Is Wales In Danger Of Becoming The Lost World?

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Who is Wales run by at the moment? In Westminster it's Welsh Secretary of State and political slimeball Alun Cairns (regular readers of this blog will know I don't like him) who seems to be more interested in slowly weeding out Welsh identity than in bringing out the differences with the rest of Britain.

Whilst in Cardiff Bay Welsh Labour control the Senedd with the help of a LibDem and an independent. Not however stopping them from running things with arrogant incompetence. In Carwyn Jones it also has a leader who is facing next year on how he dealt with the dismissal of Carl Sargeant.

So where is Wales at the moment? In a very dangerous place. Poised because of Brexit to be the backwater of the backwater that Britain will become.

Take transport for example. The HS1 train project? Not available in Wales. Electrification of the South Wales railway line? Not available beyond Cardiff.

Take energy. The UK government is happy to throw the building of a nuclear power plant in Hinckley Point where the profits will go to a French State owned company and the Chinese government but when it comes to the Swansea Bay Lagoon where environmentally friendly energy could help Wales in its needs there is apparently cold feet.

Take the economy. Up and down Wales there are factories where the workers are worried about their future. Where they feel misled about Brexit and don't know what will happen next. Do you think Welsh Labour let alone the UK government are doing impact studies on Welsh regions? Both in an economic and in a social sphere? If they are they're doing a pretty good job of hiding it.

Take the perception of Wales: I have posted before that post Brexit Wales will become the last whipping boy of a certain type of English person. Do you think either administrations are trying to make Wales more assertive? Compare Wales to Scotland and you have your answer.

And what is being proposed to counter this? Basically the building of Super Prisons and a tourism policy of promoting Wales as a Principality. essentially a servile follower of England.

So the calls for independence must become louder. For the dangers of Wales becoming a Lost World are there.

Until the next time