In ranking order, as voted on by the membership, the Welsh Liberal Democrat party list to fight the upcoming (barring an agreement between Jeremy Corbyn and Mrs May akin to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) European Parliament elections is:
1 Sam Bennett
2 Donna Lalek
3 Alistair Cameron
4 Andrew Parkhurst
5 Jason Edwards
Contrary to scare stories in some areas of the press implying that some parties, being unprepared, are scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to selection, these are all candidates who have gone through the party's extensive parliamentary candidacy vetting process. I have not yet seen the potted biographies from party HQ, but I know the top two are local councillors and have been through the fire of general elections. I would guess that the same is true of the other three. I am glad to see that my fellow-members have put their trust in our younger members who, after all, have most reason to be grateful to the European Union. They are the future. If the "flextension" continues beyond October this year, they will make a positive contribution to the EU, and to Wales in the EU.
176,158 people voted Liberal Democrat in the 2007 Welsh general election. If those same people turn out in the May European Parliament elections then they will displace not only Plaid Cymru, but also the Conservatives, who mustered only 127,742 votes in 2014, and whose workers are said to have no stomach for the contest.
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