Plaid bloggers can discuss this in detail. But that said it's clear that Mr Owen was very careful with his words. For he knew that if he'd said that Plaid Cymru was the establishment for all of Wales then the gasps at his bare faced cheek would've been heard across the country.

For I'm not saying anything surprising when I say that it's Labour in Wales who are the establishment. But perhaps you would be surprised if I say that they deserved to be there. After all they were the party which sought to improve the living standards, education and health of the people.

But that was then and this is now. Welsh Labour now (the party remember not of Corbyn but of Blair)  are the party of arrogantly incompetent. Complacent in the assumption that they will get the majority of Welsh votes come what may.

And now Welsh Labour have ignored the dream and aspirations of it's voters. Regular readers will know how I've chronicled the big project s of Bridgend council whilst seemingly turning a blind eye to the town. Or how Rhondda Cyon Taff  council  seem to think that the wellbeing of the South Wales Valleys will be unaffected by a mass closure of libraries in the borough.

Nationally Wales under Labour has an  education  system amongst the dunces league of the world. There are cuts to the health service and an economy which is on a precipice to disaster due to Brexit and an apparent lack of planning for the consequences.

So the Labour establishment have failed all of Wales.

Ironically should there be a fresh general election in the next few months the Labour party have a chance of increasing their Welsh voters if the people feel there is a chance of toppling the Conservative government in London. But after that, when Labour's popularity wanes, that will be the moment for Plaid Cymru to use all of it's energies to appeal to the disillusioned Labour voter.

It can be done. Success for Plaid can be achieved. But it requires patience.

Plaid "part of the establishment"...... Pause reflect laugh your head off.

Until the next time.