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Welsh voters face blurred choice of opponents
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Apr 16, 2003 02:31pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 08:31:08 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When the governing party and the opposition appear to share the same leftish philosophy, arguments tend to concentrate on detail rather than on substance. On the burning issue of independence - what opponents pejoratively called "separatism" - Labour in Wales and its principal opponent were once poles apart.
But the I-word has long since disappeared from the political vocabulary in a nation which backed devolution by a wafer-thin majority in a referendum five years ago.
Since Plaid Cymru ditched narrow cultural nationalism in favour of moderate socialism, the "party of Wales" has become a political force in Labour's heartlands, with the old political order collapsing in the mining valleys of the south.
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