Labour offers hope to rural communities in Wales

Specifics please Henry, specifics. What projects are coming to Pembrokeshire? Name them. And you mention the Crown Estate ... Wales' resources exploited and the profits siphoned off to Westminster. You should be busting a gut to have them devolved to the Senedd so we have parity with Scotland. No mention of that in this pro Labour puff piece. This is the problem with Labour. The structural inequalities of the UK disproportionately disadvatage Wales. Radical reforms are needed to the constitutional, political and economic models that the State operates. Labour are simply not interested in making those changes. Instead we get mealy mouthed apologetics and superficial policies. In the end, they service the status quo. They are an abject failure as a political party.

GB Energy sounds like another Westminster excuse to asset strip Wales, taking the profit away whilst covering our country in industrial sized windfarms, Henry. Wales’s future lies in a Welsh takeover of the Crown Estate, as in Scotland and NI; push Ynni Cymru, with our own Sovereign Fund taking the profit from more offshore and fewer onshore wind farms which blight our landscape, and redistributing it in Wales to clear away child poverty, social inequality and generate a happier society. There is only one way to do this - independence - we just need to believe in ourselves - we’re big enough, rich enough and smart enough.

'I am often asked how much this was driven by wanting to give the Tories a kicking rather than any formal embrace of the Labour Party project.' Opinion pollsters have the professional 'wherewithal to assess this question with a degree of authority and any individual can only take a speculative punt at it based on personal impression. But my personal impression is that the outcome of the Westminster election back in early July was very considerably shaped by the desire 'to give the Tories a kicking' after a uniquely disastrous and depressing tenure of office, rather than by any enthusiastic 'formal embrace of the Labour Party project'. You only have to look at the variety of local constituency outcomes, the disparity of which strongly suggests - to me at least! - that many a voter in previously Tory-held constituencies made a shrewd evaluation of the local political scene and voted tactically for the candidate most likely to defeat the Conservatives on their patch. I'm not inferring that the new Labour government isn't in with a chance now that it's in government with a really solid majority. But it's surely significant that, despite their impressive victory, the actual Labour vote across the UK didn't increase that much. And I think that rather a lot of voters aren't totally 'on board', as they clearly were back in 1997, and, rather, that the mood tends to be 'well, let's wait and see'.

We will not be ‘making more’. Net Zero will continue to effectively de-industrialise the UK as energy costs continue to spiral. Tata steel has now gone, and we’ve just closed our last fertiliser plant: it’s just too expensive to manufacture in the UK. The most recent Digest of UK Energy Supply shows that we are continuing to import more and more energy, including electricity, so more renewables aren’t making things better, or cheaper. Why are they pushing this? Look at the ministers & civil servants involved: you’ll be hard pushed to find anyone with a STEM qualification, or any experience outside the public sector.

Clark of Kent comes in for criticism from Owen Jones in the G for his appetite for presents, freebies or subtle bribes as he worries... The Fat Shanks Effect...carbolic soap and a stiff brush needed but a healthy die-off rate now considered normal by our law makers...

Went to Withybush this morning to Wynnstays to buy an agri-thing, on HT's patch. He comes from a family of Gloucestershire landowners. His Dad was president of the Country Land and Business Association for heaven's sake. You'd think the MP for 'down below' in Pembs would have some great policy for Welsh farmers. But he is a Labour MP so we won't hold our breath...

There is nothing to substantiate his claim that "swing in support for the Labour Party from rural and coastal communities". In his own seat, Labour underperformed but this may be because he was parachuted in from England and secured a nomination because his mam had a holiday home there. In fact, both the neighbouring constituencies, Ceredigion and Caerfyrddin there was a swing to Plaid Cymru, the latter with Labour loosing what was predicted a Labour seat. Labour are starting to believe their own propaganda. How many pensioners in Pembrokeshire will freeze this winter because the cuckoo has arrived?

I wonder if voting for Westminster government is different as the Conservatives had been making a bad effort for a long time. In Wales we have had Labour in for a long time making a bad effort at governing. It will be interesting to see how Plaid fare ‘ particularly when compared to a welsh Labour Party that had failed to implement any coherent industrial strategy for years.’

I always have trouble when politicans claim 'swings to' - many results are 'swings away.' Given the Tories had imploded no-one really could vote for them in a marked way at the last election. That left, in Wales, a choice of Labour or PC. PC, for many, is merely a single issue 'speak Welsh and save the world' party which meant the choice in the last election for many was vote Labour or don't vote. Given theremoval of the winter heat allowance I woner how many who voted for Labour would vote for them if a new election was tomorrow. I think there would be serious Labour losses UK wide after that awful policy decision..

The MOD is looking to build 30 RADAR defence system in Newgale, Pembs: if this goes ahead the MOD like it has done throughout UK will object to any planning for wind turbines on or offshore as it is classed as interference: I am certain this will conflict with Wales’ renewable energy project and Future generations Act and if this project is allowed to go ahead will result in Pembs becoming eve. Poorer. Henry refuses to give his stance on whether he supports the Radar project or not and I suspect he will be long gone once he gets bored of his safe seat.