Welsh Politics

When Darling’s squeeze is around your throat

PLAID ISN’T too happy with the London government attitude to the amount of money which Cardiff gets to run Wales each year.
The Assembly is worse than even a community council; they can raise their own rates while the Assembly has to depend 100 pc on London.

Welsh Assembly

Barnett Squeezes the pips till they Squeak

HOW MANY billions of pounds Wales has lost through the operation of the Barnett funding mechanism (known as the SQUEEZE) which keeps the country – and more important, for now, the Assembly – going is uncountable, said Gerald Holtham, chairman of the Independent Commisson on Funding and Finance in Wales.

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