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Local Labour candidate Don Touhig meets his Y Vote counterpart Amy Fox

Amy Fox tells Y Vote stories all about her Mock Election campaign:

"When I heard about the Y Vote election I decided to be a candidate for Labour because I thought about Labour being in government for the past 8 years and I thought I had a good chance. The other parties our school was representing were Plaid Cymru, Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.

My friends Sophie George and Emily Life said they would be my trusty helpers and nominate me to be a candidate.

One major part of my job was campaigning. I decided to target the Infant children because they did not know me and I needed to have their vote. I visited their classes in the afternoons and told them about my polices to improve the school and the local area for them as young children. I thought I could count on their vote, but I knew I had some competition.

I made myself a sash that said “Vote Labour, Vote Fox” and a huge rosette. My uncle made some professional stickers and I worked with my campaign team to compose the slogan, “Put a cross in the box, Vote for FOX!” My agent and other campaigners helped me to make some posters so we could put them up around the school.

The first challenge in the campaign was where I was up against eight other people who wanted to be the Labour candidate for our school. We had to give a 30 second speech during an assembly to say why people should vote for us. I was nervous, but I did really well. When I heard that I had been chosen out of 9 children, some of those being Year 6 children.

The next step of my campaign involved contacting Don Touhig, our local MP to see if he could provide me with official Labour posters. Mr. Touhig was really pleased with what I was doing and agreed to come to the school to discuss his job with the candidates for all the political parties.

When Mr. Touhig came to school, we met with him and he told us about his job in the community and in Parliament. He gave me some advice and we had photographs taken for him for our school newspaper and the local newspaper.

The most difficult part of my campaign was the hustings. The school asked us questions about how we would improve the community. I didn’t do so well.

Election Day came around really quickly. When I heard I had I felt really pleased with myself. All my hard work had paid off."