I don't like saying this, but the working class, outside their self-taught political leaders has never been socialist, the Labour Party was their way to get out of their rut, to get on, no way they could have joined the Conservatives, and for people such as Kinnock for self-agrandissement and riches. Now Plaid Cymru is abandoning its traditions searching for the Socialists in the Valleys, I've got news for them, I'm from there, the vote in the Valleys was not for Socialism it was for Labour, which led to corruption & nepotism, who you knew worked for you. Gradually people are seeing through this therefore fewer local authorities are being governed by Labour. Please don't try looking for something that's not there and never has been. You won't win votes by insisting on socialism, you wtll only split the nationalist vote leading to the formation of a new party, which is what has just happened, the way to win votes is to fight for what benefits people in Cymru/Wales, such education, the Health service, wages, working hours, not forgetting the culture, history and language of the country. Before voting they ask themselves what they can gain. The argument has to be for all people living in Cymru/Wales for the future of the country. There's no difference in condemning the Party to Welsh speaking areas than limiting yourself to a non existent Socialist philosophy; people want to get on, they don't want to share. Give us hope, give us our country back with the right  to decide our own future; not lost every time as an anti-democratic English majority rule rump. Fight for the whole of Cymru/Wales.