Labour and Plaid Cymru politicians based in the Caerphilly constituency have made an unprecedented show of unity by urging voters to remain in the European Union, ahead of the referendum being held on Thursday, June 23.
Labour’s Caerphilly MP Wayne David, AM Hefin David, and former Plaid Cymru AM Lindsay Whittle have issued a joint statement arguing their case for the Remain campaign.
The statement, issued before EU referendum campaigning had been suspended following the death of Yorkshire MP Jo Cox, reads: “The vote on June 23 is of critical importance. Although we have clear political differences, the three of us strongly believe that it is in the best interests of Wales and its people that there is a Remain vote.
“Wales benefits from our membership of the European Union, as does the Caerphilly Borough, and we believe that we would be worse off if we left the EU.
“Wales receives far more money from the EU than it puts in and in the Caerphilly Borough there are many projects and initiatives which are funded by the EU. If Britain pulls out of the EU we believe that it is extremely unlikely that the current Conservative government will make up the shortfall.
“We want to see a prosperous and outward-looking Wales. That is why we are urging the people of the Caerphilly Borough to vote Remain.”
Here We Have it, Officially, The Welsh Nationalsit who fight for more devolution from Lodon, in their fight for Welsh Independence “because Wales can offer a better life for its inhabitants if Governed from Cardiff”, (besides giving jobs to second rate politicians who`s only aim is nepatistic sycophancy), are perfectly willing to tell us all to vote to forever, and ever increasingly, to be willing to be governed from ? BRUSSELS
How is this circle squared by these Nationalist people. It is no wonder they lose support to their cause election after election, they are now a spent force only capable of political games of musical chairs. Why on earth Labour would want to align themselves with such a useless spent force is a mystery, or, could it be that due to melting support for the STAY vote in Wales this is a case of any port in a storm, This is also a tactical error by Labour of giving The Nationalist any credability at all by getting into bed with these hypocrits who`s advice nobody is going to take anyway.
A mistake by Labour by any measure.
Statements like this are made by the leadership of these two parties as if there is unanimity within their respective groups on membership of the EU. This is not the case and most Labour supporters and many Plaid supporters, I have spoken with, are voting Leave.
All the Labour & Plaid supporters I have spoken to are 100% IN
We shall see, I know several elected councillors for these parties that are voting out, in fact there are Labour MPs are voting out, despite all the bullying that goes on from ‘Remain.’ I also have spent three months talking to people in the town and can only report my experience – lots of Labour and Plaid supporters are voting ‘Leave’ as they believe in democracy.
But you carry on, vote remain along with the prime minister and the rest of the establishment. We shall see who wins next Friday but the EU project is doomed now, there will be a clamour from other European countries to hold their own referendum and the whole anti democratic structure will soon crash into oblivion and be just a part of history.
Why on earth would a labour supporter agree with you on anything?
ALL the important issues point to the UK benefitting by REMAINING IN and being an absolute disaster if we lose connection with the EU.
Check back to the 1970`s .. 3 day working week to save electricity, the government going cap in hand to the IMF to bail us out of the mire … then we joined Europe and steadily the UK grew stronger ..
Remain IN for the future of our children, come out and not even Farage and Johnson can tell us what the UK will be like. Stick with the Devil you know..
NHS: Aaron Banks, a multimillionaire who made his money through insurance, he is unelected but wants to influence people by throwing money first at the Conservatives, then UKIP and now the leave campaign. WHY? because he wants our NHS privatised so he could sell more health insurance policies @ £200 per month, every month cynical or what? His friends in UKIP also have stated our NHS should be privatised including Farage, Hamilton, Gill, Carswell along with Tories Fox & Gove to name just a few.
Keep the NHS free at the point of service so you don`t have to show your debit card or health insurance to get treatment….
Forget holidays in Europe, we won`t be able to afford them, the ££ has plummeted at the thought of us coming out..
Don`t believe politicians but listen to the experts in their field and a vast majority will tell you to REMAIN IN or suffer.
