Labour leader Ed Miliband hosted a meeting of his Shadow Cabinet at GE Aviation in Nantgarw this morning, June 20.
Mr Miliband and his team met with First Minister Carwyn Jones and his Welsh Government Cabinet 11 months before the UK General Election.
After the Shadow Cabinet meeting, Ed Miliband and Carwyn Jones took part in a Q&A with staff at the GE Aviation Wales – the biggest individual provider of apprenticeships in Wales.
At the Q&A event, Ed Miliband said: “I’m delighted that Jobs Growth Wales has helped almost 10,000 young people into work across the country.
“The scheme shows a Labour government delivering for young people right across Wales by helping them onto long-term careers so they can play their part in society.
“A future Labour Government in Westminster will ensure that those who don’t have the skills they need will be in training not on benefits, and will guarantee paid starter jobs for young people who have been out of work for a year – Jobs Growth Wales is an excellent example of how we can ensure young people are at work and in training.”
First Minister Carwyn Jones said: “We are delighted to welcome Ed and his team to Wales today to talk about how a future Labour Government in Westminster will work with us in Wales. With every week that passes, we see more people being left behind by the Tories in Westminster – especially the young.
“That is why Ed is right to prioritise jobs and skills for younger people, and we’re happy that the wider Labour Party is looking to learn from the success of schemes such as Jobs Growth Wales.
“Here in Wales, we are delivering hope for our people. After the next General Election, Ed will be able to replicate that hope, across the rest of the UK.”
The meeting in Nantgarw was the first time that both Cabinets have met together in such a meeting.
Three members of the Shadow Cabinet visited the Caerphilly area after the Cabinets met.
Rachel Reeves, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, visited the Welsh Innovation Centre for Enterprise on Caerphilly Business Park and was joined by Caerphilly AM and Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty Jeff Cuthbert, Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology Ken Skates AM and Caerphilly MP Wayne David.
Mr David also accompanied Michael Dugher, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, to the National Mining Memorial in Senghenydd. Mr Dugher represents a former mining constituency in Barnsley. He met with Jack Humphreys the Secretary of the Aber Valley Heritage Group.
Thirdly, Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister without Portfolio and Deputy Labour Party Chair, met with Martin Mansfield, General Secretary of the Wales TUC (and a Caerphilly resident) at the Bedwas Trethomas and Machen Council Chamber.
Caerphilly AM Jeff Cuthbert, who was in charge of Jobs Growth Wales before passing it on to Ken Skates AM, said: “I am pleased to see this local initiative that has been so successful for so many younger people.”
Rachel Reeves said: “If Labour win the General Election next year we’ll launch the Compulsory Jobs Guarantee Scheme. We need to learn from the huge success of Jobs Growth Wales so we can provide a future for young people across the UK.”
Speaking ahead of the visit, Caerphilly MP Wayne David, who is also Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Miliband, said he was delighted the Labour leader and his full Shadow Cabinet visited the area.
He told Caerphilly Observer: “I’m extremely pleased that after the Shadow Cabinet meeting a number of members will be planning visits to the area.
“Labour is gearing up for the General Election campaign and Ed Miliband is determined to make sure that Labour is seen as being ‘relevant’ to address the concerns of the people in the Caerphilly area.”
Perhaps ed needs to have a crack at carwyn for being lazy and to sort out NHS in wales then he needs to tell Caerphilly cbc off for the pay fiasco in the council.
http://www.assemblywales.org/epetition-list-of-signatories.htm?pet_id=1019
I’m English, but I can tell that the Welsh Government are useless.
It’s the way that David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt don’t want to debate with Carwyn Jones. This is obviously because they know it’ll be too easy crushing a lefty tinpot politician.
They instead spare his feelings by doing misleading leaks to the media and planting questions in Westminster with people like Alun Cairns and the irreproachable Charlotte Leslie.
What a totally incomprehensible comment:
I Have read it three times now, and I still don`t know what it all means, if I were to take a guess I think it means that Wales are doing so much better in respect to the NHS under Mark Drakeford and Carwyn Jones than under Hunt and Cam-moron.
And I would make the comment that the Chinless Tories in England are not capable to debate, with Carwyn Jones and his Welsh Government Cabinet, their dismantling of all that is good in this Country in favour of thier rich, useless, and meaningless, friends, and their backscratching sycophantic Lib Dem lap dogs.
It was sarcastic.
I agree that the Welsh NHS is doing better than ours.
Really? Average waiting time in Wales are higher. Beds per number of people in Wales is lower. Money available to spend per patient in England is more.
I would argue the NHS in England comes out on top. Saying that the health service in Canada beats both.
