Ramblings approves of Edwina Hart's leadership manifesto which she apparently launched today.
According to the Wales Home website, the key pledges are:
- Public service reform, ‘Voice not Choice’ - how to deliver publicly funded services the ‘Welsh Way’, with the voice of the Citizen at its heart;
- The setting up of special public service improvement bodies to develop leadership, innovation and the interchange of ideas and workers between the various public services in Wales;
- Reforming the way the Welsh Assembly is funded by Westminster so that the Welsh block grant is based on need;
- Supporting further powers for the Assembly following a successful referendum campaign;
- Tackling child poverty and youth unemployment through improved strategies;
- Establishing a Citizens’ Bank to make sure that access to finance is available to individuals, groups and enterprises;
- Reviving Welsh Labour from top to bottom.
It remains to be seen why all of these Labour contenders are dancing to Plaid's tune. Whoever wins it would appear that the push for more democracy for Wales is on the right track.
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same old bull shit thats the problem.
perhaps an unexpected - and encouraging - by product of the welsh labour leadership campaign is the way that all the candidates have gone out of their way to stress their support for the welsh devolution process. This can only be good in the long term for the devolution process in wales!
Regarding barnett i would however 'ramblings' urge caution. After all should wales one day become self governing - as i hope it one day will and im sure you do to - there would be no 'barnett' or any other money for wales from westminister!
We would be responsible for our own finances....and rightly so too! Of course all taxes then raised in wales would be spent in wales......something which alas does not happen under the present system of rule from westminister!
But we cannot have it both ways....we cannot have both 'barnett' and self governemnt!
Leigh Richards
swansea.
Agreed Leigh but if Barnett had been fair to us all those years we could probably afford independence tomorrow.
Until we are fully responsible for our own affairs, we must get a fair deal from the UK. Otherwise, we will always be too poor both financially and in terms of ambition.
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