WT Letters Page - Tories On The Up In County

Dear Editor - Mr Snellgrove, of Saundersfoot was inaccurate in his recollection of our performance in the recent council elections (Letters, June 11th).

In fact, the Conservatives put up 30 candidates in Pembrokeshire, an all-time record. We also fielded two candidates in seats in Carmarthen where none had ever previously stood.

We won four new seats on the council and increased Aden Brinn's majority in Pembroke from nine to 143.

We are now the second largest group on the council - one more and we would be the official opposition.

In other areas we performed well above expectation, taking 30% of the vote in Amroth, Penally and parts of what used to be Labour dominated Pembroke Dock.

All of this has happened as a result of a great deal of help from local volunteers and supporters, who recognise that our two counties are ready for a change.

Stephen Crouch Chairman, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Conservatives Association Town Moor, Moorfield Road, Narberth.


See, this is the problem I have with politicians, councillors and other authority figures. They are unable to actually speak like normal people.

The Tories put up 30 candidates. We know that most of them were simply strategically positioned paper candidates placed with the aim of taking votes away from standing members that have caused problems for the ruling IPG in the past, as proved by the manic lack of Tory candidates in wards where existing IPG councillors wished to retain their seats unchallenged.

Just because such views are accused of being made by conspiracy theorists does not mean that they are not true, it's a plain at the nose on your face.

3 candidates who live in the village of Martletwy all of which decided against standing in their home ward against the "Independent" candidate because of the obvious collusion between the Tories and the ruling members of the IPG which in the main is just a horse of another colour.

Paul Davies' nonsense explanation that people can stand wherever they want to holds no water. The whole idea is that you stand in a ward at LEAST in your own town, to represent your own people to make a difference to their lives. There should have been 4 Independents standing in Martletwy if any of these people actually had any balls.

People can see through it as clear as day so why do they insist on treating us all like bloody idiots and expect us to believe the crap that they spout on the odd occasion that they actually venture out from their ivory towers where they sit raking up their salaries, special responsibility allowances and filling in their expenses claim forms.

The Tories are gutless, only fielding candidates at a time when the national government is struggling and they can be assured of plenty of protest votes from people wanting to make a point.

And to try and con us that all 30 of their candidates were genuine is perverse in the extreme, they're a bunch of clowns and the IPG are clowns in wolf's clothing.

Stephen Crouch, Paul Davies, John Davies etc. would never make it as Propaganda Ministers with weak efforts like they seem to constantly drum out.