Surprising, yet welcome news from the Plaid Cymru conference:
Plaid Cymru members may soon sit in the House of Lords as a result of an emergency motion passed at its conference in Llandudno yesterday.
The conference voted to review the long-standing ban on members entering the Upper House. A final decision will be made by the party’s national council.
It would be nice to think that PC's fellow separatists in Northern Ireland would follow example and start working for their presently disenfranchised constituents at Westminster. I can't quite see a Lord Adams of Ballymurphy quite yet, but Gerry Adams MP should start doing the job he was elected for...at Westminster.
2 comments:
Plaid have always sat in the House of Commons, and therefore their constituents cannot be "disenfranchised". Lords don't have constituents. The situation with Northern Ireland Nationalists is compleatly different.
"Lords don't have constituents."
I'm aware of that fact, the point is that Plaid Cymru are accepting the present comstituional reality and attempting to work within the system.
The situation with Northern Ireland Nationalists is compleatly different
Why?
Both Plaid Cymru and SF want to split up the Uk.
Both (at long last)believe that their goal will not be achieved by no-warning bombs in restaurants or shooting their neighbours in the back. SF are already working in a "partitionist" administration. Why should the constituents of West Belfast continue to be disenfranchised, if their fellow citizens in seats held by the SNP and Plaid Cymru are represented at Westminster?
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