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Felicity

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

It looks as if all this is rooted in something that happened a few years back, in that before she got into politics, Jane Dodds was a social worker and for a time she worked for the church in England.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

And a report came out a few years ago that did criticise her handling in a sex abuse scandal in the church.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

At the time, Jane Dodds admitted that there had been shortcomings.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Now, Ed Davey suggested at that time that Jane Dodds should consider her role as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, interpreted by most people, I think, as a suggestion that she should think about standing down.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Jane Dodds said she wasn't going to do that.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

She was going to stay put and stay put she has.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

But it doesn't look as if the relationship has recovered from that, really.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Yes, that's absolutely right.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

I mean, we have a new voting system here in Wales, of course, and there are big question marks over the extent to which it makes tactical voting relevant because the idea is that it's supposed to be more proportional than the old system.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

But having said that, it's not totally proportional.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

It favours bigger parties and you probably need to get around about 12% or above in any constituency to start winning seats.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

The other...

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

interesting thing about it and the thing that makes it very difficult you know when the polls come out they come out with vote share they also come out with seat projections the vote share very interesting the seat projections you have to take with a huge pinch of salt because the fifth and certainly sixth seats in a lot of these constituencies could be decided by a whisker and therefore make seat projections very very difficult to make with any sort of accuracy at the moment now what Eluned Morgan has done in her constituency in West Wales

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

is try to explain all of this with a row of tinned or canned cocktails, all of them still unopened, from what I can tell.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

And she's a strawberry daiquiri, by the way, in case you were wondering.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

I think from memory, the greens are a pina colada.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Plied, I think, Plied Cymru are a mojito.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Yeah, I know.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

Not quite sure about about what the other ones are.

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Electioncast: Will Another Week Of Starmer Drama Impact The Elections?

But her message appears to be that she's saying plied her a shoe in in this constituency.