After the Election we all knew there would be a new Government and last night Gordon Brown and his family left Downing Street with dignity, to be followed shortly after by a relieved but sober toned David Cameron who is now Prime Minister along with his Coalition partners the Liberal Democrats who made their own history by returning to Government after decades in Opposition- question is do they get any credit for it?
However that’s where the tone alters because like many people today I am depressed and not just because we have a Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in Westminster that doesn’t understand Wales’s needs, it also means Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru get a free pass back to a majority Government in Cardiff Bay at next year’s Welsh Assembly elections without having to alter their thinking or deal with the reality of what being in Government actually means.
You can already here the Cameron/Clegg Cuts battle cry, it took just one election for the progress of the last decade to go up in smoke here in Wales and its back to the bitter tribalism and crowding out of alternative voices – the changes appear to have been no more than skin deep.
My other fear is that we are in line for a re run the turbulence of the 1980’s and early 1990’s – I hope I’m wrong for all our sakes.Any source
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