They need to lose an election, spend a term in opposition and come back fresh.
At the moment they are out of talent and out of ideas and are squandering devolution.
The biggest issue facing Wales is a weak opposition that no one wants. Any other government (think the end of Major, Brown and Sunak) would have been booted out to regroup by now.
Here’s hoping Gething hasn’t screwed things up for the next Senedd election. Hopefully it’ll be a rerun of 2007 with Labour winning a minority and negotiating a coalition with Plaid.
Which has made it corrupt. I’m a member of the Labour party, but it’s high time that plaid steals that vote. At least for 1 cycle. At the moment the labour party is answerable to its members and it’s unions and not the general public of Wales. They feel invincible, they need to learn they are not.
Borderline constituencies always get treated better than obvious ones.
I think in the Senedd with PR it is possible that the other parties could form a coalition against them. Although I can’t see that happening with Reform winning seats and the Liberals are nowhere. The one thing I’d expect the liberal (small L) AM to vote against was the 20mph limit but the voted for it, so if they’re not liberal what are they for?
Is this true? Swedens Social Democratic Party has won every election in Sweden since 1917 – both national and European.
There are a lot of English folk, worried about their £, on this thread
God knows why. They’re a shit show
And this is why I feel like this country is so stagnant, at least in England and even Scotland now there’s the jeopardy that you (the current government) may not win the next election which means you have to be seen to be making productive changes that your electorate voted for, where as in Wales there’s no chance of Labour losing and so they will rest on their laurels indefinitely
Does this mean they are good? I am genuinely curious as to everyone’s thoughts.
This is why the Labour Party in Wales take voters for granted. Even treat communities in the valleys like they are Labour’s to command!
I do think their lead is starting to erode, albeit slowly and not very steadily. Mainly As the older generation goes. Its my opinion they are gambling on the senedd expansion to try and offset their erosion.
That rather than do something out of this world difficult and… get back in to tune with the voters.
People saying labour need to learn that they aren’t invincible (and trust me I agree) don’t realise that if that were to happen it wouldn’t be plaid to take that place or even the tories, it would be Reform.
That headline is incorrect. The Social Democrats in Sweden have had the most seats in every national election since 1914 and the most votes since 1917.
And that last sentence “There have been Labour landslides in 1945, 1966 and 1997, but there is one seat – Montgomeryshire – that Labour has never won” changed this year
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I wonder how the Vatican City fits in?
Id guess it’s depending how you measure it’s age or if it’s only counting democracy’s.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City)
edit is this a story that’s posted every election [https://www.reddit.com/r/Wales/comments/ywdxzu/welsh_labour_has_longest_winning_streak_of_any/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wales/comments/ywdxzu/welsh_labour_has_longest_winning_streak_of_any/)
Exactly the problem.
They need to lose an election, spend a term in opposition and come back fresh.
At the moment they are out of talent and out of ideas and are squandering devolution.
The biggest issue facing Wales is a weak opposition that no one wants. Any other government (think the end of Major, Brown and Sunak) would have been booted out to regroup by now.
Here’s hoping Gething hasn’t screwed things up for the next Senedd election. Hopefully it’ll be a rerun of 2007 with Labour winning a minority and negotiating a coalition with Plaid.
Which has made it corrupt. I’m a member of the Labour party, but it’s high time that plaid steals that vote. At least for 1 cycle. At the moment the labour party is answerable to its members and it’s unions and not the general public of Wales. They feel invincible, they need to learn they are not.
Borderline constituencies always get treated better than obvious ones.
I think in the Senedd with PR it is possible that the other parties could form a coalition against them. Although I can’t see that happening with Reform winning seats and the Liberals are nowhere. The one thing I’d expect the liberal (small L) AM to vote against was the 20mph limit but the voted for it, so if they’re not liberal what are they for?
Is this true? Swedens Social Democratic Party has won every election in Sweden since 1917 – both national and European.
There are a lot of English folk, worried about their £, on this thread
God knows why. They’re a shit show
And this is why I feel like this country is so stagnant, at least in England and even Scotland now there’s the jeopardy that you (the current government) may not win the next election which means you have to be seen to be making productive changes that your electorate voted for, where as in Wales there’s no chance of Labour losing and so they will rest on their laurels indefinitely
Does this mean they are good? I am genuinely curious as to everyone’s thoughts.
This is why the Labour Party in Wales take voters for granted. Even treat communities in the valleys like they are Labour’s to command!
I do think their lead is starting to erode, albeit slowly and not very steadily. Mainly As the older generation goes. Its my opinion they are gambling on the senedd expansion to try and offset their erosion.
That rather than do something out of this world difficult and… get back in to tune with the voters.
People saying labour need to learn that they aren’t invincible (and trust me I agree) don’t realise that if that were to happen it wouldn’t be plaid to take that place or even the tories, it would be Reform.
That headline is incorrect. The Social Democrats in Sweden have had the most seats in every national election since 1914 and the most votes since 1917.
And that last sentence “There have been Labour landslides in 1945, 1966 and 1997, but there is one seat – Montgomeryshire – that Labour has never won” changed this year