We have a local by-election here later this month and while I’ve only seen a handful of Reform signs on display, it’s still too many. As with all right wing parties they don’t have any suggestions or solutions, only scapegoats, and that’s something Plaid need to hammer on before the Senedd election. Make it crystal clear that no scary brown people means your wait for healthcare will triple, your kids will be in even larger classes, your pension will get ever smaller due to fewer people paying tax, etc. Absolutely drive home how self-defeating it is to vote for anyone who says we need to keep everyone out, perhaps targeting the language issue in Welsh-speaking areas as Reform would prefer to see the language forgotten. And definitely talk about the whole “the Taffs yearn for the mines” nonsense. If my granddad, a former miner, was still alive he’d probably have thumped him for even suggesting they might reopen the pits. Poor bloke died of respiratory failure from his mining career and his last years were spent struggling for breath on home oxygen.

Like the author, the only sensible solution I can see is Plaid Cymru. But read their policies and decide for yourself if you’re undecided.