A reminder that The Labour Party remains on the side of the landlord.

Great piece. Cymru doesn’t need to be part of a Union that lies to itself about its past to deflect from its political and economic failures: we can choose optimism instead.

Erthygl da iawn gan fy nghydweithiwr yn y Cor Comunedol Opera Canolbarth Cymru am perfformio Macbeth gan Verdi o gwmpas Cymru yn Mis Mawrth.

Leading a Department of State and delivering a reform agenda requires people skills.

Wes Streeting MP talks and behaves as if he is still faction-fighting in Labour Students and clearly lacks the maturity and experience that doing a real job would bring. His tenure will end badly.

It’s a shame we have so little independent media in Wales, fewer still brave enough to shine a light on Labour’s policy and rhetoric - (which can’t possibly be designed with Wales in mind as it’s loaded with private provision for healthcare and paeans of praise for Thatcher!)

Absolutely this. I am not Welsh by birth, and made Cymru my home in middle age. You do not need to look for long to understand how the Union holds it back, economically and politically. And that Welsh Labour and The Labour Party see themselves as its master by right, not its servant.

Fascinating. The selection of hospitals means that Cymru’s worst performing health board - the one that flip-flops in and out of special measures around election times (for which Welsh Labour has never given a credible explanation) - avoids scrutiny.

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Labour Welsh Government issued section 21 *again* for failing to submit evidence to the UK COVID Inquiry.

*And* they refuse to hold an independent inquiry for Wales.

You'd think that they were afraid of scrutiny or something.

Er, no. It’s got nothing to do with productivity (and not as much as some people think to do with profit). To understand The Labour Party’s attitude to work and family, read Foucault.

Absolutely.

This thread. Every single word.

I live in South Wales and sometimes holiday in Orkney. It takes me longer to drive there than it would take to fly to Australia and I cross water on the way.

It is NOT a “staycation”….

Currently workers pay higher tax rates than rentiers. Taxing income from assets at the same or higher rate than income from work is fair and sound, and consistent with all The Labour Party’s rhetoric about “working families”. (And it’s The Green Party policy)

So why don’t they do it?

This document is shocking. By treating art and culture as a means, not an end, it militates directly against any art form - most notably, of course, classical music and opera - that does not serve an ideological agenda. A Zhdanov doctrine for our times.

What does “mission-driven” actually mean? What does it add to that sentence?

Perish the thought that vacuous management-speak is being used to fill an intellectual and moral void… 🤔

But if The Labour Party win the next election, that’s a clear mandate for turning the NHS into from a provider of healthcare into a commissioner of services from the private sector.

Be very, very careful what you vote for.

It’s going to be difficult for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 to hold out against Streeting’s privatisation. A The Labour Party govt could use the Single Market Act to force us to open up, and game Barnett consequentials to defund us.

We must be clear: Wes Streeting MP plans are an attack on devolution.

Two 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 thoughts.

Will The Labour Party will use the Single Market Act to force our health services to use private providers?

And if funding in England depends on privatisation, will Barnett consequentials reflect this?

Either way, this looks a lot like an attack on devolution

People in Cymru really need to read Rachel Reeves Mais lecture to understand the kind of state The Labour Party aspires to - one in which “growth” is prioritised over any concept of civil society - neoliberalism at its most brutal. Is that who we in Cymru want to be?

A very important question. Rachel Reeves in her Mais lecture makes it clear that growth will be prioritised in over everything else, including political rights: neoliberalism at its purest and most brutal. We need alternative, humane narratives about who politics is for.