Anglocentric attitude scorns Celtic nations
AS CORONAVIRUS adds to the myriad problems the so-called “Government” at Westminster finds itself incapable of dealing with, we find Matt Hancock being paraded alongside Johnson as the health minister and Professor Chris Whitty as his chief medical officer.
They are not – they’re England’s health secretary and England’s chief medical officer.
We in Wales have our own, as do Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It’s symptomatic of the Anglocentric viewpoint of this “Government”.
Little wonder they disregard the views as pertains to post-Brexit reality of our democratically elected politicians in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.
This Anglocentric viewpoint is accentuated through this blather about investing billions in “the north”.
They’re usually referring to places such as Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and Bradford, all indisputably in the south of the UK but the north of England.
And as they attempt to bribe those in northern England with baubles and billions, the Tories in Wales are proposing slashing even more off public spending here.
Little wonder this alleged union is creaking at the seams, as this squalid bunch of charlatans prepares to sacrifice the Celtic nations’ economies on the altar of English nationalism.
Ian Parri Caernarfon solution.
All that is required is for the Welsh Assembly, or even better the UK Government, to pass a simple item of legislation which decrees that in any public services investigation, “missing records” are deemed an automatic admission of guilt, with suitable compensation to the victim being automatically due.
I suspect that should such legislation exist, many “missing records” would swiftly be found.
Ian McNicholas Waunlwyd, Ebbw Vale