When a politician talks about the urgent need to conduct a post-mortem, it usually means that they see an opportunity to rattle some old bones in order to make a point or maybe even a leadership bid. Whether Dafydd Elis-Thomas falls into this category in stating yet again how Plaid got it wrong is anyone’s guess. Some might say that the likes of Nerys Evans have already paid the price of negative campaigning and that its time to move on. Some party apparatchiks have apparently already come to that conclusion - although the actual direction is imprecise as yet.
A more insightful analysis of poor performance is provided by Darren Dupre in his assessment of the BNP’s failure to make anything like the inroads they had hoped. The fascist spin is that they beat the Lib Dems in four of the seven FPTP constituencies they contested. Dupre takes that claim apart very adequately but points out the underlying dangers in assuming that the BNP are finished as a political force. As it happens, Nick Griffin spent a miserable election night in Swansea in the delusional belief of a possible breakthough in South Wales West.
Which leaves just the usual suspects to provide their own unique form of denial.
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