The Welsh NHS is way behind England. Sign the petition.
https://www.assemblywales.org/epetition-list-of-signatories.htm?pet_id=1019
Jan, you are misguided if you think we in Wales are worse off than those in England when it comes to the NHS, We have issues certainly but our service is not being privatised, But perhaps you support privatisation of the NHS????
Arthur you are misguided I have had first hand experience of the NHS in Wales and they are definately behind england and they will continue to be if people don’t stand up and sort out it out.
Additionally, my friend waited 7 hours for an ambulance for her mother in law who has cancer the other day. Another friend wife went into the gwent got c-diff and died recently.
Jan. But, do you have experience, first hand, of the failing, falling apart, closing down GP`s surgeries, increased waiting times in hospitals, etc etc In England, if not how do you compare it? not by listening to Hunt I hope, if you are then you mislead us and yourself.
Arthur READ WHAT I SAID!!
I HAVE HAD FOURTEEN WASTED YEARS OF MY LIFE WITH WELSH NHS WHO COULD NOT CARE LESS.
I am not interested in your rant at the Tories or Hunt. Get labour in wales to sort it out properly instead of earning big money and letting it to decline and decline whilst making excuses for it.
It’s funny Arthur but the best performing hospital in Wales is privately owned and operated but receives funding from the state. It’s highly efficient, has low waiting times, modern equipment and is an example of how healthcare should be. The idea of the state owning and operating everything à la Communism is outdated, inefficient and provides a subpar standard of care. It’s time to adopt a single payer system with the NHS.
Dean, If the NHS in Wales had only one single hospital on which to concentrate their efforts in Wales it would be a World leader. But it is telling, is it not? that even this one single unit cannot operate without a major injection of grant support from the NHS pot. You once said on these pages you nor your family use the NHS provisions as you were well off enough to pay for your health care via insurance, well, I have news for you on this point, I use the NHS, and I also paid my dues via National Insurance payments. No such thing as free lunch!!!
If the NHS in Wales was privatised then we would be going back to the poorest people unable to pay for basic health care at the point of contact. That is the thing of TORYISM, ( Conservatism) and, I dont, never will, nor will I ever have too subscribe to such draconian philosophies so long as all those sensible Welsh Citizens continue to vote Labour.
I look forward to seeing you and Jan following behind the rest of us waving your Toryism flags but never really quite catching us all up.
Arthur
I don’t vote tory and not labour any more either. Read my above post and just remember I hope you never have to tolerate what I have put up with over the last decade.
It is not just ann clwyd but jeremy bowen spoke about it yesterday.
It’s a shame, Arthur that you don’t understand how the health service is operated in countries abroad.
In Canada, the majority of hospitals are privately owned, operated and run but are legally required to provide minimum services. The government then pays per state.
It’s similar in Australia. It’s more sustainable than the NHS system we have.
You can continue to vote Labour but remember, a vote for Labour is a vote for a failing NHS that continually drops down the world rankings. Besides, give in 20 years and the NHS will no longer exist. Politicians across the spectrum are waking up to realise it’s unsustainable and provides low quality care. It’s either dramatically revamped (Canada or Australian style) or fully privatised. I pick the former.
As a correction. I said my family and I had private health insurance as a perk of my job.
It is not surprising Dean that you forget that the foreign Health Care systems you mention have all evolved, over many years, based on our very own NHS.
The current Tory policy of dismantling the NHS in
England, based of the `Langley plan`, is causing absolute chaos, the closing of Doctors surgeries, the endlessly increasing waiting lists, less Doctors and Nurses, the prescribing of sub standard generic drugs
manufactured in third world countries, FAILING private health care, even for those well off enough to afford it, and, there is the real problem, “health care for those who can afford it”., but, very fortunately for you and your family Dean, you are still able to benefit and take advantage from the money being put into the health care system, by a LABOUR GOVERNMENT here in WALES, and thank god for that.
When I turn my back on you at the next election Dean I don`t mean to be rude, but our politics are so far apart that you will be following somewhere behind me.in the election race here in Wales. In fact, Plaid Cymru will be somewhere between us, and unfortunately for you UKIP may force your brand of social politics into fourth place.
We will, no doubt, agree to disagree?.
That’s it’s, Arthur. The foreign system have evolved where the British system is going backwards.
We both know the Tory’s are incompetent with the NHS> So is Labour. I prefer Tory health policies to Labour health policies but both aren’t all that great.
It’s funny, I plan to vote UKIP 🙂 (I’m actually a member too) UKIP support a health system as seen in Canada and Australia.
Looking at some polls, UKIP could be 2nd but most likely 3rd.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/nhs-health-minister-we-want-a-better-nhs
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/call-centre-star-nev-wilshire-7225485
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