Plaid backs PARC—the media goes wild!

 That’s right—PARC’s campaigners travelled to Plaid Cymru’s conference in the Millennium Stadium on the 11th, ran a two-day stall, and saw the party’s delegates unanimously vote for PARC’s emergency motion to take action against DARC radar in Pembrokeshire

 It is fair to say the moment was accompanied by nothing less than a tide of overwhelmingly positive media coverage. A sweeping signal boost could be seen in (deep breath!) the Western Telegraph, the Pembrokeshire Herald, the Tivyside Advertiser, the Tenby Observer, Nation.cymru, the Morning Star, Golwg360, Pure West Radio and The Canary—a decent proportion of most of the local and Wales papers we’ve even heard of…?!

 The political significance, of course, is the real story. With the 2026 Senedd elections timed in a potentially perfect lead-in to the MOD’s planning application, and a whole new voting system based entirely on proportional representation promising to greatly increase the vote share of Welsh Labour’s political rivals, the combined pressure of a PARC-supporting Plaid Cymru, Welsh Green Party and (we hope) Welsh Lib Dem Party is something that looks like it might just have the power to put considerable electoral pressure on a Labour Party looking shakier by the day.

 But then add in the total refusal of Welsh Labour, Henry Tufnell and even Eluned Morgan to engage or meet with Dewisland residents—and increasingly Pembrokeshire residents—over DARC? It might just be enough to make even a certain Prime Minister’s office to have to think hard about whether Labour wants to take all-cons, no pros electoral harm for a DARC installation that even the MOD says doesn’t even have to be sited in Dewisland—or slow down its drop in support, reevaluate its gains and losses, and scrap the Pembrokeshire proposal on DARC radar!

 You know you’ve got too many pro-PARC media articles to post when you’re having to raid your own meme stash to create additional gags simply to justify your obsessive posting…

 Meanwhile, as the foundation of the increasing political pressure begins to take shape, PARC’s first open-doors action meeting a couple of weeks ago was hugely productive, with a great turnout, the formation of a 15+ member research group dedicated to tying up DARC from every imaginable angle and producing material for a huge planning objection, and a big boost to our on-the-ground flyering and social media teams!

 Thanks so much to everyone who came along, and helped set in motion the other super important elements in the multi-faceted front of pressure building every day against the radar.

 As we gear up to expand the campaign county-wide in order to make that political pressure into a reality, we think we’re gonna need a bigger flyering campaign.

 Have you considered a donation to PARC? Just think: if all the people this email is sent to donated £15 now, we’d make over four thousand pounds in an afternoon—that’s enough to reach nearly 70% of the 60,000 households in the entire county of Pembrokeshire—a feat rarely (if ever) pulled off by a Pembrokeshire campaign!

 With printed mail being statistically by far the most effective form of marketing, it’s no surprise we’ve already reached 16,000 signatures by flyering just 2,000 householdsin Dewisland. Just imagine how much of a powerful issue DARC could become if we began to hit 20,000 households, and more than once…

Once again, an enormous thank you to all who are signing the petition, sending lobbying emails, offering your kind donations, attending meetings, having conversations across the area, and engaging in the work of making the campaign everything it can be. It could never happen without you.

Catch you for the next exhaustive media round!

The PARC Against DARC team