A Fair Deal for Wales is a chance to end poverty and rebuild communities

If you were that concerned about your country and her people, you wouldn’t be a member of , effectively, a foreign political party whose main consideration, always, is their home country

Labour have had 26 years to do all that, instead Wales is at the bottom of the pile, highest number in child poverty, highest number of unemployed, bottom in education, bottom in health care, bottom in waiting times, failed to get our share of the HS2 payment, failed to get the Crown Estate devolved in parity with Scotland, but don't worry, Labour will sort it all out this time round, Labour, you have had more than enough time to improve our lives, education, health, transport and after 26 years Welsh Devolution is still under threat from England & the BritNats. They say a sign of insanity is to do the same thing repeatedly and expect a different result, Welsh voters have been doing exactly that for 26 years, time to wake up and tell Labour to jog on. kick these English parties in to touch.

In 1990s the European Union set transport policies that included non-stop passenger and freight train routes Holyhead and Fishguard to the Channel Tunnel; plus advised on creating integrated transport hubs (buses connect to train networks) and developing economies at those hubs - reduces car utilisation rates. Cardiff and Haverfordwest have developed their economies at the centre of integrated transport hubs; Newport, Swansea, Port Talbot, Machynlleth and Rhyl all have excellent train connections and main bus networks hubs. Before asking Westminster for more handouts / state aid for rail; why are new organisations not being attracted to the empty Debenhams stores in Newport and Swansea? The Welsh Government has a IT spinoff organisation, future staff could be based on current empty shops in Machynlleth and Rhyl to cover Mid and North Wales - not all new roles should be in Cardiff. 10 well paid roles in central Machynlleth equals less unemployment benefits and the start of attracting other organisations to the town that can benefit from a work from anywhere culture in certain professions.

This is really just a cynical rebadging of a Plaid manifesto to state the obvious and say what we in north and mid-wales feel. It in no way reflects what Labour is doing. And there is no Welsh Labour party, it is just a grouping ignored by Westminster and the unspeakable Jo Stevens. If you really believe what you are saying, Mr Parry, resign from Labour and join Plaid.

Good grief. Not a single figure in this piece. What do we get from Barnett, how much do we provide in terms of tax receipts etc in return, and how much will 'Fair Deal' be asking for?

Now where have I heard all this before? 🤔 Of course, the last time someone wanted me to vote for them! Promises, promises. Welsh Labour? 😂

The Labour party in Wales have no shame. 100 years of failure, we're one of the poorest countries in western Europe and they still lecture us about what we need to do.

As the Senedd election approaches, I note a worrying trend...are Labour candidates suffering from memory loss? The party has been in power for over a quarter of a century, including a Labour government in Westminster twice. So...why haven't you done all this before?

I find it strange that the people who write these NC articles never respond to the comments. The people who respond are voters so you'd imagine the writer, especially if he/she was a politician looking for those votes, would respond. Ian ? This is the line that made me splutter - 'Welsh Labour has a proud redistributive record'. I've lost track of how many times i've written about the disparity in investment in Cardiff compared with the rest of Wales. Look at rail investment. 1 The South Wales Metro has had about £1.2 billion spent on it so far as far as i'm aware. 2 A few months ago Jo Stephens appeared ecstatic about the announcement of £445 million from Westminster to invest in the Welsh rail network. Most of that was instantly allocated to the building of the Burns stations to the south of Cardiff. So she was ecstatic at the announcement of just 10% of what Wales should have received through the HS2 development. And this is the person in the cabinet supposedly fighting Wales' corner. 3 Then a few weeks ago the plan for a tram link to Cardiff Bay was announced in the press - not sure if the money has been set aside yet but you can bet it won't take long. Apparently just £100 million. 4 And then today we read about the £140 million investment in Cardiff Central Station. Meanwhile the South West Wales and the North East metros are - where ? I believe some money has actually been allocated or maybe even spent in the North East but other than that i've seen lots of lovely plans and i've read many articles. But nothing actually happening. I believe this is all to do with the Western Gateway plans (maybe it will be given a different name) of a few years ago where South East Wales and Bristol were to be built up into a Western Powerhouse similar to the Northern Powerhouse in England. And, as a result of the huge financial investment in that area wealth will magically trickle out to the rest of Wales and the South West of England. Do any of you out there believe that will happen ? So to get back to the 'Welsh Labour redistributive record', potentially £2 billion invested in South East Wales and almost nothing in the other three quarters of the country. Ian ?

The fairest Fair Deal for Wales is to consign Welsh Labour to the bin.