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  BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | KEY PEOPLE | Elfyn Llwyd: Plaid Campaign Leader
Elfyn Llwyd is a politician working towards an election and not just the one for seats at Westminster.
Elfyn Llwyd called the creation of the Welsh Assembly "a welcome development", but is known to be concerned at the over-concentration of interest and effort within the party with events in Cardiff at the expense of fighting Plaid's corner at Westminster.
Elfyn Llwyd highlights the main issues for the election as being "an extremely deep crisis in rural Wales and the huge crisis in industry, the huge crisis in agriculture, pensions, students, miners compensation".
amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /vote2001/hi/english/key_people/newsid_1179000/1179398.stm   (561 words)

  
 BBC News | ETHOLIAD2001 | Elfyn Llwyd: Arweinydd Plaid Cymru yn San Steffan
Elfyn Llwyd, Ymgeisydd Plaid Cymru ym Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Cafodd Elfyn Llwyd ei ethol i San Steffan yn 1992 fel olynydd i Dafydd Elis -Thomas wedi iddo ef benderfynu gadael Ty'r Cyffredin.
Roedd Elfyn Llwyd yn croesawu Cynulliad i Gymru ond ers ei sefydlu mae wedi mynegi ei bryder fod Plaid Cymru'n cyfeirio'i holl egni a'i hymdrech i faterion yng Nghaerdydd.
newsvote.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/etholiad2001/newsid_1260000/1260622.stm   (561 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | MP's theory over cottage burnings
Elfyn Llwyd has suggested the security services could have been involved, with the intention of discrediting the nationalist vote.
As a solicitor, Elfyn Llwyd represented Welsh singer Bryn Fôn when he was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the arson campaign.
Mr Llwyd said that the sophistication of many of the devices used in the attacks compared to the crude nature of many others, suggests a degree of professionalism which could only have come from individuals who knew exactly what they were doing.
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4084013.stm   (619 words)

  
 Disability Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elfyn Llwyd said some doctors in his Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituency were known to fail everyone initially, regardless of their condition, because they feared losing payments of over £100 a visit if they were sympathetic to applicants.
Llwyd said he received information "day in, day out" of applicants who were mistreated by GPs who failed their assessments.
Llwyd raised his concerns in a parliamentary debate in October and was told by Minister for Disabled People Maria Eagle that the claims would be investigated.
www.disabilitynow.org.uk /search/z02_12_De/doc.shtml   (266 words)

  
 Elfyn Llwyd | BBC Brasil
O desafio de Llwyd é repetir o sucesso de 1999 nas eleições parlamentares, na tentativa de aumentar o número atual de quatro cadeiras em Westminster.
Llwyd está determinado a se esforçar nas eleições parlamentares por considerar que as limitações do poder da assembléia legislativa exigem uma presença forte em Westminster.
O objetivo de Llwyd é demonstrar que o partido representa todo o País de Gales, depois de viver décadas associado com as áreas norte e oeste de Gales, onde a fala da língua galesa predomina.
www.bbc.co.uk /portuguese/noticias/010503_ukelectionsllwyd.shtml   (255 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Mid | Speeding MP escapes driving ban
Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnyd Nant Conwy, reached 12 penalty points and admitted speeding.
Paige Mitchell, co-ordinator of the Slower Speeds Initiative, felt that allowing an MP to keep his licence despite reaching 12 points sent the "wrong signal" and said magistrates were not looking at the true impact of speed.
But after hearing that he had driven at 39mph in a 30mph zone at Blaenau Ffestiniog last September, Pwllheli magistrates found that "exceptional hardship" would be caused because of the effect on the public in a largely rural constituency.
newsvote.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/wales/mid_/3770607.stm   (373 words)

  
 Elfyn Llwyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elfyn Llwyd (born September 26, 1951, as Elfyn Hughes) is a Welsh politician, member of Parliament for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, and parliamentary (but not national) leader of Plaid Cymru.
He changed his name when a student from Hughes to Llwyd.
Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Elfyn Llwyd MP
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elfyn_Llwyd   (84 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Demand to end police 'infighting'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elfyn Llwyd wants the Home Office or members of another police force to look into the series of internal inquiries carried out in the region.
Mr Llwyd, the Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, said he was worried about a series of issues surrounding the force.
In response to his comments, the force's deputy chief constable, Clive Wolfendale, said: "Mr Llwyd seems to have difficult in accepting that the law is there to be upheld".
212.58.226.40 /1/low/wales/north_west/3899963.stm   (584 words)

