In The space in a week, Labor-Run Wales shortened by labor-run Westminster of projects from Railroad funds UNTO National Insurance contributions. The poorest country in the UK is dropped. Repeatedly. But what to do?
All we need is a hero. Someone whose job is to say for Wales In the Cabinet, Cymru’s voice in the Westminster power corridors. Luckily for Wales, there is such a person – the Secretary of State for Wales. Uncontrollable for Wales, this role is long enough to be unable. Instead of becoming a voice of Wales in the Cabinet, the more frequently represent the Voice of the Cabinet in Wales. It should go.
No state’s own secretary until 1964. The Scots, in the meantime, are given a voice by the end of 1906. If this is a real reason to celebrate and at the end of many campaigns.
The first two people in the post were Jim Griffiths and Cledwyn Hughes, who were well respected and had many credentials in labor movement. The new role paid and for three years the Welsh language moves, which gives the legal status of Wales (amazing what happens in a voice).
But in the next decades there are some perfect stinkers at work. The next one is George Thomas, who Anti Welsh Language and illustrates the layer of Welsh office as “greatest mistake”. The lower point of his tenure follows the aberran’s disaster, where a tip tip collapses in a school killing 116 children and 28 adults. Known with subsequent questions that the National Coal Board is responsible for these deaths after refusing to pay for removal of tips. After disaster, 88,000 individual contributions are received for the victim’s fund but the UK government has decided to take money from funding and use it to clear the rest of the tips. Thomas forced the sight to give to.
Within a series of decades, most of the people holding the paper is neither Welsh or a Konstitution in Welsh. . (If you want a treatment, dig video of him Mime failure the national song of Welsh.) Redwood refused to sign documents written by Welsh, and do not want to stay all night in Wales, instead of driving his Constitution in England. But perhaps the worst is that, in a country with many poverty levels, he proud of Return £ 100m to the Budget of the Welsh office in the treasury without eating. What a good voice for Wales in the Cabinet.
More recently, Wales was blessed with some uniform diligent secretaries in the state. One is the alun cairns, resigning the post after it emerged one of his staff Accused by a judge to deliberately sabotage a rape attempt. His most known contribution is a supreme work of brown seizure when he has taken the Severn Bridge named “Prince of Wales Bridge” – a decision that Only 17% of people in Wales supported. One else is Simon Hart, who admitted his diaries published diaries That is, at the official opening of the New Welsh Parliament in 2020: “I will skip a playing snake – about protest, and about lunch with Adam.” He didn’t say what he protested. Another new office holder is Robert Buckland that is, ERR, the MP for South Swindon …
While Wales have some striking secretary of the state, it does not cause the paper to be placed. It should be lost because, despite the princes, with the ability and pleads the office holder, no way they can reason to do the voice work in Wales. They do not have power, almost any staff, taught by the Prime Minister and tied to collective responsibility. Current condition represents the worst worlds: It provides the illusion of Wales with a voice if it has a pre-installed button button.
The current holding office is Jo Stevens. Talking to people in other departments as well as the Wales office, I got the impression that he was at least active in making the needs of Wales conversation. I was told to refer to him to try to take historical railroad injustices that heals ahead of the next week’s review. If acts remain visible – and he was saddened to have failed this week to prevent a “Cambridge and Wales” who could not receive parts of Barnett. But even when he was not a clear contempt for Welsh democracy as most of his first.
The truth remains, however, that Welsh issues are raised to Whitehall fully dependent on the whims of a member cabinet instructed and often living outside Wales. That’s a terrible status quo. Wales should teach its advocates, not the Prime Minister, who only once made history in UK Welsh. State Secretary role for Wales should be replaced by a representative of Government of Welshthat people are directly chosen in Wales. Better yet, we need to fix the UK correctly so that the UK government does not double the English government.
Devolution gives a voice and Scotland a voice, and that voice should change around the cabinet table. It has been time for Whitehall to recognize that the UK is composed of distinct countries. Giving these countries is a true voice without weakening the union, it strengthens it.
