SNP show the way

I wish Carwyn Jones well in his retirement as First Minister of Wales, but it’s laughable that some within Labour are saying that Wales needs radical change.

In Wales Labour has been in power for longer than any European government; it is the establishment.

Compare Labour’s performance with the SNP Scottish Government’s fantastic record of progressive policies and it’s clear we’ve gone backwards.

Labour has overseen 21 years of managed Welsh economic decline: an education and health service in absolute crisis, with surgery waiting times up by 400 per cent since 2013, reneging on a promise to provide free personal care, raising tuition fees, blocking attempts to abolish zero hours contracts, and keeping the pubbeauty lic sector pay freeze and child poverty rates at 31 per cent.

The radical change we need is a government that isn’t Labour.

B C GRIFFITHS Chapel Place, Denbigh, Wales The SNP has a current party membership of 118,000 (Scotland’s population being 5.4 million). Only 35,000 turned out for the big “independence” rally in Glasgow at the weekend to which the SNP must have given at least tacit support.

Reality bites, however, in Monday’s headline in The Scotsman about the drop in spend per pupil. Waving flags and demanding independence does nothing to alleviate Scotland’s problems not only in education but health and the economy.

Most Scots already know this. Is this message now getting through to the thousands of party members who did not turn up to the rally?

The SNP has had almost 11 years in power to show what it can achieve. The reality is precious little.

(DR) GERALD EDWARDS

Broom Road, Glasgow