Talk:Blaenau Gwent People's Voice

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The following is an unsourced addition to the page that appears to be a letter to the editor or a local paper concerned with the state of the local party. I've moved it here, as its not in the proper format, but if references can be found, would be useful in the page. DJ Silverfish (talk) 04:09, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


 * ''The group on Torfaen Council has now broken up and does not sit as a People's Voice group and no longer use the description of Torfaen People's Voice. The People's Voice Torfaen has now called themselves 'The Democratic Voice'. The reason for the split is as follows (From Torfaen People's Voice/Democratic Voice Website - wrote the Chair of Democratic Voice Ian Williams)


 * ''A lot of assumptions and mistakes, regarding the situation with the articles in the ‘Free Press’ and the ‘Argus’. So…it is only right that I place the real facts in the public domain. People's Voice Torfaen (PVT) selected Paul Starling as its candidate for the General Election, due in 2010. It was only after this that we received certain information about our candidate that was not very ‘complimentary’. This was from people that had worked with him; I was asked by him to ‘keep it to myself’ and did.  Other issues that included one that was ‘very serious indeed’ occurred, when I as Chair and his Agent, informed him of the concerns I had by email; he point blank, refused to discuss them. That was October of 2009, we have not seen or heard from him until recently when we sent him a letter asking him; what his intentions were, he sadly failed to reply, then all this ‘kicked off’. The ‘front man’ for this was Peter Osborne, Peter resigned from the party and we have his resignation on file. He was asked on two occasions to rescind his resignation, but refused. His resignation was accepted by the party at its next two meetings, and he received a letter thanking him for his services. He returned the ‘Lottery Licence’ saying, he would tell them that he was not a member so is returning it.  It was Peter Osborne’s letter to Dai Davies MP Blaenau Gwent – the owner of the right to the name – asking, because of ‘internal wrangling’ within the party, he wanted the name of PVT taken off the Electoral Register. Now….you would think that anyone with an ounce of common sense, would have rang me, and asked for some sort of explanation, but no, he has not contacted me – the person who started this party – and has not answered the phone or emails sent to him.


 * ''At a meeting on Mon 25th we decided to pull away from Peoples Voice, as we were disgusted at being treated this way. We will stay as a group, and continue to work for the people of Torfaen. The new group will have a new name and be constituted. I now know why this is being done to us: There have been problems within Blaenau Gwent, many members have left it. Trish Law will not stand in the election as a Peoples Voice candidate. The party is coming up for re-registering, I believe they wish to revert to being just Peoples Voice, and not be a party. Blaenau Gwent has never ‘followed up’ the enquiries of other area’s to set up PV groups; demonstrating their parochialism. Blaenau Gwent was made up of ‘old labour’ and is seen as having their tendencies, Torfaen with the exception of me, were not members of any party.


 * It was once mentioned to me, that it might be beneficial to breakaway from Peoples Voice and become independent, we declined. Paul Starling is the ‘researcher’ for Dai Davies MP, therefore is employed by him. The seat of Blaenau Gwent is expected to revert to labour by a number of political analysts. Dai Davies MP still has not had the common decency to contact me. Peter Osborne was not a member of PVT when in touch with Dai Davies MP. We were the ‘fly in the ointment’. I have been contacted by three people from Blaenau Gwent; two of whom are members of PV, expressing their disgust at what as occurred. 
 * SUMMARY In order to return to the position of being a non-political party, they had to get us out of the way. They had to find an excuse to do this without the added embarrassment of jettisoning us. When Dai asked me to trust him; when he decided to set PV up as a party, I said yes, because I did, another mistake.  I believe that electorally PV Blaenau Gwent will regret the decision they have made. I actually ‘worked very hard’ to get PVT to the position it was in, I fully acknowledge the contributions of others. We allowed two people into our party and our confidence; we all really regret that we did.  Contacts from within PVBG last night confirmed this. The future is that we will stay as a group, and grow stronger; we will develop and apply the ‘lessons learnt’ they will not beat us.  The People's Voice is very hypocritical as they wanted this candidate forced on the group in Torfaen, in contrast to the stand in 2005 over the part choice of a women in Blaenau Gwent.

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