  
 BBC News | WALES | Government 'failed to act' over Corus
Elfyn Llwyd, the leader of Plaid Cymru in the Commons, made his attack in a debate initiated by the party on poverty and job losses in Wales.
Earlier, Mr Llwyd attacked the decision by Corus as "callous and cynical" and he did not spare the government in an angry speech to the Commons.
Mr Llwyd added: "The government must face up to the fact that it has done very little over the past 18 months to two years.
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/1154826.stm   (420 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Plaid Cymru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elfyn Llwyd is currently the Plaid Cymru leader in the Westminster Parliament.
Dafydd Iwan (born August 24, 1943) is the president of Plaid Cymru -- The Party of Wales.
Some party members have been critical of Dafydd Wigley's tactics of distancing Plaid from its traditional defence of the Welsh language, and blame Plaid's decline on this, particularly in the Party's heartland of north-west Wales.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Plaid-Cymru   (3504 words)

  
 News Wales > Politics > Plaid angered by appointment of non-Welsh speaking judge
According to Mr Llwyd, the department’s stated reasons for not appointing a Welsh speaking judge to the North Wales circuit are not justified.
Mr Llwyd however is aware of four Welsh speaking Deputy District Judges who should have been considered for the post and who would have been known to the department during the recruitment process.
Speaking from London today, Elfyn Llwyd MP said: “We now find ourselves in a situation where the District Judge for North Wales is unable to deal with any matters relating to the Welsh language in magistrates courts in the area.
www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Politics&F=1&id=7472   (294 words)

  
 News Wales > Health > Plaid MP presses for recognition of Gulf War Syndrome
Plaid Cymru Parliamentary Leader, Elfyn Llwyd MP today met the Veterans Affairs Minister Don Touhig of the Ministry Of Defence to press for progress in the recognition of Gulf War Syndrome.
Elfyn Llwyd, with Colonel Terry English and Dr Dafydd Alun Jones, had a full and frank discussion with the Minister and officials about the pressing need for progress in the recognition of Gulf War Syndrome as a specific illness.
Speaking today at Westminster, Elfyn Llwyd said: “ After a lengthy discussion, it became clear that the Minister and his officials would be prepared to listen to and consider further evidence on the subject and are open to persuasion.
www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Health&F=1&id=8157   (228 words)

  
 Jill Evans MEP - jillevans.net - Press Releases
Plaid Cymru’s parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd MP and Deputy Leader of the party, Jill Evans MEP will tell Mr Hain that Plaid Cymru wants an undertaking from the UK Government to strengthen Welsh representation in European decision making and to bolster the status of the Welsh language in the EU.
Elfyn Llwyd and Jill Evans will meet Peter Hain at 10:00am, Tuesday 12 October 2004.
Elfyn Llwyd and Jill Evans will be available for interview from 11:00am.
www.jillevans.net /press041012.html   (732 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Wales | Plaid 'optimistic' on seat gain
Plaid Cymru parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd has told BBC Wales the party is optimistic it can win its main target seat of Ynys Môn.
Elfyn Llwyd MP "We are working hard on Ynys Môn and...
Mr Llwyd said the issue of independence was not on the manifesto but denied the party was being deceitful by not addressing the issue.
newsrss.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/wales/4420317.stm   (573 words)

  
 Blair faces fresh impeachment threat over Iraq
Alex Salmond and Plaid's Westminster leader, Elfyn Llwyd, campaigning together in Scotland, criticised the Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, and his party for failing to back the impeachment bid, despite opposing the war, as Iraq creeps back up the election agenda.
Mr Llwyd said the prime minister had "got away with murder" over the war, although he later said he did not mean that literally.
Mr Llwyd said later: "I'm not saying literally murder - but we do know tens of thousands have and are being killed, and all of that would probably not have happened had it not been for this awful intervention by Bush and Blair," he said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article8661.htm   (580 words)

  
 News Wales > Politics > Labour urged to accept Richard Commission recommendations
Listen to the people of Wales, was the plea from Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd today in a meeting of the Welsh Grand Committee held to debate the recommendations of the Richard Commission.
During his speech, Mr Llwyd referred to the overwhelming support in Wales in favour of further devolution and listed more than 30 Welsh organisations committed to extending the Assembly's powers.
Following the Welsh Grand Committee, Elfyn Llwyd MP said: "As the Richard Commission unanimously concluded, the status quo is clearly not an option.
www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Politics&F=1&id=7141   (389 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Archbishop named 'white druid'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
That was a tribute both to a sixth-century Welsh poet and to Aneurin Bevan, a postwar Labor Party politician remembered as the founder of the National Health Service.
Elfyn Llwyd, a politician from Wales' Plaid Cymru party and a member of the Gorsedd, said the ceremony was a "quaint induction" and the group was entirely dedicated to developing the Welsh language and culture.
It is simply a rather quaint induction," Llwyd said.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,405022271,00.html   (372 words)

