Welsh Labour is doing the country no favours
CONGRATULATIONS to Welsh Labour bucking the UK trend. Here in Wales we have had over two decades of Welsh Labour, they totally lack ambition for the country, examples:
1. After cogitating for a decade or more, they rejected sorting out the
M4 links into England and securing a future-proof artery upon which to build a stronger Welsh economy on spurious environmental reasons. 2. The loss of the new British Volt factory destined for Newport. This company was to be the first in the UK to make car batteries and planned to employ thousands of workers in skilled jobs. After dealing with Drakeford, they decided to go elsewhere. When questioned on Question Time about this lost opportunity, Drakeford just shrugged it off as if there was a conveyor belt of other companies eager to come to Wales.
Welsh Labour has developed into an even more dangerous threat to Wales’ future as they now have a strong and unhealthy nationalistic streak (that one day the Welsh people will hopefully wake up to). Welsh Labour would rather see three million Welsh-speakers living in an Eastern European economy than aspire to and develop a vibrant and strong modern Welsh economy that lifts us out of the relegation zone of almost every economic, social, and health indicator you can shake a stick at.
We are effectively a one-party state and Drakeford has taken the opportunity of the pandemic to create a border where none exists and should never, ever exist.
To the crux – the Confidence Trick – the reason why Welsh Labour holds on is simply this – it has kept throwing billions at the south Wales valleys while ignoring rural and provincial Wales.
However, if you look deeper into the last few election results, there are a few seeds of proconservatism sowed, a few germinating, but it will take a few more elections in Wales before traditional Labour voters have the guts and savvy to follow those English Red-Wallers.
Meanwhile, Wales’ education system suffers under quasiapartheid-type policies where Welsh- and English-speaking schooling are developed separately.
The Welsh NHS is a shadow of what most English regions enjoy, and our economy has condemned the people to living in one of the poorest, unhealthiest and deprived nations in northern Europe.
Hugh Bennett Vale of Glamorgan