Events in Cardiff are a pertinent reminder of what Labour do in power, no matter who leads. The prospect of them replicating that on a UK-wide level is deeply worrying.
Coming face to face with the consequences of their actions isn’t something that Mark Drakeford and his ministers have to do often. The last couple of weeks must have been a genuine shock to the system.
Day to day, it is much more congenial to be a “steady hand on the tiller”, even if this is a terrible quality in the captain of a ship going in the wrong direction.
Also: new polls suggest Labour has reached parity with the SNP in Scotland, and the projections indicate that the next election could be absolutely brutal for the Nationalists.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
In launching a campaign for a metro mayor, a local businessman (and Labour activist) has said aloud what many Welsh Conservatives seem to think privately.
His call for a stronger British state reflects the thinking of many Conservatives… but not, yet, the Government’s actual policy.
Local initiatives should not be blocked by the Labour Government. The Levelling Up Fund and Shared Prosperity Fund are very welcome.
It’s inconceivable that Plaid Cymru won’t make pressing for an independence referendum the price for its support in a coalition with Labour.
In 2007, it almost looked like the a plausible anti-Labour alternative for Wales. But things are very different today.
The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
Both the Conservatives and Plaid have gone on the attack, but can anything break Labour’s iron grip on Cardiff Bay this year?
The broad constitutional consensus Starmer cited is fragile, and based on part on a substantial minority of unionists falsifying their preferences.
Instead of those with a background in business or blue collar jobs we have special advisers and lobbyists. Or those chosen to fill a quota.
It is an absurd caricature of Tory philosophy to pretend that our Party must unthinkingly defend whatever the status quo happens to be, no matter how poorly it serves the nation.