Is Carwyn Jones About To "Betray" Bridgend Again?

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Well at time of writing it appears that the UK government is on the brink of collapse as this deal that Theresa May has done with the EU has seemingly done the almost impressive trick of annoying everybody. Dominic Raab the Brexit secretary has resigned over this which he presumably knew about well beforehand so why not earlier?

And let's face it. We all knew Theresa May couldn't do it. Everything she has touched eventually turns into the brown smelly stuff.

So as this government tries to fiddle their way into saving face whilst Rome and other capitals find their faces burning with anger as we discover the British stiff upper lip doesn't exist let's turn to the proposed M4 Relief Road....as you do.

I've chatted about it before. Mainly in relation to the anti-English sentiment that might occur. I've made it clear that I'm not personally pro/anti the road yet. Though I do think that it's social consequences have not been thought through.

I mentioned before as well the fear of a Bridgend Plaid Cymru councillor that businesses will not go beyond the area that this road will cover. Thus starving areas such as Bridgend of investment. It's this we need to look at again.

Because what I didn't know until yesterday was that shifty Santa soon to be ex First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones will be making that decision whether to proceed with the road in one of his last acts in the office next month.

There has been calls that this decision should be made by his successor and given he seems all too demob happy since announcing his intention of stepping down that doesn't seem unreasonable. But let's say he makes the decision to go ahead.

I don't know but I will guess that the social and financial consequences for areas west of the relief road have not been looked into. If we focus on Bridgend that could be disastrous given that in this mess of a post Brexit nation we will probably become should investment starve then the area will obviously suffer as well.

That coupled with the swinging cuts the Labour council are making. Cuts that they are blaming on the Welsh Labour Government in Cardiff Bay then you wonder why Carwyn Jones wants to continue becoming an Assembly Member until the next Senedd elections. Given that, as I've explained before he is supposed to represent Bridgend.

If nobody considered what would be the effects of the road for areas beyond it then surely that would be a dereliction of duty. Surely if he proceeds with the road Carwyn Jones should either prove Bridgend would not be adversely affected by the Relief Road or he should resign immediately after becoming First Minister.

After all for many who voted for him it would be a final betrayal.

Until the next time.