the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the scrapping of Trident, a health care system focussed on healthier lifestyles, the capping of private sector rents, and the opposition campaign to the Splott incinerator. Green Party candidate, Anthony Slaughter, said he often came across an attitude that "you green people are nice, but we have grown up things to talk about". But he argued that the economic crisis and the environmental crisis were "one and the same", and that his party had policies to deal with both. He spoke in support of repealing "Thatcherite" trade union laws, against Trident and "firmly against" the incinerator. The Socialist Labour Party candidate Andrew Jordan was represented by John Tyrrell, who said Mr Jordan would stand up for the constituency's people first -- including the fight against the incinerator -- but would also be against Trident and the NHS being "siphoned off to the private sector". UKIP's Simon Zeigler surprised some by saying that although his party does not have a policy on trade unions, he considered them a "vital part of this society". He went on to describe the prospect of an incinerator in Splott as "absolutely horrendous", and said he would support the restructure of the NHS so that care was more locally managed. Good old Labour. Probably the most important event of the by-election, when the public can truly see who you are and Labour send someone else apart from the candidate in, and he then leaves early!! Disgraceful. I was very disappointed