Thinking Caerphilly

Like the Greens and the SNP, Plaid Cymru is committed to anti-industrial Malthusianism, to drug legalisation or some euphemism for it, to gender self-identification, to "sex work", to the war in Ukraine, to the monetarist and militarist European Union, and to the false consciousness that is Scottish and Welsh separatism.

Richard Tice wants to legalise cannabis, Nigel Farage concurs with Zack Polanski in wanting to legalise drugs across the board, and Lee Anderson signed a select committee report in that direction in 2023. Are those now the views of Ann Widdecombe and Danny Kruger? Farage also now says that he would send British troops to Ukraine (they are already there), and that he would shoot down Russian planes in NATO airspace, but Widdecombe and Kruger always would have approved of those stances, as would Maria Caulfield, Nadine Dorries, Andrea Jenkyns, Jake Berry, Tim Montgomerie, Keith Prince, and all the other Boris Johnson groupies in Reform UK.

The SNP abstains on legislation that does not apply in Scotland, but all Green and three quarters of Plaid Cymru MPs voted for the assisted suicide that Lord Falconer himself now boasts is intended to dispose of people with "learning difficulties or autism". 60 per cent of Reform's then MPs also voted for that Bill. On an issue by issue basis, we cooperate with a very wide variety of people, for example by supporting Rupert Lowe's sterling efforts against digital ID. But when it came to contesting elections, then Red and Green should never be seen.

The turnout at Caerphilly was, for a Senedd by-election, a very healthy 50.43 per cent. The voting age for the Senedd is now 16. Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats took 14.5 per cent of the vote between them. 85.5 per cent voted for someone else. Proponents of lowering the voting age for Westminster or in England, think on.