Challenge: Plaid Cymru wins Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.

[Turquoise Blue]

Your challenge is for Plaid Cymru to win Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, my seat, in both the Welsh Assembly and British Parliament.

You are permitted to make Plaid as powerful as the SNP, but I prefer you not.

And if the mods feel that this is too political, its understandable, please move this to Chat if you feel so.

 

[V-J]

Honestly? Too Anglicised for that kind of PC dominance. There's a reason South Pembrokeshire's called 'England beyond Wales'. The Assembly seat is probably doable, but a seat with such ingrained Tory-Labour marginal dynamics at Westminster like that, that's more like Monmouth than it is anything on the west coast.

 

[Turquoise Blue]

Honestly? Too Anglicised for that kind of PC dominance. There's a reason South Pembrokeshire's called 'England beyond Wales'. The Assembly seat is probably doable, but a seat with such ingrained Tory-Labour marginal dynamics at Westminster like that, that's more like Monmouth than it is anything on the west coast.

Alright. Assembly only then.

 

[V-J]

Well, PC lost by a few hundred votes in 2007. Just bung a more high-profile candidate in, or a slightly better ground campaign, or a campaign event, and there you go.

 

[Turquoise Blue]

Well, PC lost by a few hundred votes in 2007. Just bung a more high-profile candidate in, or a slightly better ground campaign, or a campaign event, and there you go.

What ramifications would this have on Welsh politics? After all, Plaid won "Little England beyond Wales", so they might be viewed as stronger, right?

 

[Alex Richards]

What ramifications would this have on Welsh politics? After all, Plaid won "Little England beyond Wales", so they might be viewed as stronger, right?

Sinn Fein were nearly beaten by a Unionist independent in Fermanagh ans South Tyrone in 2010 (there were 4 votes in it). It'll be notable, but until you get a repeat it'll be treated more as a fluke than a bellweather incident.

So, probably a small boost, but not much.

 

[The Red]

What ramifications would this have on Welsh politics? After all, Plaid won "Little England beyond Wales", so they might be viewed as stronger, right?

Probably lost in the narrative of One Wales.

 

[Grey Wolf]

You'd have to have Plaid be the party of People Living In Wales, not the party of Welsh nationalists who all want to speak Welsh.

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

 

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

How about the LibDems take 600 votes from Labour in 2003, allowing PC to squeek past them?

 

[Jurgen Wullenwever]

You'd have to have Plaid be the party of People Living In Wales, not the party of Welsh nationalists who all want to speak Welsh.

But if Plaid becomes more or less English regionalists, then the Welsh nationalists will need another party, or go back to bombings, as in the 1960s.