Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is to hold a public meeting in Caerphilly as part of a Wales-wide tour to speak with voters.
The public meeting, being held on Monday, April 30, at Lansbury Park’s Van Community Centre at 6.30pm, will be the local launch of the party’s pamphlet The Change We Need which sets out an agenda to “ensure decisions affecting Wales are made in Wales”.
Ms Wood said: “I want people throughout Wales to consider how we can lift up our country by taking responsibility for our own affairs and our own lives, and on how we can start a debate in Wales about ending our dependence on others.
“Decisions about Wales should be made in Wales. Self-determination means that we should choose which powers we want to share with other countries or with Europe.
“We need to get out there and show people how the core weakness of Labour’s paternalistic, centralising socialism is its democratic deficit. It will neither enable people to own their own resources nor run them democratically. It won’t empower people because it doesn’t trust people.
“It means ensuring that the poorest areas of the country can benefit from a sustainable regional approach to economic development.”
All her talk about wanting decisions that are about Wales should be made in wales, ending our dependence on others and taking responsibility for our own lives sound excellent to me. It is all spoiled by Plaid Cymru’s love of the EU, along with it’s centralised control, unelected commissioners, etc.
It appears that Leanne and her party are quite content with Wales being ruled by people abroad, just as long as these people are not English. Plaid needs to work out whether it is a genuine party of independence or merely a Welsh wing of the Liberal Democrats.
Well said – at least she is highlighting Labours failings and flaws but as we know it will make no difference to the local electorate who continue to vote Labour time and time again.
Well done Leanne and thank you for coming to Caerffili and sharing your vision for the future of Wales. It was also nice to be back in Lansbury Park, a great choice of venue.
Leanne wood can drum up all the support she wants, however the electorate of Caerphilly borough will always vote Labour, because it’s a family tradition, rather than read their policies, once the voted the moan and groan. Once the election comes around again they vote for them again and so the circle continues.
But I also agree with you Richard with your comments.
You are right Edward, habit rather than sober analysis often drives voters today. This is why the EU referendum vote caught all the parties, with the exception of UKIP, with their trousers down.
For once the electorate were presented with a choice to consider, rather than a trip to the polling booth to vote for the party their fathers and grandfathers voted for. The wise people of Wales, after due consideration, chose correctly to leave the EU.
The politicians, besides themselves with grief that a whole tier of government was about to be abandoned along with the possibilities of advancement and riches for themselves, their families and their cronies are now fighting back and intend to lock Britain into an old fashioned customs union that would deprive Britain of the chance to forge deals with the greater part of the world whilst forcing us to pay exorbitant sums tp keep the politicians, commissioners and administrative staff of the EU in the comfort to which they have become accustomed. In comparison the scandulous goings on in the CCBC pale into insignifigance.
Yes,corruption far worse than CCBC – and in the main by a bunch of unelected cronies ( and politicians of all parties who change their minds because they want to be popular).
A strange situation – as despite the hype that Brexit was fought mainly over the issue of immigration the wise amongst us know that the main issue was we are being dictated to by a group of unelected EU beaureaucrats.
However,many seem ok to have the unelected House of Lords interfere in the democratic process.
There is an online petition which has reached in excess of 120,000 signatures that means this must now be debated in parliament – hopefully this bunch of cronies will be consigned to the history books shortly.
The House of Lords, though sometimes operating well as a scrutiny chamber for statutes passed by the Commons, has exceeded its authority this time.
The legislation in question was not run of the mill business. The original referendum Bill was to ask the Brotish electorate to advise the Crown on the exercise of the perogative. It was made crystal clear by both sides of the argument that is leave meant leaving the EU and the Customs Union. The people duly voted to do so and return to being a sovereign nation.
In the General Election that followed both main parties manifesto policies also made it clear that we are leaving the customs union. The Lords are in danger of abolishing their own chamber by their high handed and anti democratice behaviour.