Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has admitted to Assembly Members that the list of reserved powers in the draft Wales Bill was “too long”.
The draft Wales Bill would give new powers to the National Assembly over energy, transport and its own elections.
However, Welsh politicians in Cardiff Bay have been critical of the draft bill, with the Welsh Government claiming it would roll back on the current devolution settlement.
The reserved powers model lists the policy areas that the UK Government would still be responsible for, with everything else devolved to the National Assembly of Wales.
Speaking to AMs on Monday, November 23, Stephen Crabb MP said: “I do expect the final piece of legislation that gets Royal Assent to be significantly different from the draft, but let’s see how people use this time to come forward with ideas.
He added: “I think the list of reservations is too long. I think the whole point of having a draft bill is we can have a look at that and do some work together to try to bring that down.”
I doubt the people of Wales want more devolution. After the appalling job Labour and Plaid have done in Wales over the last decade, more devolution is the equivalent of adding cyanide to the soup of a man with swine flu.
Wales has Ebola! Wales is on a life support machine that Labour and Plaid are set on switching off. Over their coalitions and single-rule governments the educational achievements of Welsh children have fallen behind England, the wealth of Wales has fallen in comparison to England, the poorest part of the UK is now in Wales, the life expectancy in Wales is behind that in England, the infant mortality rate is behind England’s, the cancer survival rates are behind England, and the A&E waiting times are behind England.
Left-wing politics does no hold the answers. Socialism does not hold the answers. Both are promoted by two types of people: poor and envious, or rich and egotistic (i.e. the rich do not actually care for the poor but pretend they do to make themselves feel good to fulfill some inner belief that their morality dominates and they always have the high ground).
It is time Wales elected a centre-right or right-wing government to implement pro-business policies in Wales. Let us roll back the government, let us celebrate big business, let us celebrate elitism, let us celebrate selectivity in grammar schools, let us promote the most those who are intelligent and can achieve, but most importantly let us get on. Wales does not need a nanny state controlled by AMs who give themselves a £10,000 pay rise.
It has been decided in high places that Wales will get more devolution, the view of the majority of Welsh people is not a consideration. This is because, as I see it, it suits so many interest groups.
The Tories like devolution because it will lead to a reduction of Welsh MPs in parliament, which reduces opposition to them; Welsh MPs are usually not Tory.
Labour likes devolution because it allows them to hold power in a UK country permanently. Plaid Cymru likes devolution beacuse that is what that party has worked toward, it would suit them even better if Wales were independent, or rather dependent on the EU.
UKIP does not like devolution but even this party has accepted it as done deal, for now, as the forces arrayed agsinst them are too strong at the moment; primarily UKIP works toward an exit from the EU for the entire UK and devolution does not impede them in achieving this objective.
I couldn’t agree more, Labour and Plaid want to create a utopia where we are all equal, equally poor that is. They are proud that they have turned Wales into one of the poorest countries in the western world, it beggars belief that the people of Wales vote them into power again and again.
Often the reason this or that political candidate is voted into power is because of the lack of quality of the opposition candidates, or, in the case of the Welsh Assembly elections the recognised unpopularity of a party`s local representatives and therefore that unpopularity rubbing off on the Assembly Candidate. If a party`s local representatives were `friendly` `communicative` `engageing` and good civic representatives their party`s candidate would stand a better chance of sucess, as it is, they dont and wont.
No! The reasons the same parties are voted in time and time again is people believe Labour and Plaid are good for them without studying their policies. There has been lots of research for this phenomena (research the party identification model).