A friend of mine visits his sick uncle in Wales as often as he can. What he sees is so distressing, he can’t wait to recross the bridge and return to the relative luxury of his Home Counties retreat.
What on earth can be so disturbing? The answer is the dreadful state of some of the small towns he passes through, with Ebbw Vale (the donkey jacket dimwit Michael Foot was MP there for years) being of particular note.
Poverty everywhere, high street shops boarded up, and what people there are out and about appear to have no work or purpose.
No surprise there, as 26.4 per cent of Ebbw Vale is economically inactive, meaning they’re all on some kind of benefit. Paid for by the clever English.
This disaster of a country can be laid firmly at the door of Labour, who have emerged as the largest party in every election since 1922 – a hundred years of failure. Plus, Kinnock’s mates have cleaned up in all six Senedd polls following devolution in 1999.
That, especially if you’re Welsh, is going to change dramatically next May. Labour is going to be wiped out in the Senedd polls.
YouGov reports the Welsh Nationalists of Plaid Cymru are on 30 per cent, Reform on 29 per cent and Labour trailing miles behind on 14 per cent.
A fair indication of how accurate that survey is will come next month when there’s a by-election in Caerphilly, a traditional Labour South Wales heartland.
A change to the voting system is about to topple Labour. Nigel has timed it so well - Kelvin Mackenzie | Getty Images
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