Yes, it seems they are.....ELIN JONES this week dismissed a Plaid Cymru split over nuclear power. The Ceredigion candidate insisted it was of no significance that the party was anti-nuclear while its leader, Ieuan Wyn Jones, backed a nuclear replacement within the next 10 years for the Wylfa power plant on Anglesey. Successive Plaid manifestos rule out new nuclear power stations, but Mr Jones said he would support the development because he had a “re-sponsibility to defend jobs”, subject to assurances concerning the level of investment, the number of jobs that would be created and proposals for dealing with nuclear waste.Rival candidates - apart from the Liberal Democrats - back a new power station and accused Mr Jones of fudging the issue. But Elin Jones said she defended the right of any AM, including a party leader, to disagree with official policy.
Aberystwyth Today 26th April 2007
Aberystwyth Today 26th April 2007
Plaid should dump this Mr Jones. Either you are for or against nuclear power! This is too serious a matter to let one man decide on this issue.
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1 comment:
It's incorrect to say succesive Plaid manifesto's oppose Nuclear Power.
In fact, for the first time, Plaid have produced a manifesto which omits any mention of nuclear power.
IWJ says this is because it is a non-devolved issue - yet Plaid included opposition to nuclear power in their 1999 and 2003 Assembly manifesto's so it seems a little disingenuous.
His sophistry over a Plaid/Tory coalition is also an example of politricks in action. IWJ has said he wouldn't serve under a Tory First Minister. What this really means is that he would be prepared to be First Minister in a Plaid/Tory coalition.
Personally, I support the statement of Nye Bevan: "The tories are lower than vermin".
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