00:00Wales is ready for a new chapter, and this new chapter must be about something very simple.
00:09Fairness you can feel. Tagoch i chi'n teimlo. Not fairness as a slogan, fairness in your life,
00:18on the bus, in your playslip, at the school gate, in the waiting room, in the streets where you live.
00:24New leadership for Wales mustn't just be a campaign slogan. It must also be seen through the lens of wider
00:31possibilities,
00:32unburdened by a loyalty to Westminster which has held Wales back for too long.
00:38In recent months, Elinid Morgan has adopted the language of the Senedd's arch-right winger Tory Andrew R.T. Davis
00:45in labelling those who seek a more ambitious future for our country as separatists.
00:50You have to spit it to say it properly. They may not be obvious bedfellows, but their burgeoning
00:56alliance reflects a pincer movement by the old guards. We're seeing the forces of the establishment
01:03parties coming together to try to protect the status quo in a vain attempt to paint the new
01:09political movement in Wales as somehow insular.
01:12Now, let's be honest about the last decade. For much of that time, our job in government
01:18and alongside you was to protect Wales. That wasn't a press line. It was the daily reality.
01:28Budgets were squeezed by years of Tory austerity. Public services were under constant constraint.
01:36Communities were dealing with the aftershocks of Brexit. And then we had to contend with the
01:41pandemic. Families were doing their best, often going that extra mile, and yet they were still
01:48feeling worse off. Now, in those years, you didn't get to govern with the wind at your back.
01:55You governed with your sleeves rolled up. And you do the hard, unglamorous work of holding
02:03the line. We protected free prescriptions, free breakfasts for our schoolchildren. We kept hospital
02:11parking free. We invested in new schools and colleges across Wales, whilst England walked away
02:17from building.
02:18Keir Starmer is determined to hoard power in Westminster's hallowed halls.
02:24Farage, that's something different again. A backwards, nostalgia-driven mission based on powering
02:30a cult of personality more than anything. We want to empower people by giving them more say over
02:36their future on a national level in Wales. So as the UK fragments, we must focus on fostering
02:42cooperation based on shared values, mutual respect and principled collaboration. The old union as it was
02:50is finished. So let us replace it with new alliances underpinned by radical pragmatism, partnership and principle.
02:58For example.
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