The Communist Wales Searchlight organisation (which lists formal representatives from the Conservative, Labour, Lib-Dem and Plaid parties as vice-presidents) tried to launch their European Election campaign in Rhyl, North Wales recently — but only succeeded in once again shocking the public with a display of Communist Party flags.

Following reports from well placed informants within the extremist far-left group that ‘something big’ was being planned, our local news reporters were on hand to photograph and record the exciting events in Rhyl town centre for posterity.

The campaign launch, which seemed to involve just two rather grubby looking individuals from Searchlight with their red hammer and sickle flags trying to sell copies of the Morning Star, was conspicuous by the absence of their organisation leaders, Mark Isherwood AM (Conservatives), Leanne Wood AM (Plaid), Mike German AM (Lib-Dems) and Huw Lewis AM (Labour), as well as by the absence of their president, Plaids’ Dafydd Ellis Thomas (Leader of the Welsh Assembly).

This was very disappointing for our reporters, who were hoping to catch a glimpse of these celebrities attending such an auspicious occasion — if only to show their support publicly for the organisation with which their parties are formally associated.

It would have been only fair of them to attend, given that the Tories, Lib-Dems, Labour and Plaid all use the Communist Party-Searchlight to produce third-party smear leaflet campaigns.

Sadly, it was all over less than an hour after it began, and the massed horde of two outdated and redundant far-left stooges drifted away into the distance, leaving their trademark mess of litter on a park bench behind them.

We didn’t quite know what to do with the photos that were taken of this forlorn scene, because it was obviously difficult for them to photograph their massed ranks by themselves (at least without reducing their numbers by half). In the interests of fair play we thought they might like to use these copies in the Morning Star as a memento of their day out.

See more about the Communist Party origins of the ‘UAF’ and ‘Searchlight’ here and here.