Friday 2 May 2008

Predictions and Prognostications

Councils Councillors
Party Net +/- Total Net +/- Total
Conservative 12 65 256 3154
Labour -9 18 -331 2368
Liberal Democrat 1 12 34 1805
Plaid Cymru -1 0 33 207
Green 0 0 5 47
Residents Association 0 0 -11 43
British National Party 0 0 10 37
Liberal 0 0 -2 20
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern 0 0 0 10
UK Independence Party 0 0 3 8
Respect 0 0 1 4
Socialist Alternative 0 0 0 2
Others 0 0 -1 711
No Overall Control -3 64
159 of 159 councils have officially declared

Well, hopefully you all voted, and voted twice for Plaid. The results of the elections were not entirely unexpected, and Labour lost heavily as predicted. If you will remember Independence Cymru predicted that Carmarthenshire County Council would benefit from 28 Plaid Cymru seats, and so it happened, and was exceeded! Plaid has doubled its number of seats on the council, and has broken the back of the rigid Independent/Labour
alliance which bulldozed through unpopular policies, much to everybody's consternation and anger.

Efforts in Llanelli, Porth Tywyn and Pen Bre were well rewarded with a County Councillor elected for Pen Bre and six PC candidates elected for the town councils.

Other predictions were made a year ago when Independence Cymru foresaw that there would be a Plaid/Labour coalition in the Assembly, and later foresaw an Autumn election (averted at the last minute as it turned out). Independence Cymru of course predicts independence, first for Scotland, then for Wales but at present it is uncertain when precisely these will come into being. Watch this space!!

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