{"id":1805,"date":"2014-02-18T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2014-02-18T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:35:32","slug":"bitter-cardiff-by-election-targetted-by-aggressive-plaid-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/18\/bitter-cardiff-by-election-targetted-by-aggressive-plaid-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff by-election targeted by aggressive Plaid campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1813\" style=\"width: 1004px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/billboardsmall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1813  \" alt=\"Neighbours highlight their opposing loyalties on Cowbridge Road East\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/billboardsmall.jpg\" width=\"1004\" height=\"591\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1813  \" alt=\"Neighbours highlight their opposing loyalties on Cowbridge Road East\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/billboardsmall.jpg\" width=\"1004\" height=\"591\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Neighbours highlight their opposing loyalties on Cowbridge Road East<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPlaid Cymru have been criticised for waging a \u201ctotally negative\u201d campaign as they attempt to wrest a Cardiff Council seat from Labour.<br \/>\nCanton is due to go to the polls on Thursday to elect a councillor after Labour\u2019s Cerys Furlong vacated her seat at the end of December.<br \/>\nPlaid have since waged an aggressive campaign to win the seat and have launched a series of attacks on the council\u2019s ruling Labour group on issues such as plans for Cowbridge Road East and the locking of parks at night.<br \/>\nIn response, Labour have rubbished Plaid claims and criticised them for spreading falsehoods. \u201cI think Plaid\u2019s campaign has been totally negative. They\u2019ve been spreading misinformation, on things like Cowbridge Road East, parking and parks,\u201d said current Canton councillor Richard Cook.<br \/>\nPlaid have distributed leaflets claiming Labour intends to turn Cowbridge Road East into a one-way rapid transit route with double bus lanes as part of the Cardiff Local Development Plan (LDP). Though the road is due to be resurfaced along its Canton stretch, Labour councillors have dismissed those claims.<br \/>\nAt a PACT\u2008meeting in Canton last month, Councillor Ramesh Patel said he had received assurances from council transport officers there were no plans to make the road bus only.\u201cIt\u2019s not true, Cowbridge Road is not going to be one-way,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nPlaid candidate Elin Tudur said both Couns Patel and Cook had twice voted for the rapid transit plan as part of the LDP. She also railed against the council\u2019s planned budget cuts.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s time the Labour councillors came clean about their plans for Cowbridge Road East,\u201d she said. \u201cThey need to admit that not only are they planning to concrete over so much of Cardiff\u2019s countryside, after they promised not to, but that Canton will take most of the brunt of their unwanted development.<br \/>\n\u201cCanton needs someone to stand up to the current Labour Council and protect our interests against their savage Tory-like cuts.\u201d Plaid have called for Labour to increase council tax, scrap assistant directors and cut executive pay to help meet the funding shortfall they face.<br \/>\nThough Labour candidate Susan Elsmore was unavailable for comment, Coun Cook said: \u201cWe are concentrating on our record in the ward and positive things that we have done and the positive things that the Labour council wants to do for Cardiff.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to tackle the huge problems of housing, transport and economic development. We want Cardiff to be a successful city.\u201d<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Mrs Tudur has been forced to admit a \u201cgenuine mistake\u201d after it emerged that Victoria and Thompsons parks in Canton were not among the parks due to be left open at night under Labour budget cutting plans, despite a leaflet being distributed on her behalf saying they were.<br \/>\nUpdate &#8211; Also standing in the Canton by-election are: Matt Hemsley (Liberal Democrats), Pamela Richards (Conservative), Jake Griffiths (Green) and Steffan Bateman ( Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Plaid Cymru have been criticised for waging a \u201ctotally negative\u201d campaign as they attempt to wrest a Cardiff Council seat from Labour. Canton is due to go to the polls on Thursday to elect a councillor after Labour\u2019s Cerys Furlong vacated her seat at the end of December. Plaid have since waged an aggressive campaign to win the seat and have launched a series of attacks on the council\u2019s ruling Labour group on issues such as plans for Cowbridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,715,194],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiff-council","tag-labour","tag-plaid-cymru"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff by-election targeted by aggressive Plaid campaign - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/18\/bitter-cardiff-by-election-targetted-by-aggressive-plaid-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff by-election targeted by aggressive Plaid campaign - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Plaid Cymru have been criticised for waging a \u201ctotally negative\u201d campaign as they attempt to wrest a Cardiff Council seat from Labour. 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