Unlike many people in Wales I have never rated Rhodri Morgan or seen his appeal to the electorate and the fact that he became First Minister at all says a lot about Welsh politics and politicians.
His legacy as First Minister if you can call it that, is one of a Wales more reliant on the public sector for employment and investment, a devolution settlement that is causing more problems than its solving because he was more interested in Labour Party unity than what best for Wales and his own party broken in more ways than one is an inditement of the man.
The same man who was in charge of Wales for more than a decade and not only failed to get the full amount of European Objective One funding for Wales because the Treasury top sliced it but who squandered it with precious little to show for the money Wales received.
And now according to the Western Mail he thinks Wales could lose out to Europe in cutting edge industries and that West Wales and the Valleys could qualify for another round of Convergence despite the EU enlargement of poorer countries because some Welsh communities remain so deprived would be laughable if it weren’t so serious - somebody needs to remind Rhodri much of this gap is down to his economic policies and refusal to listen and take other ideas on board because he insisted he knew best.
And for the record hands up all those who think that Carwyn Jones will do any better because i certainly don’t .Any source
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