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| Dafydd Elis-Thomas fired from Plaid Cymru role | |
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| Plaid Cymru has fired former leader Dafydd Elis-Thomas as transport spokesperson and chair of the assembly's environment committee. | |
| It follows Lord Elis-Thomas' criticism of leader Leanne Wood's attack on UKIP in her party conference speech. | |
| The former assembly presiding officer told BBC Wales it was "facile" of Ms Wood to say a vote for UKIP is a vote against Wales. | |
| Leanne Wood said Plaid Cymru members deserve an "united" party. | |
| In a direct message to the party ahead of May's European election, Ms Wood said on Friday to Plaid Cymru's spring conference: "Your politics have no place in our country, not now, not ever. | |
| "Your values are not the values of Wales. A vote for UKIP is a vote against Wales - a vote against the Welsh national interest. We cannot and will not let their ugly politics divide us in May." | |
| UKIP criticised Ms Wood's attack as "gutter politics and mud slinging". | |
| Her comments also drew criticism from Dafydd Elis-Thomas who said: "It is facile and assumes a kind of superiority that we decide who is Welsh and who is not Welsh. | |
| "A party which gets votes from ordinary citizens in Wales has to be taken seriously. | |
| "It clearly represents a point of view in Wales." |