Party of Wales Neath and Swansea East For Fairness. For Ambition. For You.

It was July 2009, and I had just graduated. On a day that my friends and I were celebrating, there was also a sense of unease. The country was still in recession, unemployment was rising and our prospects for finding employment was rapidly diminishing. You know what...let me rewind a little bit and go back to 2001.

The following was written by Andrew Jenkins, prospective Plaid Cymru candidate for Neath and Swansea East. It is part of a series of articles he is intending to write that explains who he is, why he is standing in the election, and what change he wants to see across the constituency and our country.

Plaid Cymru members in the newly formed Neath and Swansea East constituency have selected Andrew Jenkins to be their candidate in the next UK general election.