Thursday 5 April 2012

Candidate List - Carmarthenshire Council

http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/council/electionsandvoting/Documents/spnCOUNTY.pdf

With every seat contested it looks like an interesting election ahead. Pleased to see four standing against Meryl Gravell, and three trying to oust ex-chairman Ivor Jackson.

As for me in the Cilycwm ward, my two opponents are the current veteran councillor, Tom Theophilus and a Tory.

I am also a candidate for the Llanwrda Community Council, there are only three of us, and eight seats. I was going to put a link to the full Carmarthenshire Community Councillor candidate list until I noticed that the majority of the candidates were listed as 'electrical retailers' - maybe Currys have planned a coup to take over Carmarthenshire's parishes....? (this list has now been removed from the Council website...and will hopefully be corrected. Just as well these elections aren't held very often...)

Update 10th April - List of Community Council Candidates now back up, electrical retailers reduced to one; http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/council/electionsandvoting/Documents/spncommunitya.pdf )

12th April - list of uncontested Town and Community Councils and those elected; http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/council/electionsandvoting/Documents/uncontestedresults.pdf

Y Cneifiwr is busy providing his readers with a remarkably accurate ward-by-ward analysis, the first instalment is here; Those County Council elections - Y Cneifiwr looks at the form
...and the second instalment, equally perceptive, can be found here; Council election tour - Carmarthen to Glanaman where you will of course, find a brief but interesting stop at Cilycwm...
and the third leg, from Gorslas to Laugharne....4th.....Llandeilo to Llansteffan

STOP PRESS....CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNCIL BRINGS BACK HANGING....I am a bit concerned to read in a forthcoming council report that a "new and fun" element; a 'life-sized gallows" has been added to the tourist centre in the walls of County Hall...presumably to cut out the expense and bother of calling the police  to deal with members of the public with 'camera-phones'.....

5 comments:

Ryan said...

Since there are no Labour candidates up against you may I wish you good luck and hope that you win.

Cneifiwr said...

And I would still hope you win even if there was a Labour candidate in Cilycwm. Pob lwc.

towy71 said...

add my good wishes for you yet again ;-)

Anonymous said...

the only issue with 3 people standing against Queen Meryl is splitting the anti-junta vote and allowing the dictator back in through the middle

Anonymous said...

bit of news from the southwales guardian, regarding to the amount of labour candidates that are not standing for local elections. who is going to fill in their shoes or will it leave a gap for someone to slip in? i really have no idea who is standing for the town wards. it's quite bizarre.

one labour councillor publically described herself as a rabid socialist. not too sure what that actually means. rabies isn't quite something i would like to contract.(anon2)