LABOUR in London are in danger of renaurs uR mistakes of Weish Labour, unless the lessons of the tests in Wales are leamed. Ceri Evans, co-author of a weish Labour roubl report claims that senior fipures in the Wales Labour Party have failed to confront the facts and Builty of myth-making on a grand scale, in relation to last year's Welsh Assembly and European election results.
The reports, " Swings and Roundabouts really happened on May Eth* thes to look beyond the spin and explain what really happened.
Evans explains Our analysis shows very deany that the biggest swings from Labour to Plaid Cymru were in the South Wales valley constituencies which make up Labour's traditional heartlands. Local fac. • tors may have had some influence in the Rhondda and isiwyn but this does not plain the huge swings across the whole of the South Wales valleys*.
Produced to only 38 percent, won 29 of 60 Assembly seats and had to form a minonty administration in a country, a bastion of Labour support should be understood as a result of two factors. The first Labour Party, Michael: a sure-fire note-loser did not like it. *This is why hundreds of thousands of Weish Labour voters did not vote in the Assembly and Euro elections and why tens of thousands of them switched to Plaid Cymru.* The Welsh Labour Action report. Swings and Roundabouts - What Really happened on May 6" by Cert Evans and P&P from WLA, 94A Wyndham Crescent, Riverside. Cardift. CF1 9EF. Labour's share of the vote was compared to 55 percent in the 1997 General Election. Labour which up until then was seen as He explained that the swings was the undernocratic manoeuvres which led to the imposition of Alun Michael on the Welsh and professional. The second factor was that voters saw what was being done hu the Labour dovemment and is available for E1.50 plus 50p than an IRA man"