If you had any doubts that the National Assembly is a far more cost-effective solution to Wales’s democratic deficit, just look at the list of AMs claiming for second homes.
Not for them the flipping, ducking, moat-diving of their Westminster counterparts, and all for the fairly simple reason that Wales is a relatively small country.
If ever there was a need to get rid of an ‘extra, expensive and useless tier of government’ (the old chestnut once much loved by critics of the National Assembly) it is now. And the tier that should be in our sights is that which consists of Wales’s 40 Members of Parliament and some 48 Members of the House of Lords.
This week the Assembly announced another £22m on a “targeted clean-up campaign” for the Valleys.
With another 38 million spent on disaster areas in the North, that’s a total of £60m of silk purse creation out of a sheep’s ear. Yet the Assembly cannot guarantee that the expenditure will create a single job! The geniuses down in Cardiff docks merely hope that this tarting up will make these areas more attractive to tourists. This is optimism of a kind that makes a child putting a lost milk tooth under its pillow look like a ruthless investor.
According to a story in the Western Mail taken up by Miss Wagstaff, buried in the massed ranks of jobsworthies in the Department for Economy and Transport of the Wales Assembly Government exists a whistleblower who is bravely telling all about the WAG’s performance.
The continuing saga of the proposed Ceredigion Coastal Path and the extremely costly legal fight put up by Mr Lyn Jenkins of Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park against the joint might of Ceredigion County Council and the Wales Assembly Government – a sort of modern day David versus Goliath.
Anti-Welsh Liebourites such as Leighton Andrews and others have recently been jumping on the bandwagon to gainsay the troubled economies of small independent nations in a pathetic attempt to cover up the devastating problems of a genuinely failing state: the good old UK.
For many years the West Wales Business Initiative (WWBI) has expressed concerns about the economic policies of the Welsh Assembly, the size of the Public Sector in Wales and the consequent imbalance of the Welsh economy.
We have argued that the Assembly Government has channeled UK and EC resource into a rapidly growing Public Sector in Wales to the detriment of the private sector.
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