Ieuan’s speech
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 3:04pm
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I’m sitting in the conference theatre now listening to Ieuan’s speech. He has just criticised ‘dithering Darling’ for his inaction in helping the poor during hard times. Now he is targeting Gordon Brown, stating that people ‘have had enough’ and that they are unhappy with large energy companies making such huge profits.
Ieuan is now mentioning the fact that Labour MPs are not practising what they preach- campaigning to keep post offices open locally, but voting differently in Westminster. ‘We need to increase our team in Westminster which will speak up for you and for Wales’ is the motto from Ieuan.
At the moment Ieuan has gone on to emphasise those Unionists who do not want more power for Wales. Touhig has helped us a great deal to rally the cause for more powers- we are running rings around Labour, after all!The no campaign will be David Davies and Kinnock and Touhig- what a mix!
Is the Tories’ pro devolutionist stance merely window dressing? remarks Ieuan. Plaid will act in the interest of the people of Wales, and will govern the country well to bring people with us to make the Assembly a proper parliament. We have a new confidence, and we will not play second fiddle to Wesminster priorities, says Ieuan.
Plaid must lead the way as always are Ieuans final remarks. Lovely music now and plenty of clapping please……!
Diddorol Bethan, yn sicr AS Llafur yw problem fwyaf Plaid Cymru ac yn rwystr mawr i’r Cynulliad symud ymlaen o ran deddfwriaeth.
Ond byddwn i’n hoffi gweld Ieuan Wyn Jones yn cyfeirio fwy at sut mae Plaid Cymru yn mynd i ddangos arweiniad cadarn yng Nghaerdydd a chael y maen i’r wal gyda pholisiau holl bwysig yn ystod y llywodraeth bresennol, a chadw undod o fewn y Blaid.
Your ….. “emphasise those Unionists who do not want more power for Wales” …..
But Ieuan forgot to mention those not aligned politically, those who do not want further powers devolved to the Assembly until such time the current devolved powers are a success.
It is far to early to judge success as most new legislation is moving through various stages of scrutiny, more haste less speed would be my preference.
From what I saw of it on the news (very little) it sounded like a rousing speech.
Pity us in England, we have the health minister Ben Bradshaw repeating his slander of the Welsh NHS and bragging about companies profiting from the English NHS – not mentioning that he’s a minister of the British government and England unlike Wales has no devolved administration to focus on issues such as levels of NHS spending…
I’m pleased that Wales has politicans committed to popular sovereignty and social justice!
It is a shame Charlie. I think what needs to be done though in England is more campaigning from its people for devolution for England. I know that you have control of certain areas, but the fact is the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish MPs get to vote on those matters. This isn’t fair and needs to be rectified. English votes on English issues.
Stonemason: I get what you are talking about, but these powers (that are still limited) are causing problems at the moment, so more needs to be done. Do you know how long it takes for Wales to pass a law compared to Scotland, who doesn’t need to ask permission from Westminster? An extra 6-9 months. Then you have MPs who state that we are overloading Whitehall with all our LCOs, a system the Labour government devolved to us. What we need is to find out what the Convention comes back with and ask the people of Wales what they would like to see, a truly democratic way.
Stonemason, Evan at this early stage it is obvious the new law making powers are not fit for purpose. Like most things this labour government have designed its a complete mess. More speed and less dithering would be my preference. It’s lucky our Welsh MP’S are not legislating on the new powers needed to control the spivs on wall street and the city of London. By the time Hain and his lot decided what to do the world would be back in the 1930′s.