AS the Vale Green Party Candidate, please allow me to express my thanks to all the people who voted for me on polling day.

My campaign was severely hampered by the fact that I had to go into hospital at the end of March and was effectively out of action for four weeks thereafter. Nevertheless, the Green Party doubled its vote and during the course of the campaign it was evident that environmental issues in the Vale were of concern to lots of people throughout the county.

The campaign strengthened the support for the Green Party in the Vale and it is the Party’s intention to build on that support. We plan to establish an active Vale Green Party group which will campaign to promote, for instance, clean energy developments in the Vale and to promote the Green message that the future well-being of the area depends upon radical changes to the way we approach economics, politics, and social welfare.

Thank you again to the voters who supported the Green Party. We look forward to your continuing support in the future and to that support growing as more people recognise the need for urgent action to avoid the worst excesses of global warming.

Alan Armstrong

Penarth