  
 The World Today - MPs move to impeach Tony Blair
ELFYN LLWYD: It's signed by 23 members of parliament from five political parties — that must in itself mean something — so it's not a gesture, party political gesture, at all.
KIRSTEN AIKEN: Elfyn Llwyd leads the Plaid Cymru Party.
ELFYN LLWYD: Either you allow this kind of misconduct to become ingrained in normal procedure, or you do something about it.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1251384.htm   (576 words)

  
 Elfyn Llwyd - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elfyn Llwyd - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Elfyn Llwyd MP (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3177,00.html)
This article about a British politician is a stub.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Elfyn_Llwyd   (99 words)

  
 Telegraph | Arts | A quiet life on the fringes of power
Eleri Llwyd met her husband at Aberystwyth University, where they discovered that both sets of parents worked for Plaid Cymru.
Mrs Llwyd enjoys a busy social life through her husband's work, with more invitations than they can accept.
As parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd has a punishing schedule that takes him far beyond his local constituency of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/05/03/ftpolit03.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/05/03/ixartright.html   (1091 words)

  
 Elfyn Llwyd - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Elfyn Llwyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elfyn Llwyd - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Elfyn Llwyd.
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 Du a Gwyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
And with good reason, says MP Elfyn Llwyd...
Questions are being asked about the future of a successful project - funded by the Assembly - whereby teachers from Wales are sent to Patagonia to teach the Welsh language.
Alan Huws and Elfyn Llwyd discuss the firefighters' strike...
www.s4c.co.uk /htv/duagwyn/english/27_11_02.htm   (210 words)

  
 VOA News Report
Blair has been criticized by church leaders, dissidents in his own Labor party, and media commentators who say he is too supportive of President Bush in the showdown with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
In parliament Wednesday, Elfyn Llwyd, a lawmaker from the Welsh party, challenged Mr.
How could it possibly be right to risk the lives of young British servicemen and women in a venture in Iraq, which doesn't have the backing of international law, nor indeed the support of the majority of the British people.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030115-2317f637.htm   (435 words)

  
 Impeach Tony Blair - Hypocrite Blair breaks code of access to government information.
Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd MP welcomed today's news that Michael Howard has accused Tony Blair of lying in order to take Britain to war in Iraq.
According to Mr Llwyd, this vindicates the case made by a number of MPs that the Prime Minister should face impeachment proceedings for his misconduct in relation to the Iraq war.
Speaking from his constituency today, Elfyn Llwyd MP said:
www.impeachblair.org /article15.shtml   (238 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Elfyn Llwyd
First elected in 1992, Elfyn Llwyd has, like most Plaid Cymru MPs, has been a party spokesman on many issues.
In 1999, he became the leader of the Plaid Cymru Parliamentary Party as, at the time, the only PC MP not also to be a member of the Welsh Assembly.
A lawyer by profession, he is also a keen social reformer and moderniser and an anti-nuclear campaigner.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2120859.stm   (140 words)

  
 Ilisu Dam Campaign - RALLY FOR THE KURDS - January 27th 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The rally will be held at Tryweryn in Wales, a dam built 40 years ago which displaced 70 people (please see below* for more information).
Elfyn Llwyd MP Kate Geary (Ilisu Dam Campaign)
Elfyn Llwyd AS Ali Manaz (gohebydd Cwrdiaid, Cynghrair Cenedlaethol Cwrdistan)
www.ilisu.org.uk /news12.html   (685 words)

  
 icNorthWales - Livestock rules threaten shows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Last week the crisis was raised in the House of Commons during Welsh Question Time by Meirionnydd Nant Conwy MP Elfyn Llwyd.
Mr Llwyd, Plaid Cymru's leader in the House, was concerned the Government's so-called six-day rule would devastate smaller Welsh shows.
Mr Llwyd told the Commons: "The people of Wales have been waiting for months and months for this six-day rule to be abridged.
icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk /news/regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12922909&method=full   (503 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | Plaid pledge to 'build new Wales'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Meirionnydd Nant Conwy MP told delegates in Caernarfon that Plaid was a socialist party "and proud of it".
Mr Llwyd used the slogan "Blair lied, vote Plaid" in his speech on Saturday.
Mr Llwyd told supporters at the Galeri enterprise centre that people needed to be reminded of New Labour's "lies, spin and deceit", and he claimed Plaid was the "socialist antidote to Labour".
newswm.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4278125.stm   (317 words)

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