Making a difference

I’m writing this on a very bumpy flight back from Brussels. This week was the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Community. The European Parliament met on Wednesday to mark the occasion. I suspect it went unnoticed in Wales.

The focus here, of course, is on who’s going to be the next Assembly government. Labour’s disastrous results mean they don’t have enough members to form a government on their own so there’s a lot of talking going on. Plaid had a brilliant election night, winning back Llanelli and Aberconwy and one more regional list seat. The Rhondda vote increased to over 30 per cent – a good basis for winning next time round. I had a fantastic election team and really enjoyed the campaign. Thanks to everyone who voted Plaid. It made a difference.

And everyone can make a difference again by supporting our campaign to ban old fashioned light bulbs in Europe by 2010. Cuba, Venezuela and Australia have already done it. 80 per cent of light in homes is produced by the old incandescent light bulbs. If we used energy efficient bulbs we would save billions of pounds in energy bills and also 20 million tons of CO2. If you support the campaign please let me know.