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Reform Caerphilly candidate posts image online with incorrect spelling for town

By Emily Price
The banner displayed as the cover image of Powell's X - Image: X

Emily Price 

Reform UK's candidate for the upcoming by-election in Caerphilly has posted a campaign graphic online with the incorrect spelling for the town he hopes to represent in the Senedd.

On Friday (September 12), Nigel Farage announced that his party had selected its former communications chief as its candidate for the south Wales constituency.

Llŷr Powell will run for the party in the upcoming vote due to take place on October 23.

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'Trump backing'

Shortly after the announcement, Mr Powell updated his X account to include a cover image of himself with a Reform slogan that mis-spelled the name of the constituency he hopes to represent.

The graphic stated: "Caerpilly Needs Reform - vote Llŷr Powell on 23rd October".

Mr Powell corrected the error shortly after this story was published.

The Welsh speaker previously worked as a communications specialist for the Reform in Wales.

A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said: "Reform's parachuted in candidate shows Reform don’t care about our constituency or about Wales at all - their Trump-backing, anti-Wales agenda is about erasing who we are, not standing up for us.

"People are angry at being taken for granted by Labour and want change for the better. That’s why more and more people are turning to Plaid Cymru to send a message that Caerffili and Wales won’t be ignored any longer."

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Candidates

The by-election was called following the death of Labour politician Hefin David, who had served as member of the Senedd for Caerphilly since 2016.

Plaid Cymru have selected local man Cllr Lindsay Whittle as its candidate for the constituency, while Labour announced Richard Tunnicliffe would stand for the party.

Caerphilly resident and ex-charity worker Gareth Potter secured the candidacy for the Welsh Conservatives, while Labour announced Richard Tunnicliffe would stand for the party.

The Liberal Democrats and Gwlad are also expected to field candidates.

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18 comments

DaiRob

Clowns.

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Nia James

Just watched Farage on TV laughing and smirking as he was being asked about his tax affairs. Everything is a joke to these halfwits, unless it has something to do with small boats or, the ultimate vision of hell, 20mph speed limits.

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Frank

There are not many photos of Farage without a pint and a fag in his hands. A right bunch!! Every day there is a report of a blunder or scandal within the party. Quite honestly I think they are trying to sabotage their own chances of gaining power.

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Y Cymro

If Reform can't even get the spelling of Caerphilly right. Imagine the damage they could do in power? God help us. A terrifying prospect.

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James Edwards

Great start from the Far right English Nationalist Party keep em coming 🤣

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hdavies15

Illiterate, ignorant and most likely irrelevant.

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Ioan Richard

Rest in peace native Tommy Cooper your tradition of comedy lives on! Anyway it should be spelt correctly as CAERFFILI.

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Ashley

Is that Liar Powell? Sorry, my spelling mistake…

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Fi yn unig

Caerffili has already been anglicised to Caerphilly but an anti Welsh party might not know that so this looks like an attempt to further bastardise the place name of one of our most historic towns. It’s a better explanation for them rather than having to admit to pre historic levels of numbskull stupidity.

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Bruce

Abolishing Wales one letter at a time.

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richard evans

I cant believe anyone being taken in by Farage .He is so obviously a chancer on the make .It's a pity Corbyn's party wasn't up and running . It will have to be Plaid for me the only party to have made a moral stand against what is happening abroad .

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James Edwards

He’s in good company mind. The vast majority of Reform voters can’t spell either

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Huw Jones

Caer PILLOCK

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David Richards

Caught out campaigning on the day of Hefin David's funeral, posting what appear to be fake 'hand written' letters to people in the borough and now the candidate not even spelling the name right in the town he's standing in. Ordinarily this would be enough to sink a election candidate.... but these are not ordinary times and - as we've seen elsewhere - Reform appears not to be tarnished in the way other parties are when they make such elementary mistakes. They seem to be benefitting from what I labelled in a comment on here a few months ago 'Teflon populism'. And if, after all these insults to them, people in Caerphilly still go out and vote for these snake oilers then I fear that all bets are off with regards to Farage's party winning the most seats in Wales next May.

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Gwyn Hopkins

Caerffili and Caerphilly are the 2 acceptable ways of spelling the town’s name (although the latter is merely a corrupt, anglicized form of the original Welsh spelling, i.e., the former). However, it is incredible that Caerffili Reform activists cannot get either correct. Reform’s self-chosen leader Nigel Farage’s admiration of the tyrannical, barbaric Russian leader, Putin, and close friendship with the USA’s deranged President Trump - whom he apes in talking nonsense or lying or both – should be enough to deter anyone from supporting Reform UK.    

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Nick Lowles

Did Lee Canning produce the leaflets? How many sides is he working for in this election?

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smae

Lolololol. If this is what Plaid Cymru are up against... it'll be nice to see Caerphilly turn a shade of green for a change :D.

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Daniel Pitt

Communications specialist? Glorious irony there.

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Abolishing Wales one letter at a time.

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