Labour has taken Wales backwards
I WISH Carwyn Jones well in his retirement as First Minister of Wales. But I laughed when I heard some within Labour saying Wales needs radical change.
In Wales Labour have been in power for longer than any European government, they are the establishment, and I’m afraid we have gone backwards rather than forwards.
Look at the record, an education and health service in absolute crisis in Wales with surgery waiting times up by 400% since 2013, reneged on a promise to provide free personal care, raised tuition fees, blocked attempts to abolish zero hours contracts, kept the public sector pay freeze, overseen 21 years of managed economic decline and child poverty rates at 31%.
The radical change we need is a government that isn’t Labour, a different colour to sort out the mess.
A one party state isn’t healthy for democracy or for the people of Wales. Mr A Gregory Henllan, Denbigh the UK because they are illegal. The problem is that because Section 1 of the 2014 Immigration Act allows the easy removal of people without leave to remain, then the Windrush generation have fallen within these provisions due to no fault of their own - being deemed illegal when they were not.
Sajid Javid should, in my view, start to educate people about the differences between being an immigrant per ce, an asylum/ sanctuary seeker, and a refugee. Many do not know the difference and with his background I feel he has a special responsibility to undo the damage done by the recent election and referendum-winning anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Cllr Jonathan Bishop
Pontypridd