Are The Days Of Voting For A 'donkey' In Wales Are Over?

[anotheoldgit]

/// As polling suggests the Tories are on course to win a majority of seats in Wales for the first time since the 1850s, Andrew R T Davies said the days of people living in the valleys “voting for a donkey if it had a red rosette stuck to it” were over. ///

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/798305/Andrew-RT-Davies-Wales-voting-Theresa-May-Conservative

[Prudie]

Not on this site ;-)

[New Judge]

The proof of the pudding, as always, will be in the eating (i.e. how many seats are actually won rather than how many the polls predict might be won).

However, I would not be surprised. The devolved "government" in Wales (29 out of 60 seats taken by Labour, supported by one LibDem and one Independent to provide a majority) has not made the best of jobs in dealing with devolved matters in the Principality. The problem is that, like in so many other parts of the country, many Welsh voters simply cannot bring themselves to vote Tory, however bad the Labour alternative might seem. (I don't blame them for that. I could never bring myself to vote Labour however bad a Tory alternative might seem). But this means that although votes may be lost to Labour, they won't necessarily end up as votes for the Tories.

[mikey4444]

Andrew Davies is only one opinion, and its a Tory opinion to boot, so I would take a large pinch of salt about anything he says.

No doubt the Tories will make inroads into the Labour vote, but its only 20 years since the Tories were totally wiped out in Wales, returning no MPs at all in 1997.

Before the voters think of putting their cross against a Tory candidate, perhaps they should do well to remember the damage done to Wales, by the Tories in the past.

[youngmafbog]

//the damage done to Wales, by the Tories in the past. //

And just when was that then? Still trying to blame Mrs T I suppose?

Having said that I agree with what NJ has written. I just cannot see the 'Mickeys' of the world voting Tory, even if the labour candidate was a Donkey with a rosette. Perhaps though some will register a protest vote and so allow the Tories to win the seat that way?

We will all just have to wait and see wont we and since polls are pretty useless these days I for one would not like to predict anything for constituencies such as those in Wales.

[mikey4444]

YMB....The Tories are no friend of Wales, or any other industrialised region of Britain for that matter....once bitten, twice shy.

[EDDIE51]

I'd be more inclined to believe it if it was not on a site that makes the 'Torygraph' look like the 'Daily Worker'.

[cassa333]

Polls have been wrong so much recently that it is daft to take much of what they say with a pinch of salt.

Die hards of any party keep it afloat but people that take the time to really look at current issues rather than harping on about history, and make informed decisions could sway the result.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

As you often tell others, you really must stop livening in the past, times have changed.

[mikey4444]

Not in Wales AOG....we are still living with consequences of the industrialisation polices of the 80's and 90's.

Why should people living here vote for a Party with such a dire history ?

[Sqad]

"Why should people living here vote for a Party with such a dire history "
Cus that was then and this now.

[mikey4444]

Sqad....as most of our industry was destroyed and not re-started, I suppose there isn't the danger that the Tories can do much more damage to the Welsh economy any more !

[Sqad]

^^^ I suppose not mikey....LOL

[Jackdaw33]

" Pa ham mae dicter, oh Myfanwy (Mikey)".