Labour was born in the South Wales valleys and it will die here too.
The two big announcements in the spending review for Wales were the new railway stations between Newport and Cardiff and hundreds of millions of funding for coal tip remediation. Neither have yet been delivered because they are multi-year projects. As such, I think it is legitimate for Streeting to point out that people haven’t yet seen the benefits of the two governments working together, it often takes a number of years to actually deliver stuff.
If you take something like devolution of the Crown Estate in Scotland, there was about five years between the SNP-led Scottish Government properly starting to make the case from 2007-2010 to agreement to devolution in 2014, with actual devolution not happening until 2017.
While I get people feel let down by Labour, who I agree are pretty meh right now, I think there is a risk that people are getting a bit hysterical in their criticisms. Plaid agree with pretty much all of Labour’s big decisions when it comes to spending priorities, with the NHS top, local government second, and greater funding for childcare.
I think if you peered into a hypothetical third year of a Plaid-led coalition government and compared it to a Labour-led coalition government, the actual substantive differences would be minimal.
Also, if I were being cynical, I think that when it comes to the likes of farming, housebuilding and renewable energy generation, Plaid’s rhetoric starts sounding a lot more Reformy than a lot of people would like to admit…
We didn’t vote FOR Plaid. We voted AGAINST Reform.
Plaid LLafur wed bu marw
Plaid Cymru are enjoying the ‘anyone but reform’ boost that labour enjoyed against the Tories in 2024.
The problem with these sorts of politics is that it leaves the party assuming power with very little direction. It will be interesting to see what narrative they can produce for senedd election, and if they will be able to make any change that sets them apart from Labour next year.
I feel like we are expecting so much of governments in the modern day that we will never be satisfied no matter who we get.
That being said, I’m much happier with plaid taking over if it means keeping reform out, genuine incompetents like reform can do massive damage in the way that labour could never have inflicted in a hundred years
Silly! Labour’s ship has not sailed. It’s completely sunk. Holed below the water line. Gradually rusting away on sea bed like the Titanic, sunk without any hope of recovery and nothing worth salvaging.
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Labour was born in the South Wales valleys and it will die here too.
The two big announcements in the spending review for Wales were the new railway stations between Newport and Cardiff and hundreds of millions of funding for coal tip remediation. Neither have yet been delivered because they are multi-year projects. As such, I think it is legitimate for Streeting to point out that people haven’t yet seen the benefits of the two governments working together, it often takes a number of years to actually deliver stuff.
If you take something like devolution of the Crown Estate in Scotland, there was about five years between the SNP-led Scottish Government properly starting to make the case from 2007-2010 to agreement to devolution in 2014, with actual devolution not happening until 2017.
While I get people feel let down by Labour, who I agree are pretty meh right now, I think there is a risk that people are getting a bit hysterical in their criticisms. Plaid agree with pretty much all of Labour’s big decisions when it comes to spending priorities, with the NHS top, local government second, and greater funding for childcare.
I think if you peered into a hypothetical third year of a Plaid-led coalition government and compared it to a Labour-led coalition government, the actual substantive differences would be minimal.
Also, if I were being cynical, I think that when it comes to the likes of farming, housebuilding and renewable energy generation, Plaid’s rhetoric starts sounding a lot more Reformy than a lot of people would like to admit…
We didn’t vote FOR Plaid. We voted AGAINST Reform.
Plaid LLafur wed bu marw
Plaid Cymru are enjoying the ‘anyone but reform’ boost that labour enjoyed against the Tories in 2024.
The problem with these sorts of politics is that it leaves the party assuming power with very little direction. It will be interesting to see what narrative they can produce for senedd election, and if they will be able to make any change that sets them apart from Labour next year.
I feel like we are expecting so much of governments in the modern day that we will never be satisfied no matter who we get.
That being said, I’m much happier with plaid taking over if it means keeping reform out, genuine incompetents like reform can do massive damage in the way that labour could never have inflicted in a hundred years
Silly! Labour’s ship has not sailed. It’s completely sunk. Holed below the water line. Gradually rusting away on sea bed like the Titanic, sunk without any hope of recovery and nothing worth salvaging.
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