divide et impera at coleg gwent

Are Labour AMs seriously going to publically fight their comrades in the parliamentary Labour Party over the Affordable Housing Legislative Competence Order? The Steamer seriously hopes not.

The Steamer reminds, respectfully, Labour Assembly members that they should constructively reflect upon the opinions of their comrades in parliament. Members of Parliament have a right and a duty to make the case for LCO to be drafted appropriately and accurately. This is particularly important if Labour AMs continue to be neutered for fear of offending our coalition partners. If MPs fail to Act Plaid will have a freehand to bring forward a series of LCOs that act in their interest and not that of Wales.

As a great man now fallen from grace once said ‘Devolution is not a single defining event but a process.' It is about give and take. Even the most ardent Pliadophobe in the party will accept the general principle of affordable housing and most will recognise that the aims of the LCO are commendable. But it is almost universally accepted that this LCO has been drafted in a way that is at best misleading and at worst mendacious.To wave through the affordable housing LCO in its current form would do a disservice to Wales, to devolution and to the party. It would also set a dangerous president that bad law is OK for Wales. The One Wales coalition should not have a free pass to act with impunity.

Labour MPs need to take a greater role in commenting on, and where necessary criticising WAG policy. To take another example, what is happening across Coleg Gwent would have been completely avoidable if Labour MPs had voiced an opinion on the Assembly wasting tens of million pounds on the foundation phase program which seeks to give 4 year old and understanding of ‘sustainability’ .

This is not a joke. College campuses serving some of the most deprived areas in the UK are being shut so middle class parents in the Vale of Glamorgan and Castell Newydd Emlyn can feel better about themselves.

Stand firm stand firm.

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