CAMERON WIXCEY FOR NEWPORT EAST

Cameron Wixcey, Prospective Parliamentary candidate

for Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales for Newport East

I am proud to stand in Newport East where i have spent all my life, except my 3 years in Lampeter studying history and Islamic studies. My family has been in Newport for at least 5 generations and in Monmouthshire for around 400 years at least. As a young person I know how easy it is to tune out of politics, however politicians decide the rules that life is played by and I for one, have no time for those that destroy our heritage such as the Chartist mural or jeopardise our future through short sighted cuts.

I have done minimum wage catering jobs, bogus self employed sales job and now shift work in a industry so I understand peoples' workplace concerns. My degree taught me to learn from out ancestors lest we repeat their mistakes. I joined Plaid as I realised no one else can or will fix Wales except us who live here. Our country and communities will only improve if we control the levers of power. I hope to be your new MP and I will ensure our corner is fought for and that the establishment, know Newport cannot be ignored.

Published and promoted by A Salkeld, 114 Brynglas Road, Newport on behalf of Cameron Wixey, Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales Westminster Parliamentary candidate for Newport East.

HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT?

Oops - a case of forgetting that they are in Government?

It can rightly be said sometimes that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here we have a group of Labour AMs and MPs protesting about the threat to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. While there is nothing wrong with that, they are protesting against their own government in Cardiff’s polices. This is classic Labour in Wales having their cake and eating it. While there may be a faint whiff of hypocrisy about it, there is nothing new here, more locally the Labour MP for Newport East spoke out in Newport against Post Office closures while quietly voting in the lobbies in Westminster to support the closure programme and hoped that no one would notice. Likewise, in relation to the resignation of Gwent Chief Constable we have had a row of Labour in Gwent MPs lining up to condemn the elected Police Commissioner should be put in its proper context, had such an event taken place under the rule of an elected Labour Police Commissioner I suspect that all we would have heard was silence.  

CHRIS PAUL FOR NEWPORT EAST

Chris Paul - Plaid's candidate for Newport East 

Chris Paul is the Plaid Cymru candidate for Newport East constituency in the Welsh National Election to be held on the 5th May 2011. He can be contacted via e-mail at ChrisPaul@plaidcymru.org .

Chris has lobbied against the closure of the Passport Office in Newport. He  has called for the Severn Bridge to be brought under Welsh Government control with reduced tolls. Chris will fight for better rail services and facilities at Caldciot and Severn Tunnel Junction and has called for a new railway station at Magor.

Chris Paul was born in Abergavenny in 1978 and grew up in Monmouthshire. He was educated at Monmouth Comprehensive and Dartington College of Arts. Like many he moved away from Wales to go to University and then to work. He has lived in the South West of England, London, and South America before returning to Wales to settle with his partner in 2007.


Chris has been a grassroots Plaid activist since that time and has contributed to the party at both local and national level, through policy development, canvassing, blogging, and as branch press officer. His professional background is in the private sector, grounded in the arts and media.

He currently works for an international media and events company in Bristol. Chris is an English and Spanish speaker, and Welsh learner. Apart from politics Chris is a widely published poet and critic, and plays the guitar. A member of Amnesty International, his political interests include the arts and culture, economic development, the environment and international affairs.