\n Just last week, Plaid Cymru separatists and Labour formed another deal.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Following her party\u2019s Caerphilly by-election loss, it looked like Eluned Morgan would struggle to get her damaging budget plans through the Senedd.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n But once again, the separatists stepped up to help.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n This isn\u2019t a surprise. Following the last Senedd election, Plaid Cymru separatists formed a coalition with Labour. Plaid prefer to call it a \u201cco-operation agreement\u201d. But they\u2019re one and the same.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n As with all such deals, parties go into them with policy asks. Plaid had theirs. And what was top of the list? Thirty-six more Senedd members.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0That\u2019s right, the reason we\u2019re being lumbered with more politicians at a cost of \u00a3120 million is because it was a key Plaid ask.\n<\/p>\n
\n Not more money for our NHS. Or for schools. Or for badly needed infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n
\n Plaid Cymru separatists insisted that money went on Senedd expansion for one reason. It\u2019s part of their salami slice strategy to break up Britain. This is why the 36 more Senedd members must be scrapped.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0The separatists have tried to talk down their goal of Welsh independence of late. But we mustn\u2019t fall for it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0In recent years, we\u2019ve seen more and more conflict between the Senedd and the government in Westminster.\n<\/p>\n
\n Only recently, several Senedd members wrote to Keir Starmer, demanding more powers. They want the Senedd in charge of policing. Starmer must say no.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0This is what I mean when I talk about salami slicing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Piece by piece, brick by brick, their aim is to create further separation from the rest of Britain.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Make no mistake, that\u2019s what putting the Senedd in charge of policing and justice would do.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0It would result in a separate legal system, something Senedd minister Julie James claimed is inevitably developing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Plaid Cymru separatists know that, with a bigger Senedd, this sort of conflict with the British government will only increase.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0That\u2019s why they prioritise more Senedd members over more doctors and nurses.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Wales may have the longest NHS waiting lists of any part of mainland Britain. But to separatists, this is of little concern.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0If it comes down to a choice between better public services or pursuing their dream, Plaid will always pick Welsh independence.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0It\u2019s what separatists do.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Plaid only offer change from Labour in one way: all their energies will go into their goal of breaking Britain apart.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0There\u2019s already a blueprint for this. Plaid\u2019s sister party is Nicola Sturgeon\u2019s SNP.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0When the SNP first formed an administration in the Scottish Parliament, they pretended independence wasn\u2019t on the agenda.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0But what happened? They used their election victory to argue it was a mandate for independence.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Plaid will do the same.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0If Wales goes down that road, it\u2019ll be a disaster. We don\u2019t need separatist stoked division. We need functioning public services.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0That\u2019s where my priorities lie.\n<\/p>\n
\n Andrew RT Davies is MS for South Wales Central\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just last week, Plaid Cymru separatists and Labour formed another deal.\u00a0 Following her party\u2019s Caerphilly by-election loss, it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-643694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115750385171776536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}