To ask: if your are anti-Reform and in Wales...

Second, I believe. I suppose the good thing about lowering the voting age is that her school (so I assume others too) have been having assemblies about the importance of voting and encouraging them to register.

North East Wales here.
with the constituency reform ( down to 16 ) and 6 MS per constituency based on PR, I fear Wales is going nowhere, probably backwards from now on.

This is the first Senedd election in which 16 year olds can vote isn’t it?

I think I am voting Plaid. I don't know. I am feeling really down by the fact that my constituency is likely to be a Reform win. No one has knocked on my door, but the postal stuff really seems to be targeting my teenage DD, she's received mail from all parties, unlike DH and me. She's having lots of fun practising the old art of political posters vandalism.

Yes, sound advice! Thing is…Here in Wales, that leaves us with just either the Conservatives or (shudder) Reform.

There's more to life than trans issues, and I consider myself gender critical.

In my constituency there have been four opinion polls putting Plaid first, reform second and Labour third.
This area is normally a Labour stronghold but they are way behind the other two.
So, I will be voting Plaid for the first time hoping to keep reform out.

I'm in the same area as you two @KimHwn @Periperi2025

The Foden matter was absolutely horrendous and totally unforgiveable. However, I've had a lot of good dealings with Cyngor Gwynedd and have been quite impressed with them on a number of occasions. I lived in Ynys Môn for many years and their County Council was diabolical.

Our MS has been amazingly supportive and active on behalf of myself, neighbours and other villages across the county over the last few years and I will most definitely be voting for her again in the upcoming Senedd elections.

So far I've only seen Plaid canvassing in our (very Welsh) village. I don't think Reform would get a warm welcome from anyone here but we've had some crap through the post from them. It's easy to just go through the Electoral Register and send a pamphlet out to each address, isn't it?

I'm not a member but I'll canvass you now for Plaid if it helps! 🌻

When I did one of those questionnaires about your views on policies to decide which party to vote for it came out as libdem. Massive waste of a vote in my constituency, and I still can't get past the Nick Clegg lies.
I think I will be voting Plaid but my vote is still wavering. The canvassers should be after me but all quiet there except Reform. Not even had anything through the door (and I am not rural - biggest town in the constituency)

I got that impression from watching him on question time. I really liked the leader of the lib dem as an individual politician, just not the party.

It's def

its a case of voting for the 'least worst' in any situation these days. Definitely not just a wales problem.

I’m voting Plaid for the first time to try and keep Reform out. V worried about what will happen

For me the issue with tactical voting is do you end up voting for a party to just keep another party out rather than voting for the party you think will be the best for you and Wales. It is a real predicament....... hopefully someone will have an answer!

Just something shifty about him, would throw anyone under the bus - standard for most politicians really.
I got the same vibe from Ken Skates, though granted I didn't talk to him for long.

Tricky, how?

They're phasing out (or have phased out) the English options entirely. I think friars was one of the last to go0

Pleidleiso Reform 'ta? Dim ffiars o beryg.

Reform.will be the death nell for the welsh language, so Plaid all the way here.
1st language welsh students I've met have all thrived in English universities. I'm for Welsh medium teaching. New arrivals to the area seem less keen and often didn't know about it until they moved here, which strikes me as bonkers.

Just don't vote for a party that thinks a woman can have a penis and you should be fine

I also live in the county where the Foden case happened and it clearly illustrated the old boys network in the council. I am trying hard to think of anywhere local where the only secondary option is for English medium education from Yr 10. I know Foden’s school was mainly English but there’s a completely Welsh medium school round the corner. Being bilingual can only be an advantage but it’s good to have choice.

I live in the same constituency as you, and I agree on the council and the Foden case. It's horrific. I don't know a single person who has struggled in life due to being educated to be fluent in two languages, though, and in my part of that constituency, the only secondary school in the area teaches all subjects from yr10 through the medium of English, giving no Welsh language choices.

I didn't even know about draignet and been on mumsnet a long time