Although the Plaid leadership contest as seen Independence given prominence among the three. candidates it must be obvious to all that Parity with Scotland in the next Assembly/Parliament should also be sort to immediately tackle the vast economic and social problems we are facing today,
Indeed this should be on the list of the current Labour Candidates who have been nominated Mark Drayford and Vaughn Gething and should (though I have even less hope) Paul Davies and Suzy Davies for the Tories.
Since the new Ukip Gareth Bennett has announced he intends to support abolishing the assembly. I can't see him supporting any measures that would give us any powers to make the changes we need.
To be honest I can't see Labour changing much. Take this from the front runner Mark Drayford
It was Mark Drayford who helped the Westminster power grab which saw as part of its EU (Withdrawal) Bill - which plans to transfer EU laws into UK law in order to avoid a legal "black hole" post-Brexit - the UK government saw those powers transfer to supposedly temporally directly to Westminster rather than to the devolved administrations.
Indeed this should be on the list of the current Labour Candidates who have been nominated Mark Drayford and Vaughn Gething and should (though I have even less hope) Paul Davies and Suzy Davies for the Tories.
Since the new Ukip Gareth Bennett has announced he intends to support abolishing the assembly. I can't see him supporting any measures that would give us any powers to make the changes we need.
To be honest I can't see Labour changing much. Take this from the front runner Mark Drayford
"If I become Labour Leader then my determination will be to revive and reapply in today's circumstances a set of fundamental and endearing democratic socialist principles forged here in Wales" @MarkDrakeford on why he should be the next First Minister
How can any First Minister hope to emulate Scotland and impose "a set of fundamental and endearing democratic socialist principles" without the same powers the SNP government.
Although a Plaid Cymru majority government looks a fantasy and even a minority one looks unlikely. There is a real possibility of another Labour/Plaid coalition
Even if they are junior partners Plaid should not agree to anything that did not see the next Assembly goverment seeing full parity of powers with Scotland within the life of what will be the sixth assembly.
Anything else will see us continuing to decline and faced with meaningless statements of "a set of fundamental and endearing democratic socialist principles," which we haven't anything of the powers to enact.
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