00:00It's the last First Minister's questions before these lot go off on their summer holidays.
00:07So politicians are keen to make a final splash before close of play.
00:11Darren Miller is asking why a recent announcement seems to show farmers in Wales are the only sector getting real terms cut.
00:17But first, Gene Lepi-Odworth is going somewhere that's hardly haven't been in some time.
00:21He's bringing up the I-word, independence.
00:24He says that a First Minister should believe in Wales' ability to govern and prosper on our own.
00:28But Aline Edmorgan says she's as Welsh as anyone and is sticking up for Wales in the right way.
00:35But how disheartening and yet sadly predictable it was when the current First Minister was asked the question on the newsagent's podcast,
00:43could Wales manage? And it was a no. Wales would be extremely poor, she said.
00:50But of course Wales isn't somehow inevitably poor.
00:54Remember that our current position is a direct result of our place within the UK.
00:58Breaking out of those cycles of economic stagnation, of too many families living in poverty is pretty difficult
01:05when successive Westminster governments fail to address the issue of fair funding,
01:10underfund transport, as they did again recently with rail, denies the powers over our natural resources and so on.
01:16Every indicator shows that the union is on borrowed time.
01:20So why doesn't the First Minister believe in Wales?
01:24Well, I can tell you there's nobody who believes in Wales more than I do.
01:28I have got a red dragon running through every little blood vessel in my body.
01:34But what I will tell you, what I will tell you,
01:38is that we are dead serious about being positive about this country and about talking it up.
01:44Fair funding has been the hot topic this term
01:47and it will dominate a lot of the talk when campaigning starts next year.
01:51For now, the Plaid Leader wants to know when the so-called outdated Barnet formula,
01:55which many have argued underfunds Wales from Westminster, will be replaced and modernised.
02:00Now, all the First Minister could say was that she will keep on making the case,
02:05but she keeps on saying that and nothing happens.
02:08Her Westminster Labour colleagues ignore her day after day, week after week.
02:12Now, when I last asked the First Minister what her next move will be on fair funding,
02:16in a reply, which appeared to embarrass all of her front bench,
02:19she said she was going to the football.
02:21Can she come up with a better answer today?
02:23Look, I'm at the table and I'm getting things done.
02:28And we have had additional support from the UK government,
02:31including £5 million additional funding that you and the Tories try to block from coming in.
02:38I do think it is worth making sure that people hear that again and again.
02:43We have been given a poor deal when it comes to rail for years on end,
02:46and we're getting to a better place.
02:48Is it far enough? No, we want to go further.
02:50But it's definitely in a much better place than it was before.
02:53That was because we put significant pressure on the UK government.
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