#Assembly Member For Arfon

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6 Of 6 - Our Complaint Against Cyngor Gwynedd Council.

6 Of 6 – Our Complaint Against Cyngor Gwynedd Council.

The customer care and complaints department at Cyngor Gwynedd council continue to remain silent in regard to our complaint first raised in May, last year on the advice of the Ombudsman for Wales. So this is the sixth and final point of our Stage 2 complaint  – Despite repeated requests, (complainants) have never been offered a carers assessment by social services. And our desired outcome – The…

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Image caption Anna McMorrin is congratulated as she takes the Cardiff North seat

Labour have taken back Gower, Cardiff North and Vale of Clwyd from the Conservatives in a strong general election night for the party in Wales.

It also fought off fierce Tory battles for Bridgend and Wrexham as has passed the 25 seats it won two years ago.

Those results represent a huge blow to the Tories who hoped to make big gains across Wales in the snap election ahead of Brexit negotiations.

But Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns held on to his seat in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Live: Election results in Wales

The Tories also held on to Monmouth, Aberconwy and Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire, with reduced majorities but increased their holds on Brecon and Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire.

Missing out on Bridgend and Wrexham is a huge blow for the Conservatives who failed to take two of their key target seats – which Prime Minister Theresa May visited during campaigning.

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Media captionNo rush on who to blame for Tory loss says Craig Williams, who lost his Cardiff North seat to Labour

But the loss of the marginal seats of Gower and Cardiff North is a sign of the difficult night the Tories have faced.

Gower is a significant victory for Labour though after losing it for the first time in more than 100 years by 27 votes two years ago. Tonia Antoniazzi has taken the seat from Byron Davies with a majority of 3,269.

In the swing seat of Cardiff North, Anna McMorrin’s 4,174 majority at the expense of Craig Williams is the biggest in 20 years as her party claimed 28 seats in Wales.

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Media captionCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens praises Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for a “really good campaign”

The Conservatives have won seven seats – four fewer than in 2015.

Senior Welsh Conservative AM Darren Millar said the Tory campaign was “too personal” and focused too much of Jeremy Corbyn instead of presenting a “positive vision” for the future.

Elsewhere, Plaid Cymru maintained three as they held on to Arfon with Hywel Williams winning by 92 votes, and also Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and Dwyfor Meirionnydd, but failed to gain its key Rhondda target seat from Labour, and also fell to third place in Ynys Mon.

The Liberal Democrats are waiting to find out if they have held on to their solo seat in Ceredigion.

North east Wales results

North west results

Mid Wales results

South east Wales results

South west Wales results

Earlier, Brexit Minister David Jones, who retained his Clwyd West seat, had claimed an exit poll suggesting his party will lose enough seats to fall short of a majority could turn out to be wrong, but in Wales.

Indications suggest the turnout is higher that two years ago, with votes for both Conservatives and Labour increasing despite the overall results.

First Minister Carwyn Jones said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ran a “superb” campaign in a “volatile” environment.

Image caption Tonia Antoniazz (l) celebrates taking Gower for Labour

“He’s spoken to members of the public,” said Mr Jones.

“He didn’t speak to meetings that were just full of people exactly like him, he took part in leadership debates, he listened to people and that was the difference in this campaign.”

Labour’s Stephen Kinnock, who was returned to his Aberavon seat, called the Tory campaign “the worst in living memory”.

Going into the election, Labour held 25 seats in Wales, the Conservatives 11, Plaid three and Liberal Democrats one.

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Media captionPlaid’s Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth says the party is disappointed over Ynys Mon

Former Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones, who failed to return to Westminster in the Ynys Mon seat, earlier said Plaid had been “squeezed in many parts of Wales”.

Neil Hamilton, UKIP’s Welsh assembly group leader, also said his party has “been squeezed” in this election where they have not picked up any seats. He came fourth in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr.

Senior Welsh Liberal Democrat Baroness Jenny Randerson, said the party has suffered at UK level, adding: “Your airtime declines and therefore it becomes much more difficult to make your case. It’s been a tough election.”

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Welsh Labour General Election 2017: Candidate selection briefing

Following the calling of a snap General Election for June 8th, the Welsh Executive Committee met (20.4.17) to agree a timetable and procedure for the selection of Welsh Labour’s election candidates.

The Welsh Executive Committee endorsed the 25 sitting MPs as candidates who all confirmed they are again standing for election.

The Welsh Executive Committee also invited members of the Labour Party to submit applications in the form of a standard CV if they wished to be considered as candidates in the 15 vacant seats in Wales. The deadline for applications was 5pm on Monday 24th April.

A panel of WEC members has since assessed all the applications received and today announces the candidates for the 15 vacant seats in Wales. 

There are now Welsh Labour candidates in place in every seat in Wales.

