Tag Archives: Reform

By Dave Warren, Swansea As expected, Labour suffered a crushing defeat at the election for the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) on 7 May. Labour won just nine seats out of 96 in a newly extended Senedd, down from 30 seats out of 60 previously. The First Minister, Eluned Morgan lost her seat and has resigned as Labour leader in Wales. It ...

Hospitality worker in Merthyr Tydfil On 16 April, Nigel Farage and his team, including the Welsh Reform leader and Senedd candidate Dan Thomas, came to Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales on the election campaign trail. Unfortunately my workplace was one of the hospitality venues they used to publicise their campaign of division and hate, and the senior management equally capitalised on ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1360 ‘An injury to one is an injury to all.’ That basic idea of trade unionism is bringing union members to the streets in big numbers on the ‘Together Against the Far Right’ demonstration on 28 March. Organising to change a situation where there is growing fear of racist attacks is part of what trade unions ...

By Mark Best The establishment insider’s outsider, Nigel Farage, spent the week burnishing his party Reform UK’s credentials as a party that will be safe for the very richest in society. On Monday 12 January, former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi announced that he was joining Reform as the country needs a “glorious revolution”. Zahawi, whose career in the Tory party ...

By Geraint Thomas (Caerphilly Socialist Party) It was a crushing result for the capitalist establishment parties at the Caerphilly Senedd by-election on 23 October. Labour and the Tories together got a combined 13% of the vote. Together, they won the support of barely over 6.5% of the total electorate. Labour’s vote plummeted by 35.4 percentage points. The turnout, at 50.4%, ...

By Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales secretary Eluned Morgan, Labour First Minister of Wales, took the first steps to distance Welsh Labour from the historically unpopular Starmer-led Westminster government, declaring that she would “call out” UK Labour if they undermined Wales. She called for Starmer to halt part of the UK government’s plans to cut disability benefits, rethink cuts to ...

Socialist Party statement Not just booted out. The Tories have been crushed. The electorate has punished them for fourteen years of austerity, attacks on the working class, lies and corruption. Less than seven million people went out and voted for the Tory Party, its lowest vote in a century. Ten cabinet ministers and 250 Tory MPs have lost their seats, ...