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South Wales Argus

Welsh Labour are taking people for granted says this reader

With both parties losing control of councils, and mayoral elections in areas that had a long tradition of voting for the two legacy parties. Such is Labour's disconnect from working people's values and traditions, Labour saw mayoral candidates finish fourth in Hull and East Yorkshire and third in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, whilst suffering double-digit seat losses in once Labour-controlled County Durham, Lancashire and Northumberland. All former Labour strong holds. Labour had been in control of County Durham since 1925, a post-industrial area that is very similar to the south Wales Valleys. Next year Wales will go to the polls, where Labour will be trying to defend 26 years of abject failure all supported by the Welsh nationalists. The Welsh economy has been destroyed by bureaucracy and high taxes resulting in 25 years of economic decline and stagnation, delivering an education and health service ranked the worst in the UK. Ms Morgan our second leader to be appointed by Labour with no public vote is in full panic mode, becoming more irrational by the day. First denial then a flurry of contradictory statements, ignoring the fact that Labour has been in power for 26 years. Working class people are fed up of being taken for granted, fed up of being talked down to by labour politicians who have never worked in the real world, and have nothing in common with ordinary people. labour academic technocratic class have betrayed working people. In 2026, the people of Wales, like the people of County Durham, will have an opportunity to change all that. Mr M Thomas, Blackwood