WHY I AM STANDING.

Full statement

 I have become increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of the Senedd as a whole – both Government and Opposition:

o Ineffective management of its major responsibilities – Health, Education, Transport.
o Laws that have lofty ideals but tend to produce the opposite of their proclaimed purpose.
o Purely daft proposals. Like promising farmers financial support: but only if they will do less farming.
o Proposals involving considerable expense, that could have better achieved their aims with greatly reduced expenditure.
o The many politicians who follow the “make-or-break” mode of working: they MAKE fabulous promises on the stump then BREAK them once elected.

If elected I will use my perspective as one from outside the “Cardiff Bay Bubble” and do my utmost to support Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr folk, and work across Wales as a whole.
I will:
 Promote value for money issues in all aspects of Senedd proceedings.
 Challenge proposals up for debate, to make sure the new laws do what they are supposed to do and are not bedevilled with unlooked for outcomes.
 Particularly, being a pensioner myself, ensure that the needs of the 75+ generation are properly taken account of in development of new policies. They represent 12% - 15% of electors and deserve a better shout.
 Always promote the idea of co-operative working methods in the new Senedd. Having a proportional system at the ballot box, then trying to revert to “first-past-the-post” behaviours after the election is a betrayal, of the electorate.
 Be a known face and name that people can vote for: unlike the situation with party candidates, where the vital choice of who gets a seat ends up in the hands of party managers rather than voters.
 For me, PEOPLE should always come before PARTY. I will never surrender principal in favour of dancing to the tune of any party fiddle.