Matt Smith wrote on Brexit Central: Wales’ achingly europhile First Minister Mark Drakeford turned his St David’s Day address into a fanfare to Brussels this year when claiming: “Wales is a European nation and always will be”.
The leadership of Welsh Labour passed from Carwyn Jones to Mark Drakeford after he beat Vaughan Gething and the peer and former MEP Eluned Morgan in a three-way contest.
Mark Drakeford, a self-styled ’21st-century socialist’, won Welsh Labour’s leadership election, succeeding Carwyn Jones to become the fourth Prif Weinidog Cymru (First Minister of Wales).
Labour’s political broadcast Our Town tells viewers “We lost control” and “we’ve been sold short by a political and economic system that has been unchallenged for far too long.” Labour’s bait-and-switch broadcast was a clear attempt to reconnect with blue-collar Leavers in marginal English seat
One of the reasons the British came out for Leave was the spectacle of EU officials and Commissioners lavishing taxpayers’ money on their own perks and fripperies.
At Unite’s Annual Conference in Brighton in July, Jeremy Corbyn claimed “Labour is back as the political voice of the working class”. The fact he had to say this begs the question: when did Labour forget about the workers?
As part of the United Kingdom, Wales benefits from the hard power projection of the British state. Wales also gains from the UK’s soft power which since the EU referendum has consistently been ranked the second greatest in the world by Portland Communications’ ‘The Soft Power 30’.
Free intellectual inquiry and critical thinking are intrinsic to universities. But these qualities are undermined by a lack of political diversity in the humanities and social sciences, and they are threatened on campus by a minority of censorious left-wing agitators.
The EU Referendum in Wales was a profoundly democratic moment when the Welsh people ignored the instructions of its pro-Brussels devolved governing class and voted to leave the EU.
