They’ve made us a laughing stock

I HAVE never been a fan of Welsh Government, believing that it was introduced to placate Welsh nationalists rather than to improve governance for the citizens of Wales and it has been an expensive irrelevance ever since.

Its lamentable performance in managing the Covid-19 crisis has confirmed my view.

Like most self-serving organisations, the underlying objective has been to justify its existence by doing things differently from England whilst maintaining the pretence that it is “best for Wales”. This is completely bogus.

Retaining the twometre rule, for instance, will mean the majority of pubs and restaurants will have to stay closed, even if permitted to open, thus risking thousands of jobs. All for the sake of increasing the safety factor by a minuscule 1.6% at two metres instead of one metre.

Even Boris recognised this makes no sense so got rid of it. But not Welsh ministers, because their instincts are for selfpreservation rather than d doing what is sensible.

Small-minded politicians, who weren’t good enough to be MPs, making big decisions and lacking both the capability and incentive for doing what is right.

It should be abolished before they get a chance to mismanage the next c crisis and make Wales a bigger laughing stock than it is already.