REMAIN IN for future generations – they deserve better than the alternative
Read your history Lisa, the three day week and the IMF loan happened after we joined the EU, or Common Market as it was called then. Britain has not grown stronger, economicaly or militarily since joining. In 1972 there were tens of thousands of people employed in the steel industry withing 15 miles of our town and tens of thousands earning a living supporting them. Eastmoors, Ebw Vale and Llanwern all have closed and destroyed the Welsh Economy since we joined in 1973. By the way, before we joined up we had the third largest navy in the world, all built in Britain using British steel. Now the navy is tiny and the steel for the ships is made abroad.
Regarding the health service it is not free, working people pay an enormous amount of money to fund it. They would have to pay less if we were not paying the EU £ Billions every year. People could afford holidays in Europe before we joined the EU because they had jobs that paid a reasonable wage. I bet fewer Welsh working class people enjoy foreign holidays now than they once did.
The choice next Thurday is do you want to be governed by those you elect or by people chosen abroad? Do you want to build Wales up or compete with other poor countries for handouts from the EU? Do you want your armed forces to be deployed only by your government or on the orders of other countries?
I have made my choice, I’m voting ‘LEAVE’ along with many of my political opponents in Plaid Cymru, Labour and Conservative parties. Let’s hope freedom wins the day as it is going to get very grim for the people of Wales if we continue to belong to this out dated failure of a political experiment called the European Union of the Regions.
The NHS is free at the point of service, when was the last time you paid to see the GP or paid to go into hospital?? If it was left up to Ukip we will all be paying either through insurance or card .. Messers Banks and Farage are taking us all for mugs .. vote to remain in and save our NHS for our childrens sake.
Actually read the UKIP manifesto, “The NHS will remain free at the point of delivery”
A non argument and I don’t understand what you are making a fuss about. Please address the rest of my comments and expalin why the working class, instead of earnning a real wage and buying their own homes, are working part time in supermarkets and competing on the list for for housing with people who have recently come from abroad?
I don’t believe or trust anything Ukip says so no point reading fairy stories,
Why have Aaron Banks, Farage, Hamilton, Carswell all have said our NHS should be privatised ?
And I know never to trust any argument which is hypocritical and disjointed, your party fights for ever more devolution from the UK government yet you are quite willing to hand ever more governance of Wales over to unelected people in Brussels what absolute nonsensical clapptrap. Convince other to vote `remain` you are wasting your time due to you being a disjointed political commentator.
The NHS is NOT FREE AT ANY POINT, let alone the point of service
WE ALL PAY A PRICE FOR IT THROUGH OUR TAXES.
We were the 12th largest economy when we joined what was then the EEC. Now, as everyone knows, we’re number 5. What sense is there in leaving a market of 500 million people? It’s insane.
Yeap, they have their own hidden agenda
We can leave a market of 50om and join a market of 1.6bn (the Commonwealth). Or join a market of 6.5bn (the rest of the world).
Most of what you say is disjointed in timeline and wrong in other respects, you clealry do not undersatnd the situation or history.
But, you have consistantly made one thing clear in all your comments on this subject, and as a Welsh Nationalist that is, you want to hand over power, more power than we have already lost, to unelected EU representatives to govern WALES, you appear content to do this even though your party seeks evermore disconection with the UK government. You do a great dis-service to your Welsh Nationalist cause.
Your position is dishonest, and your opinion is not worth a light, it is hypocritical and has no credability.
You, a Welsh Nationalist, giving away our power to govern ourselves to Brussels, So what exactly DO you stand for, and why would anyone vote for your party and not Labour, no point voting Wlsh Nationalists then?. You have lost the plot. Can`t even think in a straight line.
I was undecided until I had a card through the post from vote Leave
it plays on peoples fears: ” Turkey is 1 of 5 countries that want to join” with a diagram of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Fact: none of these countries will be joining the EU in our lifetime.
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they are still pushing the LIE that the EU cost £350 million a week .. they know it’s a lie but still are trying to deceive the public.
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there has been so much distortion of the truth from vote leave this amounts to gutter politics to lie, decieve,play on peoples fears, scarmonger such a dishonest campaign when I read this card I filled in my postal vote and posted it.
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vote to remain IN the European Union
You were never going to vote otherwise were you? I will be casting my vote on Thursday for ‘Leave’ which cancels out your vote. That’s democracy; we will see what happpens next.
