Symptomatic of Wales’s poverty culture and limited ambition

The Silk Commission published its latest survey results today on the Welsh public’s attitudes towards devolution.

The results were pretty unsurprising reinforcing what other surveys have shown that Renewable energy, including large windfarms, (70%), policing (63%) and broadcasting and media regulation (58%) were most favoured for transfer to the Welsh Assembly and that the anti devolution folk are getting more organised and vocal.

So with the number of angles to report you have to ask why the major broadcaster in Wales, BBC Wales headline on the findings was about the 51% who want welfare devolved to the Assembly?

Good news some will say, but the welfare figures weren’t included in the Silk Commission press release and 46% were against devolving welfare to Cardiff Bay, so not as clear cut as the headline suggests.

It’s yet another story reinforcing the line about Wales being poor and the population dependent on benefits, the spiel so loved by Labour, rather than the focus being on the news that the majority of the public want the Welsh Assembly to have more say on the more contentious energy, policing and broadcasting policy.

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