Wales robbed again: time to stand up or shut up

It will be interesting watching the baroness squirm out of this one. She should be confronted and questioned at every opportunity until she resigns

V Gething and L Waters should take this brief on between them... Where was Liz and Llinos?

I will be expecting Plaid Cymru to make the most of this. Now is their chance to let those wales voters who vote Labour because they always have done wake up and see how Labour really look after us here.

I refer to the Tom Nairn thesis once more - economic inequality breaks up states. Successive UK governments appear cloth-eared on this matter. If you centralise wealth and power at the expense of the rest then you forment the so-called "seperatism" you decry. When will they wake up and realise what people want is a functional democracy and fair play? Plaid and SNP are a consequence of UK state failure. Keep it up and the break up of Britain will only accelerate.

Even UK Labour doesn't take the Welsh Government or Welsh Labour seriously. If we had any political talent and nous in Wales then they simply wouldn't dare to do something like this. They continue to laugh at us and who can blame them? Where is Eluned (or anyone) to actually call this out? Nowhere. As always. 25 years of ineptitude.

If this Labour slur doesn't open Welsh voters eyes I don't know what will? Where are our so-called Wales Labour MPs at Westminster I ask? You know. The ones paid £91k for representing our local and national interests. I'll tell you. Bloody knowhere! Too busy aiding England , self hating , and screwing the Welsh public purse. I find the only ones criticising this outrageous decision are Plaid Cymru , Lib Dems and Trade Unions. This decision as with HS2 is indefensible. All we hear is BS from the likes of self-serving Welsh Office Minister Jo Stevens, who along with her Wales Labour colleagues are too busy wirh their snouts in the trough. Soon the Senedd election in 2026 will be fast upon us. I want the next Welsh Government and First Minister in waiting Plaid Cymru and Rhun ap Iorwerth to drag Welsh Labour, Welsh Conservatives and Reform UK by the scruff of their necks to the debate podium to explain their London master Labour,Conservative and Reform Anti-Wales agenda. Rhun ap Iorwerth must ground these hypocrites into the dust with facts & figures. Past and present. No mercy. Hit them hard and where it hurts. Gloves off. No HS2 consequential to Wales meaning we have lost £4 billion where Scotland and Northern Ireland will receive hundreds of millions annually. No devolution of powers sought by numerous Welsh Governments elected with a mandate from the Welsh electorate over our Criminal Justice System & Policing ect... Flatly refused by both UK Conservative and Labour parties. They reneged rail electrification in North Wales promised by Rishy Sunak in 2024 or in South Wales in 2017 scrapped, a manifesto pledge made by Tory PM Theresa May countersigned by Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns. Another bareface lie. No M4 relief road pledged by PM Boris Johnson in 2019 after he was electioneering in Newport and said that infamous quote: "I will free up the nostrils of the Dragon at the Bryn Glas tunnels". Got elected and yet again another lie. He took the Welsh for mugs. No more shall we be silent. For far too long Labour has used and abused Wales to their benefit while keeping those impoverished Labour voting communities on benefits. As said. Labour have weaponized poverty. To Keir Starmer the Welsh are only relevant every 5 years when he needs our vote. Time to politically slip him and Labour in the face by removing Welsh Labour from office in 2026. Enough is enough. Time to put Wales first and Labour last. If we do nothing it will only embolden our Labour dictators. Time this Welsh Dragon roared.

When, at least as originally envisaged, HS2 was to be constructed right up into England’s north-west, there was at least a vestige of justification for deeming it an ‘England and Wales scheme’, given that Crewe is a pretty short hop – always non-stop since Beeching – to Chester whence the north Wales coastal railway line heads westward. But Oxford?! It’s far distant from and way outside Wales; indeed with no rail access into Wales without a change of trains at Hereford. This is a shameless and cynical ‘con’.