"It just feels like we’re not actually represented, we’re just like an outlier,” 22-year-old Nadia says. “We’re kind of being forced to be English when we’re not." We're standing in a blissfully shady spot in a scorching-hot park - in a town that could be in line to do something it hasn't done for more than 20 years.
Her sister Jade adds: "It’s like Wales has forgotten us and England don’t really care either." Monmouthshire is a really interesting place. Arguably Wales’ Tory heartland but right on the border with England, it hasn't voted for a Labour MP since 2001, some 23 years ago, despite the party dominating the vast majority of south Wales, including its direct.
But Monmouthshire, if predictions are to be believed, might soon have a Labour MP. Voters here will not decide whether Labour gain power - but they will determine just how devastating July 4 will be for the Tories. READ MORE: Senedd members call for action against drastic cuts to Wales' libraries and museums READ MORE: Welsh Government urged to drop plans that would make newspapers unsustainable and leave a democratic deficit If Monmouthshire goes red, it will have been a very bad night indeed for the Tories, with dozens of other formerly safe seats turning.
People in this constituency are generally older, whiter, earning more and more likely to own a home than the rest of Wales (according to Electoral Calculus ). Demographically it is almost the tailor-made Tory safe seat. And yet in every pred.
