Welsh Unionists sell Wales "Down the River".

Whose pulling the strings of the Welsh Labour Government ?

Last night a majority of AMs have backed scrapping a Brexit law that was passed to protect the assembly's powers.

In March, AMs voted to pass the Continuity Act to bring powers over devolved matters currently operated at an EU level to Cardiff Bay.

But the Welsh Government said the law is no longer needed following agreement with ministers in Westminster over the long-running Brexit "power-grab" row.

Brexit has yet to be implemented and it is still unclear to what extent it would be implemented, with some Tories still arguing for a Hard Brexit and the likelihood for Mrs May failing to pass her current wheeze through Parliament.

Yet although the Welsh Continuity Act became law in March. with the he aim was to protect Wales’ powers against what First Minister Carwyn Jones  then had called a “Westminster power grab”. surely one of the shortest lengths of legislation in history.

As reported in Nation Cymru 

In April the Labour Welsh Government agreed to the Westminster Government’s EU Withdrawal Bill which meant that Wales would lose control over 24 devolved policy areas after Brexit.
The agreement said that Ministers in London can make changes to devolved fields even If Wales objects.
Today AMs voted to repeal the Welsh Continuity Act to allow the transfer of powers to go ahead.
Plaid Cymru Shadow Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs Steffan Lewis AM said that Wales had lost its “legislative shield” which provided legal protection for Welsh devolution.
He said that it didn’t make sense for Wales to give up control when it seemed that the Westminster Government were sailing towards a hard Brexit.

“Falling back on the Inter-governmental Agreement means trusting the Westminster Tory Government to respect Welsh devolution, even though they’ve shown nothing but contempt towards the devolved nations throughout the whole of the Brexit negotiation process,” Steffan Lewis said.
“Given that we know the UK Government’s Draft Withdrawal Agreement fails to meet the aspirations of Securing Wales’ Future, which is Welsh Government policy, it makes no sense to facilitate the UK government’s wishes through repealing our Continuity Act.
“The Labour Party’s actions in voting alongside UKIP and the Conservatives paves the way for a Tory hard Brexit, something that they will have to justify to their supporters.
“Plaid Cymru reaffirms our call for a People’s Vote with Remain on the ballot, to give people an opportunity to avoid the destructive form of Brexit that Wales now faces.”

The only reason I can see for scrapping the measure is that Labour did not want a piece of Plaid Inspired Legislation on the statue book. 



The shameful list of those who supported the scrapping included  Former Plaid AM  Dafydd Elis Thomas now apparently a dued in the wool Unionists and Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams who is now little more that a bag carrier for "Welsh" Lanour.

It also included those those Labour AQM's who have ben calling for a Peoples Vote  and yet when the "Party of Wales"  proposed this in the Assembly it was vote down  in exactly the same manner as the Unionists did for the Continuity Act .

Even if you agreed with yesterday's pathetic capitulation to Westminster 

Its time we labled "Welsh" Labour for what it is an Unionist Party along side the others in the Welsh Assembly who oppose more powers for that body and indeed seem intent on weakening it.

But no the only change the Unionist seem to want is to change the name of the Assembly and to hand back powers to a rabid right wing Tory government in Westminster.