Are we now back to a two-party state?

I WAS interested by the WM piece “What is the future for Plaid Cymru.”

It lost votes and failed to win its target seats in south Wales. The fact is that all the smaller parties lost votes.

In Wales the Lib/Dems received its smallest vote at 4.5%. The election ended as a presidential campaign between May and Corbyn, which squeezed the smaller parties.

My view of the reason was made by a TV reporter speaking after the Rhondda result. He said that he had spoken to some people who at the beginning were thinking of voting Plaid. Then a poll came out showing that the Tories would be the biggest party in Wales with a big majority in Westminster. The voters then reconsidered their intentions and decided that the only way to stop that scenario was to elect Labour MPs.

In the end the Tories did increase their vote from 27.23% to 33.53% but Labour went from 36.89% to 48.96%. The other parties, other than Ukip, went from 3.51% to 0.51%. During the campaign I met a number of Labour activists who said that membership had increased considerably and many young people had registered to vote.

So have we retuned to the UK being a two-party state or was it just a one-off? Neil Taylor Rhyl