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The following article has been copied over from The Gwent Patriot.  I must confess to knowing the speaker in the above video for many years and have worked on many projects with him.  He would make a fine Welsh Assembly Member.  Here you go....

As part of the National Party Campaign to Bring Our Boys Home  a number of activists turned out out to man a table-top in the town of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, a seat we fought for the first time at the last General Election. Local activists, helped by branch organisers from neighbouring regions soon had the stall set out at the side of St Michael's Church and got stuck in to the task.

The reason for the choice of location soon became obvious. In no time at all our activists on the pavement had handed over more than eight hundred of our campaign leaflets. Meanwhile, those manning the table top concentrated on collecting a goodly number of signatures for the petition at the heart of our national campaign to Bring Our Boys Home.

If our results in one small street in one small welsh valley town are repeated across the country, the Con-Dem Alliance will hear a mighty roar of protest at the continued slaughter of our armed forces in these foreign military adventures, a roar which they will ignore at their peril.

One visitor to our stall was a young man just turned 18 who took a very great interest in our policy. He has just completed his basic training and will almost certainly be sent to the Afghan "theatre" to take part in Blair and Brown's military adventure which is now being continued by the Con-Dem Alliance, one half of whom bayed for blood to be spilled even more loudly than Blair, but the other half of which was utterly opposed to this pointless bloodshed from Day One. How they are seeing eye to eye on this across the Cabinet Room is beyond me.

After 30 minutes of leafleting we heard the unmistakable sound of a bullhorn being brought into play just down the road. "Hello" we thought, "here come the UAF sponsored chants". But no. A local evangelical Christian group had chosen this day and this time to bring their message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the shoppers, bystanders, and others of the town.

To hear a Christian group bringing their particular message of hope for the people made a most pleasant change, for in the past, when I have been helping deliver our message of hope for the people, the bullhorns across the street were usually delivering Labour lies combined with a tirade of insults bordering on Public Order Offences, or some Imam ranting at his flock in the hope of "upping the ante".

All in all then, a good day. A day when our message was well received by almost all, politely declined by one or two, and not one voice raised in anger against us.