Plaid Cymru Meet in Telephone Box

Posted on February 2nd, 2007 filed in Humour, Misc, Politics

Plaid Cymru in Cynon Valley are going green.

To save on unnecessary use of heating, they have decided to hold all their Constituency meetings in a Telephone Box in Mountain Ash.

Dr Richard Wyn Jones from Aberystwyth University claimed some of the credit for Plaid Cymru’s innovation in Cynon Valley. “I would have preferred a small four-person tent as I advise in my recent book, but a telephone box is a good start.”

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You have to dig deep and hard to find any news story concerning Plaid Cymru holding a good old-fashioned public meeting in Aberdare. This was taken from the Aberdare Leader, March 10th, 1977

Plaid in Public

Plaid Cymru are holding a public meeting in Aberdare this saturday as part of a nation-wide campaign, following the defeat of the guillotine motion on the Devolution Bill.

The speakers will be Mr Dafydd Elis Thomas, MP, Mr Phil Richards, prospective parliamentary candidate for Aberdare, and Mr Harri Webb, the poet and former librarian at Mountain Ash.

The meeting takes place at the Palladium, starting at 2pm.

On the eve of the Welsh Assembly elections the Cynon Valley is an interesting ‘political laboratory’ to observe how elites operate. Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) would be particularly amused working in this ‘lab’ as many of his theories concern how elites function.

The current Labour Assembly Member in Cynon Valley faces no opposition, instead there is a pretense of opposition, a ’show’ put on for the ignorant masses : the occasional gesture here, a brief letter published there, a chattering blog yonder, and maybe even a trifling press release as dessert.

If you blink, you will miss it.

It is Democracy-Light and it might look and sound like democracy, but it is not the real thing and ultimately it leads to dissatisfaction and an alienated electorate who see no reason in voting.

This is a desired feature of the system. The lack of interest in democracy leaves the elites – and Vilfredo Pareto would agree – to squabble amongst themselves.