Wales Needs To Make An Infrastructure Plan.....Even If It Can't Implement It Yet

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Normally when I chat about Twitter on this blog it's normally when I've gone into a full blown argument with someone. On this occasion though there was no such argument but it brought an interesting subject into the open which was worth chatting about.

It began when a Twitter follower remonstrated "hippy generation" from "urban Britain" coming to Wales and holding back the economy and job creation with their "eco rubbish".

When I queried what "eco rubbish" meant he said it was campaigning against new developments/infrastructure proposals.

Now forgetting the idea that people who object to such developments are hippies from urban Britain what he was saying was not without merit when you looked deeper into it. For whilst not all such projects are an improvement and there are genuine reasons to object to them, it is equally clear that infrastructure is another  reason why Wales is becoming the last colony for Westmnister as it's lack of investment throughout the country starves it of creativity and future economic growth.

After all apart there is no properly integrated road or rail network linking the nation. Depending on journey and the method of travel a journey within Wales might be easier if you took part of it in England!

I won't bore you by going into in depth detail. But the point is that Wales needs an in depth infrastructure plan looking into issues such as road and rail links. The lack of such a plan can be mainly blamed on the Welsh Labour Government who seem to be more concerned  with additions to what's already there (the M4 relief road) than planning for the future of the nation as a whole.

Of course we all know that the Welsh Labour government will blame the Westminster Conservative government for a lack of funding in Wales. And to an extent that's true. But that's no excuse for a lack of planning. Nor is it an excuse for where investment is taken it's on a crisis management basis. Whether it's because they are incompetent, managing decline or showing their unionist roots in putting Wales down I don't know.

But if the Labour government really cared about Wales then they would prepare an infrastructure plan that would stop making the country perceived as some sort of backwater now

So Independence is in reality the only way proper coordinated infrastructure for Wales can be actioned.

Rome was of course not built in a day....but it was built.