Childish
Says a Welsh Nationalist who wants to hand further legal power to run Wales over to unelected people in Brussels.
I will never look to support further devolution from England, and I will use your position of giving all that additional devolved power back to Brussles, for doing so.
What a stupid positon for Welsh Nationalist to take, be honest for goodness sake, you know your party is incapable of managing political influences at any level and for that reason you want the job of running Wales handed over to Brussels, they will do it for you. You have singlehandedly, (with the help of Lisa, whoever that is) of convincing everyone why they need not vote Welsh Nationalist at any election, Whereas, if Labour, Tory or any other real political party were in power in Wales at least they have the interlect to properly excercise political authority, and work for my interests.
I hope you like the idea of your highest court in your country being located in a foreign country and being run by judges who have never visited Britain. Justice isn’t even British anymore. This is a fact. Let’s take back control and rule in our own court.
This is an ill-informed view.
It is official government policy to help Turkey John the EU and Cameron refused last night to veto Turkey’s membership. Albania has started applying to join.
The EU does cost £350m a week. When you say your salary do you state how much you earn after you pay tax NF your bills or do you state the figure before? The UK pays £18bn to the EU, £8bn of that comes back through a rebate and is spent on Britain, the other £10bn goes to spending on projects in poorer EU countries. The UK could fund everything the EU funds and still have £10bm left over.
These are FACTS!
Very clearly put, it was educational to see David Cameron refuse to drawn on whether he would use the veto to bar Turkey from joining the club.
It’s amazing how DUMB appears and DUMBER is quick to follow, strange bedfellows or the same person? Who knows, so many lies haven’t they been told lying is wrong and so is trolling.
Usual stuff from you, never comes up with a counter argument, always comes up with play yard insults.
Why do all the senior Leavers want our NHS privatised so you pay to see your GP????
Let Jo Cox’s legacy be a vote to remain.
That was disgusting. You should hang your head in shame.
I couldn’t agree more with you Pete, an MP is murdered in cold blood by a maniac and people try to make political capital from it.
Maybe the quit brigade better sort their own campaign out first stop all the lies, scaremongering and playing on people`s fears by distorting the truth,
The campaigns are irrelevant, the perceived fiscal benefits of either choice are irrelevant. Wether or not you will have to pay more to text pictures of your feet from Benidorm or not is irrelevant. The only relevant factor is to you want democracy?
Nothing wrong with my feet and I`ll never go to main land Spain let alone Benidorm ….
Do you want democracy or not?
There`s a lot wrong with your feet friend, you use them to count probably, and your figures come out wrong if you look back on a comment you made on this item recently, but the biggest thing which is wrong with them is you use them to vote, Welsh Nationalist. and your feet are wrong.
Correct, but there are many in the ‘Remain’ campaign that do not believe in democracy. You only have to look at all the comments – everyone that disagrees is “scum” or “liars”, etc. What a bunch of losers.
Some economists think it is better to leave as consumers will have more money to spend, there will be cheaper prices in shops, and wages will go up (Stuart Rose wanting Britain to not leave the EU has said wages will be higher if Britain leaves)
By voting to stay in you are being taken for an idiot. The people leading your own campaign have admitted your pay will be higher if we leave the EU. By voting to not leave you are voting for lower pay and to be poorer.
Thats the narrow Nationalist intentions, there is no way they can again, credibly, ask for the vote of a Welsh man or woman to support their doffing of hats to the EU. a vote for them in future is now clearly exposed as a LOST vote.
And Join the Welsh Nationalists and vote remain and hand over any chance of more devolved power to Wales from England to rule Wales, let it be run from Brussels. This realy does expose The welsh Nationalists for what they are a bunch or creeping hypocrites willing to sell our wonderful Wales down the pan., Vote Plaid Cymru in future? Why.
No such thing
As a Labour `activist` She was a great believer and the very best activist for democracy, her legacy will be forever be seen in the way that domocracy works here and throughout the world, and any vote, which ever way, is what she stood for, you do her memory a dis-service by suggesting such a thing.
Disgusting! You should be ashamed of making her into a mascot and martyr campaign against a Brexit.