Tag Archives: Welsh Labour

By Dave Reid Welsh Labour and Plaid have reached an agreement that will give the Welsh Labour government led by Mark Drakeford a working majority. Labour won 30 out of the 60 Senedd seats in the election earlier this year, not enough for a controlling majority, and so has had to reach an agreement with Plaid which has 13 seats. ...

By John Williams The Socialist Party has restarted campaign stalls in Barry in South Wales as the lockdown has lifted. We’ve been calling for support for a 15% pay increase for NHS workers. The response has been really good – we’ve spoken to several health and care workers who are outraged over the proposed 1% pay ‘rise’, and agree with ...

By Dave Reid and Alec Thraves Welsh Labour has won the Welsh parliament election with an increased vote and seats. Mark Drakeford’s government benefited from the “incumbency factor” and actually increased its number of seats in the Senedd to 30, half of the 60 seats. This was despite polls at the beginning of the Covid crisis indicating that it would ...

By Ben Golightly Almost one in three children in Wales live in poverty! Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, the EHRC estimated that UK Government tax and welfare reforms would push a further 50,000 children into poverty. This has happened on Welsh Labour’s watch. The Welsh Government’s recent Child Poverty Strategy sets out an action plan which boils down to little ...

By Dave Reid The rightward drift of Labour under Keir Starmer was confirmed by Welsh Labour’s scandalous voting down of a proposal in the Senedd/Welsh Parliament to introduce free school meals for all children in receipt of universal credit. Wales has the highest levels of child poverty in the UK but under Welsh Labour we also have the least provision ...

Socialist Party Wales issued the following statement:“The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn is an indication of the sharp move to the right of the Labour Party under Starmer which means that thousands of people who joined Welsh Labour in the hope that it would provide a vehicle for working people to win reforms in their interests have been disenfranchised.“Socialist Party Wales ...

By Dave Reid Mark Drakeford’s Welsh Labour government has made much of the “four nations approach” to tackling the Covid-19 crisis, claiming to plot a different course to the Tory Westminster government. But the reality is that the Welsh government has been more like a small boat being pulled in the wake of an ocean liner. And in the case ...

By Dani Smith Jamie Jenkins, former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, has this week highlighted stark inequalities in Covid-19 deaths in Wales. The ONS analysis shows 44.6 Covid-19 deaths for every 100,000 people in the poorest 20% of communities in Wales whereas in the wealthiest 20% of communities it was 23.3 deaths per 100,00 people, ...

By Mark Evans Branch Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (in a personal capacity) Workplace report published  by the Labour Research department in its March 2020 edition published a two page article with the headline ‘Social Partnership approach is way forward in Wales’. It claimed that the devolved (Labour) Welsh Government working closely with the Wales TUC “has developed a social partnership ...

Carmarthenshire Unison has written to Health and Social Care Minister, Vaughn Gething, to express the concern of council workers who are being put in danger by the negligence of governments who failed to prepare for the Coronavirus crisis and are not taking the necessary measures to protect them now. Health workers and care workers in the front line in the ...