Today’s Western Mail reports that Plaid Cymru Jonathan Edwards MP has called for extra economic aid for Wales due to the cuts to come and the state of the Welsh economy, outlined HERE by BBC Wales today. The reason behind it is to match the ‘special measures’ that the Coalition Government has accepted are needed to help Northern Ireland’s economy to improve, such as lower corporation tax and creating enterprise zones to boost investment, business growth and job creation, all things that Wales and Scotland could benefit from as well.
It also proves that Northern Ireland’s politicians with all their bitter tribal hatred are still more capable of lobbying together and more effectively than Wales’s politicians ever will, because Welsh politicians are too busy protecting their own interests, but that’s for another post.
The Coalition will probably be tone deaf to the demands on Corporation Tax, Enterprise Zones and the like for Wales, like Labour were previously, but it does highlight the fact its Plaid MP’s who are taking the leading in their Party on economic development matters that matter to people and businesses in Wales, not Plaid Minister’s and AM’s.
Compare Jonathan’s focus to their Party leader and Economic Development Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones who has been fire fighting after coming under sustained criticism from all sides since this summer since he launched WAG’s Economic Renewal Programme back in July.
What does it say that it takes their MP's at Westminster to point out what Plaid Ministers and AM's what they should already know about what's going on in other parts of the UK's economy's and how it could help Wales?Any source
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