Super Wednesday: it’s Edwina’s Night
What a night for Edwina Hart - five wins out of five so far!
BEEN asked to rewind and explain this Constituency Labour Party business, so here goes. As we explained last week (and doesn’t a week feel like a long time in politics?) each of Wales’ 40 CLPs can endorse a candidate – or choose not to endorse one. This doesn’t deliver actual votes in the leadership ballot itself, but rather a CLP’s endorsement has a direct bearing in demonstrating candidate power and appeal.
Here’s the scores on the doors so far as we know them:
But of course there is of course no compulsion to support any candidate. To our knowledge the following eight constituencies have decided not to endorse: Pontypridd; Rhondda; Cardiff South & Penarth; Clwyd South; Blaenau Gwent; Carmarthen East & Dinefwr; Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire; and Preseli Pembrokeshire.
By my maths, there’s another 17 out there of which we have heard nothing at all. Surely places like Islwyn, the two Newports and Monmouth aren’t passing up the opportunity to weigh in? What of the northern voices in Vale of Clwyd, Delyn, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Arfon and Ynys Mon? What say the urbanites of Cardiff North, Cardiff West and Cardiff Central? Is there a genuine silence in Ceredigion and Llanelli? Didn’t Huw’s visit to Montgomeryshire do the trick? What news from Cynon Valley and Caerphilly?
Do tell, teams. Do tell…
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As some of the non declared constituencies have so few Labour members, an endorsement from the constituency might be more of an embarrassment than a triumph. Labour failed to gain a thousand votes in Merioneth in the Euro Elections. If you were a candidate would you really want the endorsement of such a p*** poor stamping ground?