I'd like to wish everyone who reads Syniadau a peaceful and happy Christmas.
For those who didn't get up before the crack of dawn this morning for Plygain, here's a taste of what you might have missed ... back in 1975.
Broken Links
Sadly one of the file servers I have used extensively for hosting videos, pdfs, spreadsheets and the like has now gone the way of many free things on the internet, and this means that a number of links in older posts will now be dead. Please accept my apologies for this.
However all is not lost. I'm glad to say that everything has been transferred to other servers, but it will take me some time to work through all the affected posts and update them, and there'll probably be some that I'll miss. So if anyone does come across a broken link, would you please let me know about it by leaving a comment here.
The same applies to broken links to other sites. I've usually managed to keep copies of the external web pages and externally hosted documents I've linked to, so I'll be able to put these copies up on my new servers and link to them instead.
Ynys Môn
Congratulations to the Plaid Cymru candidates in Ynys Môn for a dramatic increase in seats and 34.3% of the equalized vote.
The "equalized vote" corrects the distortion of different voters having different number of votes, depending of the number of seats in the electoral division. In a two-member divison, each voter has two half-votes; in a three-member division, the each voter has three third-votes.
With twelve of the thirty seats we were the big winners, and it should be possible for us to lead the new council with support from only three or four other councillors; perhaps the three from Labour, perhaps some of the independents instead.
And even though the anglocentric media are headlining UKIP's success in England, it is nice to point out that Nigel Farage is completely wrong when he says that his party are getting over 25% of the vote "everywhere we stand". They only got 7.8% of the equalized vote in Ynys Môn ... although that is rather better than both the Tories (6.6%) and the LibDems (5.2%) managed.
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