00:00A little under a year ago, Labour was voted into power in Westminster, and for the first time in
00:06over a decade, we had the same party leading on both ends of the M4. It was supposed to be a great
00:11deal for Wales, with two governments supposedly working alongside each other, and a voice for
00:15Wales in the Prime Minister's ear that we hadn't had for some time. Fast forward to now, and it
00:20seems that that certainly hasn't come to fruition, with the Welsh Government seemingly constantly
00:25having to either argue against the UK Government, or take the brunt of their decisions here
00:30in Wales. Recent national insurance hikes have meant, in simple terms, Wales is paying more
00:36out of our budget than England, as we have a higher proportion of public sector workers.
00:40Something, alongside a few other issues that have arisen, the Plaid Cymru leader, Sreenath
00:45Yodworth, isn't happy about. We now face a shortfall of more than £70 million. It's a Labour tax
00:52on Wales. And secondly, confirmation that we have another HS2 on our hands, with the Labour
01:00UK Government designating the new, multi-billion pound Oxford to Cambridge rail project as an
01:06England and Wales project too. You could not make this up.
01:10I made it clear to the Chancellor, I made it clear to the Prime Minister that we will continue
01:14to make the case for the entire costs of national insurance to be covered for the public sector
01:21in Wales. When it comes to rail infrastructure, I think he probably needs a little lesson on
01:25how the Welsh devolution settlement works. So, rail infrastructure is not devolved to Wales.
01:33You might want it devolved, but that is the situation it is in at the moment.
01:38It feels like all of the issues that have been building up over the last few months are coming
01:41home all at once, including some fresh problems arising in rail funding.
01:45Elyna Edmorgan, though, says she's speaking up for Wales against her UK party.
01:49Let's call it this week a quadruple whammy. Saying one thing and voting another way on the
01:55two-child benefit cap. Leaving Wales short-changed to the tune of £70 million on national insurance.
02:02Designating the Oxford-Cambridge railway project, an England and Wales scheme denying us hundreds
02:08of millions of pounds in funding. Again, another HS2. And finally, we've also now seen the cancelling
02:15of the only public consultation session in Wales on the future of personal independence payments.
02:21It seems that Labour has utterly given up on Wales, so it's little wonder that Wales is giving up on Labour.
02:29I've made it clear where I am disappointed with the UK government, but I will say once again,
02:36that actually we've had the biggest uplift we've ever had in the history of devolution,
02:40and you, and you voted against it. You voted against that additional money for pot holes,
02:48additional money for the NHS, additional money for education, all of those things.
02:54You tried to block that money going into your communities.
02:58Please.
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