I wrote a post a few weeks back about former First Minister Rhodri Morgan’s comments on the prospect of Wales losing out on a new Generation of high tech jobs if European Leaders didn’t get their act together by making Europe into an Innovation Hothouse like Silicon Valley.
I pointed out that Wales far from being a high tech and high wage economy that under a decade of his leadership Wales had already qualified for a second round of European Funds after his Government squandered the first lot as a result of short term thinking and that we could be eligible next time around because of his and his successors unwillingness to listen to other voices on economic matters.
But worst of all before the article was published and Rhodri Morgan made his claims he must have known that EU Finance Ministers hadn’t agreed to the 3% R&D budget target just a week before, making his comments the latest in a long line of spin hiding Labour’s Economic failures by putting them a European context, a new low even for Welsh Labour.
I have no idea if anyone at the Western Mail knew about the EU Finance Ministers meeting or whether they thought to put this to Mr Morgan when the article was written, but it may have been a very different article if he was asked what WAG should do in light of these events to help encourage Research & Development in Wales, rather than being given a free platform to spout more meaningless drivel that First Minister Carwyn Jones and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain continue to do.Any source
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