We remarked on Sunday about how plans were allegedly afoot to displace Bethan Jenkins as top Plaid nomination for South Wales West at next year’s Assembly elections. The convoluted reasoning behind this suggested overthrow is that it was payback for intrigues by her partner Neil McEvoy, deputy leader at Cardiff council, who is trying to unsettle the natural order of things in South Wales Central.
Whilst the purported threat comes over as a bit fatuous, McEvoy for one appears to be taking it all very seriously and has decided to help out.
Copies are now circulating of an email he recently sent to a local contact urging ex-car workers to sign a letter of mass support for Bethan after her campaigning work on their behalf. A passage in the letter states, “imagine the surprise of the Visteon workers when we learned that someone from within Plaid is standing against Bethan in her South Wales West region”.
The covering email, which is copied in to Bethan Jenkins and her press & political officer Duncan Higgitt, carries the advice to “ask for email responses that they are happy to sign. We can then add that to an electronic version to release. Let me know about the responses.”
We can only imagine what Wales on Sunday will make of this but party managers, and others, who are reportedly aiming to frustrate McEvoy’s political ambitions will no doubt be delighted by his apparent willing assistance.
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Imagine the surprise the campaigners will get when they find the letter they have been asked to sign has been drafted by the AMs partner on order to keep their joint political ambitions alive.
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