Candidate names and biographies

ABERCONWY – EMILY OWEN

Youngest County Councillor on Conwy council

Trade union member and active community campaigner

Keen to close the inequality gap within society

ARFON – MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE

2015 General Election candidate Director of a public law centre helping people access legal advice

Worked as project manager and parliamentary film producer

BRECON AND RADNOR – DAN LODGE

2016 Assembly candidate

Party activist for over 20 years

Active in Fabians Cymru, campaigned consistently against UK government cuts

CARMARTHEN EAST AND DINEFWR – DAVID DARKIN

 Architect and self-employed businessman

Passionate Labour campaigner

CARMARTHEN WEST AND SOUTH PEMBS – MARC TIERNEY

Worked with Radio Pembrokeshire prior to working in the third and public sectors

Lives in the heart of the constituency with his partner Sarah and three children, who all attend local schools

 As an active campaigner, successfully set the agenda on matters of security, the economy, health and education during last year’s Assembly elections

CARDIFF NORTH – ANNA MCMORRIN

Passionate about creating a fair society with social justice at its heart

A successful local, national and international campaigner and trade unionist

Mother of two teenage daughters

CEREDIGION - DINAH MULHOLLAND

Awareness Raising Coordinator for Aberystwyth Women’s Aid, Inaugural Chair for the Ceredigion Domestic Abuse Forum

Ceredigion CLP’s Campaigns Coordinator since November 2015 and LCF Chair

Led the Save Aberystwyth Post Office campaign

CLWYD WEST – GARETH THOMAS

Labour MP for Clwyd West from 1997 to 2005

Labour candidate for Clwyd West in 2015

Practises as self-employed barrister based in Liverpool since 1986

Lives in the constituency

Fluent Welsh speaker

DWYFOR MEIRIONNYDD – MATHEW NORMAN

Fluent Welsh speaker

Law graduate Aberystwyth University

Lived in Australia for five years, studying for a Law Degree and active in the International CLP of the Labour Party

LGBT Labour Wales Committee officer for Welsh Language

GOWER – ANTONIA ANTONIAZZI

Head of Modern Foreign Languages in a local comprehensive school, who is now working regionally with schools across the Gower Constituency

Campaigned in last year’s Assembly elections as a list candidate in Mid & West Wales

Single mother with a passion for tackling social injustice

 MONMOUTH – RUTH JONES

Parliamentary candidate for the Monmouth constituency in the 2015 General Election

Longstanding and passionate Labour Party campaigner 

Worked for over 30 years as a physiotherapist in the NHS

Married with 2 teenage children

MONTGOMERYSHIRE – IWAN JONES

Welsh Labour candidate for Ceredigion in 2016

Dedicated young Labour campaigner with a proud track record of fighting Plaid Cymru

 PRESELI PEMBS – PHILIPPA THOMPSON

Former diplomat and trade union chair with extensive experience (human rights, EU negotiation, immigration)

Defending Labour’s hard-won workers’ rights at risk from a Tory “hard Brexit” Campaigning for women’s and children’s rights, LGBT rights, all at risk with the Tories railing against the European Convention

 VALE OF CLWYD – CHRIS RUANE

Elected Labour's first MP for the Vale of Clwyd in 1997 and held this highly marginal seat for 18 years

Primary school teacher for 15 years

Chaired the Welsh PLP, instigated regular meetings between MPs and AMs and seeks to bring his experience to retake the Vale of Clwyd

 VALE OF GLAMORGAN – CAMILLA BEAVEN

Knowledgeable on local issues as an experienced caseworker for Labour AM Jane Hutt

Grew up locally in Barry and Cowbridge

Active Labour Party campaigner and local government candidate

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Arfon Assembly Member, Sian Gwenllian has already written to the authority after concerns were raised with her, confirming she would “continue to communicate” with the authority'

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Cyngor Gwynedd Head Responds - Finally.

Cyngor Gwynedd Head Responds – Finally.

The Assembly Member for Arfon, Sian Gwenllian, emailed me on the 5th July and sent me a copy of the long overdue response from Marian Parry Hughes, Head of Children and Families at Gwynedd Council. See my post of the 4th July for more detail – https://gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/arfon-am-ignored-by-gwynedd-head-of.html Mrs Hughes begins by apologising for not responding to the…

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Assembly Member Ignored By Gwynedd Council.

Assembly Member Ignored By Gwynedd Council.

I had an email from the office of Sian Gwenllian, Assembly Member for Arfon, this morning. Marian Parry Hughes, Head of Children and Supporting Families at Cyngor Gwynedd has still not replied to the AM’s letter sent in April. How is it that a council employee can refuse to acknowledge and reply to a democratically elected Assembly Member for Wales ? Where is the accountability ? How many other…