I recently took part in a debate in the Welsh Assembly to oppose the ridiculous proposal by Betsi Cadwalladr to water down the standards of the nurses who are employed there. Betsi Cadwalladr has been directly run by the Welsh Labour Government for years, giving us a brilliant illustration of the cost of the Labour Party to our NHS in Wales.
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Betsi Cadwalladr has been in special measures as a health board since 2015 and under the direct control of the Welsh Government.
During that time improvements have been limited and have run at a snails pace, while the Cabinet Secretary seems intent on spreading the blame around – ignoring the fact that the Welsh Government have been responsible for health as a devolved matter since 1999.
I recently questioned the Minister for Finance on whether, based on the Welsh Government’s own Brexit scare stories, it was going to re-analyse its support for the Red Route, a road building scheme which will destroy unrecoverable ancient woodland in North Wales. As expected, the Welsh Government are happy to point to their scare stories but aren’t so comfortable about taking action based on them. It makes you wonder whether they believe it themselves!