Being from North Wales and also having lived in South Wales, I can truthfully attest that poverty and underinvestment is equally an issue there as it is up north.
I agree with the prioritisation of public transport investments over road building schemes. I am happy that some of these were scrapped.
Labour increased their vote and seat share in 2021. They are not 'clinging on' when they were elected with a larger mandate. Mark Drakeford will resign this year anyway.
The NHS in Wales has its issues. Would you rather the quasi-privatised system that exists in England? At the current rate, England won't have an NHS and nobody in the Conservative Party is fighting for its survival. Privatisation will be seen as the ''cure" and Tory stooge media will lap it up.
I personally think the railway infrastructure should be fully devolved to the WG. I don't believe Westminster should have any sort of say in Welsh public transport spending decisions whatsoever, seeing as they misjudge HS2 as an 'Englandandwales' project, which could provide £bns in Barnett consequential.
TfW operates in an entirely different economic setup to the English TOCs - almost as different as cross-border services on the continent. I just don't see any semblance of comparison between the two systems that have now developed. And certainly I'd never want Westminster's paws on it again.
The price of never allowing Westminister interference would be carving out cross border services, keeping only Holyhead - Cardiff operating within England. Personally I favour a nationalised British ToC to run cross border services and English intercity services. With Manchester, Birmingham and Crewe run by a British ToC and Borderlands split between TfW and Merseyrail, TfW would be mostly self contained like ScotRail.