The Question Welsh Labour Cannot Answer

Yesterday when I chatted about all manner of things I didn't mention a thought that entered my head so early in the morning. A question really. And it was a question that I posed on Twitter yesterday. The question was this.

What have the Welsh Labour government done better than the SNP government in Scotland?

So let's be clear here. Not issues where you could say they were the same. Issues that they were better.

And to be fair there were two examples:

The introduction of the carrier bag charge. Wales was the first UK country to do that.

The introduction of the requirement to opt-out of any organ donation.

Two. Just two.

Labour have been years in power and yet in a whole slew of issues have been considerably inferior in comparison with the SNP. Health, local government and let's not forget education. At the tail end of international league tables and let's not forget run by a Libdem minister!

And let's not forget that this is the government prepared to surrender Welsh powers to Theresa May, vote against a People's vote on the EU Referendum and yet for the dumping of "nuclear mud" in Cardiff Bay!

I could go on but you get my point.

And what this means is that whilst the Welsh opinion is ignored Scottish and indeed Northern Irish opinions are listened to in Westminster. Why? Probably because of the three devolved assemblies Wales is the only one controlled by a Unionist party. Which means it listens to London just as much as it listens to the electorate.

Will things get any easier? Of course not. A combination of Brexit and a new Welsh leader cum Corbyn disciple in Mark Drakeford means that things will actually get a lot worse. And I suspect that soon the scales will fall from the eyes of a lot of Welsh voters as they see the reality of modern toadying Welsh Labour.

Until the next time.